Dinosaurs

Aiden has been pretty interested in dinosaurs since the fall. Now even Landon has an idea of what dinosaurs are from watching his brother play with toys. If I call him a little dinosaur, he roars at me, ha. Today they got to pick out a few dinosaur books while we were at Half Price Books, and then they both ended up in dino pajamas… so of course, I had to take their picture. It sure is tough to get both of them looking at the camera in the same picture.

Spring Break

This year has been challenging so far. Isaac started a new job with Honda last month. We’ve all been sick more than once even though we are typically a healthy family. There have been multiple colds, flu, and maybe some strep throat.
Aiden had pink eye.

Landon got an ear infection, and we rushed him to the ER because we couldn’t bring down his fever. It was 105 when he got to the hospital.

We are hoping that this month brings lots of good health and good news to everyone! Bring on the spring!

We have lots to be grateful for lately. My Spring Break started on Friday, so my mom took me and the boys to the zoo and for ice cream and to visit her cousin. It was a beautiful day.

Today we had rain, which is SO needed. I submitted our final yearbook pages yesterday, which is a big weight off my shoulders. Landon’s language has been exploding lately, which is really fun to hear. Mandy is coming to visit in a few weeks, and we can’t wait!

Easter Weekend

This weekend we enjoyed General Conference. Isaac made us waffles.

The boys had an Easter egg hunt. It took Landon a minute to figure out what we wanted him to do, but then he had fun.

It was a beautiful start to Spring Break.

Arizona

So, this is pretty belated. About a month ago, we took a short trip to Arizona. I was offered the chance to attend a conference with a few colleagues on the district’s dime, and when I told Isaac it was in AZ, he was all for bringing the boys along (otherwise I definitely wouldn’t have left them for three days).

We had a 7 PM flight that ended up being SUPER delayed, so we didn’t get to our hotel in Phoenix until about 2 AM. It was exhausting. There were no rental cars at all, but we got a minivan, and Aiden was especially excited about that.

We stayed at the Sheraton on the 24th floor or something like that.

I had to laugh at both boys sleeping the same way…

I spent lots of time at the Conference Center downtown, and it was a great conference. In the meantime, Isaac and the boys did some shopping and swimming, and they visited Jon Thursday night. After my conference ended on Friday, we drove down to Sierra Vista to spend more time with Jon.

We got to see where Jon has been stationed and watched him complete a challenge in the pool on base. We were super bummed that we missed seeing Whitney and the kids by less than a week, but it was great to visit with Jon and see where they have been living.

Isaac and I both teach on Sundays (Gospel Doctrine & Primary Singing Time, respectively), so we decided to be responsible and head back to CA on Saturday evening. We went by the Gilbert and Mesa temples on the way back to the airport, which was awesome.

We even got to see lots of cacti… (Are you so pleased, Mandy? )

I’d never spent much time in Arizona (aside from driving through once or twice), so it was a fun adventure, and both boys were incredible travelers.

Aiden is FIVE!

It is crazy to think that I have been a mom for five years, and that Aiden is starting Kindergarten in the fall.

He requested a superhero party this year. First, we got everyone in costume…

Then we went on a hunt to collect Kryptonite and save Superman.

We had a Thor hammer toss (into the hula hoop).

We had a superhero bean bag toss.

We built our own English muffin pizzas and enjoyed some of Aiden’s favorite foods… pretzels, strawberries, raspberries, and clementines with lemonade.

We ate cupcakes and snickerdoodles, played stick the star on the superhero, threw superhero gliders, and played in the yard. I hope Aiden’s friends all had as much fun as he did!

Wackiest superhero award goes to… Landon.

Aiden is loving, fun, helpful, and loyal. He sometimes looks forward to Kindergarten and other times feels anxious about it. He loves to play with Legos, cars, and planes. He did not want to blow out candles or be sung to because he just wanted to play and run around. He surprises me with his thoughtful ideas quite often lately. We are so happy to have him in our family and look forward to what this year will bring for him.

Monkeys

Aiden had pinkeye for the first time last week. It was no fun, but *knock on wood* it seems to have passed, thanks to antibiotics, without spreading to anyone else.

Now they are back to being silly together, giggling all over the place. It’s a good sound.

Valentine’s Day Party

Aiden was very excited about his preschool Valentine’s Day party this week. We got store-bought cards with Cars, and he carefully signed all forty of them “AIDEN S” and put a heart sticker on each one. I figured we should start early and do a few each day, but he was super excited about it and went through all of them in one sitting.

He made this one for Isaac and me and had a walking fieldtrip to the mailbox to send it to our house. He was very excited when it arrived in the mail yesterday.

We enjoyed our Valentine’s Day with sleeping in until 8:30, a wonderful surf and turf lunch at my parents’ house before Isaac went to work, and playing together. It was a beautiful day. Hoping everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s!