May Performances

May has been a month of performances and graduations. First was Livie's spring TaVaci concert. She did such a great job and loved every minute of it. I love that when I tell her to smile she poses for the camera.Next was her dance revue with Dance Factory. She had so much fun and did a perfect job. We were so proud of her.Dylan graduated from kindergarten. He called it "congradulating". He was so excited and sang his songs so well. We loved that he marched up to the stage when his name was called. His teacher Mrs. Esplin and the para Mrs. Stevenson were so wonderful. He loved them and they did so much for him this year. We are so grateful for all of their hard work and the time they spent helping Dylan grow.

Dylan's Musings

Dylan answered a questionnaire in his class for Mothers day. It was so cute that I decided to share it. Some of the things he said were right on, others not so much.
He said:
I love my mom because: "She likes to go to church."
My mom loves me because: "She likes to drive me around."
My moms favorite thing to do is: "Read."
My mom looks very pretty when: "She does her hair."
My mom gets the most mad when: "I don't clean up my room."
My mom's favorite thing to eat is: "Salad." (Yeah, right. But I'm glad he thinks that.)

He also has been watching the latest Herbie movie that is called Herbie Fully Loaded. But Dylan calls is "Herbie full of Loadie." Too cute.

Hawaii and more

I have been trying to do about one post a month, so I figured I better get on my April post. This has been a great month. I had the opportunity to go to Hawaii with my brother. It was so amazing. I had never been there before and I treasured every experience. Some highlights of the trip were:

• Snorkeling. I loved it and I could have done it all day. We saw enormous turtles who could be a tad too friendly, but it was amazing.
• My first ever massage. It had its weird parts, but I loved how relaxed I felt afterward.
  
• Coby's status. This is more of a joke between us, but because of his selling, we were upgraded to a suite and were served breakfast every morning, afternoon tea, and appetizers every evening. I ate way too much.
• Snorkeling, oh wait, I already mentioned that, but I loved it so much it was worth an extra mention.
• The volcano. It was a long drive, but it was amazing standing on a live volcano.
  
• The dancing. Coby and I are both dancers and one night they had a country dance and we ripped it up. We had to avoid all slow songs, but we rocked the line dancing.
• The lava tubes. They were incredible to walk through. The volcano was so crazy, one side was a desert and dead and the other side was a lush rain forest.
• My hair. Okay, not really. My hair would not go straight. I spent one morning straightening it and by the time we got to breakfast, it was curly.
• The sunsets. They were amazing! I would have loved to share them with Jon.

To finish off, here are a few random pictures. I love this one of Dylan and Livie. They were playing dress up. He was her prince.

This last one is a Sunday nap. Usually Jon is the only one who naps on Sunday, but this time he was the only one awake and had to document the experience.

Dylan's 6th Birthday

Dylan had a great birthday this year. He was so excited to turn six because it is only ten years away from sixteen and then he can drive a car. We had a friend party for him the Saturday before his birthday. They made wooden cars, pinned the dog on the firetruck and broke a pinata. They had so much fun.
On his birthday he got the two presents he had been asking for and then we surprised him with a power wheels truck. He was so excited, he couldn't stop shouting yes! He has had so much fun with it.
On a side note, I just had to post the picture of the darling Valentines Day box Jon made Dylan. Dylan was so proud of it and still plays with it.

Random Cuteness

There hasn't been a lot of things going on in January, but there have been a few random cute things.

• Dylan and Denver were playing together one day and Tangi and I dressed them alike. They loved being twins.
• Dylan decided that he needed to be a man and had Jon draw a mustache on him and he went around all day wearing that and his hard hat.
• Dylan also decided that he needed roller skates. He took two cars and used masking tape to attach them to his shoe. He thought it was pretty clever and it worked pretty well.

This last picture is only funny if you have seen our house and you have seen Coby and Tangi's house. Dylan was building a city and brought me into his room to give me a tour. He had taken Livie's doll house and told me that was Denver's house. Then he pointed to a little lego house next to it and told me that it was our house. I love kid's perceptions on things.

Sunday Love

This may be the end of my good posting run, since I resume school on Monday. I thought Dylan and Livie looked so cute on Sunday that I had to take a few pictures. And yes, I am aware that my son looks like Harry Potter. We went sledding on Saturday and Dyl forgot to stop and slid into the fence. Dylan was also putting the moves on a couple of women on Sunday. He was one of my helpers in primary and he sidled right up to this little girl named Shayden. He stood really close to her and then smiled and put his arm around her. Later in sacrament meeting, he was playing on the back of the bench when a cute little old lady leaned forward and said hi. Dylan not only said hi back but gave her a great big kiss! She was very happy. I had no idea my son was such a lady's man.We also built a snowman on Friday. Dylan was so excited and wanted to take his picture next to it. Doesn't Dyl look so squishy and cute? We decorated the eyes, mouth and buttons with candy. The coloring leaked everywhere and it looked like we had dyed him. The sad thing is someone knocked our snowman over the next day. But the kids were still happy with the result.