May 28
The end of the school year has come and we can hardly believe it! Greyson is done with preschool and has been asking us each day of the week, "is it summer now?" He is in that fun stage where he is trying to read the signs as we go by. He made a "book" for Addie this week, along with a sailboat, a ghost costume, and more. He is always busy making things.
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| Greyson's paper ghost costume |
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| Last day of PreK with Mrs. Storms |
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| Custom warning sign |
Hinckley and Addie had their field day, class parties (of which I got to volunteer in Addie's class for hers), dance performances, and goodbyes. Addie was quite tearful about being done, but I think she is happy that summer has arrived as well. Hinckley really struggled to make it to the end, but he did it. He discovered the joy of building his own video game of sorts in Scratch and that fed his imagination in these last days. He and I had a really fun date going mountain biking at an instructional trailhead (that's a thing!) in Draper. It was a perfect day, a great trail for us beginners, and hardly a soul around. We had a blast!
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| Last week of school |
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| Building black hole games in Scratch |
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| Mountain biking Dad/Hinckley date |
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| Return from end of school neighborhood party |
Saturday we packed up and all went to Provo where Addie did her final ice skating class and I took the boys to visit grandma and grandpa's grave. When that was wrapped we headed to Colorado and arrived in time for cookies and the hot tub. The kids enjoyed their movie/Zelda marathon in the car and all in all the trip was uneventful (in a good way). Summer is here!
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| Visiting Provo Cemetery |
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| Near grand junction enroute to Grandma's |
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| Cousin hot tubbing time |
May 21
This week started when the whole family went to drop off Addie at music class and we played at the park nearby while she was there. I suppose this is the last time we’ll be doing that, or maybe next to last time actually as she is finishing that up this week. Hinckley has really improved his frisbee throwing and it was a lot of fun throwing that back and forth together! We've been doing that a lot lately.
Greyson has been asking for a tank top lately. He wants to have one for his exercise and to be a true ninja. So early this week Kassie took him to Kid-to-Kid and he was extremely excited to come home and put it on. It is a bright yellow-green color and he wore it basically all week. He has LOVED the outside weather and has been going to a park in the mornings, playing outside much of the day (he even turned the TV off himself) and then playing at the park this evenings if he can convince people to go with him. He has been falling asleep nearly as soon as his head hits the pillow and only wakes up when he has bloody noses in the wee hours of the morning. He loved spending time with Grandpa and Nana and was a good friend with Kelli at the Tulip Festival in Thanksgiving Point.
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| The Tower (with our Gatorade) |
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| Father's and Son's |
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| Hinckley waiting to play 9 Square |
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| Greyson joy in the dirt |
Addie and Kassie had a really fun girls night while we were out. They went and got some dinner and watched Princess Diaries while putting on facemasks. Addie was very excited to tell me all about it, and like with other movies she loves is eager to show me that one now haha.
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| Eating with Mom at Girls Night |
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| Face masks...! |
Saturday we had a packed day of final concerts and showcases. Greyson had his Ninja showcase this morning and was very excited about getting a medal and showing our whole family all he could do. It was really cute to see him up there doing his different activities. Hinckley had his second annual BBQ piano recital, and it likely will be his last. He has been voicing a desire to quit and given he has gone 2 years beyond Lets Play Music we are calling it a victory. He is interested in violin at the moment so perhaps we’ll give that a try. He was excited to have Nana and Grandpa come, along with Logan. Logan came home with us to play Zelda with Hinckley and they were very excited to do that together for a few hours. Addie’s concert this evening was her last Let’s Play Music event and she played her own composition “My Friend- Snowman”. I’m glad she made it to the end, and it looks like she won’t continue with piano. It has been very very difficult these last few months just to go to the lessons. She is interested in choir though so perhaps she will sing and enjoy that. I am glad she has some foundational music experience anyway.
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| Ninja medal |
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| Zelda with Logan |
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| Outside water fun |
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| All done with Let's play music! |
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| Ready to perform |
May 14
We continue to enjoy the amazing colors of springtime here in Lehi. The allergies have been rough for many in our home which is the only downside to what feels like an extended spring.
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| Kas and I at the Draper Temple |
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| Spring time house shot |
Greyson made little tickets this week and has been giving them to each of us. They can be redeemed for a custom “toy” that he creates. I got a little bottle cap glued to a paper which is supposed to hold flipped coins. He also has been writing little love notes to Kassie and others that say “I luv u”. Very cute. Greyson and Kassie had a fun date hiking the Y on Monday. He got a ton of hiking/outside time in this week as he spent Tuesday and Thursday morning with Grandpa going on multiple hikes and attending a couple different parks as well. He really soaked it all in! He has been begging for scrap wood and metal to "make stuff" and so we got some more scrap from Lowe's on Saturday. He joyously set to hammering away as soon as we got home. He is constantly working on building things out of paper or otherwise.
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| At the Y with Mom |
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| Out with the scrap wood |
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| Creating boy |
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| Taking turns on Dad's work treadmill |
Addie finished reading Holes this week and has been especially eager to play with friends every day. She told me about a game at recess where she has been pretending to be a little English girl with French friends (they make up the French language as well) haha. It was really cute overhearing Addie and her friend Brooke playing here at home while I was working. They were playing “Little House on the Prairie” wearing bonnets and even pretending to be blind like Laura's sister Mary. On Saturday Addie got her ears pierced on a date with Kassie after ice skating lessons and then they had a picnic afterward. I was a little surprised she faced the fear of the pain but she did and has been elated about it.
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| Surviving getting ears pierced |
Hinckley is ready for school to end and had some tough moments this week wishing this were the case here and now. That said, all was made right on Saturday when he was able to trade in two of his Switch games and all his money to get the newest Zelda game which he has been anticipating for about 2 years now. He was so excited to dive in and discover that there are seemingly infinite possibilities to create and explore in the game. It is really quite remarkable. He read The Hobbit for the third time and we got some books about electrical engineering from the library he is pretty interested in. So here's to hoping he can continue being curious.
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| Tears of the Kingdom |
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| Reading and sketching Ball-O |
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| Doing some coding with the Raspberry Pi |
May 7
This week Addie got to bring her white fox diorama to school and share that. She was very excited that she was able to do the white fox as apparently many others wanted it too but she ran to the front of the room fastest when the assignments were going out.
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| Addie's white fox report |
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| Playing under the blossoms |
Hinckley continues to work on his engineering vision and had a good visit with Uncle Kendall this week! He ordered two Raspberry Pi Picos (microcomputers) which are just a few bucks and has been learning how to do some basic Python to code things on there. He is very excited about that.
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| Discovering how to make the Raspberry Pi Pico blink! |
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| Reading together at Addie's ice skating |
We went to the elementary school on Friday night for the Family Fun Night put on by the PTA. It was a little rainy and cold so they had it in the gym with food trucks just outside. The kids seemed to have a fun time despite mostly melting down once we got home. There was nachos, corn dogs, soda, cotton candy, some yard games, face painting, the playground, and at the very end - chalk throwing. The event started out rough, but by the end it looked like each of them had a somewhat good time.
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| Family fun night - dinner |
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| Family fun night - cotton candy |
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| Chalk throwing...! |
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| Cold chalk throwing |
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| Ready for school with blossoms |
Saturday we enjoyed seeing Jack get baptized and felt the special spirit of the ordinance with Dad's talk on baptism and Abi's talk on the Holy Ghost with Mom's music. Addie is very eager to get baptized now! Indeed she may have crossed over into the realm of covetousness which... I suppose envying another's baptism is probably not the worst kind of envy one could have haha.
Our front yard tree has been blossoming which is all of our favorite! We can't get enough of it.
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