Graduation!

The end of four-year preschool includes a last day of school photo, a sticker decorated gradutaion cap, and Ice Cream!!

Our big guy graduated just last night. We enjoyed a concert put on by he and all his classmates, and celebrated with a family trip out for ice cream.

We enjoyed seeing photos of his year and even some of his teachers favorite quotes of his from throughout the year.

We are very proud of our big guy!!

Timmy The Monkey

During our Big Preschoolers last week of classes he was able to bring Timmy, the class pet, home for a night. Timmy helped pick strawberries in our back yard, helped on the entertainment center, still a work in progress, and of course, ended the evening with a bath ( and a trip to the dryer). The boys always love speding time with their furry monkey friend and he will be missed, I'm sure.

Transportation Exploration

The two youngest, and mommy, joined our Big Preschooler one day for Transportation Exploration at school. There were emergency vehicles, motor bikes, even a Monster Truck (unfortuanely I missed the photo op for that one) , a school bus, boat, etc.

The boys loved sitting in all the vehicles, of course they made us think of our Grandpa who drives a school bus, and Uncle Jeff, you would have been proud of all the modes of transportation in one place!!

Wild Hair!

Our youngest has a bad habit of making "hair gel" out of whatever his dinner, or breakfast or lunch is. This day he was finishing up a Star Donut, one of the boys favorite treats, and in the top picture you can actually see a sprinkle in his hair!

It always makes us laugh and then we just get the wash cloth ready!

Bon appetite!

Some Group Shots

Some fun group shots of my boys!

And a single shot of our youngest, trying to remove his hat while playing out in the rain.

Nashville Trip

Well since our boys enjoy "Soupy" ("snoopy") and the Peanuts Gang so much, we took the opportunity to go see the whole gang carved out of ice in Nashville Tennessee.

We enjoyed our trip down, including a stop for lunch at Frisch's, the boys new favorite place to eat, just like their dad. When we arrived at the Ice exhibit and the employees stopped us to give us our parka's, we looked at them, like, "do we really need these, we're all bundled in winter clothing"? They quickly replied that we would want the extra gear bexause it was only 6 degrees inside! After about a half hour that starts to feel stinging cold!

The boys loved the characters and really enjoyed the ice slides, mom and dad enjoyed those too!!

Christmas At Church

Well, "it takes all kinds". We have spent time celebrating both tradtions of Christmas with our family at Church in the past few weeks.

Pictured above is our oldest in his stage perfoming debut as none other than "Jesus". That's right, his first ever performance and he was asked to play "young Jesus", he would tell you he played "4-year old Jesus", something he could seemingly relate to very well. In the foreground is "baby Jesus", played by our youngest becuase "he's a baby" his brother said!

Mommy played Mary, of course, and pictures of her in her lovely costume have amazingly dissapeared, haha!

The boys were part of the "Stations of the Crib" and enjoyed their time up on the altar/stage.

We also took the family to breakfast with Santa, where we ate, made crafts, visited with the big guy himself and spent time chatting with friends and fellow parishioners. We enjoyed both activities.