The Pledge of Allegiance

Avery just turned 3 and knows the whole Pledge of Allegiance. She is kind of being silly in this video because there are a bunch of people watching her, but she can do the whole thing all by herself. About a month ago every time Avery saw a flag I would say the pledge of allegiance and she would repeat it. Now she's got it down.

Masons 1st Birthday

Mason had his 1st birthday on Sunday. It was a very eventful day filled with balloons, Chocolate chip pancakes, family, yummy food, cupcakes, toys, toys, and more toys! This kid is one spoiled little boy. But he sure does deserve it. I can’t even say how great Mason is. We love you Mason and want you to know that you have brought so much joy and happiness to our lives.
Just a little bit about Mason:

• He LOVES food. Don’t even think about taking a bite of something unless there is some for him too. There is not one thing that has gone in his mouth and came back out. He downs anything and everything. The only way to tell that he is done eating is that he will begin to put the food on top of his head. Each night he eats dinner around five and then when Levi gets home around 6:30, Mason thinks it’s dinner time all over again. He pretty much gets two dinners every night.
• He likes to clap his hands, give high fives, point to his nose, and he sometimes will put one finger up when you ask him how old he is.
• He is such a loving tender little guy. He loves to cuddle mom and give out kisses; watch out they are mostly open mouth kisses!
• When Dad comes home from work Mason lights up and makes a mad dash towards him.
• Mason always wants to see what Avery is doing, which is usually taking toys from him. But he still loves to play right along side of her, toys or no toys.
• Mason loves the bath tub, but he is terrified of people swimming. Whenever someone jumps off the diving board or goes under the water he flips out.

Here are a few pictures from his birthday fun!

Masons first trip to the swimming pool

This was Masons first trip into the good old pool. Mason LOVES the bath tub so I thought he was going to love the pool. Come on it’s like one huge bath tub, what's not to love? Well at first he didn’t like it one bit. He cried and cried and cried (mostly when he saw Nik). I am not really sure why. Maybe because he wasn’t sporting his normal glasses; Mason usually loves Nik. Mason just clung on to me and gave Nik the stink eye for quite a while. He finally warmed up to the swimming pool and Nik. Hopefully our next visit to the pool will be a success!

Avery and Mason with Uncle Nik and Aunt Hannah

Fishing in Payson

We headed up to Payson last Saturday to get out of this crazy heat. Levi’s parents just recently bought a house up in the mountains and we thought we would take a break and go check it out.  It will be a nice place to visit when they are done fixing it up. While we were there we rode the ranger around and went fishing. We all had a great time. Avery caught her first fish and was scared to death of it. Uncle Nik caught a crawdad which Avery was pretty scared of too. After fishing Levi, Nik, and Rick took on the project of ripping out all of the kitchen cabinets and countertops to get it ready for the new ones. Sadly I didn’t get a picture of this but it was a pretty big task, which they got done. We had a great time and can’t wait to get out of this 108 degree weather soon!

  

Mothers Day

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

I love these kids! They are the best kids in the world. I am so lucky to be called their mom!

Phoenix Zoo

Avery and I were so excited when we were invited by some friends to go check out the phoenix zoo. I have lived here for almost six years now and had never made it to the zoo. It is an awesome zoo. We had a great time. This little family we went with has a little girl that is a couple of months older than Avery and they also have a boy who is two or so months older than Mason. So it worked out perfectly, everyone had someone to play with. Avery even got to ride a camel with her friend Ady.  We didn’t take the kids swimsuits because we didn’t know the splash pad would be on but to our surprise it was. At the end of our day we let them get soaked at the splash pad. We all had a good time seeing all the animals and munching on eight dollar popcorn!

Happy Easter

We had a great Easter. We did all the fun activities like Easter egg hunts. Made Easter bunnies out of paper plates and made Easter eggs. We also left out carrots and lettuce for the Easter bunny, which he gobbled all up. The thing I love most about Easter is going to the Mesa Easter Pageant and taking time to remember Christ. This year we took Avery with us. She liked to see the angels on top of the stage all in white! I think Avery was a little young to really enjoy it, but I think it will be a fun family tradition to do each year together. We hope you all had a wonderful Easter season with your families!