Preschool Graduation

Caden graduated from his first year of preschool yesterday! The preschool he goes to has mixed ages in their classes so they do a big graduation for everyone. He did so good! I was very worried because you never know how he's going to react, but he sat up there the whole time and he loved it. They said the letters and their sounds and the 3 year olds all got to read a word. The older kids read sentences. They sang the school song and they sang a bunch of other songs too.
Congrats Caden!!!





Halle liked to play on the stage too...

Here's our attempt at a family picture. My kids never cooperate.

Caden's Birthday

Caden turned four years old this past week. He's growing up too fast! We went to the doctor and here are his stats:
Weight: 40.2 lbs.-81%
Height: 42 in.-85%
BMI: 16.02-62%
We had a small birthday party on his birthday and then we had a bigger party on the weekend.

Here's Caden with the balloon he got from preschool..

He was very excited that he got a "big boy" bike. Now he can keep up with his friends when they ride bikes outside. It was kind of hard to go really fast on his trike.

For dinner he wanted to go to McDonalds and play on the play land. Here he is driving the car...


For his cake he wanted something to do with Toy Story because he is obsessed with it. My sister Emily found this cute idea. I made cupcakes that looked like the green aliens. They turned out really cute! Lucas helped too.


On Saturday we went bowling with everyone. Caden scored 111! I think I would've done better if I had the bumpers and the ramp too. It was a lot of fun! Thanks for coming!






I'm four years old!!!



My family gave him the big Buzz Lightyear that talks. All the kids gathered around and tried really hard to open it. Caden was very excited!

Kylee gave him some squirt guns...

Grandma and Grandpa Hendrickson gave him some Toy Story swimming gear. He insisted on wearing it when he took his bath.

It was a very fun Birthday!!!!

6 Year Anniversary

I can't believe that tomorrow is our 6 year wedding anniversary. I guess time flies when you're having fun. After we went to Jason and Audrey's sealing Lucas asked me if I remembered anything our sealer said to us. I remember that it was She-Daisey's grandpa that sealed us and I remember that he said some scriptures and gave us some advice and that's about it. I know that's pretty pathetic. I wish I could've taken notes so I could remember it forever. I just remember being very nervous and I could barely breathe in my dress. It was a perfect day though. The sky was so blue and the flowers were beautiful.
I decided to take a stroll down memory lane and share some pictures from our special day. I wanted to share some other ones, but Lucas forbid me from doing so. If you're ever at my house, you'll have to look at them. Our photographer had us do some interesting poses.

Lucas is pretty proud of this picture.


Here's a picture of all of our family and friends.


My family

Lucas' family
Lucas decided to be mean and smash cake in my face and it went all the way up my nose. I wasn't very happy.

The past 6 years have been very memorable and I can't wait for the many years to come!
I love you!!

April Recap

I realized I have neglected my blog this month. My batteries went dead on my camera and I was very lazy about replacing them so I could download all my pictures and take more. I've stolen some pictures from Emily's blog because my camera didn't work at Audrey's wedding. (I hope that's OK)

I know Easter was weeks ago and it's kind of pathetic that I'm finally writing about it. The kids were very excited this year. The Easter Bunny found some really good deals so the kids actually got toys this year to go along with their candy.

Halle got the Wonder Pets Schoolhouse.

Caden got a Toy Story sleeping bag. I think he was more excited about the flashlight and compass that came with it.



The next weekend we had the Hendrickson family Easter party. Everyone was excited to find their eggs!






Norma gave a very good lesson about the Resurrection.



I went with Malorie and Emily to Wendover to see the hotties from Emerson Drive perform. It was a very fun girls night out!
We stopped on the way to see the fake tree. This was my first trip to Wendover and I must say it was quite the experience. (It was a little windy)



My sister Audrey got married on Tuesday. A couple days before the wedding, we went and got pedicures. This was my first time having one. I could never justify spending money on my feet, but I can honestly say that my feet had never looked better. It was fun spending time with my sisters and my mom.


Audrey and Jason looked so cute!

Caden was so excited to see them when they came out of the temple. I asked him what his favorite part of the day was and he said when Audrey changed her name to Nielson. (Um, OK)






The whole day turned out perfect! I hope they have fun on their cruise. I am very jealous!

I'm sorry for the picture overload. I'll try and stay on top of things and change my batteries more often.

April Fools dinner

Caden thought it would be silly to have Green Eggs and Ham for dinner on April Fools. Doesn't that look appetizing?

Of course Caden and Halle wouldn't eat the eggs and ham so they had green pancakes. They were pretty excited. Caden thought we would really fool daddy.


We were watching the weather and they showed the map and there was a big, red blob over Syracuse. (is that the technical term?) I looked outside and saw all this hail. There was a lot of thunder and lightening too. It was pretty exciting!

I had the door open for 5 seconds and made a huge mess.