Landon's Kindergarten program!

Landon had his Kindergarten program yesterday. Yes, I did say yesterday. Look at me being awesome at posting! Anyways, He was so cute. We had to make a decision this year about whether or not to send him into first grade. He is a July 31st birthday. He has improved so much. He is so smart and memorizes things very easy! There are a couple of things that concern me. First, his fine motor skills. Writing has been a struggle for him. Although he can write every letter now and some of the numbers he still has a hard time. Cutting and coloring are a bit hard. Second, he is not trying to read yet. He can sound out words, but gets very frustrated. I think he would do fine in first grade, but I think he would struggle. So, we are going to have him do kindergarten again! He has been okay with it, but it might be hard next year when he sees his friends in First grade. I just think it is the best decision for him. If he struggles in school I want it to be cause we need to work harder with him, not cause of his age!

There are a lot of videos here. You can watch them if you want. I happen to think they are adorable. If you choose not to watch them, at least watch the last one. Landon does a mean robot . It's worth having to bend your neck to see the second half of the video. Mrs. Davis' cd was skipping so a couple of the videos are in two parts!

My sweet baby boy had his last day of preschool today! They did a short program and they went out and had a swim slide party! Mrs. Morris was Aliya's and Landon's teacher also! She has been such a great teacher. Grant has one more year of preschool and off the Kindergarten he goes. My goodness Grant, slow down!!!!!

Introducing Penny!!

Well, we did it! We got a dog! Despite many people telling us it was a bad idea, I just knew we were ready! And so far, I think we did great! Meet Penny! She is a two year old German Shepard Vesila mix. I found her online at a shelter in Veyo. We decided to go meet her while the kids were in school, so they wouldn't get their hopes up if she just wasn't what we were looking for. We knew right away she was ours! She wouldn't come to us at first! Then after we walked her around the yard, she sat next to me and let me pet her. You could tell she was the owners favorite! She is very very sweet. A little timid. She has obviously had a hard life! She won't go to Neal yet! She will warm up to him though!

She is very sweet with the kids!

I sent this picture to the owners of the shelter. They were sad and happy to see her go!

My favorite thing about her! Look at those ears! She is definitely a Cazier!

The owners gave us some tips of how to continue her training. She sits and she follows me well already! I hope she likes it here. She will have a lot of love at our home.

Now I need lots of advice. Misty has been great and very very supportive! Thanks Mist!! She will be an outside dog for now. Maybe one day we will have her sleep inside, but Neal is going to build her a dog house so I think she will be good. She is used to being outside. I need to take her to the vet for a rabies shot and to get her licensed! Any other necessities I have over looked, let me know! Oh I need to know how to prevent fleas!

Landon's First Baseball Game!

Landon had his first Baseball game tonight. He was so excited. This year they are coach pitching to them and if after a few pitches they can't hit it, then they bring out the Tee. Landon is very happy about this since he hates Tee Ball!!
Landon with his friends Addyson and Quinn! They are in his class at school also!

Cute boy! I love when his freckles start to darken up in the summer!

Go Red Sox!!

Fun weekend up North!

I have been a very bad blogger lately! The truth is we have been so busy that in my "free" time, I just don't want to sit down and blog! Bad Amy! I hope to be better about it this summer! A couple weeks ago we went up North to visit my parent's. I needed to get out of town before Aliya started living at Tuacahn and I started living in my car taking her to Tuacahn! This time was an extra special visit. A couple months ago I had a friend I hadn't been in contact with in years contact me through Facebook! This is just not any old friend, this is a friend who I knew when we lived in Colorado who I spent every waking moment with during the late elementary years to the early Junior High years! Her name is Karen and she was a friend that was there during a rough time in my childhood. A bitter sweet time. There are those people in your life who stay with you, even after you have lost contact with them. The last time I saw her was the summer before my Junior year in High School. Over the years I have thought about her and wondered where she might be. There were even times I googled her name (haha...). I am so thankful she was able to find me. I have missed her over the years. We wrote messages and called each other, remembering all the fun crazy times we had together. A time where you could walk miles to where ever you would want to go, without a parent. The days of endless sleepovers and early boyfriends. The days where two very uncoordinated girls could put together a dance and audition for a city talent show! (We didn't make it in the talent show, btw. We were way out of our league, but we sure had fun.) So many memories I had forgotten. Little did we know that our children would love each other as much as we did. You would of thought they knew each other for years. It was an instant friendship!

When I say instant, I mean instant! This was probably two minutes after they had met. This is Karen's daughter, Emilee. She is five like Landon. She is a spit fire and Landon totally loved that about her. He held her hand pretty much the whole weekend and made sure she was safe in her car seat!

This is Sage. She is nine like Aliya! They became instant BFF's as well! They were so funny together. It's amazing how similar their personalities were. Both Tom Boys. Both love music. Both with the same vibrant personality that I absolutely love in Aliya!

This is Gabe. I know one day Gabe and Grant are going cause some trouble together. Both are major wanderer's. Both love to test their Mommy's patience. Both sweet as sweet can be!

Landon is in heaven. :)

At Thanksgiving point they had all the farm animals out in the barn. What a fun place to take the kids and it is very inexpensive.

You could feed all the animals. This little guy here was a food hog. He would not let any of the animals have any of the food.

The kids had the best time!

We took all the kids to the Aquarium. Landon always had to be with Emilee and Emilee always had to be with Landon. They were so funny in the car.

Aliya with Papa's favorite plant.

So cute.

Exploring!

I love this picture. Such cute girls.

Hahaha...funny boy!

"umm...that's not my kid climbing up the rocks."

Grant could spend hours at the Aquarium having Nana explain every display.

Cute boys!

There's Karen's oldest, Taylor. What a cute sweet kid he is.

BFF's

Touching the sting rays!

Aren't they cute?

We tried Karen!

The goodbye's were awful! My heart ached for them. I am so happy they were able to meet.

Hahaha...

Wow, it has taken me a long time to write this post. It's been minimized and I just work on it when I have a sec. Notice there are no pictures of Karen and I. I can't believe we didn't get just one. Oh well. Next time. I am so glad we are in touch again. She has a wonderful life, wonderful kids and she is a great person. They are coming to visit us in July and my kids have already planned sleeping arrangements and are making plans for when they are here. Can't wait.