school's out

tagg just finished first grade. on the left was his first day of school and on the right is the last. those teeth! he made amazing friends at his new school, loved buying lunches on mondays (cookie day) and excelled at math. 

AND rocked each week's spelling test. photographic memory much? he is a clone of craig.

i love this self portrait he painted. 

i cannot believe he will be in SECOND GRADE. what?!

this little nugget of joy finished his second year of preschool at miss judys. only one more year to go! :) talk about clones, i took a side by side shot of me and sully and it was kinda scary. (on the left was his first day of school and on the right his last)

that is the cutest watermelon i have ever seen. not to mention the way he put the "o" on the bottom of the "l". so artistic. ha

my almost 5 year old! hoooooow do they grow up so fast?

the cutest dodger around

tagg's first year of coach pitch baseball just ended and it was a great season. the weather was pretty fantastic throughout the entire season which made watching this guy play even more enjoyable.

front and center!

nothing cuter than a baseball tee.

GO TAGG! when i was choose my boys' names i make sure they sound like good baseball names (nothing beats what my dad wanted to name taylor: dusty short).

a little hopper for his last AB of the season.

                                 

felix hernandez is a big deal pitchers on the seattle mariners. tagg was on cloud nine after recieving the felix hernandez award from coach owen.

we love you, tagg!

las vegas and cowabunga bay

we all went to las vegas for memorial day weekend. it was wild but fun. the first night there we parked at the bellagio and walked out front to show tagg and sully the fountains. 

tess loved her daddy AND all the lights.

then my dad took us to his favorite restaurant in town, hashhouse. my boys were in HEAVEN with their watermelon drinks (and with tucker!). i didnt take a sip (i dont do weird liquids) but craig said the bottom green part actually tasted like the rind of a watermelon. i didnt believe him. 

for the first two nights of our stay we were over in lake las vegas (bleh). the boys did love the water slide they had at our hotel though.

icees and back rubs. 

they were very proud of their red tongues!

as soon as the clouds cleared that morning is got HOT so i jumped in the pool with the boys. 

for lunch we went over to grimaldis pizza. so good. afterwards we walked around the very beautiful bellagio gardens.

that evening we played around on the "beach" back at our hotel.

my favorite seven year old.

tess is in that stage of giving big, wet kisses. she sure is a happy baby girl.

and she sure does love her thumb. 

after the kids went to bed, craig drove over to get us in n out. dang, that stuff is gooooood.

the next morning we went over to COWABUNGA BAY! my dad's company built this amazing water park last year and we have been dying to test it out. it was very busy but very fun.

tess was a good little girl and went to everyone who wanted to hold her (so i could ride a few slides).

like this monstrosity! you climb to the top, step inside that red pod, get shut inside the red pod, and when you least expect it the floor drops beneath you and you free fall down into the waterslide. i almost cried. just ask tucker. and the poor employee who i held hands with while she tried to calm me down.

family racing down the baby slides. much more acceptable. 

it was my aunt's birthday that day so tucker offered to watch the kids while we all went out to celebrate. we love you, brooke!

our last night in vegas we switched over to stay at green valley ranch. it was sooooo stunning and the sand pool was so interesting and pretty.

before we caught our flight back home we played in the pool and enjoyed the sun shine. a very entertaining weekend.

go tigers!

sully just finished his first season of baseball. he loved every single second of it. 

he was on a team (the blue tigers) with all of his friends and our friend, matt, was the coach. tagg was an honorary tiger. sully had a love/hate relationship with that idea. he didnt want tagg stealing his spotlight (always wanted tagg to bat last) but was very sad when tagg couldnt play in the tigers' last game because he was at his own baseball game. oh sully! its complicated being the middle child. :)

GO TIGERS!

sully was the best slider! even in shorts. ouch.

 

baseball brothers!

after their last game the team went to dairy queen for ice cream and trophies. sully was honestly on cloud nine. he loves baseball so much, carries his trophy around everywhere and is already asking when next season starts!

mothers day

mothers day was lovely this year. the boys made me breakfast, i ate see's candy and the sun was out! my mom came over before church and we took a few generational shots. 

tess is doing this new thing where she cocks her head waaaaaaay over when someone talks to her. shes so shy. not.

my mom and my girl. so lucky!

sully made this for me in preschool. my favorite part is that he says i "cuddle good". 

tagg put together a little book at school for mothers day. i wish i had purple hearts in my hair! :) and geesh. both boys think im nice.... they must have selective memories when it comes to bedtime! 

cinco de mayo!

last week we had my family over for tacos to celebrate cinco de mayo. 

my brothers both learned spanish on their lds missions so i thought they would appreciate me to whipping out the few remaining words/phrases i remembered from my high school spanish classes. apparently i didnt even get that right. its 'te gustan'.

a few months ago jocelyn showed me these little oreo 'tacos' saying, 'i dont have the patience to make these but i know you will!". hahaha she knows me too well. they are made using white oreos, crushed regular oreos, tinted coconut, cut up starbust and sliced hot tamales.

tess says, "happy cinco de mayo"!