Pack Meeting

During the May pack meeting Max received his first cub scouts award ~ his bobcat. Way to go Max! He is sooo excited about scouts. I hate that he is getting into it right before they take their summer break, but at least he has day camp to look forward to. In the pics below he is pinning the bobcat pin on me and playing a couple of different games with a balloon. Max always likes to call it balloon ball.


Here Gage and I am trying to take a self portrait of ourselves and Max and Jordan jump in behind to make funny faces in our picture. Those rascals! It was actually really funny and we laughed about it, but then we were also a little disruptive ~ OOPS! Thanks for the laugh Max and Jordan!

Gage's Fieldtrip

The day after Max's fieldtrip I went on one with Gage's class. We went to This Is The Place State Park and then on a hike. It was quite fun, but I was pretty tired. I worked the night before Max's fieldtrip and the night before Gage's as well. No matter though, like I always say, it was definitely worth going on them. Plus I had never been to either place that we went on Gage's fieldtrip.

Gage and his friend Taylor
Pushing handcarts.
Learning the do-si-do or something like that. It was really funny to see the boys and girls embarrassed to have to dance with each other. They were laughing so hard. The boys definitely would of rather been partnered up with another boy. I wonder how much longer that will last, probably not much!

Max's Fieldtrip to the Natural History Museum

At the end of May I went on a fieldtrip with Max and his class to the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City. Max had a great time with all of his buddies running around that place. They looked at rocks and crystals, dinosaur fossils, saw animals that are prominent in Utah, and a few other bugs and animals. There was a scorpion that the boys really got a kick out of. Especially Max, he wanted me to take a picture of it he liked it so much. The museum also had a special exhibit about frogs. This was my favorite part because they had all of these plaques around the room that said, "Did you know" on it. I would go around asking Max in an exaggerated way, "DID YOU KNOW" and he would give me that cute little smile that he does with his head tilted to the side with a look on his face that says, moooom! I love it! I still do it to him even after the fieldtrip and I always get the same response. He gives me the look, but does it while trying not to smile. Such a cutie!

Max and one of his best friends, Ryan Giles. The other is Summit Schmerse.

Max just saw the scorpion!





Edgar, Javier, Matthew & Max

Eliza's Preschool Graduation

On May 21st Eliza had her preschool graduation ceremony. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to be there because I was on a trip to NYC with my two best friends Heather and Tiffany. We had scheduled the trip back in February and at the time I didn't know when the graduation was. I was so devastated to find out that it was during my trip that I even called her teachers to find out if they could change the date (no I don't think the world revolves around me, but I would try anything not to miss my sweet girl's graduation!) but it wasn't a possibility. The library where they were holding it was completely booked the following week. I told Eliza the bad news and she didn't seem to mind to much as long as her daddy was going to be there. I left the camera with Blake, rather than taking it on my trip, so that he could take plenty of pictures for me. He probably didn't take as many as I would have, but he did a pretty darn good job. I must say that he did good job of getting her ready too. I left for NYC the night before the graduation so before I left we got out the dress that Eliza wanted to wear (her Easter dress of course! She wears it all the time because she feels fancy in it.), picked out a bow for her hair, some jewelry, and painted her nails. I was at least thankful that I got to be a part of her getting ready, it was fun mommy daughter time. Eliza looked very cute and happy in the pictures. When I got home she was very excited to show me her certificate and her cap that she wore during the graduation ceremony. I hope that I never have to miss another big event like that again!!







When I got home they had this sweet Welcome Home sign that they had made for me hanging up. So cute of my sweet family!

Max is getting baptized June 6, 2009

Max and I took these pics for his baptism invitations. He looked so handsome in his suit and was more than willing to put it on and take some pictures. Two things that Max likes are getting his picture taken and getting dressed up and looking nice. He has always liked wearing ties and also what he calls "dad shirts", short sleeved, button up shirts with a collar. Here are the pics from our photo shoot.
I love this expression of his. This picture totally captures Max. We see this expression all the time when he is happy, laughing, or smiling, which is a lot.

This is the one I chose for the invitations.

These last three are Max acting silly.