This year was Mason's last year in Preschool!!  *tear*  My kids are growing up too fast!  Mason THRIVED this year in preschool!  I was a little bit nervous for him at the begining of the year because his first year he was in with Ronan and seemed to parrot his older brother.  I wasn't sure how being on his own would be for him.  But as usual, my guy amazes me!  Mason flourished and came out of his little shell so much this year!  He was a completely different kid all year.  His participation was through the roof, singing, dancing, socializing, artistic, academic!  I was floored!  He is quite the popular kid as well!  I love it!!  At the end of each year they do a big production at the Abby Arts Center.  The preschool, Creative Edge School of Arts is also a drama, dance and music school.  I was so nervous for Mason being up on that big stage without his big brother to hold his hand like last year.  But he came out on stage and performed like a star!  I wanted to cry I was so proud of him!!!!

I can't believe that the school year is coming to an end!  It has been so much fun watching Ronan go through Kindergarten and seeing all the changes that he has gone through!  I love it!!  But as usual, it also makes my heart ache!  He is getting so grown up and independent.  He was pretty excited for sports day and of course did a great job at each station!!

I had way too much fun with the theme for Summer's 2nd!  I struggled at first deciding what I was going to do for her, but then one morning for breakfast we were having a yummy fruit smoothie.  She came upstairs with a small tea cup from her kitchen set and wanted me to serve her smoothie in that.  She sat there with this tiny cup taking small sips and *poof* the idea came to me!!  I have seen the idea done before but never thought of it for her 2nd until that moment.  SO CUTE!!  Everything was miniature and so much fun!!  It turned out really great!  Eeeeeeeek!

The end of the season!  This season went by REALLY fast!  About half of Ronan's games were rained out unfortunately.  But what can you do??  The team had a small get-together at the field where they were given their medals and also their portraits and team photos.  They also had some yummy treats and fun times at the playground.  It was a great season! 

This year the city revamped the spray park at Mill Lake.  The old one was decent, but I guess it was time for an up grade.  This new one is pretty cute and the spray is a little more tame, I guess.  We visited it a couple time this summer.  The kids are usually off and on about spray parks.  Sometimes it's the best time they've had, others...not so much. 

Ronan's whole school has been practicing for their upcoming production of Joseph and The Amazing Technicoloured Dream Coat!  It has created quite a bit of hype and Ronan has been singing a few parts that he's learned here and there.  Tonight was the performance and I must say, I was blown away by the talent of these kids!!  They did the whole production from start to finish, all the kids doing every part.  It was great!! 

These were some of the narators (4 girls) who had the biggest part in the production.  They were on stage from start to finish and sang in almost every song.  The girl on the left is a member of our ward!  She did great!

This boy played Joseph and did such an amazing job!  He was very entertaining and talented!

 

Ronan did such a good job and participated so well! I'm so proud of him!!!! It was so cute!!

It has been a long time in the making and I cannot believe that this day is finally here!  It has been so exciting to watch the temple being built over time and to finally see it completed is truly amazing!  Slade and I took the kids through the temple together.  They were so well behaved and really enjoyed seeing the inside of the temple.  Mason's favourite room was the baptisimal room, and Ronan LOVED the sealing room.  SO cute!  BUT, I think I can safely say that the peak of the experience were the endless cookies provided in the cultural hall of the Temple View Chapel.  Ronan and Mason...(and I'll sneak this in here, but don't tell anyone...and SLADE) literally gorged themselves on cookie after cookie!  haha  It was such a great experience!  I'm so happy that my children had the opportunity to go through the temple. 

Summer was so well behaved too and even kept her little booties on through the whole tour! I took the kids through a 2nd time on my own so I could bring my cousin through as well. That was a nice experience!

 I love the temple and I'm SO happy and feel SO blessed to have one near by now. 

Every spring Avenue Machinery holds it's anual open house.  The boys are always so excited to go and look at all the tractors, sometime they get to take a ride and even try driving one.  This year it was a little more low key, but we still got to have some yummy burgers and hot dogs, and of course all the chocolate milk, donuts and juice you want.  Fun fun fun!!