Trista is 3!

On the 16th of June Trista turned three! She's been waiting and waiting for her birthday, and it was especially hard for her to see Dallin, Spencer, and me all have birthdays over the past three months while she was waiting for hers. She's been asking to go to Chuck E Cheese's for her party, and we were happy to oblige. We invited a few friends from church, but mostly kept it pretty simple. Her favorite part was riding the pony... over... and over... and over again. I think she used almost every coin she had just riding that pony!

Trista chose princess cupcakes for her cake, and she did a great job blowing out the candles!



For presents she got some new dress-ups, a beach bucket, and a princess cell phone.


Daddy even left work for a little while to join us in celebrating Trista's birthday!


As you can see, it wouldn't have been a party without the party hats--Trista insisted on those! We love Trista so much and are so glad she's such an important, fun part of our family!

Bike Wreck

Yesterday Dallin tried to take on the hot pavement with his face. I think it's clear who won.

His face actually looks much better today than it did yesterday. The kids were all out riding bikes, including my nephew Braden who is staying with us this week. Apparently Dallin was riding alongside Braden, going pretty fast, when he looked back to see who was behind him. He swerved into Braden's bike and consequently, bit the dust. The amazing thing is he doesn't have a scratch on any other part of his body, just his poor face.

As he was crying all he kept saying was, "I shouldn't have turned around. I shouldn't have been riding so fast. I shouldn't have been so close to Braden's bike." I kept assuring him that everyone gets in a bike wreck sometime when they're little, but he was so sure that he did something very wrong.

Dallin's leaving on an airplane to California today to begin summer vacation. We're supposed to have family pictures while we're all at Grandma and Grandpa Post's. I hope his face heals quickly!

Greatest Ever

Congratulations to Roger Federer for his championship win of the French Open today!

Jordan and I absolutely love Federer. He is amazing to watch and such a great sport. We've been rooting for him to win his 14th grand slam, and it couldn't have come at a better time than at the French Open. And it was so much less stressful to watch him play Robin Soderling today instead of Rafael Nadal.

My dream now is to actually see him play in person before he retires. Hopefully he still has a few good years left. I'll start saving my $$$$!

Spencer's 7th Birthday!

The day after we got back from St. Louis, May 26th to be exact, was Spencer's 7th birthday! We celebrated by having a birthday cake at Grandma and Grandpa's while we were all together.

One of the things Spencer bought with his birthday money was a slip-n-slide. The kids loved playing on it the very first day that was warm enough.

Happy Birthday, Spencer! We love having your fun, carefree spirit in our home! You're such an awesome brother and friend, and an excellent baseball player as well! We love you!

(Enjoy the background in honor of Spencer--his favorite color is orange! He insists he wants an orange Bug for a car when he turns 16. I keep telling him he may not fit in it, but he's not convinced!)

Memorial Weekend

Over Memorial Weekend we (my family, my parents, and Carley's family) went on a short trip to St. Louis. While we were there we visited the temple, the zoo, the art museum (very briefly since the kids weren't quite old enough to appreciate it), and the science center. The best part of all is that they were all FREE! Enjoy the following pictures of our fabulous weekend!

Fairy Tale Ball

During the last few weeks of school the entire first grade at Bellview Elementary has been studying Fairy Tales. When the unit was over they had a Fairy Tale Ball, for which they got to dress up as any fairy tale person/creature they wanted. Spencer decided he wanted to be Aladdin.

The kids got to parade around the school for all the other students to see and then meet in the cafeteria to perform some dances they'd been working on for the parents. They performed about four different dances, including the Macarena and some others I don't know the names of. Here's Spencer doing one of the dances. You'll notice he isn't smiling. He appeared to be focusing very hard on getting the dances right. He was all business!

After the dancing was over we went back to the classroom for a tea party. Dallin and Trista were with me, and since all the other kids were going to be dressed up I let them dress up too (my apologies for Trista's mouth full of food--she, of course, had to say "cheese" for the picture).

Here's Spencer with his teacher, Mrs. Fordyce.

And here he is enjoying his snacks with the rest of his class.

And here's one more picture just because Spencer's so darn cute (and to show off the sewing and glueing prowess of his mom in making such a fine vest and hat)!

Pre-School Graduation

All the kids are out of school now for the summer, including Dallin, who graduated from Preschool on May 16th. I've never been to a preschool graduation before, and I actually thought of opting out of it because I've always thought of it as a pretty silly thing. But in the end we decided to participate since Dallin had worked so hard to learn his songs and even memorize a Bible verse for the ceremony.

It ended up being so cute--we were so glad we went! The songs and the actions were lots of fun to see and Dallin was just grinning ear-to-ear the whole time. Here he is getting his "diploma" and shaking hands with his teacher, Ms. Diane. he attended His House Preschool, hence the little red house in the background.

Dallin did great. When it was his turn for his Bible verse he almost forgot it, but after he was helped with the first few words he remembered the rest on his own. Congratulations, Dallin! Now it's on to Kindergarten!