May 2019

Jaron played soccer this season with a bunch of his friends.  It wasn't his normal coach or team he has had the last couple times but it was fun being on a team with friends.  And Grandma and Grandpa Goold are always so good to come out and see a game each season.



We did a few things on our get out pass this month.  Provo beach to do the ropes course.  The kids were pretty nervous about it but I thought they did a great job. And one last time on the Ninja Warrior Obstacle course.



Jennifer had an extra ticket to go see Aladdin at the Eccles theatre on Mother's day.  I had never seen the broadway production of it and loved it.



I sure love being a mom to these 3 kids.  I love them and they love me despite my imperfections.  Always want to spend time, cuddle and go everywhere I go.



Lots of end of year events in May.  First up was the Talent Show.  The girls played a piano/violin duet of 'Go Tell Aunt Rhody'  I was so proud of them.  They practiced so much for this and was their first time really performing in front of everyone, let alone their first duet as well.  And I got a great video and no pictures!!  boo.

Jaron played the drums to 'Final Countdown'  It was seriously so cute and so funny all at the same time to see him up there playing his drums.  It was a crowd favorite for sure.



Jaron had his Kindergarten program.  It was cute and fun to watch him sing and do actions to all the songs.  We have sure loved having Mrs. Reckling as his teacher and wish she could move up along with my kids and be their teacher.




Dance festival - The girls had a western theme dance and the dance was so cute.  Each class formed a big circle and the dance was really good and cute with boys and girls alternating, etc.  Jaron did a song from Trolls, hence the crazy hair.  It was cute and Jaron had the song stuck in his head quite a bit during the month of May.  Jaron often gets songs stuck in his head, you always know what song he is practicing at school or for the dance festival, Christmas sing, etc. cuz you hear him sing it at home a lot.



Last day of school picture as they scootered off to school for the last time as 1st graders.  Jaron ended school the week prior and I didn't get a picture but it was a great year for all 3 of them.



The girls got invited to an end of year party from their friend Ella Hatch.  These are girls from their class this year that they've been friends with and it's such a cute group of girls.

April 2019

We decided to go to St George for Spring Break.  This should probably just be a post itself but I'll just include it all here.  The kids were so excited to go on a trip that they all sat in the back seat squished together.  We had lots of fun.  The kids went from hiking to swimming, to a park and repeat.  They love to go climb on the rocks above St. George Blvd and their favorite thing to do there is play hide and seek.  They could play that for hours...and we practically did.  A few times it made me nervous because we couldn't find Jaron and he would not come out until he was found. We went to Snow Canyon one day and had fun doing some hikes there and seeing different things that we hadn't seen before.

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Grandma Glover came to visit, always fun when she's here.



We had another soccer season.  The girls got to play on an all girl team and they loved the change that brought to their game.  Siena scored her first goal during the season.



We attempted to go to this Unicorn Festival at the outlets and oh boy was it the craziest thing we had ever done.  It was sooo crowded and just crazy amount of people.  In fact they were supposed to have this balloon drop and had to shut it down because of the amount of people. We did get to see a few things and pet a unicorn.  Aria is still very obsessed with Unicorns so I was glad we went even though the crowds were crazy.



I got to go with the girls on their 1st grade field trip to the Bean Museum.  This was the first chance I have had to go on a field trip with them so it was lots of fun and they were excited to have me along.



We had a few fun Easter activities.  We had a neighborhood Easter egg hunt up at the park which was fun and easy as everyone just brought eggs and we threw them out on the grass.



The kids were super disappointed that they had a soccer game right when the Highland City Easter egg hunt was this year so I looked up and realized the Cedar Hills Easter egg hunt was right in between the girls and Jaron's game that day so after one game ended we raced to the other park, got there literally as the horn sounds, gathered Easter eggs and jumped in the car and went back for our 2nd game of the day.  We lucked out on the timing and the kids were happy to do another egg hunt.



Easter egg dying and other Easter pictures from the holiday.



The kids had their Ridgeline fun run.  It was cold and rainy this year and in fact they moved the time up and had them run at an earlier time which was a bummer for a lot of parents that missed out.  I was lucky I was there doing take home reading book exchanges when they announced the change so I got to go out and watch just in time.



The girls were so excited that their first grade teacher, Mrs. Correa, decided to do a class Battle of the Books for them.  They read all the books, formed teams and did a great job.  Siena's team ended up winning for the class and it was fun to watch all the kids get so excited about reading.

Kid's Interview Answers

Siena's Answers:
What is your favorite food - pizza
What is your favorite tv show – Pokemon
What is your favorite movie – Dolphin Tale
Who is your best friend – Aria and Sorena
What do you want to be when you grow up – Gymnastics Teacher
What is your favorite place to go with your family – Disneyland and Lagoon
What is your favorite holiday – All of them
What is your moms job – To work
What is your favorite book – Chapter Books
What is your favorite color - Pink and rainbow
What makes you laugh – When people tell me something funny
What is your favorite thing to play with – Electronics
What makes you happy – When I get what I want
What is your dads job – To work
What is your favorite song - A Child's Prayer
What makes you sad – When people are mean to me
If you had a wish what would it be - To fly
What is the meaning of life - To test you
Why do you love mom - She is really nice
Why do you love dad - He is fun when he's not working

Aria'a Answers:
What is your favorite food - Pizza
What is your favorite tv show – Spirit
What is your favorite movie – Benji
Who is your best friend – Siena
What do you want to be when you grow up – Cowgirl
What is your favorite place to go with your family – Disneyland and Lagoon
What is your favorite holiday – Easter
What is your moms job – Work at 3M
What is your favorite book – Uni the Unicorn and Sky Unicorn
What is your favorite color - Violet
What makes you laugh – When someone says 'Ahhhhh'
What is your favorite thing to play with – Everything that's mine
What makes you happy – My family
What is your dads job – Work
What is your favorite song - Old MacDonald had a Farm
What makes you sad – When I'm scared and alone
If you had a wish what would it be - to have a magical Alicorn
What is the meaning of life - To follow Jesus
Why do you love mom - because she loves me
Why do you love dad - because he loves me

Jaron's Answers:
What is your favorite food - Pizza
What is your favorite tv show – Power Rangers
What is your favorite movie – White Fang
Who is your best friend – Graham
What do you want to be when you grow up – Drummer and Soccer Player
What is your favorite place to go with your family – Dinosaur museum
What is your favorite holiday – 4th of July because you get all the candy from the parade
What is your moms job – to work for 3M
What is your favorite book – The Blue Truck
What is your favorite color - Blue, Red and Green
What makes you laugh – When someone tickles me
What is your favorite thing to play with – My stuffed animals
What makes you happy – When someone does something nice for me
What is your dads job – to work
What is your favorite song - The Books of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John...)
What makes you sad – When someone takes something away from me that I like
If you had a wish what would it be - To have everything I want
What is the meaning of life - To be happy
Why do you love mom  - because she lets me snuggle with her
Why do you love dad  - because he gives me rides

March 2019

The kids have finally learned how to build a Snowman by themselves.  And they are much better at it than I am.  I was impressed they built this all by themselves and that it's as tall as them.  They lucked out with the perfect type of snow that day.



Aria got new glasses.  I love these cute new purple ones. When she picked out the 2nd pair, little did we know she had picked out a pair that was called Aria.



The kids are getting much better and more elaborate in building their Leprechaun Traps.



The Secret Leprechaun never disappoints and the kids count down the days until he comes.  On the day of they check the door non-stop hoping to catch him in the act.  This year St Patrick's day fell on a Sunday and they were sure he was going to come while we were at church.  But he waited and they were so excited.



For St Patrick's day I served a Green dinner with Corn Beef hash, which the kids actually liked, green jello, pickles and green onion pringles in a green can.  We had green Popsicles for dessert.



I had to take a trip to St Paul for work one week.  Shane did a great job being super dad while I was gone and I had a good trip.  I got to tour 3M's innovation center there and sat in a real bobsled used in the Olympics.  3M also has these vending machines that you can get a new laptop, mouse pad, earphones, etc. all for work.  Rose and I were pretty excited to try it out.



 

We used our reading pass to get into the zoo one day. We hadn't been there in a couple years so it was super fun to walk around and see all the animals.  And we were happy it wasn't too cold either.  I think the highlight is still the carousel though.