The Updike's

To say that Lily was excited for her first friend late over is a big understatement!!   She could not sleep the night before because she was so excited!  It was really pretty endearing!   Garrett and I made a decision that we did not want our family to do friend sleepovers - but totally love the idea of having late overs - meaning the kids can stay and play together super late at night.  Lily invited her 2 best friends from school, Riley and London. First things first - - Nail Polish!  I thought that this was the cutest thing that Lily put together.  She came up with like 15-20 ideas of things that they could do together and put them into this box so they could draw one out when they finished an activity.    Lily asked if she could have hot dogs for special friend dinner.  Since we ended up having the missionaries over for dinner last minute we tried to up the regular hot dog menu and had chili cheese dogs.  Riley and ...

 Our little Crewster was so excited for Garrett and I to celebrate his 1st year of preschool with him! He just looked so so cute in his graduation gown!  I just loved watching his sweet excitement! Walking down the stairs to greet us while the graduation music was playing in the background.  Singing us songs that they learned throughout the year Crew and Brielle singing the "Yellow" song. I just love this sweet little face! Oh, how we love Ms. Jeannie!  She is just a marvelous and loving preschool teacher! We feel so very blessed that she has been able to teach 3 out of our 4 kids so far.  I love how she takes a couple minutes and tells everyone a couple of things that she loves about each student.  Her comments about Crew made me smile! These two . . . Friends since they were babies!  Crew just randomly announced to me after school one day: "Me and Brielle are in love and I didn't even k...

 I don't know if the kids were trying to make up for all of the whining, crying, and complaining on my birthday . . . but they made this mother's day super great!!  The went above and beyond with all of the special things that they did for me.  I am so thankful for my kiddos (good days and bad days)!! They all let me sleep in a bit and then cute Lily led me on the cutest scavenger hunt.   The scavenger hunt led me to a treasure of love notes and homemade crafts from all of the kiddos.  It was so so sweet!  Garrett spoiled me and made me yummy crepes for breakfast (even though we have 9 am church)!  Sweetness from Crew  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Sweetness from Boston.  I love the word search that he created all by himself!  A little book that Boston put together at school. ...