Tucker's Preschool Graduation

I was thrilled and also secretly dreading this day....Tucker's last day of preschool. Ever.

He, on the other hand, was nothing but excited. I guess I just need to look at it as another important milestone that he has mastered.

The preschool had a huge party on the last day with a bounce house, games, tattoos, pillow case painting, hair styling, train rides, and ice cream sundaes for a morning snack! I brought a huge stack of tattoos and stayed to apply them and managed to snap a few photos between kids.

Of course Jax tagged along.

He'd been planning this hair out for a week...gold spikes with blue.

I made him wash out the color before graduation that night; gold was sifting from his head all over the house!

We headed to the preschool around 6:30 for graduation. Kev and the other boys grabbed us some seats while I walked Tucker up to the classroom and got him ready. I may or may not have cried.

Tucker and his best bud, Konnor.

The kids got to walk "down the line" to Pomp and Circumstance just like a real graduation. I also may or may not have cried here, as well. Imagine how I'll be at high school graduation...

Blurry but that's my Tucker!

Also blurry but he was so happy and proud!

The kids presented a little program with songs and such they had learned throughout the year. Totally cute.

He was too quick for me to snap a pic when he was receiving his diploma but this was right after.

Congratulations, Tucker!

I tried to get a photo of all the brothers together. I'm trying to prepare myself for many, many more such photos to come...

Outside the school.

Tucker finally said, "Ok, Mommy. Quit crying and taking my picture. Let's celebrate!!" 

He decided we would grab McDonald's, take it home, and watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It was an awesome evening. The kids worked very hard and learned so much throughout the year. Tucker really loved preschool, even when he claimed he didn't (mostly because he didn't want to wake up!) He is super excited to be entering kindergarten in the fall, mostly because he gets to ride the bus with Kyan.

In the words of Tucker, "Peace out, preschool!"

Easter Fun 2014

For those of you who are wondering if I have fallen off the face of the earth, was murdered, or simply quit blogging, fear not; I'm still here!!

Life sort of carried me away for awhile. February to April was a bit of a whirlwind with Kevin's injury and subsequent hospital stay(s). More on that in a separate future post. :)

Easter was a lot of fun this year! 

Grandma Hiatt mailed the boys a fun Easter gift...dinosaur banks from good ol' Dinosaurland (Vernal, UT; our hometown.) They were super excited and ran to get their change to start "feeding" the dinosaurs.

Tucker's dino

Can you tell he's excited?

Jaxon didn't have a bank before this so he was totally stoked. No more sandwich bags filled with change for this kid!

Of course, the most fun to be had is actually with the box, right?

Tucker and Jaxon lucked out because they got to go to three egg hunts. Kyan was a bit sad that he missed two because he's in school all day. We have an LDS playgroup here that meets every Wednesday so the kids can play and the moms can talk. It's super fun and the kids love it. Emily had planned an egg hunt for the Wednesday before Easter. We all brought a dozen eggs per child and the kids got to find a dozen eggs. Easy peasy. They all had a blast!

Tucker and his friend, Alex. Tucker is such a poser.

Checking out the stash!

Showing me his candy. Jax loved finding eggs!

I also took Tucker and Jaxon to the Williston Convention and Visitor's Bureau for a free toddler community egg hunt. They got to get their photos taken with the Easter Bunny and find 10 eggs. Jaxon freaked out when he saw the giant bunny, hence no photo for him.

I have super duper creative friends up here! Cute little Easter gifts. :)

Emily made this. An eos lip balm as an egg...love it!

Nikki made this. It had the cutest chocolate hazelnut carrot inside. Tucker ate it without giving me a bite. Grrr.

The theme lunches continue. I've been making Ky cute little lunches all year. I like to post lunch photos on Instagram, so if you want to follow, click here.

Cute Easter lunch for Ky.

One of Ky's cute Easter lunches

Next up was coloring eggs. Tucker was not about to let me forget about this; he'd been bugging me about it since Valentine's Day. We didn't have school on the Friday before Easter, so I boiled up some eggs and we had a ball! 

Coloring eggs with shaving cream. Thanks, Pinterest!

The shaving cream eggs.

The finished shaving cream eggs. Next time, I will add MUCH more dye. Kyan did this at school and said, "You need to use tons of dye, Mommy. Better luck next time!"

I love this little face. He's so proud he's one of the "big boys" like his brothers!

To top Friday off, the boys took me and Kevin out for dinner as a very belated birthday gift. Kevin's mom and dad always take us out for our birthdays. Since they couldn't be here and we couldn't be there, Grandma Hiatt sent the boys money and a note specifically instructing them to take us out. They picked Applebee's. We met Kev there and had a fun dinner.

The traditional Applebee's cheese stick stretch.

Has. To. Do. Everything. Big. Brothers. Do. HAS TO!

Huge rainbow after we got home from dinner. Couldn't even get the whole thing in one shot.

Friday night is always "Fun Night" here at the Hiatt's. Generally we make pizza, watch a movie, and just have fun. We helped the boys make a blanket fort and they decided to sleep there. They had so much fun, and mommy and daddy got to watch a movie in their room alone....that never happens!

The next morning, we had an indoor egg hunt. Ky was super stoked because he'd already missed out on the other ones. Kev took the boys back to our bedroom and I hid the eggs all over the living and dining rooms. Simple, but fun.

This cracked me up because they looked all over in this corner and couldn't see the egg sitting on the activity cube!

Everyone got two eggs with dollar bills, and two eggs with quarters, and the rest were filled with candy.

The next day was Easter. We all went to church together and the lessons were wonderful. Afterwards we went to a fun brunch hosted by the McBrides with super yummy waffles and toppings, eggs, ham, and fresh fruit. The kids played outside because it was FINALLY  nice weather, even though it was pretty windy. Fun times with good friends! We came home and finished the day by taking advantage of the nice weather and playing outside. 

The bunny didn't freeze trying to find us after all.

Tried to fly a kite, but it was TOO windy, so we settled for bubbles instead.

Tucker topping off the day with a delicious candy skewer. 

So that's Easter in a nutshell. Kevin could finally walk without a cast again, we were together, and life was good! Now to get completely caught up on this blog again...