Most of May!

 We were only home for about 48 hours after Hawaii and before San Fransisco, but we were able to squeeze in this girls night for Michelle's birthday! I just LOVE Michelle. She was one of the first people to befriend me when I moved to Vegas. She is one of the most beautiful people I know, inside and out! And Jessica and Ashley are equally beautiful and amazing :) Such a great night with this ladies, sure going to miss them!!

< A couple days after San Fransisco Ryan and I headed out to Houston to try and find a house. While we were there we got to stay one night with my highschool friends Annie and Doug Lewis. They were highschool sweethearts and it was so fun to see them with their beautiful family now! They gave us so much great info and so many great contacts! Sadly they moved to SC the last week of June so we won't get to live by them!

We picked up dessert on the way to their house, and it was pretty amazing. Lemon Icebox -- DANG!

                        Casen graduated preschool! He got the award for "Most Enthusiastic" :)

Casen showing Dad his preschool papers, hand print pillowcase, and the graduation cap cookies he made just for us :)

On the left is the sheet he filled out at the end of the year and the sheet on the left is one he filled out the beginning of the year. Drawing has never been his thing and I definitely see improvement :)

Casen and Mrs. Ticia. She really love him for who he is and I am so grateful. I KNOW that he is not perfect, but she literally never had anything negative to say about him. A couple weeks ago she sent me a text saying that now that preschool was over it was safe to tell me that he was definitely her favorite and that she missed him so much. :)

This was supposed to be a pic of he hand-print pillow but it got cut-off :) But I like it anyway! It was fun to be there with just Casen (the girls were sick so Julia watched them). He is such a fun little boy and I am so grateful he is mine!

Two sick sisters in their pj's with their "princess skirts" on, dancing like crazy!

Brinley was really sick for about a week but her fever was gone and field day and she begged to go, so I let her. She had fun... but I ended up having to pick her up an hour early for a 101 temp :(

These kids love watermelon, ALMOST as much as I do. Ok actually I love it was more, I am just a less messy eater.

Homemade cinnamon rolls on Sunday... not my best picture, but I did have fun making them with the kiddos :)

Sweet Val! Love her! She was my roommate freshman year at BYU and I have loved her ever since. She had come to Vegas the past several years for Memorial Day weekend and always makes a stop to see us! We will miss her visits! The kids love her too! They call her "Vowel" :)

                                                  Eating the fruits of their labors :)

Oh how I love my helper in the kitchen :) She may make messes and put in wrong ingredients, but I still love her and will miss this messy face when she grows up!

Crepes for breakfast! Brinley's request, ofcourse. I love when I actually have time to make breakfast, it's my favorite meal :)

Tie day at school! Casen let Brinley barrow his tie for the day and she dressed herself (as usual). I think it turned out pretty cute :)

Painted these sweeties fingernails before school (no we don't normally have time for that!). Marlee seriously loved getting her nails painted!

Marlee taking a nap with Mickey Mouse, we has been in love when him ever since the Disney Resort.

This picture is out of order, but while is Houston we went to the Original Carrabbas! It is my favorite restaurant. We had dinner there the day Ryan proposed and had our wedding luncheon there. It was fun to eat at the original, family owned one!

All the kids tried this popped bouncy ball on their heads. I thought Marlee looked the cutest!

Another 100% for Brinley on her spelling test (we had a lot of treats on Fridays, mainly Dee's Donuts). The kids started their hang loose signs after Hawaii :)

These two awesome couples took us out for one last night out on the town! Grace and Sean joined us even though Ikea was only a few weeks old. They even treated us to dinner at Brio! I seriously love both of these ladies! Two of the sweetest ladies I know... I told them they need to be friends when I move and I think it's really happening :) We had such a fun time just chatting. After dinner we went bowling with just the Flores'... turns out Darlene has some mad bowling skills!

This picture isn't the best quality by a photographers definition, but it is by mine! Look at those sweet chubby cheeks and Casen letting his little sister snuggle up to him :)

Casen working on his coloring skills. He has never really had an interest in coloring but I like it when we takes a break from his craziness and actually colors!