Random Pictures And A Video From Past 2 Months

I have been horrible with this blogging thing since finding out I was pregnant. And, to be honest, I've been horrible with most things in my life since early March! But, now that I'm getting out of that awful 1st trimester, I'm remember who I used to be and actually finding the energy to be that person again!!! So, I'm going to start with the blog. Hopefully by the end of the week we'll have pictures hanging up in our not-so-new-anymore apartment!! That would be nice!

Here is a picture of the crazy blizzard we had about a month or so ago. It was insane! The week before we had beautiful weather! It was bright and sunny, we got little sunburns, it was perfect! As we were getting ready for church, we noticed some pretty big storms clouds coming in and we had a fun little thunderstorm. As we drove to church it was coming to a close and it looked like it was leaving. But an hour later, after sacrament meeting, we looked outside and all we saw was WHITE!!!!!! It was storming, and bad! I've seen some crazy snow storms here in Rexburg, but this was the first time I felt confident in saying this was a true blizzard! It lasted for about 6 hours and when it was over we had a good 6 inches against both doors. Of course as soon as it was done the sun was out, blue skies were visible, and the snow was gone by the next day. That's what great about spring storms! The snow comes and goes pretty quickly. Oh, and even though it was pretty cold and stormy, Michael still wanted to play in it! He didn't care.

Michael scooping up snow with a snow shovel

Michael on his first day riding the bus

This video isn't the best (are they ever on this blog??) but it's Michael singing me happy birthday (I turned 26 on March 15th). I was pretty shocked that he knew this song! We sang it for his birthday and apparently it stuck! I wanted to get it on camera but of course when he saw the camera he was done. But you get a small sample towards the end.

Before the camera was out he didn't need any prompting from either of us. He really just knows it! I'll have to see if I can get a better video on Nathan's birthday (May 10th)

Pre School Pictures

Michael had soooo much fun at his preschool this last Winter semester! He absolutely loved it and we are so grateful that he had the chance to go. It was a great experience and I'm so grateful that BYU-Idaho has implemented this program. Basically, it's a training/teaching preschool. The teachers are actual students at the college and teaching in the preschool is part of the requirement for graduation. It is an actual class for them and they meet weekly in a classroom and learn about better ways to teach the children. We are all very sad he didn't have the opportunity to go this semester, but we are hoping for next semester.

This is just before we left for his last day of preschool

Walking into the building all by himself
There class name was the "beach bums". This is him in front of the poster on the door.

On the last day of class they allowed the parents to come in for the last 15 minutes for circle time. Michael was soo excited to see me and Nathan. He just ran right over and gave me the biggest hug! He hung onto me the whole time I was there. It was very cute and funny. It made me laugh because he had never really done that before.
This is always the highlight of the day! This is circle time and in the biggening each time they welcome each of the kids individually. They have a picture of each child and they pull them out one by one and ask "who is this?" Then the child jumps up, pats their chest, and says "ME!!!" and then put it onto the board. They all get very excited and it's a fun thing for them. Michael is not an exception! After his turn, he usually wants to stay up there and put each picture up for the rest of the kids. This is a picture of him doing just that. Also, for the first time he said Me! when they asked! It was very exciting for the other teachers.

Here he is running back to me after his turn with the picture. I love his tongue! It's always out!