Porter Fam

Kaden's Preschool Graduation

June 5th was Kaden's preschool graduation.

*sniff*

I have a kindergartener now.

Holding his first day of preschool picture

Trying out Grandpa Porter's sunglasses

The girl in the middle is Conlie. She's the one who's been crushing on Kaden all year. ;)

Ms. B leading the class in a song about vowels.

Ari on my mom's lap, Lexi with Grandpa Porter, and Grandma Porter

Introducing the song he was about to play

He played, "Mary Had A Little Lamb."

I took a video of it, but I'm worried about space issues on here, so I'll have to figure out how to make the file size smaller.

Doing a poem with a few other kids in his class

He is so silly

Receiving his medal and a graduation book.

Bravo gave the students/parents a book that showed some of the artwork from the year, along with a DVD that had pictures of everyone in the class from different events and days throughout the year. I may or may not have cried while watching it at home.

One last song...

Posing with Ms. B after.

Haircut for Ari

A week ago (on June 3rd), I took Ari in for a haircut! Shane's sister, Val, had cut Ari's mullet off before, but she'd never had a haircut at a "salon" type place before. We went to Cookie Cutters in Bountiful, of course, and the girl who cut her hair was named Ariana. Seriously. It was fate. ;)

Ari was mad I took her away from the indoor slide for a minute.

Before....

Ari cutting Ari's hair. hahaha

"I just want to slide." She got a braid and sparkles in her hair!

Ari (the older one) also put sparkles in Lexi's hair. She was great.

After! SO much better, right?!

Finally happy with a sucker and balloon.

Teacher gift

Everyone on Pinterest was doing the same thing for the end-of-the-year teacher gifts: reusable cup with straw, beach towel, magazine, and sunscreen. 'Cause, you know, we have so many beaches here in Utah, I decided to go a different route.

Yummmm!

I used a cupcake box from Hobby Lobby

Add a Krispy Kreme gift card and you're golden!

I let Kaden choose what he wanted to write at the bottom. He wrote, "I Love You! Love, Kaden." We're all going to miss Ms. Brinkerhoff. I requested her for Lexi's teacher this fall, so keep your fingers crossed that we get her again!

Jared and Holly's reception

Steph's brother, Jared, got married on June 1st to a really cute girl named Holly. We went to their reception that night in Cedar Hills (right next to Alpine).

Lexi was really excited to see Holly's "princess dress."

Waiting for the slow pokes

Almost everyone was happy to see Danny and Steph...

There were other kids there, so all the kids got to run and play together.

Kaden LOVES photobombing. He just waits until the last second and..BAM!

Cute girls

Getting ready to cut the cake

Jared's expressions killed me.

They were ~~boring~~ nice.

Lexi wanted to catch the bouquet so badly. She didn't get it, but Steph gave Lexi her bouquet later. :)

Any time we couldn't find Lexi and/or Ari, we'd check the video table. The girls couldn't get enough of the movie.

Us and Danny and Steph with the happy couple!

Rolling down the hill in white dresses....

We all know which one of my kids ignored the roped off area first... *coughLEXIcough*

The owner's daughter and her friend came over and made sure the kids sat nicely on the tramp. It was perfect because there were no tantrums about getting kicked off the tramp, but no one was jumping. :)

Quick side note: Kaden was so, so good. We had told him (and the girls) when we first got there NOT to get on the tramp. While Lexi and Ari sat with the older girls for a solid 20 minutes, Kaden sat just outside the tulle that was supposed to rope off the area, watching the girls longingly. But he never complained and he never tried to get on the tramp. Such a good kid. I gave in and told him he could sit with the girls if he didn't jump.

Ari jumping. *sigh*

Steph/Lexi's bouquet

It was a beautiful reception! It was also the last time we'll get to see Danny and Steph for a long time. :( The kids keep asking when we'll get to see them again, so we're gonna have to figure something out.

Thanksgiving Point Girl's Night Out

My friend, Emily, retired from her day job and now gets to be a full-time mommy! Welcome to the world of not getting paid to work! :) To celebrate, we all (the women in her family and me) went to Thanksgiving Points' girl's night out on May 31st. It was SO windy and really cold as the sun went down, but lots of fun! A lot of the stuff was free, so we made sure to take full advantage of that!

Koren, Emily's mom, got pink hair chalk!

M getting her hair done

I asked for mine to be braided because of the wind. It looks so thick from the back!

M's hairdo

Glitter toes!

The first "booth" we went to for glitter toes butchered the job. It looked awful! When Ari could have done a better job than them, you know something's wrong. We found another booth doing glitter toes, though, and they fixed them for us. :) Yay!

We also all got our eyebrows waxed.