Can you taste summer? Because we can!

As the days heat up, we start to play in the water! April and May are perfect because it's warm enough for water play, but not hot enough to chase you indoors! So we have been spending lots of time with cousins, swim suits, and water!

Iva prefers to splash in 2 inches of water or just go big and have to float with a grown up!

Cara's cuteness was killing Mom this day.

Cara and I are getting to be such good swimmers. Cara still asks for her lifejacket if she's going to be in deep water for too long, but she will go down the tube at the Washington City Rec Center with me just fine! In fact, we both love it

We can't wait until St. George City Pool opens!

Birthday Celebrations

Talk about a difference a year makes! Last year, Mom turned 30. It was a big deal. She did a huge countdown. Aunt Rachel and Uncle Troy came down. We played so hard. She jumped out of a plane. She got huge presents. This year...not so much. It was a more normal birthday celebration. She shared her birthday cake with Grandpa as she usually does. This year it was Uncle Eric who opened the parachute soldier toys and gets to sky dive. That was just fine. It was still a great couple of days.

Isn't it funny that they make the same faces?! 

Lucky enough to have everybody in the same city!

One of the funnest surprises for Mom came from her friend, Sarah, in Wyoming. She crocheted us all Minnie hats! (Okay she did do one Micky for dad!)

We really are kind of getting too big for selfies with Mom's short arms....

Marathons and Talent Shows

Guest post by Mom:

Siena and Cara are great kids. I don't have to worry much about them and they are really obedient. I got REALLY lucky in the kid department. I am so proud of them.

They recently completed a marathon at the gym. They have been running a mile in their Fit Kids class and finally got in 26.2! They earned a free smoothie and certificate!

Siena also signed up to be in her school's talent show at their Spring Carnival. Aunt Becca played "Part of Your World" from the Little Mermaid and Siena sang. It was awesome. She went very first and was so confident! She and Aunt Becca worked on it for a few weeks. In fact, she thought she needed the words, but you'll notice the wind blows her pages and then she never looks at them again.

Easter in SLC

We got a bonus two days off of school for the weekend of Easter (Friday and Monday) so we decided to "Easter" in SLC! Plus it was the only weekend for awhile where we didn't have a soccer game that would have prevented us from a quick trip.

It was Conference Weekend for church and so we had lots of time to play together. The Preslars were on the tail end of their Spring Break and it was a lovely weekend filled with playing at the house and yummy food made by Aunt Rachel.

We, OF COURSE, took Iva to the zoo. She has really gotten good at her animal signs and we wanted to see her use them. She's signing lions.

The highlight was getting to see the new baby orangutan. He's so adorable!!

I swear we have 100 photos of these tigers.

We managed to dye Easter Eggs, finally, Saturday evening. The moms didn't seem enthused.

On Easter, Aunt Margaret came over with the big girl cousins and Kate brought her new bunny! We loved it.

On to the Easter Egg hunt! Iva seemed to get it this year!

We might have snuck off to the zoo one more time on our way out of town....it was fun. The baby orangutan was napping though. We didn't get to see him. Darn it.

Soccer!

The spring soccer season is upon us! This year we decided to go the with Kicks organization. This put Cara on a team with two girls from the neighborhood and had our friend coaching the team! This was Cara's first soccer game. Unfortunately, she actually had the stomach flu and kind of had a hard time rallying, but she did quite well for being sick. 

I have no good pictures of me playing this year because Mom is my coach! She had no idea what she was in for when she agreed to do it, but it's been great for me!

This is the two of us on the sidelines with me doing a throw in. Thankfully Aunt Angie realized that Mom couldn't get pictures while we were playing and took some for Mom!

Two BIG things

We had two big things happen in the family and they definitely deserve a separate post than grouped in with the end of March.

First thing...Cara is registered for kindergarten! She is so excited. She can't wait for August!

The next big thing...Uncle Eric got his mission call! He's going to serve a two year mission for our church! Everybody (mostly Grandma) was so anxious for his call to come. It was delayed a week and a day. Every time Grandma checked the mail it was filled with tension and drama. We thought it would kill her when it wasn't in the mail on Friday. (This was Aunt Becca's birthday...almost ruined GRANDMA'S own birthday which was on Wednesday!) Grandma went up to Brianhead with her church group and so Eric checked the mail all alone on Saturday and lo and behold it finally showed! I think he was really tempted to just open it up. He was patient and waited until Grandma and Grandpa were off the mountain but it meant he had to have some of his group for a dance he was going to be there when we opened it. It made it look all official because Eric was dressed in a white shirt and tie!

He opened it and made us all squeal because he couldn't help but see the area before he read it out loud! Mom thought he was going to pass out before he opened it because he looked so nervous!

Uncle Eric will report to the MEXICO CITY MTC on July 1 and he will serve in the Chile Rancagua mission. He is so excited and Grandma is sad that he goes to Mexico to start. She wanted him to go to Provo. That's okay! We can't wait to start writing to you, Uncle Eric!

Last half of March....

Apparently we were REALLY busy in the last half of March and first part of April. Either that or it just happens to be our pattern. We slow down on the blogging front when the weather gets nice.

So lets see...to catch you up...March definitely went out like a lamb..and yet somehow April started cold. It got very warm though. We spent time hiking with Grandma and Grandpa and lots of playing at Sand Hollow again even though the water was still almost too cold to really stand!

We filled up Baymax for the first time. It stung just a little.

It was actually so much fun at the lake that we went TWO days in a row!

We all got to try out Grandpa's new paddleboard that he got for Christmas! Aunt Becca helped teach me how to do it on my own.

That's Mom having some fun!