Daniel's Preschool Graduation

This was Daniel's 2nd year of preschool and his last.  Which means, graduation.  Since we super sucked last year, Matt and I both took the day off for the event.  Graduation was at 10 in the morning and Grammy and Lins were able to come with us as well.  Here he is getting his hat.

 Logan is excited too.

 They called each kid up, one by one, and had them stand on this table while the teacher read some of their favorite things about preschool.  Daniel's favorite snack was French toast (he doesn't mess around) and his favorite part of preschool was that "it was cool." 

 This was seriously the way he looked the entire time she was reading his favorite things.

 That's more normal.

 Daniel and Miss Virginia.  Mrs. Erin was at the hospital, getting ready to have a baby...

We are so proud of you Daniel!  I can't believe that you are starting Kindergarten next year big boy!

Memorial Day 2013

After the haircut, we went over to my mom's to swim, bbq, and celebrate Shannon's birthday.  Logan had never been in the pool before and we found out that this kid likes to splash!

 Logan and Charlie.  I could have chosen a better picture of Becca and me but this one is the best one of the 2 little guys.

 Me and my boys.  This was the better one of Daniel believe it or not.

 A little tuckered out.  I'm pretty sure we have a picture of Daniel like this after his first swimming adventure as well!

Logan's first haircut

 

Logan was born with soooooo much hair, it's a little ridiculous.  And he never lost any of it so it just grew longer and longer.  There were a couple of times over the course a few months where Matt and I thought, we need to cut his hair.  But then one of us would chicken out.  He was still so little, I wasn't ready for that yet.  But he kept getting mistaken for a girl and Danica kept putting his hair in ponytails.  So we finally decided to do it Memorial Day, May 27th.  This is a really good before picture and it was still over 2 weeks earlier.

We went over to the Farrer's house so Tristen could give him a proper hair cut.  He was not so sure when we started.

 But then we started feeding him some banana and this kid will do just about anything for food.

 Seriously, look how long it is pulled out like that!!!

 Ummm, what are you doing?

 That wasn't so bad. He's excited that it's almost over!

 Now he looks like a boy!  It's amazing though - he already needs another hair cut!

It be a Pirate Birthday

Daniel turned 5 this year.  It's crazy.  On his actual birthday, we went to the Ducks playoff game.  He told us that the Ducks were going to win for him because it was his birthday.  And sure enough they did.  Although he's starting to expect a bit much on his birthday.  Last year all he wanted was to go to McDonalds, this year it's a Ducks game, and he already told us he wants to go to Disneyland. 

On Saturday the 11th, we had a Jake and the Neverland Pirates Party.  Daniel is a little bit obsessed with them so he loved it.  I told myself that I wasn't going to go overboard, no pun intended.  And then I started working on it with my mom and she was like oh I can work on x, y, z and so I was like well then that frees me up to do 10 other things.  Bad idea.  This poster was courtesy of my TA.  Hey, she was assisting the teacher.

 The front entrance.  I totally spelled tattoo wrong so I just got a sharpie and added the other t.

 

When they first walked in, they got their pirate hat, sash, eye patch, sword, and map telling them what we would be doing during the party.  Afterwards they went to Shannon and got an airbrushed tattoo.  I didn't manage to get any pictures of that though.

The maps were totally jacked from Disney Junior but I did dye the paper with coffee so it looked brown and wrinkled. 

 Brent constructed this mast for our "boat" and my mom hung the fabric.  It turned out pretty cool.

 

This was by far the favorite activity.  Who would have thought a plastic pool, some crates, and piece of wood would entertain 5 year olds for 20 minutes?  Seriously.

 

 

What a cute little pirate Logan!

Then we played pin the tail on tic tock croc.  Poor Daniel, we spun him around too much so we're lucky he even got it on the paper.

 

And Clayton was totally trying to peek out from the bottom.  We made him start over and fixed the blindfold so we got an authentic try.

 

After that it was time to dig for buried treasure.  Silly plastic toys buried in playground sand with a shovel.  Again, a serious hit.

 

 

Then it was time for food.  We had jello, "sand"wiches, fruit on a hook, and pirate punch.


 

 

Then it was time for cake.  Seriously ghetto.  I've got to start finding someone to make them for me.  FAB made some cupcakes to supplement the cake that turned out way cuter.

 

Yep, that's my boy.

Attractive.

 

This piñata was built super strong.  We were using a metal bat, no blindfolds, and eventually an 11 year old and we still couldn't break it open.  We got creative at the end to get the candy out.

 

Present time!  Daniel made out like a bandit with cloths, board games, all things Jake, a Broncos hat (I swear his asked Matt for it), and Wii games, among other things.

 

Hanging out after the party

 

Daniel was a little upset that I covered up the temple to put up a pirate map for decoration.  I probably should have been too.

 

FAB's cupcakes

 

I'm still in shock that Daniel is really this old, going into Kindergarten and everything.  I told him he's not allowed to have any more birthdays and he's not really on board with it.  Either way, I'm not going crazy with a party like I did this year.  Although, I've said that before.  I guess until next time...