Pinning and Graduation

FINALLY!! The day has come where I am finished with school. The nursing department had a pinning ceremony just for the nursing graduates on May 20. It was at Cashman Center and there were about 90 graduates. The ceremony was really nice with a slide show, a couple good speakers, and of course, the pinning and the nurses pledge.

My parents were able to drive down from Idaho. Unfortunately, it the was the same day that Rachel and Cami had finals so they had to stay home.

This picture is really small, but I thought it was too cute. When the graduates get their pins, they are able to choose family members or someone to come on stage and "pin them," so I had Brad and Mason do it. Mason thought it was pretty cool to be up on the stage and he put the ribbon with the pin on it around my neck and gave me a little kiss. It was adorable. Mason also got a sticker that said "Pinner" on it, so that the ushers would know who to bring up on the stage. He was so proud of that sticker and wore it the rest of the night.

After the ceremony, I met everyone in the lobby. The first thing Mason said to me was, "That was so fun, mom. Can we see that show again?" Silly boy!

Then we went and got some ice cream with Grandma and Grandpa Kennedy.

On May 23, it was the whole school graduation. I debated about going to this ceremony or not, but I told Kelli that if she went, then I would too.

Mason thought this one was pretty fun too, especially since he got some balloons that fell from the ceiling. I think he was a little disappointed when he first got to the Thomas & Mack and it wasn't a Rebel game going on. Mason rode to the Thomas & Mack with Dave and Leesa, and Leesa said that when they pulled into the parking lot that Mason just started chanting "Rebels! Rebels!"

From where I was sitting on the floor, I had a good view of Mason, Brad, and the Lymans in the stands. Mason and Dylan kept waving and were dancing to the music. I think they did pretty well for a long ceremony.

Another family picture

The 2 graduates with our 2 little boogers!

Easter 2011

This year the Easter Bunny came to our house on Friday morning. I was finishing my clinical rotations for school and had to be at the hospital on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. The Easter Bunny brought Mason a basket full of surprises. He got a new pirate swim suit, Curious George movie, chalk, and some Trio legos, along with some candy and Peeps.

Mason kept pulling things out of his basket and saying, "The Easter Bunny surprised me!" It was too cute.

Then Mason went on a little egg hunt around the house. He liked finding the eggs but he wanted to stop and eat the candy in each one before moving n to finding the next one.

On Saturday, the Kennedy's did their Easter celebration at Floyd Lamb Park. Brad took Mason and he said Mason loved the park. He liked all the ducks and geese and fed them lots of bread.

He got to run around with lots of cousins...

and walk across a bridge...

The kids got to hunt some eggs too!

On Sunday, Brad took Mason to church and then they went over to the Lyman's for some Easter celebrations there. Mason did another egg hunt and played with more cousins...Mason loved Easter this year. He still keeps playing with his toys and talking about how the Easter Bunny brought him those :)

Snow Day

Last Friday Brad took Mason up to Brianhead for the day with his friend Jared and his daughter Madison. They had a cabin to stay at and spent the day playing in the snow with the kids.

Brad found a snow suit in the cabin for Mason to wear...I think it was a size 6, but it worked out OK.

Checking out the hill

Too cute together. Mason keeps talking about Madison, but I think he misunderstood her name because he won't stop calling her "Menace", haha.

Snowball fight!!

Here is a little video of Mason and Brad sledding...I don't know how good the quality is, but enjoy! :)

Salt Lake City

Last weekend we took a road trip up to Salt Lake City. I had a convention to go to, and my whole trip was paid for, so Brad and Mason decided to come along.

We left Thursday afternoon and drove up there.

Mason rode like this with his blanket over his head for a few hours. He would talk to us from under there, and he took a nap for a little while.

Friday, while I was at the convention, Brad took Mason to an aquarium. Mason loved the big turtles and sharks and fish...Of course, since Brad took him, I don't have any pictures :) Later that night, we drove out to Spencer and Mona's for dinner and to let the kids play for a while.

Saturday we decided to take Mason to temple square. It was super cold and snowy all weekend, but Mason was excited to see all the flowers and fountains. Uncle Brian came and met us there.

Our best attempt at a family picture...we really need to get some professionally done, one of these days...

We checked out the visitor centers. Once Mason saw this little display with a piece of rail road track on it, we couldn't get him to leave. He didn't care about seeing anything else, and he kept running back to look at the track some more.

We had to stop in the other visitors center to see this. Mason thought it was pretty neat.

Later that day we went and met Spencer and Mona at Ikea. We always have fun walking around that store...Now, we just need one in Las Vegas so that we can actually buy some furniture from there. We found some perfect little beds for Mason but there is no way to get the boxes from SLC to Vegas...Oh well.

We ate lunch there and then we got some ice cream before we left.

Mason and Gavin are little cheesers and so cute together.

That night we stayed at Spencer and Mona's. The kids played and were thrilled with dinosaurs and lego guns.

After we put the kids to bed, Brad and Spencer played video games (surprise), so Mona and I decided to make some hair bows. We had fun and decided that we need to do a craft every time because our husbands will always be playing video games :)

Building teeth and making cupcakes

A couple weeks ago, Mason and I took Brad lunch at work. Mason LOVES going to Brad's work. He likes to help Brad build teeth. He will sit on Brad's lap forever and use different little tools and poke at the models of the teeth.

He is such a big helper... :)

Earlier that day Mason found a bunch of tattoos and insisted on having them all put on his arms.

Later that day we decided to make cupcakes. Mason loves "tuptakes." He would seriously eat 10 if I would let him. Anyways, we decided to color our vanilla cupcake mix and make "rainbow" cupcakes.

Mason was a good helper in pouring everything into the bowl and putting the tins in the cupcake pans.

Kelli and Dylan came over the make cupcakes with us.

The colored batter...doesn't it look so delicious??

The cupcakes after we baked them.

Then came the tasting! These little boys gobbled up those cupcakes, or at least Mason did.

So yummy!

Touch-A-Truck 2011

This year we went to the annual Touch-A-Truck. This year it was super windy and cold but we thought we would still go for it. Mason was not too happy out in the wind so we didn't stay for very long. We did see a few trucks that Mason was interested in.

We got there just in time to watch a helicopter land.

Mason really liked it until the helicopter got closer and then he had to turn his head from the wind.

By far, Mason's favorite truck to see was the fire truck. We went inside every single fire truck that was there.

Mason was scared of the fire truck dog.

Mason loves school busses so I was surprised when he didn't want to go inside, but he liked it from the outside :)

Our best attempt at a family picture.

We also saw a shark transport truck that had a real shark in it. The line was ridiculously long, but we got lucky and saw one of our friend's in line with his kids and they let us cut in with them. Mason really liked the shark truck too.

Overall, it was fun. I think we would have had a better time if it wasn't super windy and cold, but maybe next year!

Train Park

Mason has been asking to go play at the park. The weather has been so nice that I finally told him that we could go. We invited Dylan to come along with us. We had heard of a "train park" near us, but we have never gone so we decided to find this park.

At first, the boys were not interested in playing with anything besides the dirt. Mason had some little construction trucks that he used in the dirt.

Dylan liked to use the big backhoe to dig in the dirt.

This is just a cute one of those little squishy cheeks :)

Finally, they noticed the big train and decided to play in there.

My cute boys

Cute little boys

I love this one of them climbing down in there.

After the park we took them to Costco for a little shopping and for hot dogs. The boys played so nice together and I love their cheesy faces in this picture.

Later that day we went over to the Fabbi's to see Mona-Kay and Spencer and their kids. Mason and Gavin are such good buddies. They love digging in the dirt together and Papa is so nice and lets them dig in his backyard. The boys love it.

This was the first time that the boys have actually cooperated for a picture together...now we just need to work on them smiling and looking at the same time. Oh well, one step at a time, I guess.

We were lucky to be able to spend time with Spencer and Mona on Friday and Saturday. All of the kids get along so well together. Mason loved Sage this time and he kept following her around and hugging her. It was cute, and Sage is so sweet to him.