May's Excitements

May brought on lots of different adventures for us!

While I packed (seeing as we were moving) Quin had the whole month off. So it was his job to watch the kids. Ashie loves doing her makeup while I do mine, but this day she got a little too carried away while Quin was "supposed" to be watching her!

5/1/09

Quin's Graduation from Medical School

5/14/09 - 5/18/09

We flew out to Kirksville, Missouri , where Quin went to medical school and we enjoyed two years of our lives. It was fun to see old friends and to enjoy the beautiful, small town of K-ville where Ashelyn was born and Treydon learned how to play all kinds of sports.

We went to our favorite lake and found a turtle crawling around in the rain. Trey and Ashie were so excited and had to jump out and protect the turtle from the rain.

Here is Dr. Quin after graduation. He finally made it!!!

Quin's parents, sister Roneen and her family all came to the graduation. We are so grateful to have lots of caring family. After graduation Quin got to pick his favorite place to eat for dinner and of course it was the Pear Tree (if any one is from K-ville they will know what I am talking about - it's this fancy restaurant in another town about twenty miles south of K-ville that has the most delicious food).

Here are the kids in an abandoned train wagon behind the restaurant.

Parker, Treydon, Devin, Wyatt, Ashelyn, Garrison, Miranda

Arkansas

We went down to Quin's sister Roneen's house in Arkansas for a few days, visiting church sites on our way down. We enjoyed their house one last time (atleast for now) before heading home.

Here is grandpa getting kisses from the two year olds - Ashelyn and Wyatt

Treydon (and Ashelyn's) Graduation

5/25/09

Treydon graduated from pre-k. We are so proud of him and all he learned! I cannot believe my little boy is going to go to "big kid" school now.

Here are Treydon's teachers - Miss Heidi and Miss KyLee (Quin's sister) - who also allowed Ashelyn to join preschool for the last month and graduate with Trey's class (the cutest part was all the kids treated her as part of the class and she acted the part too!). She just couldn't get enough of preschool and is now saying that Treydon wants her to go to Kindergarten with him. So I am not sure if those nice preschool teachers really did me a favor or not (cause I can't find a preschool for Ashelyn here in Cali - they are all full by now)! Treydon keeps reassuring her that she will get to go - what a thoughtful brother (now how do I break the news to her that she is only two!?!).

Memorial Day Weekend

5/25/09

We went and visited my brother Kayden at his grave. I am glad we were able to visit before we left. We left him some blue and white flowers (for BYU of course) and enjoyed the beautiful flowers all around.

The Boys

The Girls