Some of the crAZinEsS that is May

 May is the craziest month.  With school winding down and all the other fun things going on, it keeps us running all month long.  But we love it and have had so much fun!  Here's what we've been up to:

 Lola's Ballet Recital...

so cute to watch our little dancer.  She loves to dance and is so graceful and has so much more coordination and rhythm than her mother.  It was a crazy, busy night with the boys piano recital the same time, so we didn't get cute pics before/after and these were taken from so far away.   But she did awesome and we loved every minute of her cute performance!

Jackson and Miles piano recital...

these boys of mine have worked so hard this year and I am so impressed with what good little piano players they have become.  I wish I could say that it's been all happy, pleasant practicing all year, but we have had our fair share of complaining, whining, and feeling sorry for ourselves.  BUT...they were so excited to perform and both did such a great job on their songs. 

 Jackson's River Heights Mile. . . 

to practice for the Wellsville Mile, they hold a River Heights mile.  Cute Jacks was a nervous wreck the whole morning.  He is my responsible, hard working, perfectionist kid and expects so much of himself.  He did such a great job and got 5th place out of all the boys in his grade.  So awesome!

 

 Jackson's Wellsville Mile. . .

this is such a fun tradition in the South end of our valley.  It's such a big deal and the kids prepare for it for months leading up to it.  All the elementary schools from this whole end of Cache Valley come.  Jacks was so nervous but it was such a fun day and such a great atmosphere with all those hundreds and hundreds of excited kids.  Jackson took 32nd place out of about 400 4th grade boys.  We were so proud of him!

Miles' Soccer Season. . . 

this boy fell in love with soccer this year.  He worked so hard and was such a good little player.  He always scored several goals in the games and was such a great hustler.  I was so proud of how far he came! 

Lola's Soccer Season. . . 

Lo had lots of fun playing soccer this spring too.  She works really hard and runs really fast trying to get that ball.  Plus, she's so dang cute out there!

Miles Second Grade Race. . .

Miles had his 2nd grade race today.  He is such my happy go lucky, no stress kid and wasn't even worried about it for one second.  It was so much fun to watch him and I was so proud of how he did.  He took 6th place in his heat and got a medal.  So fun!

And this cute little squirt has been a trouper being carted around to all these fun events.  She loves playing outside while her siblings do their thing.  She has it pretty good too.

whew.  that was major picture overload.

Cinco de Mayo

 

Interrupting the very fascinating travel log for a little  

cinco de mayo partying! 

We so love this pretend holiday at our house.  The kids talk about it for weeks. . . I love that the expectations are as low as can be so anything I do is deemed awesome.   And really whats not to love about Mexican food, colorful decor, fake mustaches, sombrero's and a pinata? 

*warning: in the below picture it appears that I have had too much sangria. . . this is not the case.  It is trickier than it would appear to keep a stick-on mustache in place.

Past cinco de mayo partying can be found here, and here.  We love celebrating our Mexican heritage.  

(And by 'our' I don't mean mine.  I wish.  Then I would have lovely tan skin like the rest of my crew).

NYC Day Three

Of all our NYC days, day three was my favorite.  We woke up to sunshine streaming through our windows and were so happy to conquer New York without the rain.

Our hotel was right by Grand Central Station.  We got to walk through it every time we took the subway so we were able to see it quite a bit.  I was amazed at how many people were there no matter what time of day we were passing through.  And all of them in such a hurry!  I kept thinking how there was no where in Utah that was ever as crowded as Grand Central Station.  I could have stood there all day admiring what a pretty building it was and watching all the people hustle and bustle about.   I wish we had taken a decent picture of it because it really was such a neat place! 

 

We headed straight for China town and had such an adventure with all the Chinese people trying to get us to buy knock off purses and fake Rolex's!  

From China town we headed to Central Park.  Of all the things I was looking forward to seeing in New York, Central Park was the one I was most excited about. And it did not disappoint.  It was so beautiful and so amazing to me that they had had the forsight many, many years ago to set aside this land in the middle of these crowded, busy, city streets.

For $12 you could rent a cute little rowboat for an hour.  The sun was shining, and it was so lovely to row around the little lake.  While we were out someone was proposed to and a huge crowd of people on a bridge above us cheered.  So much fun!

This is as close as we got to the MET.  Nate and I would have loved to spend a whole afternoon there, but there just wasn't time.  Next trip!

We ate at the infamous Shake Shack for dinner.  I am not normally a fan of burgers and fries, but oh my.  It was the most delicious place ever.  And the shake.  The shake was the best thing I ate on the whole trip.  Salted caramel concrete. . . I dream about it.

 ...and just like that our NYC adventure was over.  What a neat place this city is.  I was so fascinated by everything about it. . . the people, the hurried lifestyle, the apartment living, the clothes that they wore, the subways.  There's no where quite like it.  And as much as I hoped I would leave there feeling like I could cross "NYC" off my list of places I've seen, it only made me want more.  I don't know if I could ever get enough of this city.

We picked up our suitcases from our hotel and then headed to the airport to pick up our rental car for our drive to Boston. . .
where the adventures really began.