Updates!

So, a lot has happened in the last few weeks. Valentine's Day was great. It has been a tradition of ours to stay home and cook a big meal(king crab) vs. going out knowing there would be hundreds of couples fighting for tables. This time Bryan surprised me and wanted something different so he opted for a heart shaped Me-N-Eds, pizza(YESSSS!!!). He surprised me with some See's Candies, too, my favorite and told me I can go shopping at forever21(my fave store). What a Sweetheart. Anyway, we have had the sister missionary over our house a lot, we just enjoy them and the spirit they bring to our home and to our kids. We bonded over the last two months with them and I definitely felt the sisterhood and they have taught us so much by their great examples. Now it's time to say farewell. We will miss them dearly. One of the sister got transferred to Visalia and the other was finish with her mission. We had asked them to come by for the last time before leaving and I made them sugar cookies to celebrate.

Here is sister Pena, she is just so sweet and loving.And sister Clark, she was awesome and so down to earth and funny!!! We will surely miss them and their sweet service they have given to us and to others. After they dropped by, which was on a Friday, we decided to take the boys out on some fun "date nights" that's what Eligh calls it. Lol. We took them to Boomers in River Park. It's funny you go there pay like 20 something dollars and come home with like a couple of little toys that is probably worth a dollar or two. Lol. Anyways, we decided to tour the River Park area and took them to this little cute play area right outside of Edward's.

Eligh being funny outside Edwards theater.

Also, we are so proud of Eligh. He is progressing in school. He is in Kindergarten full time and we've notice some really BIG improvements with his reading and other skills. We love him so much. He works really hard.

Here is a picture of the paper given by his teacher a month ago and it says that his DRA reading level is at a 4. Which is awesome because they have to be at a level 4 before exiting Kindergarten so that proved to us that he is doing GREAT!! His teacher said they will continue testing him and very rarely do kids in her class get to a level 6 but she told me she will let Eligh try level 5 to see if he can move up, we are aiming for level 6 by the end of the school year. haha Here's another picture to show that he is progressing, this time in numbers. He gets his 2, 5 and 6 backwards, but at least he can write to 100 with no help. SUPER JOB!!!!

So, Ayden has a shoe fetish. He LOVES putting on all of our shoes and walks around the house with them on, super cute. He has my shoes on in this picture. haha Usually, it's daddy's shoes he is loving. Cyrus, my little sweetheart, can finally sit up on his own(with a little pillow on the side just incase, lol) He is growing up so fast, oh my!! The boys have definitely been keeping me on my toes and I ALWAYS look forward to when the clock hits 7:30pm(when it's bed time for them) so I can hit the sheets. Lol. I am so thankful that we have a backyard that is like a mini park to us, I can just throw them outside to play vs. walking to the park everyday which we used to do but I like our mini park in the backyard better. Lol. Also, we took the kids to Manchester Mall, not sure why we were there, but I just love the $1 Carousel ride. The kids enjoyed it.:)

So, that's basically all we have been up to in the last two weeks or so. We have not yet been out of town as a family but will surely do that soon!! Hope all is doing well!!