Swimming Lessons

Trey just finished up his first swimming lessons on Thursday. He did really good. The last fifteen minutes they let the kids play on the toys. He was so excited he had been waiting to play. Every day he would ask.
He will now put his face under the water and he can float on his back for a few seconds.
He loved swimming lessons. I on the other half was not so happy with them. He did great but the teacher was a not the nicest lady. They have had a couple of complaints about her not being so nice to the kids. Trey didn't seem to notice that she wasn't the friendliest. On Wednesday of this week they only had one life guard that showed up on time, there was another life guard there but didn't care to do his job and left. They had to move the little kids to another pool so the life guard could watch 3 swimming classes and about 25 people doing water aerobics. About half way through the lessons 2 other life guards came in and didn't think that they needed to do their job, they thought that they could just stand there and talk to the 1 life guard on duty. At this point the kids were in the deep end and they were holding on to the side. Trey was bobbing up and down while the teacher was taking another kid out swimming and Trey let go of the side and was struggling to get the side, he was bobbing up and down and luckily there was an older kid from another class right there to grab his arm and pull him to the side since the life guards didn't seem to care. I was so mad. Later I called and talked to the lady over life guards and she agreed that the life guards weren't doing there job and actually 6 people got in trouble for it. I wasn't the only mom who called and complained another mom called to (her daughter is a life guard and knew all the rules-) The next day (last day) there were 4 lifeguards on duty and they actually did the job the way they were suppose to do their jobs. Every fifteen minutes they would rotate and not take their eyes off the kids.

Got milk.

I was downstairs doing laundry and this is what I saw when I came upstairs.

Trey decided that he would make him some chocolate milk. So the milk was on the table and Ethan decided that he wanted a drink so he climbed up on the table and helped himself. (There was a straw already on the table)I couldn't help but laugh and run and grab my camera. He sure does keep me on my toes.

Easter

We had a great Easter. This was the first time in our nine years of marriage that we have been home for Easter we are normally in St George but because Easter was so early we decided to postpone the trip until April. So this was our first year coloring eggs and the boys had a blast. Treys hand were blue by the time we were done. He didn't think that he needed to use the egg dipper. By the time we were done most of the eggs were cracked.

The Easter bunny brought lots of candy and some clothes. He even brought Trey army flip flops and the bunny even brought camo eggs.



We went to Grammy and Grandpa Bates house for yummy dinner and an egg hunt. There were eggs everywhere. The uncles hide the eggs and tried to find the best spots to hide the eggs. but the kids found all but one.


This is the egg they didn't find. It made it all the way home with us. It was hidden between the side view mirror and the drivers window. We had a joke while the guys where hiding the eggs that one of us would be driving down the road and a egg would fly out. This egg didn't fly out but made the 30 minute trip home. We didn't know it was there until half way home I look over and see the egg. We had a good laugh.

Art time

Trey writing his name for the first time ever. I had to help him with the Y and S he did the rest on his own. I wrote each letter on another piece of paper and he copied how to do it on this piece of paper. I think he did a great for never writing letters at all.
Army guy Trey colored all by himself. The first time. Normally you cant tell what he colored. I had to draw an army guy first and then he did it on his own. I am so excited.

I think Ethan got more marker on the table and him then he did on the paper.

My Birthday

I had the best birthday. Matt told me he had to work half day on my birthday. I was so disappointed. Matt wakes up gets ready for work and leaves. I went back to sleep about a half hour later he comes back and wakes me up.He had flowers and a present.My first words were thanks but your going to be late for work. He totally had me fooled, he did have to go in to work he just wanted to surprise me because I told him that he never does. After the boys woke up and we got ready we went to the dinosaur museum,went to lunch and then came home and played the wii. The we went to Wingers for dinner. We had such a fun day begin together as a family.

New Carpet!!!!

My new carpet. The picture don't show how pretty it is.
The carpet is actually darker then it looks in the picture. I love my carpet

Ethan helping pull up the old carpetWho knew getting rid of ugly blue carpet could be so hard. Every time we told Trey we were getting rid of the ugly blue carpet in his room he would cry. This night he through a fit because he wanted to keep his blue carpet.

Silver Beaver

Congratulations Cynthia!!!! My mother in law earned her Silver Beaver award. It is the highest award you can get in Scouting. She is an amazing women. She works so hard and is always doing things for others. Thanks Cynthia for all you do for us. We love you. Way to go.