Fire Station - McCall's Preschool Group

Field trip day to the fire station. It was St. Patrick's Day and Richelle made St. Patrick's Day cookies for the fire crew! The kids all got some afterwards at the cars...along with St. Patrick's Day glow stick and candy. Thanks Richelle! 

The boys were way into all the equiptment.....the girls...not so much. McCall was a little shy and stood back quit a ways.

We came to this same fire station with the cub scouts a month before. Fire fighter Chad ate up Zaylie both times. Brandon and Chad were great with the kids.

Linder Farms - McCall's Preschool Field Trip

Hay Ride into the pumpkin patch to pick out the perfect pumpkin.
I found myself two perfect pumpkins!!
Kaylee and Angela
McCall checking out the ponies!

We are exhausted after going through the hay maze three times!

Field Trip to Zamzoes

The girls getting ready for the field trip.

The field trip was in the afternoon so Jackson was able to come along.

 

McCall liked watching the fish in the tanks.

 

Jackson loves bunnies and was excited to hold one.

 

Richelle was nice enough to let everyone get a gum ball with the quarter she gave them instead of a gold fish!! Thank you Richelle! We were all in agreement that we did not want to bring home a gold fish this year. The previous preschool group did and the fish did not last long and it was not fun keeping the tank clean.

Preschool Graduation

Jackson had a fun year with his preschool friends. Everyone was that same from last year except one, Lance. Jackson improved a lot towards the end of the school year. He has an interest in reading and can sound out lots of words. He can write all the letters in the alphabet. He is excited for kindergarten and to be riding the bus with Andrew.

Summary of May Events

Dustin took the boys to the Father's and Son's camp out. They had lots of fun hiking and roasting smores by the camp fire. They slept in a cabin with bunks and got to stay up very late, they were asking to go to bed.





Andrew felt a little out numbered for his Preschool program. The only other boy in his class did not make it for the last day of school so Andrew had to stand up there with all these girls. Ella was his favorite (last one on the left) and he frequently asked if she could come over and play. Andrew's riding partner all year was Callie (second from the left). Andrew never did warm up all the way in class. He did get to where he would speak to Mr. Douglas and tell her things about race cars or trips we went on. He never did really get comfortable enough talking with the other kids.
For memorial day weekend we drove to Hurricane, Ut and spent a few days at the Blad plantation! We went hiking up in the Red Hills and played around the house with Ryan's family, Ben's and Dannene's. We even roasted smores up on the property one night with the older boys. Andrew thought that was pretty cool that he could stay up later than most of the other kids, especially Jackson. We drove back the old 1996 Crystler mini van in hopes to sale our Dodge Durango. We ended up selling the Honda Fit instead 7/08. No one was interested in paying $4 a gallon to fill up the Dodge!



On the hike we had nothing to carry McCall in so we made a sack out of McCall's blanket and she rode on my hip.

All the kids take a break after a long day of playing. We slept in the basement of grandma's house and the boys slept in our room on bunk beds. Andrew fell off the top bunk one night and after that I didn't sleep very well in fear that he would fall off again.

McCall liked to ride around in Grandpa's toy fire truck until Jackson or Andrew start pushing her in it really hard from behind!

Grandpa and Grandpa are the emergency preparedness specialist in their ward. They often have the dry pack sealer at their house. We brought back two bags of White wheat and canned them here with the Garden City Cannery dry pack sealer. We had people over all week from the ward using it! We got some young families thinking about their food storage!

The boys had a blast with some Beebe guns that Danna and Drew brought with us on a 4-wheeling adventure.