HAPPY FIRST BIRHTDAY DEEKEN!

I can't believe that he is One Year Old! He is growing so fast and time is passing extremely fast. I think it would have passed a lot slower if he wasn't such a GREAT baby! He had a lot of fun with his presents! More with the packaging than with the actual gift. YUMMY, plastic tastes good! I think his face looks so cute in this one! Grandpa and Grandma Hyde gave him this cool race car track thing! Cake time! The Big kids, including parents, blew out the candle for him. This was way fun to watch. He was super cute! This is Deeken doing his favorite sign. It is the sign for finshed or all done. He loves to do it and feels so proud of himself. This time when turning his hands he was flicking cake all over. If it looks like he had a good time, well HE DID! We love our little guy!

Micah's Pre/First day of Preschool!

I got her dressed so cute and Pretty for what I thought was her first day of school, but my friend informed me that it was really just a meet and greet and information day, so following are pics of her pre and first day of school. Deeken made himself at home and seemed to fit right in. High School girls who had worked with Noah last year, said they knew he was his brother when they saw him. "They all look so much alike." I have never had anyone say that to me before:) I knew she was going to learn so many fun things while she was here, juggling wasn't one of them. You might think she looks nervous here, she's not it's just her little shy attitude. She turns it on and off but only on her time. I think the"pre" day went well for her, she didn't even mind walking in by herself, till she noticed we weren't there. An apple for the Teacher! I really think this is becoming a lost art. Both my kids teachers seem so suprised when we brought them apples. This is Mrs. B. I honestly don't know her last name. She looked ready, so we let our baby go. I can't believe I have two kids who already go to school!

Mommy's little helper!

I was unloading the dryer when all of the sudden I had a littile helper. He was gteat, he unloaded the whole thing. Next time I will have to think to put a basket by the dryer, so I don't end up picking them up off the floor! What kid doesn't like the inside of a dryer?

Papa's Pizza Parlor

Thank goodness for places like these in Oregon. With rainy wheather so often, they are a mom's saving grace.

Tigard 5K

For the last three years Tigard has been doing a 5k walk/run. It is part of their family week. The walk and run starts at City Hall and ends at our church building.(Good missionary work) Noah for some reason really looks forward to it. This year he really wanted to run it, but John was unsure he could make it all the way, thus the doublestroller . John was right and Noah jumped in and out of the stroller, but still he ran about 1/3 of it (that is more than his mom did). Noah has his mom's competitive side. When he was in the stroller, he was yelling to his dad to run faster, and was often heard saying, "pass him Daddy, pass him." John does great every year, even though he never runs, and has to push the kids. This year he took third in this age group. Way to represent honey! This is our awesome Bishop, whom we love. He does have one grandchild, but seems to have taken a special liking to ours, especially when John was in the Bishopric. Micah did the best at getting the messiest face. Everyone gets free breakfast at the end. Since I am not a runner, that's what is my motivation to make it "to the church on time!"

BUS riding is a BREEZE!

I know that these pictures aren't that great, but it is hard to get Noah to hold still Period, but when he is excited to ride a bus, it is almost impossible. Brother and Sister waiting patiently! I don't know it you can see it folks, but that is a big thumbs up from the kindergarten going, bus riding, Noah John Farr. He was so confident when he got off the bus, it was all to business. He had a granola bar he couldn't eat on the bus, so he pulled it out and started to gobble it as he walked away. He acted like he was going for a walk in the park, not like he had just accomplished this great feat of getting home on the bus safely. It hardly fazed him. I am glad that my faulty schedule habits from the first day don't seem to have stressed him out to badly, but I still plan on him holding it over my head.

My Baby Is Going To Kindergarten!

It was Noah's BIG Day---He started Kindergarten! Can you tell he was a little excited? This is totally Noah! I said, "Show me what a cool Kindergartener looks like." This is Noah's teacher, Mrs. Nelson. My batteries were running out and this is the one picture I got. She seems really nice and enjoyed getting the apple that Noah has been waiting to give her for months. When I asked to get a picture, she said lets pretend were eating the apple...thus the picture. You'll have to wait for some school bus pictures...I promise they will happen.