Lucas's First day of First Grade

This summer went by way too quickly. Summer vacation is getting shorter and shorter every year as it is, but even still I feel like we just didn't get as much swimming and adventuring in as I wanted to. Maybe next year. Lucas was so excited for his first day of first grade! My mom got him a new watch to wear on his first day and I let him open it that morning. He was so excited!

Here he is all dressed and ready to go.

Paige wanted to get in on the picture.

Look at this difference between last year's first day of school pic and this year. He was a baby!

 Here he is in class ready to learn!

I was dying at how cute he looked here holding his pencil and writing.

 And as a reward after his first day of school he got to eat a chocolate bar.

This little man sure is growing up quickly!

Comparison Pictures

I was going through old pictures the other day to see if Logan looked more like Paige or Lucas. I can't decide which one he looks more like.  He has some of the same features as Paige and some the same as Lucas. I think Lucas and Logan have the same chin and cheeks, but Logan and Paige have the same nose and Lucas's is different. I think they definitely all have their own look, but at the same time could totally be triplets.

One thing is for sure, though, Logan definitely looks more like me than Ryan.  Maybe it's just me, but I think he's like a little copy of me.

Another thing I found when going through Lucas baby pictures is that he totally made the same face that Logan does.  I had completely forgotten that Lucas used to do this, and now Logan does it all the time too.  It must be genetic or something.  Or maybe just a baby thing.

So fun to look back and all the fun pictures I've taken. I love pictures!

Last Day of Kindergarten

Lucas had his last day of kindergarten today. I took a picture of him in the same outfit he wore to his first day of school. I think he looks pretty much the same, a little taller and missing a tooth, but not too different overall. He's learned and changed a lot in other ways, though.

 His school did a little kindergarten graduation ceremony so we all went to it.

Lucas and his teacher Ms. Greci.

And one more in front of his school.

We're excited for summer vacation. Hopefully it stays that way. It's times like this I wish we had a pool.

Lucas's Birthday Weekend

Lucas is a lucky boy because his birthday will always be near or on memorial day weekend.  Paige's is the same with Labor day.  We sure did time those well.  Poor Logan. Anyway, for Lucas's birthday we had three days of fun.  Neil and Ashley just happened to be coming to visit this weekend too, so Lucas got to play with cousins for his birthday.  We started off the festivities with a day in Santa Cruz.  We went to the Boardwalk. The kids had so much fun going on rides.

 I love Paige in this one.  She was always so good at posing and smiling while on the rides.

After the Boardwalk,we went to the beach.  It was super windy, and not really warm enough, but the kids still had a blast making sand castles.

Logan has been to multiple beaches before, and even this beach before and been totally fine, but he was not super impressed this weekend. I forced him to walk around just long enough to get cute pictures.

After the beach we went back to grandma and grandpa's house for dinner. Lucas has been asking to have crab legs for dinner for forever. I'm not really sure why.  I think he just saw them at Costco one day and decided he wanted to try them. So we made crab legs for dinner that night.  They were so delicious!  Any excuse to have crab legs.

Sunday was Lucas's actual birthday so after church we headed down to my parent's house for more food and playing with cousin's. Of course they all had to get in the hot tub.

 Then Lucas opened presents. Neil and Ashley even brought a present for him from Arizona - so nice of them!

Lucas isn't a huge fan of cake, he'd rather just eat the ice cream, so we had banana splits for his birthday dessert.  It was a little bit trickier to put candles in.

 He and Paige both love vanilla ice cream.

 On memorial day we spent the morning just playing with all the toys he got for his birthday. He built log cabins...

Legos...

And made cool circuit experiments...

 This was the present from Neil and Ashley.  SO Cool!

Then in the afternoon we played with the other present Lucas got for his birthday.  He had been begging for this motor boat every time we went to Costco for months so we finally broke down and got it for his birthday.

 It's huge and we have no idea where we'll store it, and we have to sneak into the residence inn pool to even use it, but he LOVED it!  Here he is giving Paige a ride.

 And all three. I'm not sure why Paige looks dead in this one.

We got Wendy's frosties too, cause the pool is right by Wendy's, and cause they are delicious!

We had such a fun weekend celebrating Lucas's birthday.  And we had fun spending time with family too.  I think Lucas is pretty spoiled!

Lucas is 6

Just look at this handsome young man!!  We did an interview to remember Lucas's favorites when he turned 6.

Favorite Color - Red
Favorite Animal - Penguins (not sure where that came from)
Favorite Food - Spaghetti
Favorite Toy - Legos
Favorite Movie/Show - Ironman and Octonauts
Favorite Book - Berenstain Bears and Gerald and Piggie Books
Favorite Song - I am a Child of God
Favorite Pastime - Riding his bike
Best Friends - Zac, Spencer, and Christian (a kid from school)
What's your favorite thing to do with Mommy - Go to the park
What's your favorite thing to do with Daddy - Snuggle
What are you good at - Building Legos, Reading, doing the Monkey Bars
What do you want to be when you grow up - An Engineer, Librarian, and Author (he's been talking about this one a lot lately and has decided he wants to be all three)

Lucas will always be my little baby boy. He is sweet, smart, energetic, creative, compassionate, and an amazing big brother. We love him so much!