It may not be summer quite yet everywhere else, but it is here in Arizona!  School gets out here before Memorial Day and we’ve already had more than a handful of triple digit days!  The pool is a wonderful 86-88 degrees which is absolutely perfect!  We started the swim season a few weeks ago and Daisy started a few months ago!  She swims daily, you can’t keep her out of it!  Jace is back to wearing his floaties after missing so many months of swim lessons, I think a little fear crept in.  He loves it though as long as they’re on. 

Jace graduated from preschool (sniff, sniff) and he’s off to Pre-K in August at a new school.  He is getting so big, but still isn’t gaining any weight (36 lbs).  He is really into Star Wars now thanks to Brent.  He watches the movies, plays it on the Xbox and even has action figures that he uses to play with his pirates, his other favorite thing.  :)   He can’t leave them lying around though or Cookie (his cat) will steal them and run off.  She’s quite the character and he loves playing with her and so does Daisy.  We’ve had some friends over lately and now Jace keeps asking when we’re going to have more company over.  He loves having people over to our house and doesn’t understand why they can’t come over all the time during the week…so cute. 

Let’s see, what else….oh yeah, Jace had scarlet fever a couple of weeks after he had strep throat.  I had never even heard of anyone getting scarlet fever, but he caught it from a kid at school (of course).  It wasn’t quite as bad as when he had strep because we caught it early, but seriously enough with the sicknesses already!  He also finished up his T-ball season and he did good, his favorite part of course being the trophy at the end.  :)  We haven’t decided what he’s going to try next.  I’m not working right now, so it’s been nice to just hang out together during the day.

Don’t forget to check out the latest pictures!  Let me know if you can’t view them all and I’ll send you an invite.   Well, we’re off to go take a dip!  You’re all welcome to come and join us anytime!  :)

The Easter Bunny left Jace a nice basket this morning.  We had to rise bright and early to make it to the 7:30am (yes I said AM) church service.  Then we beat the crowds to The Good Egg for breakfast with Bamma and PopPop.  We’re going to go to their house for a little dinner tonight after our breakfast has time to digest.  We dyed Easter eggs last night and made bunny cookies.  We’ve posted some more new pictures  in the gallery, so go check them out!  We just want to wish you all a blessed Easter Day!  

Here in Arizona the weather is already beautiful, as other parts of the country are still getting snow!  It's actually already hit 90 degrees here but has  been mostly hovering around the low 80's.  And I have to say...Jace looks so darn cute with his little bird legs sticking out of his shorts!  So here we are already a quarter of the way through the  year.  We don't have much to report yet, which could be considered a good thing I think.  Just a few quick little notes on the latest...

Jace has had numerous ear infections over the past 6 months so we haven't resumed his swimming lessons.  Then the night before my birthday he got super sick with strep throat.  I don't think any of the other kids ever had that, nor do I think I've had it, but it was terrible!  He had a really high temperature and couldn't even move or keep his eyes open so I rushed him to urgent care.  Thankfully the medicine helped quite quickly, but he was still pretty sick for like 4 days.  Either he's having a growth spurt now or making up for that week he didn't eat because he is eating like a horse!  We signed Jace up for a new preschool next year, Christ Greenfield.  It's a Christian one that is a private school serving preschool through 8th grade.  We've heard great things about it and are excited to have him going there this coming school year.  Jace also started T-ball two weeks ago and so far it's a little slow going, but they are only 4.  :o) 

Let's see, what else...Umm, some of Jace's latest sayings are "on the money!" and  "are you kidding me?".  We went to the Renaissance Festival last weekend, where Jace rode an elephant, a camel, and llama along with some regular rides.  As Brent and I grow less fond of riding rides it appears Jace is growing more fond of them, go figure.  Also last week being Spring Break, my Mom and I took Jace to the Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium.  Once again he had to ride every ride there, Bamma and I were pooped!  There are some pictures of both adventures out on Flickr.  Oh yeah, Uncle Paul, Aunt Gayle and Cousin Jennifer who live in Washington came by for dinner.  They are from Brent's Dad's side of the family and the first to visit us here from that side.  It was a great surprise to see them!  

Well, I think that's really about it for now.  Jace is just doing good as usual, still going to preschool, church and Bamma's.  He's learning and growing so much, it's great to watch the transformation from a toddler to a little boy.  He's still enjoying his latest cat "Cookie" who enjoys Jace's fish he has in his room AND picking on our dog Daisy.  :o)  We hope you all come visit sometime soon and until next time...XOXO!