Commuting to Preschool

Yep, I'm doing it.  Again.  For the third time.  But I can't resist!  I love BYU preschool!  And Colton was SO excited for his first day.  He has been telling people he goes to BYU since May.  And now, he finally does!

 

 

From where we live, it takes me approximately 25 min each way (give or take red lights and slow people), and sometimes I have to come home and pick up the other two before I go back to get him.  But is it worth it?  Yes!  And soon I will do a post about turning car time into quality time.  But for now, can I just tell you a few of the reasons why we love it??

 

One, how many preschools have an awesome fountain front (or back - depending on how you look at it).

 

Two, they have a cool class pet named Webby, whom we get to bring home and babysit for a weekend. (Which coincidently happens to be when Uncle Mason is visiting in a few weeks.)

Three, they have... The. Best. Playhouse/fort. Ever.  And they change it around to become all kinds of different things.  Check out this post from when Cody was there.

 

Four, they have sinks and toilets that are just the right size! 

 

 

Five, they have an awesome playground with the biggest sandbox ever AND awesome new two seater bikes!  And someday I will take a picture but they also have this 10ft+ windchime toy thing with pots and pans and spoons dangling down and the kids love to play with it!  (wouldn't be so cool on my back porch, but I love it there!)

 

Six, he IS following in the footsteps of his big bros. 

Check out this post from two years ago if you really want to be blown away.  I cannot believe how they have changed!

 

 And of course, BYU sells the one and only (that I know of) Cookies and Cream Milk made right there in town.  yum. 

 

But best of all, we love Miss Dorie!  She is THE best teacher/parenting coach/friend ever!

 

When I left Colton, who had no trouble at all, I said "One last picture.." and this is what I got:

That's him blowing me a kiss.  sniff, sniff.  Love that boy!

 

And this is Colton by the time we got home on his first day:

 

Yep, this is going to be a great year.

 

 

The Best of Christmas in Denver

Christmas PJs for all the cousins!

and Uncle Mark too.

and Mom and Dad. 

Sleeping Under the Christmas tree on the night before Christmas Eve - a Maxwell Family tradition!

Getting to see Maxwell Studio up and running and doing extremely well!

Sledding! (where, luckily, they actually had a decent amount of snow since the boys got snow tubes from Santa for Christmas.)

Swimming at Grandpas Hotel

BFFs (Jack & Amee - Mom's best friend's kids; makes as good as cousins and Colton and Amee are practically twins since they were born just 14 hrs apart)

Spending time with Great Grandma Likely (who is 102) and Grandma Barbie and Grandpa Bob (who just moved back to Colorado from Portland)

Sleepover with Matt and Layna!  Pizza, video games and 3D movies, what could be more fun?!

Christmas Nativity Pageant - another Maxwell Family tradition!

Mary and Joseph

 the Angel

 the Wisemen

 the Shepherd

The whole cast

And then of course, there was Christmas itself, but that will have to another post . . .

Thank you Columbus!

I'm so glad we have this day to celebrate the discovery of America.  Why don't we have the day off of school?  Why don't we have parades and parties and barbeques??  Maybe because it's not as fun in October (or maybe we are trying to forget the decimation of native peoples that occured because of his discovery).  At any rate, hooray for America!  Maybe I should say thank you to Washington and Jefferson and all those guys for giving us a real holiday to celebrate . . . 

Happy 4th of July!! (Yes, I know this post is a little belated, but better late than never.  Maybe.)
The 4th for us is all about family and firetrucks. And even though I was SERIOUSLY jet-lagged, we had an awesome weekend. I got home from India Saturday afternoon, crashed about 6pm, woke up for good at 4am and when the fam finally woke up 3 hours later, we had a yummy breakfast and then headed up to Russ' Uncle's cabin for the day.


It felt so good to be outdoors after spending 3weeks in a city of 7 million people.  My favorite part of the day?  Riding 4-wheelers to the top of the world.

 

 

 

 

 

And hanging out with family, of course!

 

And for the actual day (post should be titled "How much fun can you pack into one day") . . .

FIRETRUCK Tradition:

 

PLAYTIME at Murray Park:

 



POOL PARTY with firefighter friends:

 

 

 

And finally FIRECRACKERS and GLOWSTICKS at Grandma's:

 

 

So, thanks again, Benjamin Franklin and George Read, and all the other signers of the Declaration of Independence.  We truly are grateful for this land of the free!