The Last Four Weeks

Things have been pretty quiet around the Giovannoni's, thanks to the rather rainy weather we've been experiencing lately. Even though the rain has kept us indoors most of this summer I have managed to get some photo's of some pretty spectacular rainbows.

These rainbows were so brilliant I almost couldn't believe my eyes!
My garden has loved the rain it's just exploded. I'm posting those pictures on my other blog if any one wants to take a look. Garden Pictures

• Derik took the kids for a day so I could go on our Father-Daughter Hike with my Activity Day girls. He's so awesome! They wandered The Salt Lake Temple grounds....And caught a couple of movies at the Clark Planetarium.Aunt Heidi's is up visiting, so we all got to go tour the new Oquirrh Mountain temple together.

• I went dark again.

• Don't we all wish we could wear our two year old sisters jeans and look SO GOOD...I asked Dylan to go downstairs and put some shorts on...This is what he came up wearing. He sure can make me laugh sometimes.
  

• And last but not least, Dylan's friends are all riding their bikes without training wheels this summer, so he insisted we take his off too. I honestly thought he was going to struggle with riding his bike without training wheels but he just took off!

Summer Can Now Begin...

Dylan graduated from Kindergarten today. Strangely enough I found myself emotional and weepy over the whole thing. I didn't grab any pictures of today's events, between the terrible, terrible lighting of the school gymnasium and the hundreds of parents snapping photo's and taking video's, I choose instead to just sit back and take it all in.
Dylan has come so far this year and it's hard for me to believe that the school year is over! His teacher is an amazing woman and I'm glad Dylan was in her class! She gave each of her kids a photo journal of their experiences together, so I'm shamelessly going to just post pictures of her pictures for your enjoyment.

Dylan's teacher Ms. Roberts

Dylan and Kinsey

This is Emmy and I just love her. She thinks I'm cool just because I'm Dylan's mom. The first time I met her she told me she had a crush on Dylan.
Apparently Dylan likes to be a goof ball
I nearly died when I saw these two pictures!
The Graduate

I Almost Forgot

This movie actually belongs with the post below, but I forgot to add it.

Who's That Girl?

Once a year I get this irresistible urge to straighten Alivia's hair. ...


As soon as we got home from church she grabbed the hat I made her, threw it on and headed outside to play. I just had to grab a picture. Sometimes I swear I could gobble this little girl up whole!!!

Six

Six years ago this sweet little boy entered into our lives...In which Derik and I became a Mother and a Father....

And the Giovannoni's officially became a family.

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Years of laughing, crying, loving and growing. We love you for being such a sweet soul, we love you for your happiness, for your innocence, for your love of life, for your endless energy and your tender heart! We love you for being such a great son and a wonderful older brother. Happy Sixth Birthday Dylan!!!!

Dylan started out his sixth birthday with a gourmet breakfast that consisted of cinnamon french toast, with all the toppings, and ham, and eggs. After which he made his way downstairs and had some quality time with the X-Box. Uncle Eric than treated him to an afternoon at the Living Planet Aquarium, where they got to enjoy a rainforest rendezvous .
He asked for a BBQ for his birthday dinner, so we grilled up some burgers and hot dogs. After dinner we let Dylan run around the neighborhood and collect his friends for birthday cake and ice cream.
Dylan saw his Aunt Heidi's Blog where she had made a fabulous little race car cake (which Dylan begged me to make him), so we shamelessly copied it. First time in six years I didn't make his cake a total wreck!
Every one made this such a special birthday for Dylan. We have such great friends and family!
Thank you Uncle Eric for taking Dylan out. Thank you Aunt Heidi for the cake idea and the phone call. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Ward for the movie gift card and the books. Thank you Grandma Diane and Grandpa Ernie for the money and the Lego's. Thank you Aaron and Cynthia for coming by and celebrating with us, and being so generous with Dylan.
Mr. Giovannoni and I also got Dylan a flying helicopter, a growing dinosaur, alligator and shark, a new Leapster game and a cordless kid sized X-Box control. Ms. Livie also picked out some oozey fruit shark snacks just for Dylan...I'm telling you the kid made a killing this birthday!

This and That

It always makes me laugh when I go to download pictures onto the computer from the camera and I find images like these....


I also found these pictures I forgot to post a few weeks back. My kids snuck outside all by themselves to play in the snow, and this is how I found them...




At least I found them with hats and some gloves on...Isn't Livie cute in the little hat I made her, backwards and all?

Some how I get the feeling that Dylan might have been the ringleader in this unsupervised outside adventure.

I've been at a loss for a few weeks now as to what it is I'm supposed to do with Alivia's hair, seriously check her mop out...

And this is on a good day!!! Her top layer isn't nearly as thick or as curly as her bottom one, so I decided to give the girl some bangs, in hopes it would help her look a little less homeless like.


As I was downloading these photos to post I looked up to find Alivia enjoying a good book. Sometimes I think I could squeeze this girl till her eyes popped out, I just love her that much!

Student of the Month

Dylan surprised us last night with little note from his school letting us know he was April's Student of the Month.

Way to go Dylan, you make us proud boy!

I just noticed his awards upside down...That's our Dilly!