Graduation, Garden, and Goodbyes

So we had a big week this week! Parker graduated from pre-school (okay, the first year of it). For pics of that go to Baked Asia, my friend Megan's blog. Hayden graduated from kindergarten. Here are some pics and videos of that. Naturally, when he stood up to do his speaking part, my camera got the first two seconds, then the memory was filled up, so I quickly deleted a bunch of pictures during the first song (of course, the cutest one) and took some pics and videos so that the same thing could happen at the end when he got his diploma. grrrrr. I got some cute pics and videos in the mean time and here are a few of them. Honestly, you would have thought these kids were a class made up of the children of TomKat, Angelina Jolee, and Madonna. I'll bet there weren't two consecutive seconds without a camera flash and no less than 5 video cameras going at all times. It was awesome!

On Friday, Hayden had a field trip to the zoo. Parker and Preston and I went along to help. What an adventure! They had a great time and the boys got to play with Aiden for a while before he and his family deserted us, um I mean moved to a great job, in West Virginia. It used to be that I would make friends and they all moved to Boise, then they started moving to Texas. Now, they are moving all the way across the country. Next, Australia? China? Want to move somewhere cool? Here's how to make it happen: Move to Pocatello, become a big part of my life, make sure my family and I are very attached to you and your family and you will invariably receive an amazing job offer in some cool place far away from Pocatello. Okay, rant over. Really.

Anyway, here are couple of pictures of the boys on their last day together. Spider web, tree house, then back to our house so that Aiden could take some pictures of Hayden and Parker with his very own cool new star wars camera.

Whoo-hoo! The Garden is planted! Now all we have to do is weed, water, weed, water, weed, water, repeat, repeat, repeat. I'm not thinking about the work that comes when we actually start getting food out of the garden. It's worth it...I think.

The contraption John is using in this picture is called a Hasti-hoe. Yup. Really. No kidding.

In spite of the name, it actually works pretty well.

He's gonna be rich!

Hayden has been trying to do things lately to earn money for slushies. He asked me how he could earn a million dollars. I told him he just had to come up with a way to make cars go without using any gas. He thought about it for a minute and replied "you push it." Such a simple solution! Why didn't I think of that?