First Day of School 2011 - 2012

This year I have three boys in all day school! I just don't know what I'm going to do with myself and only two children home during the day. We may just have to party everyday!! The boys were excited to start school this year. Grant in the 5th grade and his last year of elementary school.....where does the time go?! Calvin in the 3rd grade and Dallin in the 1st grade. I'm so thrilled that they all have excellent teachers this year and I'm excited for all the fun things this school year has awaiting for them!

My boys!

Grant is a crossing guard this year. He is so excited for the new responsibility!

Calvin, 3rd grade, Mrs. Jaffe

Dallin, 1st grade, Mrs. Rauen

Grant, 5th grade, Mrs. Springer

First Day of School 2010 -2011

Summer is officially over today as the boys started school this morning at James Monroe Elementary. Grant is in the 4th grade with Mrs. Jaffe. Calvin is in the 2nd grade with Mrs. Nelson. And Dallin is starting kindergarten with Mrs. Coffman and Mrs. Josephson. They were all excited to head off to school this morning and see all their old friends and to meet new ones. It should be a great year for all of them.....good luck boys!

Cal - 2nd, Grant - 4th, Dallin zero for Kindergarten!

Grant sitting next to his good friend Luke.

Cal looking super excited outside of his classroom :)

Dallin sitting at his table ready to begin elementary school, such a big boy!

Happy 7th Birthday Calvin!!

Seven years ago today at exactly 6:06 am Calvin David Hammond joined our small family of only three at the time. Ever since that day he has brought joy and happiness into my life. He is a lover, a fighter, a sports fan, a giggler, a blue eyed boy, a great brother, and a wonderful son!! I love you Calvin and hope that you had a fun and exciting day.

HaPpY BiRtHdAy!

First Day of School 2009 - 2010

Today Grant and Calvin began a new school year! They have been looking forward with much anticipation to this day all summer! Grant started 3rd grade with Mrs. Mank and Calvin started 1st grade with Mrs. Roberts. They both had a great first day and are looking forward to the new school year! The wheels have been turning in Grant's head today and tonight he told me, "I have countless questions about endless things!" WOW!! He then asked me what time of day he was born......super important I know! :)

Grant and Calvin

A day at the beach

Last Friday was such a beautiful day and the boys had a half day at school so I decided to pull them out early from school and take them to the beach up at Whidbey Island.  We don't get very many really nice days here in the Spring so I had to take advantage!!  Also, my mom was up at my Grandmas beach house working so we had somewhere to hang out.

Luke, me and my Mom mostly hung out on the deck while the older boys played on the beach.

The tide was out so the boys had fun exploring the tide pools and digging in the sand for treasures!  As we were sitting on the deck we saw a couple of bald eagles fly overhead then they landed on the sand not to far from us. There was one adult bald eagle and then one yearling eagle. It was neat to see them fly so gracefully through the air and to see how big they really are, their wing span is amazing!

It was a wonderful day at the beach and the boys had so much fun! Needless to say they all slept really well that night :)

A beautiful bald eagle

A bald eagle hanging out on a flag pole of a bald eagle!!

A yearling bald eagle. He will soon get his adult feathers.

Luke hangin' out with me on the deck!

Grant and Dallin digging for treasures!

Calvin heading out to the sand!

Happy 6th Birthday Calvin!!

Calvin David Hammond - 1 week old

I love this picture of Cal. It was the day he came home, he was just 2 days old. What a cutie!

Big Brother Grant meeting Calvin for the first time. Jan.10, 2003

Proud Dad holding Cal just minutes after he was born!

Calvin at 3 months old

Well, Calvin's birthday was actually yesterday but we were so busy with birthday festivities that I had no time to make a post. Calvin was born in Las Vegas, NV at Summerlin Hospital. He was born at 6:06am and weighed 7.9lbs. He came into the world very calm, quiet and happy. He continues to be very happy and is calm and quiet sometimes!!! We love Calvin and are so happy that he is in our family. He is a great big brother and loves his family. He still kisses me goodnight and is always up for a hug and loves! Love you Cal!

First Day of School

Today was the first day of school, yeah!! The boys were so excited!! Grant started 2nd grade and has his same teacher from last year, Mrs. Roberts, 1st and 2nd are "looped" in this district. And Calvin started kindergarten, his teacher is Mrs. Coffman. They picked out their clothes last night so that they would look really cool for today! Grant was up and at it early this morning, he even made his bed before school! Ryan walked Grant over to school and Calvin followed (even though he has PM kindergarten) just to check things out. After Calvin got back from taking Grant it was literally 10 minutes later he asked if it was time for him to go now! He was really excited and I think he asked maybe 6 or 7 more time this morning about when his school time was. We headed over to the school for Calvin around noon. He got right in line with his class and was just checking' everything and everybody out, he was very serious. His teacher came to take them to the classroom and he didn't even look back, very focused. After I got him off I headed to The Claim Jumper in Lynnwood for lunch with some friends. We all talked about how everything went for the first day of school, it was alot of fun and of course yummy food!! I picked the boys up from school at 2:45 and thankfully they both had a great first day of school and are super excited for tomorrow!

Grant and Calvin
Grant (7 yrs. old) He is getting so big!
My five boys!
Luke and Dad
Dallin wanted to be sure and get his picture taken too!
Calvin (5 yrs. old) heading to kindergarten!!
Waiting in line for school to start!

Swim Lessons

The boys have been taking swimming lessons this summer at a community pool. Grant and Calvin have really enjoyed the water and learning how to swim. Dallin enjoyed swim lessons too, but only for the first week!! Now I can't even get him to put on his swim trunks to go to the pool let alone talk about swim class! I don't quite know what happened to make him so afraid of the water. He seemed to have such a great first week of class, he like his teacher, the games were fun, etc. Anyone else run into a similar problem with their kids that want to give me some advice? I don't want to force him into the pool and make him afraid of the water but I know that if he attends his class he will have such a great time....what to do??

Calvin looking so cute in his goggles, gotta love the squished ears!!

Grant using the kick board with his teacher helping him.

Dallin playing with legos instead of going to class :(

Luke just hanging out taking in the view of the pool!

Busy 5 year old

The last few weeks Calvin has grown so much! Over Memorial day weekend he learned how to ride a two wheel bike. Which was very exciting for him because now he was as big as Grant!! Then two days after that he lost his first tooth and then the day after that he lost another tooth and he became $3 richer!! Then at the beginning of this month he had a really fun preschool field trip to a bounce house, we signed him up for kindergarten and he had his last t-ball game of the season. He has been on busy 5 year old and he's lovin' every minute of it!

May 2008 Learning to ride a two wheel bike!!

May 27, 2008 Loosing his first tooth!

Preschool field trip to bounce house - June 2008

Fishing Derby at Silver Lake - 2008

Last Saturday morning Ryan took the boys to a fishing derby for kids at Silver Lake, just up the street from our house. It's an annual event that's held every May for kids to introduce them to fishing. The lake is stocked with fish and they net them into a certain area in the lake so that each child gets to experience the thrill of catching a fish!! For $5 the kids get a t-shirt, a nice fishing rod and 3-4 fish. It's a great program that the city puts on here and a much anticipated tradition for our boys!

Grant caught the first fish of the morning.

Calvin having fun fishing.

Dallin catching a fish. Love the look on his face, he was so excited!

Cute Boys!

The other day it finally got sunny outside and I think it was about 63 degrees. Whoo hoo, not that warm but a nice change compared to the rainy weather we had been having. Grant got home from school and asked for a towel to take outside. I gave him a beach towel and then went back to what I was doing inside. About 10 minutes later I looked outside to find my boys sunbathing, all with their shirts off, even little Dallin!! It was really cute!

Calvin's first T-Ball game

You know it's springtime when little league starts!! This year Calvin is playing t-ball, it's his first year and he seems to be loving it!! His team is the Huskies. He had his first game last week and he played in the pitcher position and was first up to bat! He did great and had alot of fun. Funny story about the game, Papa Hammond came to watch and he brought grapes to eat. Well Calvin was getting hungry during the game so he would run over during the game to get a snack from Papa. To funny!!

All-Star Calvin! GO HUSKIES!

Calvin up to bat with Coach Martin standing behind him.

Calvin's cousin Isaac is also on the team!

After the game!

Calvin first up to bat for t-ball!