Our Summer So Far

We are presently in swimming lessons. The boys love it, and I love that they are learning to swim. I have also been very glad that the pool is inside. It has been a very cool beginning of summer. Devin loves being in the level that lets him jump off the high dive.

Tanner just loves playing in the water, I don't know how much he is learning but he has a good time.

Hayden in his class.

Even Ellie gets to take swimming lessons, she is not good at following directions but we have a good time.


A couple of weeks ago Tanner got bit in the eye by something. The next day his eye was almost swollen shut.

We celebrated the first of our summer birthdays, Joel's.

The kids playing outside in our back yard. I sure wish we had something besides weeds and mud!

Working in the back yard. Joel is teaching Devin to drive the lawn mower.

Waiting for Aunt Kami to get home off her mission. It was so good to see her again.

Spring soccer. I don't know how it happened but Joel and I ended up being the boys coach.

It has been a busy June we have had several get togethers with the families and several more planned. We are sure enjoying the time we have to spend with them.

It's a ...

We had our 20 week ultrasound yesterday, finally far enough along to find out a little more about who will be joining our family this year. I was sure it was a boy, but was hoping for a girl. Thought it would be fun to have 2 little girls together.




And the ultrasound revealed more pink. Fun, we are all excited, except Tanner who was sure it was a baby brother, so now is not sure what to think. She is due Oct. 15.

Easter Weekend

The boys had their spring break this past weekend over Easter, so we decided to take them camping for their days off. Devin loves horses and has seen The Man From Snowy River a hundred times, and he wanted to know if wild horses were real. Joel told him out on the desert there are still horses that are wild and that grandpa hasseen some. From that time on Devin has been wanting to go there and see (catch him) a wild horse. Since it is still early in the year we decided that desert is probably better than the mountains for camping. So Thursday morning we headed to the deserts west of Provo. On the way out there we saw several herds of horses, all of which Devin was sure were wild. We were lucky to camp near one group of them.
Ellie loved playing on Tanners bike, any time we were outside she wanted to be on it or pushing it about. Dad, Tanner, and Hayden on grandpas horse trailer looking for Grandpa, Devin, Uncle James and Uncle Travis who were on a horse ride.

Ellie is quite a climber she was always on the stairs. She rolled down the ones in the trailer at least twice a day while we were there.

Tanner playing on the back of the truck.

Tanner, Devin, Ellie and Joel

We did celebrate Easter there, we colored eggs and had an Easter egg hunt. It was a fun trip and I think it satisfied Devin's need to see wild horses.

Ellie's 1 year pics

Our Ellie is just growing up so fast. My sister came to visit last week and brought her new nifty camera, so we put it to work. I try to take pictures of my children yearly on or near their birthdays. But since the closest picture taking place is over 30 minutes away it dosen't happen so easily, so I took advantage of my sister and had her take Ellie's year pics. These are a few that she left me, she took the rest to fix on her computer, I thought that they turned out preaty cute.

I guess I should give Melanie the credit for taking the pictures and doing a great job.

Finally, a lost tooth

Hayden finally lost his first tooth. He was so excited. He has been waiting since Isaac lost his first one back in Oct. They are only 2 weeks apart and Hayden thinks that he should do everything Isaac does cause they are best buds. So we have been waiting.
The other day I noticed that there was something in his mouth and when I made him let me look it was the big tooth growing up behind the little one. I was determined that the little one had to go so the big one could come into the right place, so we tried tying his tooth to the door. Didn't work. I tried to get him to just pull it out but he would not. So when Dad came home from work he asked to see it and gave it one really quick tug and out it came. Yea!