Oh, What do you do in the Summertime?

At the end of July my sister Heather and her family came for a visit. We had a great time. We went to a rodeo, Lagoon, swimming, shopping, we ate tons of good food. Such a great time! Thanks Deshler family for coming to see us all. You are so missed already!

Zoe and Ben. We all spent the day shopping and going to lunch. Fun fun!

The babies and little boys...and Brooklyn were getting tired of shopping by this point. :)

I love it! This is how the kids were walking through the mall. Pretending they were a train. So cute!

Chugga Chugga, Choo Choo!

Left to Right:

In the stroller- Ben (17 months), Sydney 4, Luke 5, Brooklyn 5, Alex 5, Zoe 7 (almost), Collin 9, Easton 12, Avery 13, Lily 11 months, in the stroller sleeping-Ty 2.

All 11 cousins.

The four girls. My sisters are so special to me. They are my friends and they are my sisters. I am so lucky to have them.

Lily and Aunt Heidi.

Syd and Easton.

Going to IN-N-OUT.
Lily loved Grandma's shake.
Deshler kids and Alex.
I love this picture. I have missed seeing my sister Heather so much since we moved back to Utah. Luke loves her, Uncle Reed and the kids so much. Easton (pictured here next to Luke) is Luke's favorite. Luke followed him around like a shadow for the 10 days they were here. He was so sad to goodbye when they left. Me too :(
Luke just loungin' on Zo. Grandma and Grandpa took us all to the rodeo. We had such a great time.
Zoe playing dress up with my glasses, hat, and lipgloss.

Grandpa and Ty watchin' the rodeo. Ty really enjoyed himself. Honestly, we almost left him with the babysitter as well. But, he liked it more than Luke did and I am so glad we took him.

Luke and Daddy.

Zoe kept wanting to take pictures on my camera.

Me and Zo-zo.

Earlier in July my sister Heidi and I took our kids to the Treehouse Museum in Ogden. It was fantastic and the kids had a great time. A very stoic king. :)

And his beautiful queen. Luke and Brooklyn often pretend that they are going to get married. We have told them that they can't since they are cousins...but they do love each other.

The "knight" was having trouble with his cloak.

There is my "knight in shining crown" :)

The music room.

On the farm...milking the cow.

The schoolhouse.

The teepee. Playing Cowboys and Indians.

Inside the United Kingdom exhibit. Drinking tea?

China exhibit. My kid is so crazy!

Also in July my sister Holly, my grandmother and I took the kids to the Riverdale splash park. It was so much fun and FREE! Gotta love that. Apparently I didn't take any pictures of my boys...oops. But look how adorable little Lily is.

Fun with Grandma and Grandpa

My kids really love their Grandma and Grandpa. Ty asks for them all the time...sometimes after he has gotten in trouble...what does that mean? Hmm. Anyway, they were so excited when last Monday Grandma and Grandpa took them to the Dinosaur Park. We had a great time. Thanks Mom and Dad.

Ty watching the robotic dinosaurs, "Oh, so cute" he says. Can you believe that he held himself up like that for several minutes.

The sacrificial child.

Lily was fascinated with Grandma's hat.

I love both of these pictures. So precious.

Grandma's are the best snugglers.

I can see clearly now...

This is the picture I got when I said to act normal??

It is official. Luke got his glasses. He looks super cute in them I think. He has been a great sport about it too. He was amazed at the difference with them on. All of a sudden he could see things far away and they were not "big and fuzzy" anymore. So sad that is what the world looked like to him.

Ty, trying to be crazy like his big brother.

4th of July Fun

We had a great time this year. We had a backyard campout (which turned into a basement campout) with the Sperdons. After a delicious breakfast we went swimming, had a BBQ and watched awesome fireworks. What a great time!

So cute!
Ok. Horrible picture of me.. YIKES! But we had fun.

The boys!
Lily liked our BBQ. Here she is with corn....yummy...

Do you want some?

Best Friends.

BFF's.

Crazy kid!

My sweet little Tyger.

10 months

Another month has gone by and Lily is finally starting to want to go go go. She learned to crawl. It is pretty funny. We call it the "peg-leg" crawl. She keeps her right leg mostly foward and uses it to propel herself while dragging/crawling with her left leg. I love it!!

She loves to feed herself and is starting to want to do all feeding by herself--always grabbing the spoon.

She learned two new words. "Dada" and "ba!!!!" which she says for ball, very excitedly I might add. She stills says "MOM!" but usually only when she is mad that I am not picking her up or feeding her fast enough.

She still is pretty good natured. However, we are starting to see a little drama starting. She is SO upset when she crawls into something and bump her head. She is also quite offended when we are delaying in feeding her, or anyone is eating in front of her--or just when she wants food. Do you see a pattern? Food is important to Lily!!

She is 10th percentile for height and 50th for weight...so for her height she is a little "plump" as her pediatrican called it:)

Oh! How we love our Lily girl!!