Friday, June 24, 2011

Summer Fun!

Andrew loved eating the strawberries more than picking them.

The kids picked 31 pounds of strawberries in a half hour. They were amazing.


Having fun picking and eating strawberries.

The girls enjoyed playing at a museum.

Kamren loves all the animals and nature that we visited.

Every Friday we have an art project to do at home. Brynn loved making the flowers. On Monday and Wednesday we do math day. On Tuesday and Thursday we do journal day.

We all had fun as a family running a mile together!

Brynn loved climbing the rock wall.


We had fun celebrating Father's Day. We made Kevin breakfast cake in the morning and steak for dinner. Kevin is an awesome dad!

These were the origami shirts we made for Kevin this year.

One of Connor's first smiles!



Sweet Connor loves to be swaddled.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Fun Week with Grandparents

These are some of the things we did before Grandparents came:

These are the girls new summer outfits. They love to be twinsies. We also put in some flowers and hanging baskets so it was nice for grandparents.


The kids ran a fun run at their school and they all crossed the finish line together except for Kamren. He was ahead of them.

Kamren was able to do the pinewood derby and won many races. He was very excited. This year he painted his car orange.

The young women in our ward were so sweet to make these onesies for Connor. We are having fun dressing him in them.

Sweet little Connor is having fun looking at his toys.

We love Memorial Day!

Connor went to church for the first time during the Memorial Day Weekend. You can tell what he thought of church.

Kamren is giving his respects to a veteran on Memorial Day. Our tradition is to visit the cemetary and give our appreciation for those soldiers who served our country. It was a spiritual experience. We also make a treat for someone who has served our country. This year we chose a man in our ward.

This is the cemetary we visited this year.


I had fun decorating with Brynn for Memorial Day and soon to be July 4th.

I'm so grateful for our country. I hope I can teach my children how blessed we truly are to live in America.

We had fun going to a parade for Memorial Day, we grilled out with some friends, and we picked up Grandma from the airport.

HAVING FUN WITH GRANDPARENTS

We took my mom on the pontoon boat. It was great weather for the ride.

Having fun at Rhonda's house. We just finished the boat ride with grandma Woolwine.

I never thought you could really wear out shoes. Kamren does this to his shoes everytime. He sure knows how to thrash his shoes. He is loving his new shoes because they don't get his socks all wet and dirty. All the seams were coming out and holes were all over the soles of his shoes. My mom and I had a good laugh.


Connor loves taking a bath. My mom got to see him take his bath also.

Kevin is beat from a long day. He is enjoying his sleep time with Connor.

Grandma painted her toes for her graduation. She loves feeling like a princess.


Brynn just graduated from preschool. She was adorable and just glowed that evening. Grandma Woolwine was able to attend also.

Oh, it's so fun to have grandparents who just love your children.

Ashleigh asked her father to baptize her. It was a spiritual moment.

This is Ashleigh's special baptismal day.

Ashleigh wanted all the Activity Days girls to sing Baptism at her baptism. They all sang so nice.

Grandma Woolwine was so kind to make this beautiful dress for Ashleigh to get baptized in and then she made a white dress for her doll. Ashleigh was in heaven.

Ashleigh loved sharing this special weekend with her brother as he got blessed and she was baptized.

Grandma Staples brought each of the children a fun shirt to wear. Andrew is our loud and in charge little boy. He really talks alot and we can understand almost everything he says. He's a cutie.

We hung out with grandparents one evening and the kids played. We enjoyed the nice weather while they were here.

Everytime our little ones get blessed they break out in those baby pimples. He is still cute though.

Grandma and Grandpa took each of the kids out for a date. Kamren had fun at the hobby shop.

One day we went to Grandma and Grandpas hotel to swim and hang out in the jacuzzi. Brynn is working really hard to swim on her own. She isn't going to wear her life jacket anymore.



Brynn's dress was very similar to my skirt so we thought it would be fun to take a picture.



Both grandmas bought Connor the same outfit. It says Grandma's little guy. It was so funny!



I'm so big! I love it when he is so relaxed he has his arms above his head.


Brynn loved playing games with grandma. They even practiced doing some sign language during the game.


This is the day Connor was blessed. He didn't even cry during his blessing.

We are so grateful for those who came to support sweet little Connor.

Grandpa Staples is showing Ashleigh how to play the harmonica. She was doing great. She can't wait to play in the band at the reunion.

Grandma Woolwine did the girls hair in buns and grandma Staples bought them the shirts.

Ashleigh had her last hoorah with her Brownie troop. It was a fun picnic.

We loved having the grandparents here and can't wait to see them again!