sprinklers

FHE

it was still so warm on monday night that i suggested to run throught the sprinklers!

scott thought it was not such a big deal, but it was

shaydon love it...as you can see from the video he couldn't even talk he was so excited

there is a first for everything.

fishing

papa has been telling shaydon that he is going to take him fishing for like a year now.....so he finally followed through and we drove to hagerman on a spur of the moment trip and went fishing with him...he went the night before and caught these big ones....

uncle tim, papa and shaydon

his little one he caught and rilled in

our fish at the end of the night.

what a fun time. dad had an auction in hagerman on saturday so we went down and visited him and went fishing for the evening at a friends pond. (he stocks it so shaydon was gareented to catch a fish) when we got there we had a hambuger 4pm, but by the time we left it was 9pm and everyone was hungry so we had soda and chips on the way home thanks to papa!! shaydon thought that was so cool. junk food for dinner! thanks to lamar for letting us fish in his pond. we hope to do it again, both the fishing and more of the spur of moment adventures this summer.

just living life in the moment & enjoying it!!

baby ethan is 2

opening our gift, home made water balloons

ethan wearing the watch we made him

enjoying the messy cupcake

slater is starting to "like" the grass

happy birthday baby ethan

(can i still call him a baby?)

he had his party at phillip park

we enjoyed sandwiches, potato salad, fresh fruit, lemonade and cupcakes

thanks for the summer bucket as our thank you for coming

it's getting a lot of use already

Roaring Springs

we had a surprise to day when we were at roaring springs...

LANDON

i got some pix of them trying to find the bugs on my camera lens..(thanks rebecca)

love these boys

a spur of the moment.....

we have been trying to do a few random things this summer...

things we have never done before......

i asked shaydon what he wanted to do today and he said

" you know those cars at the mall i want to ride in one and not our stroller"

so we headed to the mall and went for a stroll, check....

the things that make kids happy!!

love you both!!

happy fathers day

we sure love you dad!!

enjoy a few of your favorites: ruby red squirt, worms and straws and new lawn mower

you do so much for our little family and we just really appreciate it

we hope you feel special on your day

and

not to forget those grandparents too what would we do with out you?

it would be hard life, thanks for all you do too!

camp trey

happy 6th birthday treyman...

fishing for some....

Swedish fish...the BEST kind if you ask me!!

we headed over to wilson lake in nampa late because i worked in the am for treys camping party. rebecca put a lot of time into the planing part and it turned out GREAT! they started with a name tag on a piece of wood as a necklace, decorated binoculars to look for birds on the hike into their camp spot, fished, opened presents, had lunch, took pictures and played red light green light got a goodies bag for coming and headed back to parent pick up spot. it was fun to see all the kids and stay and help with everything. our kids had a blast!! Thanks to the best bestie ever and for letting us be apart of a special time!!

(on a side note its funny how sometime you have things planned and they just don't go as planned!! communication was just not there, and no matter how on time we tried to be it just didn't happen, things were assumed, things forgot, drama, cranky kids okay adults too, so it was a good day to have such a good friend and be there to help each other and know that it's just not you! thanks for always being there for me & i am glad others have a bad day once and awhile too.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TREY!!!

ps. the best part of the day also came when scott and i got a date day after the party. how great was it to have her watch the kids for us, for a couple of hours of alone time! Sonic happy hour.....

Thanks Justin and Rebecca. We love you guys so much!

Meridian Dairy Day's Parade

thanks to landon for the invitaion to the parade.

it's been awhile since we hasve been to one.

he wasen't sure what to do!!

Good thing landon brought a candy bag.

it was pretty warm and slater had fun too!

Thanks again brook and landon for the fun evening!!

do you think they like to be like eachother? copy cats.....

the day has come!!!

for shaydon to officially get his cast off!!!

do you think he is excited? it still looks a little bent to me, you? Well it is! the ulna is bent and will straighten as he grows.

YEAH for both (all) of us!

Regardless of weather we r headed to Roaring springs today!!!

We invited his favorest person to join us and she did!! Thanks Andi and family!

This has been a long time coming and he is way excited.

ps the dreaded words of the doctor were now you still need to be careful for the next 2-3 weeks. Don't let him climb on things or run!! what 3 year old boy doesn't do those things?! it was a stressful couple of weeks, but i think we made it! We did!

andi and shaydon warming up

shaydon and kemper riding knee pad and pitch black

enjoying some fun in the sun

it was a good day!! very chilly,but they had fun!!

1st campfire

of the season.....
shaydon really wanted to do smoores for dessert so we did!!

Dad finished mowing the lawn while we got started!!!

Reeses have been my favorite candy bar for awhile now and i love Reese's smoores!!

I think it was beginner luck, but i think i roasted the best marshmallow ever?

Sater was in bed & i felt bad that he missed out on it!! Next time buddy!!!

visitors from TX

a friend from HS came from TX to visits us and some other friends for a few days.

They stayed with us and the kids love it okay shaydon love it. Slater doesn't know any better.

Thanks Stacy & Rodney for a fun weekend full of golf, dinner, shopping, touring down town, BBQ, java stops and playing with the kids.

It was good to see you!!

Rodney, slater and shaydon

checking out the iron man race down town ringing his cow bell

Freezer Jam

what a fun day of making strawberry freezer jam.

i did two batches at a time and it kept me on my toes.

i bought 15 frozen pounds from the church canary and i still have a 5lbs left.

i didn't do near enough last year to last us so i hope this will do.

it was nice to do all of this while slater was sleeping and shaydon was out of town!