Happy Father's Day!

6th day of vacation:

The long anticipated Father's Day!

by 11:00am we had already made Dad breakfast 

(french toast, scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, & OJ),

gone to church, and opened presents 

(cool 'DAD rocks t-shirt and digital camera) . 

What were we going to do next?

Take a hike.

Another attempted family photo w/camera propped on a rock.

Perfect weather for a hike up Logan canyon, just had to dodge a few mounds of SNOW.

odd looking tree, isn't it?

Wow, strong children!

main attraction:  looking for red ants

Hope you had a great Father's Day!

5th day of vacation:

Warm enough for the beach

and only the beach.

Attempted family photo using timer and camera propped up on a chair

Attempted family photo taken by nice man watching

pathetic mom prop camera on chair.

It's not a day at the beach unless Carson gets buried.

Breaking free

3rd and 4th days of vacation;

Arts and Crafts

Playground

Swimming pool (heated, of course)

Diving

more playground

Yep, still too cold for the beach!

Toddler Spackles Wood Floor

I was browsing my 100's of photos tonight to find

pictures to fill my empty frames in the hallway

when I came upon these picts of Preston.

A couple months ago he found the spackle and other paint supplies in 

a lower cabinet in the kitchen,  so I took the spackle and put

it on the counter.  He moved the paint can (below) next to the cabinet

and reached up and got the spackle.  As a was getting Carson 

ready for gymnastics this is what he did:

Below he is saying "Tute" (Cute in Preston language)

Ya, real cute!

Over the River and Through the Woods to Grandmother's House we Go...

Grandma's house is only an hour from Bear Lake...

so we drove over for the day

The drive was beautiful! It was so green and

yellow wild flowers were in bloom everywhere.  

Kids fell asleep.  Cass is actually touching her brother, wow!

Both kids stepped on a nail.  It went right through

their flip-flops and into their foot.

(hard to tell from the pict, it's Cass's self-foot portrait)

Carson was experimenting with the nail (of course) and

Cassidy's was an accident.

more beautiful scenery

I took this from the car window as we were driving,

so it's a little blurry.

It was really this green,  no photoshopping.

Poor mama cat

Fun to sit on even if you can't ride it

Grandma's remodel.  

They were installing grandma's cabinets the day

we visited, so we got to see them.

Look how much room grandma will have in her new kitchen.

We past this cute old schoolhouse on our way.

I'm officially in love with abandoned old buildings, 

we saw so many during our drive.

Wish I could pick one up and put it in my backyard.

Bear Lake Vacation Is Snowed Out

1st day of vacation: 

rain, rain, and more rain.

Preston had fun climbing the stairs to the loft

while stuck indoors. 

2nd day of vacation:

SNOW, SNOW

and more SNOW!

Sad children, can't go to the beach.

so we left Bear Lake for the day 

and drove to Idaho to visit

Farm Grandma!

Love Bite From Baby Brother Leaves a Permanent Mark

Yep, that's a bite from a boy named Preston

and here are the chompers below.

If you know Carson, you're probably thinking he deserved it but,

no that's not the case.

While taking a bath, Carson decided to give his brother a KISS.

As he reached for his check, Preston felt threatened at the feel of 

being pushed over into the water. 

So out of self-defense, his gut reaction was to bite

and bite hard!  So hard that he was lifted out of the water

as Carson's head flew back in pain and was saved from drowning.

Unfortunately,  there is now a scar on Carson's face.

so innocent

T-ball Player Completes 1st Year

It's hard to believe T-ball is already over.

It was so fun to watch these little guys try their hardest...

even though they didn't have a clue what they were doing.

By the end of the season they improved so much...

here Carson is waiting for the batter to hit so he can run.

I think running from base to base was their favorite part of baseball.

Dad got to be Carson's coach.   He figured out what a catcher

was and that's the position he wanted to play.  

I think Chris is trying to tell him to come closer to home plate.

Here's our little "catcher" gathering the balls... just needs to learn

to throw them back to the pitcher.

Being catcher is a great job, you can even lay down if you get too tired!

I loved watching the expression on their faces.  

He looks like he's so determined to smack that ball.

Running to 1st

Sitting in the dugout

Being the catcher again.

so happy just to be there