Josh looses his first tooth!

My baby is growing up!!

He lost his first tooth while eating corn on the cob for dinner.

It made for quite an exciting evening!

He’s now anxiously awaiting the tooth fairy to come….

Ward Campout

This past weekend was our ward campout.  As usual we had great time!

For dinner we roasted hot dogs.

This was the best thing I brought for the whole trip; a way to tie up Luke so we could keep track of him and keep him away from the fire…and for the most part he was content to just sit!

Enjoying the nighttime fire.

  

Andrew eating smores. Yum!

 

The kids all had a great time sliding down this hill. 

They were very dirty by the end!

 

Saturday we packed up camp and then took the kids on a little hike. 

 

Until next year!

Swimming Lessons

Last Friday was the last day of a four week swimming lesson marathon.  We learned every single day, for 4 weeks is a little much.

The boys started out in the beginning class together for the first session.

Josh jumped to the third, and Andrew moved on to the second level for the second session.

They both turned into fish and love to swim, and I feel much more confident with their swimming abilities. 

 

And I have to give it to this little guy. 

I anticipated a nightmare trying to entertain him while the boys were swimming, but most days he just sat in the stroller and watched while eating goldfish.

Fitting I know.

The Race

Last Saturday I ran a 5K.

I know, I know…Kim ran a 5K?  Anyone that really knows me is shocked right now.

I had two goals in mind when I decided to run it.

1.  Finish.

2.  Run the whole time…no matter how slow.

I did accomplish my goals, so I felt good about that!

My time was 36:02.  Pretty slow, I know.  But I did finish.  In 355th place to be exact.

Golf

Two Saturdays ago Darrin and I went golfing.

He really enjoys golf, and I’d never played a “real” game.

I learned three things.

1)  Get a golf cart, even though you do the short course.

2)  Go with another couple, preferably the kind that can make any situation fun.

3)  Go get dinner afterwards.

If you do all these things, golf is lots of fun!! 

Luckily we followed the rules=).

Transform-mania

This basket of Transformers has entertained my kids for hours the last couple of weeks.

Not only do they play with the robots, they pretend they ARE robots.

“Watch mom, I can transform into a box.”

 

  Muffled:  “See mom, I’m a box!”

 

Josh walks around all day with these swords in his shirt or taped to his arms. 

This picture was taken while they were watching Transformers the cartoon…

He was just sitting there with these things sticking out of his shirt and very intensely watching the show.

It made me laugh.

He even draws detailed “instructions” of how to transform the robots.

Can we say a tad bit obsessed? 

I think so.

Still Climbing

Keepin’ Cool

During our 10 days of 90 degree or above weather…which was a record mind you, we did plenty to keep cool.

Played at the fountain park

  Swam in the backyard

And had a water fight with dad

“Get him!”

 

Loading station

  wheels turning….

thinking to himself:  “I know this thing does something fun, maybe if I watch them close enough I can figure it out.”

 

Gotcha!

And we are especially glad our weather is back to normal!

Golf

One night a couple weeks ago when the weather was a little cooler we took the kids to the driving range with some good friends of ours.  Our kids absolutely LOVE to go golfing. 

  

We occupied the babies by giving them balls, which they would throw, and I would retrieve.  They threw them over and over.

After the driving range, we went over to the putting green??…is that what it’s called?…you know the place where you practice putting…

Luke was in heaven. 

What more could a little boy want besides balls and holes to put them in?

 

Boy + Puddle = Fun