Like father like son....

Dallin is going bald!!!!!  Ha ha ha, just kidding.  It sure looks like it though.  All the boy cousins had a sleepover at Papa Steve's house the other night and when they came home the next morning Dallin hadd a big chunk of hair missing from the back of his head.  I asked him what happened and he said he had tangles in his hair and pulled them out.  Well I have been giving him a really hard time and laughing and showing everyone so hopefully he has learned his lesson and will not actually pull out the hair next time.  It was fun teasing him telling him he was going bald like daddy though. Poor kid.

Camping at Woods Canyon Lake

Last weekend we went camping with the Kimble's near Woods Canyon Lake.  It was nice and cool, although really humid, and a lot of fun.  It rained, which normally we love but when you are camping it just gets mud everywhere and is really a mess.   

Lila had a good time.  She was really funny though, she didn't like the way the pine needles felt or something so she refused to put her hands on the ground.  She still ended up as filthy as could be.  She loved exploring though and picking up sticks copying her brothers.

Alden trying out his new pocket knife and Brig with a soda pop like always.  Every camping picture we have of that boy he is guzzling down a pop.  

The boys.  We need to invest in a camping chair for Lila, she loved them and was always kicking one of her brothers out of theirs so she could sit in it.

Took a trip down to the Tonto Creek Fish Hatchery.  Fish totally gross me out. I couldn't believe the way the fish went crazy over the food we would throw into them.  They were literally jumping out of the water.  Crazy! Very entertaining though.

We took a nice hike down by Tonto Creek too.  It was a lot of fun.

The boys had so much fun playing in the water and Champ just had a blast the whole trip running all around.  He chased those boys everywhere.

My monkey kids who think they can climb anything.  They sure make me nervous watching some of the things they do.

Dallin, Hyrum, and Tara on our hike.

Lila sticking her toes in the water.  We had a really good time.  Dallin and Tara made a yummy dutch oven dinner (which was rather entertaining trying to dutch oven in the rain).  Scott made a yummy breakfast.  The boys went fishing and we just relaxed and had a good time.  It is sooo nice to go home and take a shower after camping though!!!  Thanks to mom for letting us take her Tahoe and for the Wilsons for lending us their camper.  It was much nicer to have that with Lila than trying to stay in a tent with her.

We have a monkey in the house!

Black Eye

Dallin's head and Alden's eye got in a fight...Dallin's head won!  The pictures don't even show how bad it really looked. 

4th of July

We had a pretty quiet fourth since it was on a Sunday this year.  We did take the kids to go see fireworks at AJ Highschool.  We have been going there for the past couple years since the church by my parents house stopped doing them over there.  We are still disappointed about that though, they had a good set up over there, sit inside until it was time and stay out of the heat!!! This year wasn't too bad though it was actually pretty nice out.  We hung out with Larry &Sandee and Kim & Glen's families.  The kids had so much fun running around and playing with glow sticks.  Lila loved the fireworks and was not scared at all although she was cranky and ready for bed before they were over!

Lila got her pool!

The same day Lila posted her letter to daddy, he came home from work with a pool for her.  I would say someone has their daddy wrapped around her finger.

Lila loves her pool and "swims" (crawls) around and around in circles it is pretty funny.  She bangs her hands on the back door and hollers to go outside and swim. 

The boys thought it was fun for about 2 seconds.  Alden wanted to know why she wasn't more specific and didn't ask for a bigger pool like the one we had last summer that was above ground and about 3 1/2 ft deep.

The boys decided it was more fun to spray the hose on the tramp than to try to fit into Lila's little pool.

Dearest Daddy,

Daddy,

I really NEED a pool.  Would you please buy me one...

Pretty pretty please with sugar on top?

I reallydo need one,cuz as you can see I have resorted to swimming in Champs water dish.

It is kind of a tight squeeze in here.

And mom says yucky. Although I am not sure why, it doesn't seem yucky to me.  Just crowded. 

Please Daddy?  Love, Princess Lila :)

Lila's first Birthday!

I can't believe that Lila is one already.  This year has really gone by so fast.  I am not sure if i am ready for her to be one yet.  I have really enjoyed her as a baby and while I love watching her learn new things like walking and climbing I don't think I am ready for her to be a big girl yet.  Aunt Sandee made her the cutest cake for her birthday.  She loved eating it picking the flowers off the top and eating them.  Sandee makes the best frosting ever she didn't even care about the cake she just wanted the frosting.  She wanted to share with everyone, she gets the biggest kick out of feeding people so I think everyone got a bite from her.  She was fascinated by the candle and wanted to touch it so Dallin had to help her blow it out.  We had a nice quiet party with Sandee's family, Grandpas Steve and Brad and Grandmas Janice and Alice.  Also Aunt Tara came by.  Lila had fun opening her presents and wanted to play with everything she got.  She got several babies and loves them all.  She got a cute puppy that sings songs that she loves too and a stroller to push all her new babies in.  She also got some bath toys and beaded necklace & braclets that she loves.  For some reason we don't have any pics of her with the presents Scott must have just video recorded that part.  Her new favorite thing is to feed her babies a bottle and to give them a binkie.  She does it over and over.  It is so cute to watch her love and take care of her babies, so different than the boys were!  Thank you everyone who helped us celebrate her fun day!!

Swimming 2010

Tara and Dallin moved down from Utah and the kids have been having so much fun swimming at their apartment pool.  They beg and beg every day to go swimming.  We had fun swimming with Jonah and Marcus one day when Aunt Tara was babysitting them.  Scott got a great picture of Jonah jumping in the pool.  Brig is now swimming.  I don't trust him completely yet but he is doing a great job.  He still gets tired and takes breaks using a floaty but he is very impressive.  he can swim the width of the pool and swim to the bottom to get diving sticks too.  Lila loves the water as long as she is not confined to a floaty.  She either has to be held or playing on the steps.  Little stinker.  Dallin and Alden just swim all over doing their own thing.  They were apparently not in any of the pictures swimming so maybe we will have to get them next time.

Last Day of School/Sleepover

 

They boys had a really good school year.  Alden and Dallin both really enjoyed their classes and both did really well in school this year.  We had their cousins Jonah and Marcus spend the night the last day of school to celebrate.  The boys had so much fun running around outside and playing video games.  They stayed up way too late watching movies and woke up way too early.  At about 6:30am I went out to get Lila and Alden and Jonah were already awake.  I asked them what they were up to and they said they were trying to figure out if "Mark" was a prophen or not because Jonah thought he was and Alden didn't think so.  I thought it was so cute.  They had Alden's scriptures out and everything.  Then Alden had to show Jonah all the cool bookmarks and pictures he keeps in his scriptures.  Jonah turns 8 this month and I think he is super excited to get baptized!!!  I was very impressed with them that morning, although I wish they would have slept in a little later.  Jonah also had picked up all the popcorn off the floor and cleaned up all the extra toys and blankets while everyone was sleeping so they would have "more time to play".  He is such a great kid.  I am glad my boys have him as a friend and example.  I wish I would have had a video camera to capture the boys singing Taylor Swift songs at the top of their lungs too.  It was very funny.  I can't believe how high pitched they were singing.  Give them a few more years and they would be able to do that anymore!!!

Random Lila pics, just cuz she's cute!

11 months old.  She loves baby dolls and is just a super cute little girl.

Dallin Lost his first tooth!

On May 23rd, while trying to bite apart two lego pieces that were stuck together Dallin popped his first loose tooth out.  I think it surprised him a little.  He looked like he might be sick for a second or two (probably the taste of blood in his mouth).  Then he was all excited after that.  The one next to it is loose too so he has been wiggling it some more in the hopes of getting another visit from the tooth fairy.