July 2012

July was a fun month. Kyler got a dirt bike this summer and he LOVES it to say the least.  He's pretty good on it too.  Ryan just tries so hard to keep up on his mountain bike, but Ryan doesn't complain.  Kyler, Ryan and I went to see fireworks.  Kade was to tired, apparently.  Babies.  Go figure.  Me and my older boys had a great time.  They are obsessed with fireworks.  Kyler lost his second tooth.  Man it's taking forever for his baby teeth to fall out.  He's 7.  What's the hold up?  Then Kade got his first hair cut.  I was determined to wait until his 1st birthday.  I made it!  He looks so grown up though!  I hate that!

June 2012 (part 2)

We can't forget that Kade turned 1 this month.  We had to celebrate the first of July, that's why his birthday almost got left out of June's blog entry.  He had a great birthday, not that he'll remember, but we had fun.  We love him so much!  Then we also had a very fun Adults only date night that our friends the Grygla's set up.  There were 5 couples, and we played volleyball, basketball, and ate pizza, while all our kids were watched up stairs in the primary room at our church.  So much fun!!  Love our friends!

June 2012

 

We hate June in Tucson, as you can see by all our indoor pictures.  Started off the month by playing piano and helping Kade to walk better.  Mostly we just loved playing the game where he walks to us, lands on us, gets up, walks away, turns around and does it all over again.  The kids got some of those punch balloons.  They love them, inflated or deflated.  And we still play with one of them.  Lots of hour of entertainment.  Father's Day was very fun, the kids wanted to make "Cardboard Airplanes" for Daddy.  They did.  And did a pretty good job.  Sadly, my dear friend, Erin Dodge passed away in the end of June.  She had A-Plastic Anemia for 4 years, had a bone marrow transplant in January this year.  And then all her organs began to fail towards the end of May.  She passed away June 21st.  She lived directly across the street from us.  We will miss her dearly.

May 2012

Here's my boys in the Hawaii shirts we brought back for them.  Man they're fun kids.  Kyler got his first dirt bike.  Note to all Grandma's:  Don't worry, it doesn't go very fast and he only rides it around the neighborhood and on dirt.  And he's only gone out once by himself.  It was only for about an hour.  He made it back safely thanks to the GPS we gave him.  Just kidding.  Brandon is always with him.  I got a few of you, didn't I?   We were so lucky this month to see two of my siblings!  Devin came down to visit over Memorial Day weekend.  We had so much fun with him!  As you can see, my kids can't keep off of him.  It's like that every time he comes down.  Poor guy.  We had a lot of fun at the pool with him.  Lots of crazy tricks going on.  And then a few days later, we went to play miniature golf and played video games after.  I didn't know they had a giant version of Fruit Ninja out.  The kids had almost as much fun as Devin did.  I love you Devin!!  Thanks for making the trip!!

Hawaii - Part 2 - May 2-9, 2012

We went to the Polynesian Cultural Center.  That was a lot of fun.  We went on a little canoe ride.  Then watched several performances.  I really enjoyed these dances done by each of the Polynesian countries.  I thought of Bryce and Brian several times (Brandon's brothers), since Bryce went to Tonga and Brian went to Samoa on their missions.   The Tongan Drums show was by far the best show there.  Surfing, of course, is around the top of our list for funnest things we did in Hawaii.  The waves were small, but we were first timers so I was ok with that.  I'm just glad we got up a few times.  I can't even count how many nature pictures I took.  Everything I saw was picture worthy, so here are a few of my favorite photos.  And then I got a great shot of my sister, Raena before she left.  She came down to watch our kids so we could enjoy this super fun vacation for our 10th anniversary celebration.  THANK YOU RAENA!!  You're the best sister in the world!  Love you!

Hawaii - part 1 - May 2-9, 2012

Wow.  Hawaii.  I can't believe that we actually got to go there.  It was incredible!  Everything I was hoping it would be.  Maybe better.  It was so fun, relaxing, exciting, rejuvenating, and more.  I would go back in a heartbeat if it didn't cost a fortune.  I love the first picture here of our feet.  This was the first day we arrived.  Just relaxed on the beach.  Doesn't this look like a Corona commercial?  The second day we went to Pearl Harbor.  That was an incredible experience.  The USS Arizona Memorial was so powerful, and humbling.  Then we saw the USS Missouri (battleship).  That ship has some incredible stories.  Pretty cool experience.  I had to take a picture of our rental car.  We started with something else and it had problems so we returned it and we just happened to get a mustang.  We were pretty happy about that.  It added a lot of fun to our trip.  Cliff Jumping was one of my favorite, if not my favorite activity the whole trip.  So much fun.  I jumped off twice and BJ did it 3 times.  I think it was about 40 feet high.  So much fun!  I needed a real adrenaline rush.  Saw the Hawaii Temple.  Absolutely beautiful.  Then BJ of course got his fresh coconut and drank the milk.  I tried it for the first time.  I think it's an acquired taste.  Not bad though.  I saved the coconut shells and wore them on the beach the next day.  JUST KIDDING!!