Family Pictures 2012

For the first time in my life, family pictures was actually a really great experience! I didn't have high hopes starting out... my curling iron literally started on fire about 1 hour before our appointment, the kids were in especially mischevious moods, and well, we just have a really bad track record in front of the camera. Our friend and neighbor, Matt McFarland , took the pictures for us, and I am so pleased with how they turned out. I'm almost excited to do pictures again next year... almost :)

More Adventures of Cade and Coleman

Cade started swimming lessons, and they have been great so far. Coleman ate an apple, which is definitely blog-worthy considering he hasn't strayed from his 5-food diet in about a year. The boys helped me study for finals, and they are both loving their new playground (even though it's still not finished). They are also "helping" finish the basement! This summer has been crazy busy!

Under Construction

This past week, we have been working on getting the yard ready for a new playground. The boys have been having the time of their lives watching the skid steer and helping dad build stuff. The last few days Cade has even fallen asleep at the window watching his dad work, and every morning he asks if it's done yet. We are all pretty excited for this thing to be finished!

4 Year Old Pillow Talk

Tonight, I was reading Cade one of his favorite bedtime stories, "Oh, David!" by David Shannon. The book is about a little boy who does all sorts of naughty things, and his mom follows him around all day saying "No, David, no!" (shocking that Cade would relate to such a thing!). Anyway, we got to this page where David was picking his nose. The conversation went like this...

Cade: Mom, you know when I do that?
Me: What?!
Cade: I like to roll the boogers into a ball. I do-ed that a million times.
Me: Um, no Cade, a better thing to do would be to get a tissue.
Cade: No mom. Big boys don't like to do that. Big boys like to roll boogers into a ball. I do it a million times.

Sigh.

Happy Independence Day

Fireworks in the sky and flames on the mountain, loads of homework and screaming children, all made for an interesting day. We are happy to be free anyway, even if the celebration didn't quite turn out as planned. God bless America!

A Day With Thomas

Mormon Trail

On Fathers Day, we went for a little hike down the Mormon Trail. The boys loved it, and it made me start to wonder if any of my ancestors were pioneers. I started looking and found that several of my Grandpa Smith's lines came here in the Warren Foote Company of 1850. My 6th great grandpa, Cyril Call, joined the church in 1851! He was also in the war of 1812... soo cool!! I'm so thankful that so many people have done my family history for me (since I'm a geneology idiot) so I can just login to new.familysearch.org and learn about where I came from.

Preschool Graduation

Cade graduated from Monte Vista last week. His last day of school was yesterday. We just registered for the new school he will be attending this fall, and it breaks my heart thinking that he will be gone for 8 hours every day. I think he's ready for his next adventure though... even if I am not.

Memphis and the Berry Reunion

Zoo Day

0 and 4

Cade is finishing up at the dentist... in his Thomas underpants. I was so proud he FINALLY let her clean his teeth... but then he gagged and threw up every bit of that grape toothpaste, lunch, and even his preschool snack. That brings us to 0 and 4 for sucessful dentist visits. One day this will be funny.