Barbeque!

What is a 4th of July without a BBQ? Luckily the Bells agreed that we all go over to their house since they have the nice shaded patio. THANKS MANDY!! It was a lot of fun. Good food, good friends, what more could you ask for?
I had to take a picture of my patriotic toenails! :)


I love this picture of Sam and Avery, they have so much fun together!

Shooting her mom, little stinker!!

Trying to hula hoop

Yummy watermelon!

Scary #1

Scary #2

Dan doesn't like his picture taken, can you tell?




Jason has a air gun he made that he can blast candy out of! It was so fun, the kids had a BLAST!

Parade!

We had such a fun 4th of July this year! I took a million pictures so I am going to break this up into a couple of posts. Saturday morning we decided to go to the Boise Independence day parade. It was the first time for us going and it was a lot of fun! We got a shady spot, right across the street from Mark's office so that made it nice. The parade itself was a little lame IMO, but the boys loved it. The Farmer's market was going on afterward so we went and got some lunch and then let the boys play in the fountain down town. I think that was the highlight for them. Overall, a really fun morning.

Sam's a joker

My boys are really into telling jokes lately, they love it! Mark is so good and will get online and look up funny jokes to teach them. The other morning Sam woke up before Rex and was being so cute and funny, I had to record it. Excuse the piece of egg on his face! If you want to hear the gorilla one you'll have to wait until the end...

Life according to Rex

My boys and husband are at the Father/Son campout this weekend so I am missing them. So why not blog about them? We have two cameras. One really nice one that takes beautiful pictures but is huge and one small one that doesn't take the best pictures and is on it's last leg but is small and easy to transport. I often allow Rex to use it because it's not a big deal. I downloaded some pictures the other day and saw these gems! Apparently this is Rex's view on life...

He graduated!

Rex survived his 2 week stint in swimming lessons! If you don't remember this, you'll wonder why I was worried. Ever since that incident Rex does not like water over his head. He does great in shallow water and even water up to his chin, but when it comes to going any deeper he is terrified. I was worried he wouldn't progress much but I think it helped that he had 2 girls in his class that were totally showing him up! I would catch him watching them stick their heads under and kicking and he totally had to do the same thing. He never did let the teacher let go of him in the deep end, even with a flotation device, but he progressed leaps and bounds! GOOD JOB BUDDY!!! He's going to do another round in August so hopefully he will slowly and surely get over his fear.

Birthday party!

Mark's brother David and his family just moved up here from St. George and we are so excited! David is the oldest so his girls are all teenagers or practically teenagers now, but they are so fun and we love having cousins close. They got here Sunday and yesterday was Megan's birthday so I did a party over here since they are in the middle of boxes. Somehow we only got pictures of the cake but we had a yummy grilled dinner, a girly cake I got to make, and then rocked out to Rock Band the rest of the night. Megan was awesome at it! She is also amazing with my little guys, totally patient and willing to play with them. Happy Birthday Megan! And YAY for family living here!

The cake


Megan- so cute!


Trying to blow out the trick candles


Enlisting the boys help and they did eventually get them!

The best thing to ever have happened to me

is this man.


This day was one of the best days of my life. I married my best friend.


I then learned what he was made of when we welcomed Rex into the world. He stepped up and was with me ever step of the way those tough first few months of Rex's life.


He honored his Priesthood and was able to give our son a beautiful blessing.


He was so excited to expand our family, this was right after we found out I was pregnant again.


I love the look of complete adoration after his mini me (Sam) came into the world.


He is the most amazing father and his boys absolutely adore him. (as does his wife :))


Happy Father's Day babe!! We love you!!

How did I get so lucky?