4th of July

How do boys box on the Wii?  Apparently without shirts on.

 For the 4th of July it is tradition to make a fruit pizza:

 My favorite picture during the holiday time:

 Our ward did a 4th of July breakfast.

 Ryan cooked pancakes:

 The kids decorated their bikes and then did a parade behind a fire truck.  It was so fun.

 Then we went to a Hawks game.

"I love living in a free country!"

"What's a freakin' tree?"

Happy 4th

Friday Fun Days

I love watching my boys walk to baseball games.  I was too slow with the camera, but Cody was "helping" Ryan carry his bag.  It was even cuter.  But this photo is still pretty cute.

 During the summer I try to take my kids somewhere fun every Friday.  We call it "Friday Fun Day".  We went to Camel's Back Park, which is my favorite "hidden" park.

 Kathleen with her friend at a park.

 Last week for "Friday Fun Day" I took my kids to a lake to play.  Cody loved collecting feathers.

 Kids, where they belong...

 We made s'mores for fun on Friday night.

 The kids found this beautiful bird in our front yard.  They took a ton of pictures and even a video of it.

 Here is the only picture I took of Ryan on Father's Day.  I guess I was too busy trying to do nice things for him that I didn't get any photos.  But he is the world's best father and deserves to have nice things done for him.

Brandon's Baptism

On memorial day we spent the entire day outside.  One of the things we did was play wiffle ball at the park.

 Aunt Lissa came to visit for Brandon's baptism.  Kathleen loves her so much.

 Brandon opening gifts.  He was so excited and got so many.  Spoiled kid, I tell you.

 He got a Portuguese Hymn Book.  Oh man he was excited (I know, it is kind of a weird thing for a kid to want).  So Ryan played the piano and Brandon sang to us in Portuguese.

 What do you get when you mix tether ball with a hula hoop?  A new fun game!

 The pool is finally open.  And yes, it was in the 60s that first day.  And yes, the kids still went swimming.  And yes, I include Ryan in the category with the kids.

 My little ballerina had her dance recital the same day Brandon got baptized.

 Pompa made Brandon a baptism book.  Grammy helped him work on it.  They had a ton of fun doing it together.

 

 Brandon and his best friend got baptized together.

 I let Brandon pick out his own cake.  And this is what he got:

End of School!

I say "End of School" because while today is the last day, I haven't blogged in a while.  So I have pictures from all the end of school activities.  The 4th graders here all do a "Rendezvous" where they go on a field trip and experience all the things they have been learning in their Idaho history.  Here is Kathleen panning for gold.

 The trader store:

 Square dancing:

 The boys went on a father and son campout.  Kathleen didn't like being left out, so we did our our little campout.  But it was too windy so we had to hide in a corner of the yard.  But it was sooo fun (even if you can't tell by her face, she really was enjoying it).

 For my last time doing "cooking mom" in Cody's class, I decided the kid would have fun making edible graduation caps.  I was really surprised that they could actually do it.  They turned out really cute.

 Field day at the school:

 Kathleen and Brandon had their piano recital for the last time with Shayla (she graduated and is leaving us).

 Brandon started cub scouts.  Isn't he super cute?  Oh man he is excited!  Mom?  Not so much.

 Brandon also got to be "grass" in the 2nd grade play.  Yes, that's right.  He was grass.  But he was cute.

 The kids started baseball again.

 Cody is on the Red Sox team again (because he wouldn't settle for anything else).

 Brandon is a little slugger:

 Kathleen is AWESOME!  She is a really good first baseman and one of the few kids on her team that can actually catch a ball.  She even caught a pop fly.

 Brandon got to try his hand at pitching.  He was so cute (even if it wasn't his best position).

 Kathleen played catcher while Brandon was pitching.  They were a pretty good team.

 Off to school on the last day!

 Cody had a performance and graduation from Kindergarten.  I may have cried just a little bit.  Okay, I am still crying.  But I'm a mom.  It's my job.

 Cody with his teacher:

 Brandon with his teacher and his student teacher:

 Kathleen with her teacher:

 Usually on the last day of school we have a picnic but it was raining today.  So instead we came home and had an "indoor picnic".  The kids thought it was great.

Now what are we going to do all summer?