Allen.....hiking some more

Love ya babe!

Girls Camp

 I was able to spend a week at this beautiful place with all of the great Young Women in our ward!

We had a great time cooking, hiking, talking, laughing, playing volleyball, making necklaces, sometimes shivering, and learning together.

Thanks girls!

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to the love of my life.

The kids had a fun time trying to make this a special day for Allen.

We are so grateful for such a hardworking and "hardplaying" Dad!

We love you!

Fun at the Lake

We enjoyed some great lake time this summer!

One of my favorite views!

Happy Birthday Randi!

Thank you for all of the Birthday Love!  I had a great day.

Sidney's Kindergarten Graduation

Sidney receiving her certificate.

Sidney and Mrs. Bermel

Sidney's First Field Day

She was very proud that she was one of the few Kindergartners that made it to the top of the climbing wall!

Sidney has been going to Porter's Field day for the last 3 years and cheering him on in every event. She was very excited because this year she had her own Field Day!

Rylee was a great cheerleader! She even shared in the popsicles at the end!

Sidney has made some great friends this year. She is always trying to be a "friend to everyone", as she would say. Man I love her!

Porter's Field Day and Loosing/LOST teeth

Field Day is here again! Porter loves Field Day, it is right up his alley.

It was a beautiful day. I was particularly thankful for that because it literally turned into a Field DAY for Rylee and I. We were there in the morning for Sidney, came home and had lunch, and went back in the afternoon for Porter!

Porter had lost a tooth during school that morning, I know they are falling out left and right at our house! The ladies at the office gave him a tooth necklace to put it in for "safe" keeping. He was wearing the necklace as he was running, jumping, twisting, hopping, rolling, and spinning. I asked him if he wanted me to hold it for him, he handed it over and I shook it.....nothing. I opened it up and, sure enough, it was empty. Somewhere in the huge school field was Porter's tooth. He was very sad at first, but we reassured him that the Tooth Fairy would still pay up! He was still bummed, but luckily still enjoyed the rest of his Field Day.

Kindergarden Star of the Week

Sidney was super excited to finally be star of the week in her Kindergarden Class. 

I guess you have to wait till the end of the year when your last name starts with a W!

She wanted the poster to be "pretty" and "pink".  I think we got it :)

She wanted pictures of the Lake, her as a baby,

soccer, ballet, a picture of just her and Porter, a picture of all of our family, her and Ollie together, and her and Allen together.

I love it!

Seussical

We only had my phone to capture a picture of Porter in the  Seussical play at school.  He had practices twice a week after school and parts and songs to memorize.  Good job Porter! 

Loosing teeth

Sidney has had two VERY wiggly bottom teeth for quite a while now. I was actually really sad because I thought for SURE she would lose them while Allen and I were in Hawaii. But no, she did not touch those teeth and didn't want anyone else touching them either!

I kept telling her if she sneezed they were going to fly out of her mouth :)

Just to tell you how lose they really were, she lost her first one in her YOGART!

She was so excited for the first one and the second one only made it a couple of days longer.

She's growing up!

Funny Rylee and a VERY patient Oliver

A few days ago Rylee and Oliver were playing. They are great friends. I keep thinking Ollie will want to run away from her one day, but he just runs right to her every time. The are cute buddies, she has nicknamed him "Ollie pop".

So I look over and see Rylee on top of Ollie. This wasn't completely alarming since she is often rolling around with him. But I decided to look closer and saw this.....

So I asked her what she was doing. She said she was checking Ollie's teeth to make sure they were ok. Wow, she sure was! Ollie just laid there. He is so good with her! Then she went back to rolling on him :)

My sister always laughs at me when we are on the phone because it seems like I am constantly reminding Rylee to be nice to Ollie. Don't sit on him, try not to poke his eye, give him his food back, I don't think he can breath, don't drive the big toy truck over Ollie, etc......

Poor Ollie gets a lot of Rylee's attention while the kids are at school, but she sure does love him!

We have to keep our eye on this girl! This is what she came up with while I was folding laundry!

Playing swords with Porter and Sidney. I am not sure what the slippers on her hands are for!

She makes us laugh every day!

Porters Solar System Presentation

Porter's class has been studying the solar system. They were each given a part of the solar system to study specifically. Porter was given the "Astroid Belt". It has become a very familar topic around our house. Today when we walked into Porter's class and Rylee saw his display and said, "look Mom it's the Astroid Belt", in her cute little 2 year old voice.

Porter researched, wrote a report, made a visual aid, and gave a presentation. He had worked hard and did a really great job.

This is the beginning part of his presentation. After he was done he told me he had been very nervous, but had really enjoyed it. I think his favorite part was wearing his teachers microphone around his neck!

If you pause the music on the right hand side you can hear him better.