Kid Day

Well executed, Logan!  Kid Day (his invention after realizing that there was a Mother's and Father's Day, but no Kid Day), was a big success this year.  We missed everyone who couldn't make it!

We started as participants in the Days of 47 Children's Parade.

 

 After the parade, we invited some friends over to cool off in the irrigation water and have some treats.

 This year we added rubber ducky racing as a new annual Kid Day event.

 Topher spent most of the day filling up water balloons.

 Stockton ran around and splashed in the wet grass.

  Hope you are all enjoying your summer and staying cool!

Summertime Brothers

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We've Been...

 Visiting the chalk art festival to celebrate Daddy's birthday.

 Catching lizards.

 Playing in the water on irrigation day...

 with some of our favorite cousins.

 Hiking the Y.

 We barely made it.  I was tougher in college.

 Painting faces.  Logan painted mine and I painted his.

Learning to read.  

Hope your summer has been lovely.

Logan is 6

We're pretty glad to have Logan around these days.  As kindergarten is wrapping up, we realized that we're already 1/3 of the way through raising him (well.... to college age that is).  His new hobbies include watching Smithsonian documentaries, exchanging love notes with little girls in Kindergarten and building a house behind the shed out back with his over the fence buddy.

 Logan is smart and brave.  He is responsible and honest.  He works hard and almost always obeys the first time.

 He and I went on a cave tubing adventure recently.

 Here he is with his Easter haul.

 Logan loves learning new things and LOVES the BYU cougars.  We took him down to campus recently.  You'd have thought we took him to Disneyland.  

 Here he is with Daddy and Stockton reading books in the bookstore.

 Here he is by the Y on the stadium.

We're sure glad he showed up first in our family.

Stockton is 18 months

Well, we are totally in love with and exhausted by our sweet little one-year old.

 He eats non-food items... pretty much all of them.  He is pictured below after eating a blue marker.  His lips go nicely with his eyes, don't you think?  I'm pretty sure poison control is going to turn me in anytime now, despite the fact that I'm doing my darndest to keep this kid safe.

 His disposition is delightful.  He loves his brother, gathering eggs from the chickens and riding his toy horse.  He stands at the door and begs to go outside about 20 times a day.

 He loves playing on the front porch and sneaks out there when I'm not looking.

Stockton isn't a fussy kid.  This is him playing in a freezing cold lake in March.  He doesn't mind.

 He already has a sense of humor and loves to wear hats of all sorts.

Love you, little buddy.  Glad the good Lord knows which kid to send when. :)  Thanks for all of the smiles.