Recent and Random

Today I finally imported the pictures from my phone onto my computer, and decided to share a few random ones of our recent activities.

Okay - so this one isn't so recent, but when my brother and his family were here we took them to the Petrified Forest.  This is a picture of the cousins on the Long Logs Trail.

My boys are always begging me to do science experiments with them, so this was an easy one I did a few weeks ago with the little boys.  They had so much fun, they asked for a picture to remember the moment.

Jeremy and I took Dallin and Thomas to the ASA conference in Tucson this year.  This is a picture of their favorite thing to do at the resort - lots and lots of swimming!!

They also wanted to see the zoo, since the little boys enjoyed it so much last year.  They really liked it too.

Another zoo pic.  This really is a good little zoo.

The little boys are in the middle of a session of swimming lessons.  They are all doing really well and loving it.

So - how is that for random?  Random or not, we are having a good summer so far.

Tad is Five!!!

My baby is five!  FIVE!!!!  I told him over and over that I wanted him to stay four for a little while longer, but he went ahead and turned five anyway.  It honestly makes me so sad that my kids are growing up so fast.  I don't understand these moms that can't wait to get their kids in school.  Tad is going to spend the next year in preschool, instead of going to Kindergarten, because I just can't give him up yet.  So, in honor of my little five-year-old, I am sharing five pictures from his birthday celebration.

The above picture includes the rather sorry attempt at making a train cake.  I made the same one for Drake a couple of years ago, but this time, I had to try to get it made super quickly because Jeremy only had a few hours at home between when we returned home from the ASA conference in Tucson, and then heading to Colorado with the Young Men.  Luckily Tad didn't notice all its flaws and loved it anyway.

After cake we opened presents.

He had asked for more Angry Birds Plushies.  They are expensive, but I mentioned in an earlier post that he and Drake play with them every day, so I think they are definitely worth the money.  He specifically asked for King Pig, and was very excited when he opened him up.

He also asked for Terrence.  So this was pretty exciting too.  Terrence is huge!!

He also got ice-bird and another blue bird because they only had two.  In the game the three little blue birds are always together, so we had to correct that little error that was made in the first set.  The boys had to bring out the rest of their plushies and take a group shot with the new members.

Tad had a very happy birthday, and we are very happy that he is in our family.  Love you Tad!!