How Did I Get So Lucky!

These are some favorite random pictures I took this month. I love all my boys so much. I think my favorite picture is James with the boys. He is such a wonderful father, my boys are so lucky to have such a caring involved dad, and I am so lucky to have his support and help with our boys. You can see in this picture how much they all love each other.



Bryant picked out a hat for his field trip, so Ethan went and got his own hat and put it on. I am impressed with his fashion sense, he matches so well.

Goodbye to the Tanners :(

Last Friday one of our best friends the Tanners moved to Oregon. I have known about the move for a couple of months and thought I was doing OK with it but I don't think I really was. They are going to be closer to their family who all live up there, and they will have a new house, but the selfish me wants them to stay here. They were so fun. They were the kind of friends you could call last minute and say "let's go _______" fill in with hiking, sledding, BBQ, movie, bike ride, games, park, what ever and they would drop everything and go. We could call them at 9:00 pm and say put your kids to bed and come over and hang out and they could come because their daughter was old enough to watch the kids. We would hang out and laugh and talk most of the night. Dorene is a great friend, she can do everything. She got me to sew (and like it a bit), she helped me with canning and taught me a lot there too. She always had great advice, and was so good to vent to and make things better. Lorin is so funny. He can tell a story and I swear he is reliving it as he tells it. He is willing to help and always had fun video games, outdoor games or whatever. As weird as it is I think one of the hardest things is seeing a truck drive by that looks like theirs and then realizing that it can't be them. I feel like a bad friend because I couldn't bring myself to help them move, it's stupid but I didn't want them to move so I didn't want to help them leave, now of course I feel guilty about that. They were great friends and we are going to miss them so much.

We decided to have one last Patio run with Dorene and her friends. It was fun hanging out and eating shakes. There was even talk of starting a shake club, but then we thought about it really becoming the shake club;).

Bryant decided that Cami is his girlfriend. She wrote him a little letter before she left. I read it to him thinking he would smile and get all goofy, but he started crying and said "I don't want her to leave". He decided to write her a letter to take with her.

Last Day of School

Bryant is now done with school. It's weird to think that I am going to have a first grader next year. He did so good, I am so proud of him. Now it is time for summer fun.
Bryant wanted to take an apple to his teacher the last day, we didn't have an apple but we did have a banana.


This is just a cool picture. We live at the end of the street where all the drains are so when ever they get plugged up there is a huge swimming pool in the road. A 13 year old girl was walking in it and it was up to her knees. I am just glad we are up so high.

Cottonwood with Bryant's Class

We went to Cottonwood with Bryant's kindergarten. It was a lot of fun, and Conner loved playing with the big kids.
Bryant went right to work building a canal. He did a good job too, I guess he is my future water engineer like my uncle Shim.




Conner hung out with Mrs. Redd for a bit. I think he has hopes for future teacher's pet.



Ethan didn't want to play in the water at all. I held him most of the time, and then he enjoyed chilling in his chair.

"Big Ethan" was so nice to share with "Little Ethan". My Ethan has become quite a beggar.

Conner's 4th Birthday!!!

I can't believe that Conner is already 4, time goes by so fast. We had my parents over for dinner, presents, cake and ice cream.


Ethan loved playing with the big box (can you believe it?).


I didn't do much for Conner's cake, I was sick and didn't really feel up to it. James thought I was crazy because I was feeling guilty. Conner liked it anyways, I let him help decorate it.


For the boys even birthdays I let them have a friend party (4,6,8,10 etc.), For that one I made bug cupcakes to help ease the guilt.

A good game of Duck, Duck, Goose.



I love this picture of all his little friends, they all look so cute.


You can't really tell but Conner was trying to figure out if he blew the candles out or the wind (It was the wind).



Happy Birthday Conner, We Love You!

We went down to Cottonwood with Brooke, Dorene, Amy and Nan. It was so much fun. We went right after we got back from Disneyland and the boys were concerned about how long the drive was going to be. I told them it was a little less then the Disneyland drive. Then they were worried about not having the DVD player and movies with us, they were also sad about leaving Daddy behind to work. There are about two weeks where the runoff is really good, and it is warm enough to swim, I think we hit it perfectly. You can see Bryant swimming in the last picture. Aysia and Bryant were the big swimmers.