Scooter

The new "in" form of crawling

Maren started crawling at 10 months, in the form of the bum scoot. Hey, its gets her where she needs to go.

sisters

one little monkey jumping on the bed

He fell off and scraped his leg.

I didn't take any other pictures but it bruised up all around pretty good.

the lesson to learn here:

NO MORE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE BED!

(yeah right, how long do you think that lasted? not even 24 hrs.)

sum sum summer time

At the Parade chillin' and lovin' it

In all the times I've watched Embrie dance in dance class, I've never seen her bust a move like this! It was so cute and funny! I guess girls really do just wanna have fun.

a day in the life

 

First time Motorcross

I took the kids to motorcross at the Rocky Mountain Race Way -per our pass of all passes, Brad was planning on going but got delayed at work at the last minute :( - We tagged along with another family that we are friends with. I don't know why we haven't done something like this sooner given the fact that Garrett has always loved anything with wheels or a motor. They loved it.

Shark Attack! Danger! Watch for 6 yr. old!

Seriously! 6 years old already!?!

The Friday before Garrett's birthday was his school spotlight day!

Me, Brad and the girls came to Garrett's school. We brought a poster with pictures of Garrett as a baby and of him today. We talked about when he was born and what good big brother he is. I told about Embrie naming Garrett as her best friend and wanting him to come to her birthday party. And I told about the night Garrett fed Maren for me while I bathed Embrie. He is such a good helper. Then we talked about his favorite things. (I'll list those later!) Then the kids got to ask Garrett questions about his favorite things. He got to show them some of his favorite toys and then hand out a treat to his whole class. He was so excited for this day. It was lots of fun.

On His birthday Papa and G.G. came to take him to lunch and have cake and icecream. Dad had to work late that day so he came home on his break and had cake and icecram with us and he opened gifts.

The boy asked for a skate board. . . . so his sisters gave him one I guess.

He got superheroes and a superhero book from Grandma Peggy and Grandpa Mark (they came to see him a few days before.) He got from mom and dad a Morphibian (remote control car of sorts) and a Batman costume.

For his birthday he wanted Sharks. And a swimming party. Let me just say we quit trying to have swimming parties a few years ago because early June in Utah is not predictable. I said ok this year because it had seemed to warm up early. Our party was to be a Wed. and on the Mon. before it was 90 deg. Wed.?  not so. It was 67 deg!!! So we changed the party to the next day and it was much warmer at least for the kids.

We played a race to paint the Shark game (that was Garrett's idea! very clever it was a hit!) Two teams took turns and raced to see who could paint their shark the fastest.

We did a fishing game each person had anumber on their fish and when everyone had caught one they traded their number in for a sea creature prize.

They played a water balloon relay race.

(also Garrett's idea, maybe that is why the party was successful!)

They threw water balloons and had cupcakes and ices cream. Whats not to love? Happy birthday Garrett!