He sits!

Bridger has graduated to the sitting position. He does really well sitting playing with toys now. Eventually he does topple over and ends up lying on his stomach. He's just an all around happy, easy going boy!

First Day of Preschool

This was Everson's first day of preschool. It was only half a day and a parent was suppose to go with them so I went with him. He was a little nervous, but warmed right up when he saw how many different kinds of animal toys they had. He met his teachers for the first time and really took to one of them, Mrs. Franklin. We can't believe he is in school.

Today was Everson's first full day of school. I admit I was a little nervous because he is the type of kid that does not like new things or being dropped off somewhere and not have myself or Todd staying with him. In the past he has cried and usually had to be restrained from running after us. While walking to his school, which is only a few blocks from our house, I kept talking about how they get to play all day and how much fun he would have. Everson kept asking me why I couldn't stay with him. I had warned the teachers a head of time that he might bust into tears but would be fine after I left. I prepared myself for the worst, but luckily Everson surprised me. We walked into the school, put his snack in his cubby, washed his hands, and found Mrs. Franklin who acted so excited to see Everson. He sat right down beside her, I said goodbye, he looked at me, didn't say a word, then continued his activity with Mrs. Franklin. I wasn't even going to chance saying goodbye again or giving him a kiss so I hustled out of there.

The time came to pick him up from school and he was full of smiles and told me he had so much fun! The teachers said he was great!

At the Park

It was such a nice evening and we know we don't have many more left so we called up Todd's parents and invited them up to the park with us. A great way to end a day!

Being silly

Dirt, Family Pictures, Birthday, Bowling

Leveling our front yard. The boys loved helping dad shovel dirt!

Family picture on a timer. If Bridger was looking at the camera it would have been a pretty good picture!

Individual family pictures!

We celebrated my sisters birthday while we were all together before Mark and Annette left for Utah. Everson helped Shel blow out her candles and Canon gave Shel the best kiss after she opened her present from her!

We decided to pack everyone up and go bowling. It was the boys and Kyrie's first time bowling. The kids didn't know what to think, but once they had a turn, they were totally into it. Bridger even got to bowl, sort of.

My niece, Kyrie, had her own way of bowling. She used her head to push the ball down the ramp.

When it wasn't our turn bowling we used the time holding any kid near us and of course dancing!

This is my favorite picture of the night!

Fun boating

We have a lot of fun going boating. Canon loved driving the boat and Everson loved inner-tubing. Even though Bridger was shoved into an over-sized life jacket, he was very content.

Of course we had to stop for a potty break! Everson and Canon thought it was pretty cool that they were allowed to pee into the water.

Cute Bridger

Just because we think he is so cute!

Luau!

We went to a fun luau at the beautiful Fallbrooks farm. We enjoyed dinner, seeing horses, dancers, and of course eating shaved ice!

Enjoying our yummy shaved ice while watching the Fijian dancers.

He passed!

Everson did a great job and passed level 1 swim lessons. He started out a bit timid, which you can read about here if you haven't already. Anyway, the one thing that he had a hard time doing was putting his face in the water for 3 seconds. He would do it for us, but refused to do it when he was at swimming lessons. We kept having him practice it and when it was time for the teacher to test the kids on whether they could do all the things on the check list, Everson stepped up and did it with ease. YEAH!!

Happy to pass level 1

Of course he had to give us a not smiling face after a good smiling face.

We love them!

Canon asked to hold Bridger today and then of course Everson wanted to hold him too which led to me thinking it would be a good photo opportunity.

We love our boys!

William's family!

One of Todd's buddies, Joe, from BYU-H and his mission, was in town with his family and needed a place to stay for a couple nights. Todd hadn't seen Joe in 11 years. We were more then happy to have them stay with us. Joe and his wife, Reiko, were so nice and such easy going guests. Their kids, Tendo and Rhonda were so cute! Our boys loved having new friends stay with us. We loved having them stay with us!

Having fun playing outside. I might have gone a little overboard taking pictures of Rhonda, but with a face like that, how could I not.

The boys loved being bounced by Joe on the trampoline.

Canon, Tendo and Everson played well together.