My new nephew

I'd like you to meet my new nephew, Oliver Scott Severson!

My sister and brother in-law welcomed this big bundle of joy into their family on July 18th, @ 4:11am, weighing in at 9lbs 2oz.  I love him!

Pool with friends

We had a good time with the Walker's.  The underwater camera is a big hit!  Pool time and then back home for a BBQ.  A great end to the day!

Pool and date night

 We are making progress.  Everson put his face in the water, Bridger doesn't mind getting dunked still and Canon was brave enough to jump in as long as I didn't let him go underwater.  Baby steps.

Todd and I don't go out much without the kids but thought a night out would be good.  So we doubled with our good friends Ryan and Lisa.  We went downtown to an ice cream shop called, Salt & Straw.  This place had some very strange ice cream flavors like, pears and blue cheese.  None of us got that flavor, but we did get some unusual ones.

I got, Sea salt with caramel ribbon and Cinnamon Snickerdoodle.  Todd got Almost brittle with salted gnache and double vanilla.  I forget what Ryan and Lisa got.  I liked my flavors but Todd wasn't too excited about his.  It was a fun change compared to the typical flavors you usually have to choose from.

Pool and ouchys

Another day at the pool.  One out of three boys like to go underwater, Bridger!  Everson and Canon do love the water and swimming around with Todd and I.

On the walk home Everson tripped and fell and skinned up his knee.  Then of course, Canon had to follow in his footsteps a block later.  Here they are both on the couch being very dramatic about very small scrapes on their knees.  Time for bed!

Pool time

We love having a pool just a few blocks away and friends just a few houses away to go with.  Todd got me a waterproof camera and I was so excited to try it out.  Since our boys are the bravest kiddos and don't like to go underwater yet, I took pictures of our friends kids so are great swimmer!  It was so fun to take underwater pictures of them.  We had a lot of fun and see ourselves swimming a lot this summer!

Visiting the Portland Temple

What better way to spend a Sunday evening then to go walk around the temple grounds with family!  All Bridger wanted to do was get in the reflecting pool.  While being supervised by his cousin McKayla, he managed to do so!

Happy 4th of July

Such a fun day/night it was!  We watched a parade, had a family BBQ, then up to the green space we went to visit with all the friends and family, and eat some yummy treats!  The boys were so great and loved the fireworks!

King of the hill

We are leveling our backyard which means lots and lots of dirt.  We had somewhere between 30-36 yards (three dump trucks full) of dirt for the job.  The boys absolutely loved having a huge dirt hill to dig in, climb up and slide down.

Bridger loves to try and keep up with his older brothers.  So he took it upon himself to climb the giant hill.  I didn't think he was going to make it, but with some slipping and his determination to get up to his brothers he did it!

We are happy to say the dirt hill is no longer there, but smoothed out evenly waiting for grass seed!

Everson's 5th birthday part 2

My parents weren't able to make it to Everson's birthday party on June 18th so we met them down in Salem at my sisters house a week later.  My Aunt Margie made him a cute cake again!  Everson thinks the T-Rex bank that was custom made just for him is pretty cool!

Soccer Camp

Everson loved soccer camp.  He is taking after his Daddy when it comes to soccer skills.

Coach Matt & Everson

Last day of soccer camp.  All the kids got t-shirts, an evaluation sheet and a soccer ball.  

Soccer and 5th Birthday

Eversons started a week long British soccer camp today.  He was very timid and cried at first, but his coach, Coach Matt, was wonderful!  By the end of the day he was having so much fun, especially with his little buddy, Blake!

It was a busy day for Everson.  First, he had soccer camp and then his birthday!  He requested Incredible Hulk cupcakes!  He said he only wanted to invite two friends to his birthday, Charlotte and Payton.  The was totally fine by me!  I asked him way he wanted to just invite those two girls, and Everson's response was, "because I like to wrestle them."  Thank goodness those two girls are good sports and put up a good wrestling match for him.  Our little boy is 5!