Summer Days

A couple of Saturdays ago we hung out with Nate & Sidni's family and had lunch at Salem Pond & let the kids have fun in the water. The kids had a blast!

Maddix & Kayden just chillin' together!

Classic picture of Kayden. He always has his face like this as if he were saying, "what you lookin' at me fo!" We even captured this expression in his passport picture.

Mitch and Nate posing for us. Sidni and I thought it was so funny that they were both standing the same-- and that they both had white shirts on. . . or so it appeared that way!

Nate & Mitch thought they'd be cool and swim across the pond. I started wondering what was so interesting on the other side because they were there forever but found out that it was because they were too tired to swim back! They finally made it back--they walked a little ways to where they thought would be a shorter swim back.

Kaleb wanted to go swim to his daddy, but didn't make it far!

Later that night, we lit Nate & Sidni's leftover sparklers. Kaleb & Tanner thought they'd try to catch a basketball on fire but didn't have any success. Thanks Sidni & Nate for hanging out with us losers! :)

Dumb Fish

So on my mom's property there is a little stream that runs through it. Andrea was over here and we went by the stream and saw this large fish in there. We thought how cool we would be if we could catch it! Andrea first attempted with her bare hands and would have succeeded but was grossed out by its sliminess and dropped it. We then got this crate and I used a plastic toy shovel to keep the fish moving forward. We were out there literally an hour trying to catch this fish. It kept swimming away but then would come right back. At first we thought this fish was pretty dumb to keep coming back, but after awhile I started wondering if we were the dumb ones. Was the fish just taunting & laughing at us? But at the end, we concluded that it was indeed a dumb fish!



By the way, we didn't eat it. It was returned to the stream, and it swam away quickly out of sight. Finally.

Costco, Sam's Club, Mall, Restaurants

We were excited to have Papi visit us for a week in May. I think the title summarizes what we did when he was here. This is ritualistic. We do just that everytime he comes to visits without fail. I really believe his favorite place in the world is Costco! We don't go there just once when he is here, but literally every single day! By the time he leaves, I swear we have everything at Costco memorized and have had our shares of samples to last a lifetime. Anyway, we had a lot of fun with him, got fat, and the kids didn't want him to go; especially since he would bribe Kaleb with Matchbox cars if he would simply eat his lunch. After he left, Kaleb after every meal would tell me that he ate all his food so now gets 4 cars! I don't think so!

Papi has joined the world of Skype so now the kids can call him anytime from the computer for free! I don't know if I love this--Papi, after talking to Kaleb, told me that I needed to get 5 cars for Kaleb because he had told Kaleb on the computer that he would get them for him. Ahhhh!

Kayden's Birthday

So my family was gone to New York, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, etc (the Church History sites) so it was just us for Kayden's birthday (May 30) and our good friends (the Nielson Family). Kayden is now officially a terrible 2--but has been that way since 9 months. He is plain crazy! We started singing Happy Birthday and he just cried and told us to stop. He doesn't like anyone to sing. It's pretty funny.
I think his favorite gift was the thermos thing that we gave him. You might think that is an odd gift, but Kayden (as you can see from the pictures above) always takes around ours so thought why not give him his own!

So I ran out of wrapping paper, hence the reused girly bag. I don't think Kayden minded though.

Excavation

Yeah! We are digging! Check out our "Home Page" link!

The Switch

Sometimes I think I have too much time on my hands. I've always wondered what I would look like with blonde hair and blues eyes and what my mom would look like with dark hair and brown eyes. With Adobe Photoshop one does not have to wonder anymore! The possibilities with that program are endless! So here is the switch, and well . . . It doesn't look good! My mom would kill me if she ever looked at my blog. She looks like a druggy and I look like I've spent too much time in a tanning room. Needless to say, I don't think I'll be changing my hair color anytime soon. I wonder what I would look like if I switched faces with my 16 year old brother! hehehe

Playing Together!?!

What!?! Kaleb & Kayden not watching movies AND playing together! Yes. . . It is true! It's a miracle! I thought I'd hurry and take some pictures before they started fighting. I think these pictures will be nice to have to show them when they are older and fighting that they use to "always" play together! ;)
This took them quite a while to build which is why it is amazing that they never fought. They even put their cars back to back so it completely covered the tracks. Kaleb made me count them--90 cars total! (Most are Mitch's and my little brother's old cars)