Farewell Elder Bowman

Our neighbor Parker left on his mission the middle of July. He is such an awesome person and we will miss him while he is gone. Addie will miss him most of all. For the last year she has been in love with Parker. She actually is drawn to their family in general. She even asked if we could make him cookies with sprinkles before he left. This picture is now framed in her room and if you ask her where Parker is she will smile and tell you on a mission! What a great example Parker is setting for my children.

A Little Hike

One Saturday evening we decided to go on a little hike up the canyon. The kids love being in the outdoors. Of course we had to stop at a stream to do some rock throwing. Hopefully we will get out again before the baby is born!

Crazy Kids

Sometime in July this is what I found when I walked into my yard. It is hard to tell but the kids made a house out of chairs. They even brought out pillows and blankets to put in their house. Such imaginations!

4th of July

I have been so terrible with updating this summer. I will blame it on my pregnant forgetfulness! I am gonna try to get caught up this week. We had a wonderful 4th. We watched our neighborhood parade like always. The Hawks were in town and came to the parade with us. We also sat with The Bowmans which is always fun. That evening we had a BBQ with the Hawks and the Wilsons. Of course we finished the night with some fireworks out in front. We invited the Bowmans to come watch with us. We were trying to spend some extra time with Parker before he left for his mission.

Monkey Man

Kyler has been way into climbing trees lately. He liked climbing our maple in our backyard. It was easy for him to get into. The only problem is, it is still a very young tree. After one day of his climbing, Dan had to cut down five or so branches that Kyler cracked. The next day I caught him trying to get into the maple again. I told him he could no longer climb that one. He was irritated and told me he didn't have a tree to climb now. Me being the smart mouth that I am, told him he was free to climb the pine tree which is somewhere between 30 and 40 feet in the air. The branches are so high up I didn't think he could ever get up there. Boy was I wrong! Shortly after I said that Dan walked in the door from work. He told me very casually that I needed to come outside and see something. Kyler figured out a way into the tree and was more than half way up! He is our little monkey and a very determined one at that!

Father's Day

This year for Father's Day Dan didn't really want anything. Since he just got his new car he felt this way about Father's Day and his birthday. The kids love getting involved in gift giving though. So they each painted him a picture and we framed them to hang them up in his office. We decorated our door. Kyler did all the writing on the sign and Addie did the drawing. We blew up Kyler's favorite picture of Dan as a kid. It's Kyler's favorite because Dan is wearing his lederhosen. We found it up at his parents a few months ago and it fits Kyler now. We made him a yummy breakfast before heading to church and the kids were bursting to tell him about the door. I told them it was a secret but they couldn't stop looking at it. We all had a good laugh we Dan opened the door!