Wheeeeeee!

Wyatt has learned how to work his brothers' battery powered 4-wheeler. He loves it as you can see from the big smile he has on his face. He's growing up so fast that we can hardly keep up with him. Every time the door is opened, he crawls as fast as he can to try and get outside before it is closed. We love you Wy. Thanks for being the Super Wy that you are!

Our New Family Addiction

This is how you can find us most evenings now. We love to go bike riding and since Colby and I are doing all the work, we get great exercise too. The boys are such great sports and will ride in their seats for hours. We have only gone about 5-6 miles at a time, but we're slowly increasing. I'm hoping to have calves of steel by the end of the summer, and Colby is just wishing for something besides "chicken legs".

Father's Day

Here are my handsome boys on Father's Day with their wonderful Daddy. We had such a great day. Hayden sang "Daddy's Homecoming"(we really are so glad when Daddy comes home) to his Dad in Sacrament meeting and the boys each made him their own original card. Thanks honey for being such a great father to our boys.

Austin

Sometimes we wonder why Austin "wakes up on the wrong side of the bed". Then, all we have to do is see how he sleeps!

When the men go golfing...

the women play too. Grandma Karen, Aunt Josee, and I took the kids to McDonald's, the new Walmart, and Willow Park. I think the kids even had fun too.

At the zoo we saw

and

This little duck was a little too friendly. He tried to take Emry and Austin's finger with the duck food.

And then the mighty golfers returned.

Thanks

for coming to play!

Big Boy Beds

Hayden and Austin got "new to them" bunk beds. They love them. Austin is so thankful to have a big boy bed. His toddler bed was getting a little small. After searching KSL for a couple of weeks, we found this steal of a deal.

One Last Ride

With Grandpa retiring at the end of the month, the boys had to go for one last forklift and golf cart ride with him. Thanks Grandpa for all the fun rides we have had.

My Dad

So today is my Dad's birthday. Happy Birthday to you Dad! June is quite the month of celebrations for him this year. First he has his birthday, then Father's Day, and he is retiring at the end of the month. Yeah! I am so proud of him. He has always been such an example to me of how to be a hard worker. He has so many talents and can do just about anything. We keep asking him what he's going to do with all of his time come the first of July.

The Water Lab had an open house for him the other day. They made him the nicest plaque with pictures of him on and a poem about all the things he did for everyone that he worked with. He even went down as being famous for buying over 10,000 donuts in the 11 years he workded at the water lab. I don't think any of his kids even got one of those 10,000. My Dad worked for USU for over 34 years commuting just over 70 miles each day. We're so excited for you to begin this new phase in your life Dad!

Riding his bike

Hayden is growing up so fast. About a month ago he begged Colby to take off his training wheels. The first time he rode his bike without his training wheels, he took off down the road without even crashing. Well, at least until he had to stop and then he forgot how to use his brakes. He has learned how to master the art of bike riding. His legs and elbows are testament of all the crashes he has had to get to this point though. We found out what a blessing it is to insist that he always wear his helmet. Last Wednesday he crashed out in back of our house. When he fell, he hit his head on the curb. Because of his helmet though he got up without any injury.

Way to go Haydo Potato!

Who does he get his stubborn side from?

Austin learned how to peddle the tractor today. He even got so he could peddle pretty fast. When we told him it was time to park the tractor and get in the van so that we could go to the grocery store, he informed us that he was going to ride his tractor to the store. Colby told him
that we were going and he needed to get in the van or else we were going to leave him. He was still adamant about riding his tractor. He even headed down our road. So, we got in the van and proceeded to follow him. He is such a determined little boy. Needless to say he rode his tractor about 100 yards and I got out and told him that he had to get in the van. I ended up blackmailing him by telling him that the cops were going to come and get him because his tractor was so much slower than the other cars. Just then, 2 cops went racing down the road and he bee-lined it back to our garage. What a kiddo!

Next time I think we better add a few more supplies if he is going to take such a long road trip on his tractor!

Willow Park

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We spent a day at Willow Park last week playing with cousins and tormenting the zoo animals. The biggest hits were Mr. Tortoise and feeding the ducks. Hayden asked Aunt Tricia if she had $10 for duck food. She gave him 10 cents and he ran to Owen saying "Look I have $10". I was so proud of him for reading the 10 on the duck food, now I guess we should help him with his cents vs $. Thanks Aunt Shari for planning such a fun day.

Say Cheese

The boys had their first swim day last week. Here they are getting ready to go over to their cousin Macie's house to play in her new pool.