My First Flower Pot

We are going on year 3 in our house, each year I tell Aaron I want to get a big flower pot for the front porch. This year was finally the year. With the help of my friend Brittany I picked out these plants to watch them grow. I am excited to see what it looks like as they get bigger. Thanks Brittany!

Kangaroo Zoo

Today we tried out the Kangaroo Zoo. Lots of bouncey toys to play on, and it was cute to see the boys tagging along with each other to try each new bounce house out.

Past little bit

This is the part I hate about neglecting my blog - catching up. These are a few pictures of some of the things we have been doing the last few months.

Finn & Kyan - they could get into a lot of trouble, those two!
All the cousins

Finn was the only kid daring enough to submerge his head in the water.

Van, loving his swim lessons - mostly to be in the pool, not so much for the actually swim lesson.

Finn sniffing something from the river by grandpa's house (he has an oddly terrific smeller).

This is the boys helping out in the yard - I'm not sure why the decided to take their shirts off, but it sure is cute.

Took a walk up Muller Park Canyon

These pictures show Van's new gun. The expression on his face above is excitement of hitting a target. Like father, like son.

Finn's first shooting trip with the boys. He might need another year before he's ready for an all day shooting excursion.

Silver/Wood kids on a little shooting extravaganza - Fun stuff

OH MY!

My last post was in April, it is now summer and we have been so busy with swim lessons, cherry hill, zoo, and swimming at nana's. I guess we can go back to school...just kidding. I saw that blogger has new templates, so I selected one that shows how many books I will not be reading this summer. I wish time would allow, but to keep my kids happy I better not. Hope summer plans are going well, I will try to visit more often to keep up on our summer adventures.

My long range tactical genius

Aaron took part of a tactical long range shooting match this weekend, and came in FIRST place of 18 shooters. He continues to give the details of the day, and although I don't know what he is talking about I am glad he did so well and is excited about it. I am also glad he is now certain it does not take an even more expensive gun to win the game.

OREGON

Thanks to Gary we were able to fly up to Oregon instead of drive. Although I felt I was prepared to drive, I fear my anxiety would have taken over once we hit the road.

Well we decided to go ahead with the coast. We knew the weather was supposed to be rainy, we hoped it would only be a little, but - it wasn't.

We stopped at the store to buy a few snacks, and some medicine for my insane car sickness. Here are all the kids in the cart. As we were leaving the store a lady said to me "are those all yours?" I assumed she ment the kids, I replied no and went on my way.

It was fun to see the ocean, and it was fun, being at the ocean during a rain storm. The kids had fun, until they were soaked through with rain. Big Spencer kept them intertained.

This is a seagull that was so excited to see what was going on inside Spencers car.

On the way home we stoped at the Redwoods, man those trees are big. It is crazy how they grow next to, around, and with in existing trees. Here is Van with one of his ever so cheesy poses.

Aaron has sent me pictures of the snow filled Bountiful, I think I would rather be in rainy, rainy weather than the dumb snow. I hate the snow, especially in April. We miss daddy, and hope he is not partying to much with out us.

Happy Early Easter!

We did a little early celebration of the Easter Bunny. We will be heading up to Oregon to visit the Higginson family the real Easter weekend.

It is so fun to get together with the cousins and grandparents. Thanks for all the fun, grandparents.

It was fun to have John bring Kyan. We don't get to see them very often - man, Kyan is cute!

I couldn't resist this picture. It captures Finn's personality so well, "look mom, look". Always so proud of his accomplishments - good job Finn.