My baby is 1!

Man, how fast time goes by. I can't believe little baby Seth has turned one. Technically it was a couple weeks ago, but I have been busy. So here is a post with some of my favorite pictures of him.


Welcome Seth. Born August 14, 2009!


2 Months old.


4 Months old.


Tummy time at 5 months.


Trying baby food at 6 months.


10 months old. Such a happy baby and loves to stick his tongue out.


Seth loved his birthday cake, or at least the icing.


Seth is such a big boy. He has started to take his first steps, goes up and down the stairs on his own, and says "uh oh" when he drops things. We love him dearly.

Summer Means (Part 2)...

For me, summer means...

Gardening.
We finally tried to take care of weed control and created a square foot garden. We planted: tomatoes (cherry, romas, and regular), bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, red and brown potatoes, cucumbers, watermelon and cantaloupe (with existing strawberries and raspberries).


We had a late snow fall that had me a little worried, but this has been my best garden yet and I look forward to canning salsa and chopped tomatoes.

Making Jam.
Each summer, Mike's sister Nicole, and I make jam. We went a little crazy this year. The kids played well together so we just started working. Ten boxes of pectin, over 25 lbs of sugar and who knows how many pounds of fruit later we have this...


Yeah. 10 batches of jam...that is 54 jars of jam (27 jars for each of us). We are well set for the year, though wiped out at the end of the day.

Making fruit leather.
I tried something new this year. I was given some apricots and wanted to make fruit leather. I didn't want to turn my oven on (even though would have been on the lowest setting), so I tried making it in my car.



It wasn't quite flat, but still worked out fine...and it was super easy! The boys loved it too.

I love summer time. I can't believe it is over. Between my projects and getting the boys to all their activities, we have been very busy. But in a good way. Now we are ready for school.

Summer Means....

For the boys, summer means....

Sports and Water Fun!!!!

Caleb and Isaac are allowed to choose one summer sports camp. They both chose Little Hoopsters, a week-long basketball camp. They had a lot of fun.


Here is Caleb at Little Hoopsters.


And here is Isaac.
Caleb also is signed up for soccer in the fall and spring. They had a summer camp during June. He learned a ton there. Hopefully, they will continue that program each summer.


We are looking forward to starting games in the fall.
They also had swim lessons, which made it easier to take them all to water parks.

They love playing in water.


Fun times with cousins.
The summer has been a fun one, though busy. We can't believe it is almost over.

Isaac's Birthday

Better late than never...Isaac celebrated his 5th birthday with a pirate party. Arr...we had a parrrty. :) It was a pretty basic party, but the kids had a blast.


Here they are playing Sharks and Minnows (yup...it's just tag).


They also played "Musical Islands" of course to the song "Row Row Row Your Boat".


They did a "Walk the Plank" relay race. They had to steal the gold coins and put them in their team's bag.



Of course they had to do a treasure hunt. They followed clues to find parts of the map and put it together to show them where the chest was hidden. I didn't get a picture of the chest, but it was a spray painted diaper wipes tub. It was pretty cute.


Here is Isaac with his cake. By far my easiest cake to decorate. I went the easy route, with still keeping in theme. All in all, it was a fun afternoon. The kids had fun and Isaac really enjoyed his birthday. He is getting so big. I can't believe all that he can do. We just love him so!

Bronco Days

Each year, the elementary school has a carnival that they call Bronco Days. Since Caleb went to school, and I hadn't participated in a single fundraiser yet, we thought we would give it a try. We had ordered an entire pizza for dinner and a ticket card for twenty activities for the boys to share. We had an enjoyable evening. Most of the activities we chose did not have a very long line.


Here are the boys with their faces painted. Isaac with a "Strongman" face, Caleb with "Fu Man Chu", and Noah with "the Count". You can also see their hair is sprayed (which by the way painted their skin since their hair was so short..it took a couple days for it to fade away). They got temporary tatoos, balloon swords, and played a few games. The boys really had a blast.

It's the end of May!!!!

So here we are in the end of May. We have been enjoying the nice warm spring weather. My garden has been planted for a couple weeks now. Then, today, May 24th, I woke up to this....


Yes, a good two inches of SNOW weighing down our poor tree.


You can almost see my poor plants under all the snow. Thankfully, it is not too cold and it should warm up in a day or so. I will then go assess the damages on the garden. Hopefully, it won't be too bad.

Ah.. spring in Utah. You never know what you are going to get!

Mother's Day Luau

The kindergarten grade had a Mother's Day Luau yesterday for all the kids and their moms. The kids performed a hula and then taught it to us. Here it is:


Here is the second half. My camera only takes one minute videos.


After the hula, we made a candy lei with notes in it and had banana splits. I am so glad that I can participate in activities like this. It is a fun time for Caleb and me.