New Kitchen Accessory

My neighbor let me borrow her Bumbo for the weekend. Don't I have the cutest kitchen accessory ever? :) (Don't worry, he was only there long enough for the picture & unloading the dishwasher.)

Pool Party!

Thanks to our kind neighbor, all of our kids, Curtis included, had a fun afternoon in the backyard. There were three pools set up for the kids, two of them with slides going into them. Quite a nice change after the two rainy days that came before the party.

Here's Amanda with some goggles. She was so excited to wear them & not get so much water in her eyes (one of her largest objections to bath time).


Our two boys. These two pictures are fun because they give a glimpse at the boys' eye colors; brown for Jared & still blue for Curtis.

Happy Anniversary, Grandmother & Grandfather!

Congratulations (and thanks) to Grandmother and Grandfather who were married 28 years ago today! We love you! (especially Mom, since she wouldn't be here without you two!)

Interesting historical context note: At the time Grandmother and Grandfather were married, the Washington, D.C., temple was the closest temple both to Ohio, where Grandfather's folks were, and Florida, where Grandmother's mother was serving a mission. So, even though Grandmother and Grandfather courted and lived in Arizona, they were married in the Washington, D.C. temple. Amazing how many temples have been built since then. Now there's even a temple right in the town where they lived!

A Day of Little Milestones

Note the logo on Jared's shirt. Amanda has been learning to read. We realized it was actually sinking in when she saw a shirt with the same logo on someone else today and without any prompting from us she announced, "His shirt says gap!" Meanwhile, when Mom went to get Jared this morning, she found him with his shoes already on his feet (Lightning McQueen shoes passed on from a neighbor; one of his three favorite pairs besides his cowboy boots and his crocs). And Curtis laughed a little bit when Dad played peek-a-boo. Then, to finish of the afternoon, Amanda got signed up for the summer reading program at the library. Yes indeed, nothing like children progressing. :)

Lucky Amanda

One of our neighbor girls, who got her first sibling at the ripe old age of 8, said this sweet thing today:

Amanda's really lucky; she's already got two brothers and she's only four!

Mom thinks herself pretty lucky, too, having cute kids to keep her company.