Monday, June 17, 2013

"Spin my minions"

 Breakfast for dinner.  new recipe!
 SO GOOD!  really simple

 Crazy EYE
 First time on a swing. LOVED IT!
 "spin me, my minions!"
 "GO"
 "GOOD"
 Playing at the park

 Baseball game
 Batting


 Out field

 batting
 Running to first
DInner!  TO DIE FOR!

Sorry lame and short, but I wanted the pictures up!


Monday, June 3, 2013

Let the games begin

This week was a fun and exciting one
Both Michael and Braxton started Baseball

Michael is in t-ball.  His team name is the Indians.  He is working so hard at catching!
Can hit the ball EVERY TIME, and FAR!
AND IS SO FAST!  He is around those bases and home so quick.
Because it is T-ball we are just learning the basics.  But he is picking it up quickly.
He really loves it so far.  It has only been a week, so who know what will come of it.

Braxton is in Machine pitch.  His team is the Angels.  The boys games overlapped on tuesday, and I took the camera with me to Michael's game.  I will get pictures of Braxton on Wednesday night.  Braxton's team is intense.  A majority of them have been playing for two-three years.  He has a few third graders on his team, and his coach means business.  If you have ever played any kind of sport with Braxton you know that he is a really quick learner, and can hold his own.  I pray the coach sees Braxtons natural talents, and does not over look him because he is new. Pics to come

Caden found some gun on the ground and brought it to me...GROSS!  I am thankful for lemon oil, off came the gum with little to NO scrubbing.
While I was cleaning hands Michael took some pictures.
My not so clean garage
A portrait of me.  I was cleaning the bat, the little gum covered fingers brought me the bat ;)
Ready to play
All the kids were out in the road playing a game of baseball.  Katie, a friend of mine was out with me, we had a great time.  We played from about 10-12:30.  The day was great.  Did not even notice how long we had all been out there!
My max sat in the shade, and got lonely
This is Sophie.  Max is a bit of a novelty, he is SO loved by all the little girls on the street.  I ALWAYS have someone asking to sit with him, or hold him.  Sophie dropped the bat mid play and ran over to make sure Max was ok!
Saturday Morning we went swimming with the Tanner's.  Jess went to school with Chad and now carpools with him to St George every day.
Caden was a bit nervous and took almost the entire two and half hours to get into the pool
Braxton was so fun, he is becoming such a great swimmer! 
Chad, Max, Jes, and Maylee.  So fun to have the babies just floating around with us
We made a train, Braxton was falling off!  We had a great time
Will, the other half of the Tanner's had been out the day before and FRIED himself from the waist up.  He spent a majority of the time in the shade trying to get his legs to tan.



Sunday night we made a favorite of mine for desert. Strawberry cheesecake. The boys all helped
Chad mixing away. I did not pull out the camera for the finished project. But it was SO GOOD!  However my boys are CRAZY, they all had a few bites then said they were done.  I may or may not have eaten theirs and my own... Yummy.

Till next week.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Squishy Faces and Rock Candy

Sorry about last week.  The time just got away from me.

I am going to to all pictures form that week and this together.
the weather has been great. 
We play outside almost every day and I have wonderful neighbors.
We all just sit out in the front and watch the kids play
 Caden had stuffed his mouth full of carrots, and then was trying to talk to me...it was like a bad version of "chubby bunny"  I laughed so hard!
 Max still just sits with mom.  He is getting VERY mobile and is starting to get courageous with his exploring.  His poor skin still burns so badly, so he is often in long sleeves and in the shade.
 Braxton has found his "Teddy" again.  It was a toy given to him on his first birthday, and recently decided that it was toy worth play with again.  i really love listening to him play pretend with it.  Michael has the same bear in a lighter color and the two of the boys together use their bears as sidekicks. It is fun to listen to the imaginative play.
 Michael is my out doors, crazy, go with the flow kid.  He loves to be out side, and LOVES to have his shirt off.
 My mothers day tulip, from the ward. I do believe that this flower is beautiful, but I have a tendency to kill green things.  
Our garden is planted and it is looking great, but little plants in a pot...so this beauty died with in a few days.  The second bloom did not even get a chance to grow big. :(  This is a momma that would really love a kings size candy bar for mothers day.
I have discovered that my max really loves to feed himself.  He has yet to master the finger pinching technique, so more food end up on his face, body and seat, than in his mouth.
But he loves solids, he gets angry when he does not get a little of whatever we are eating.  
He is doing well at eating those things, but we have to cut them SUPER small. 
The big boys were outside jumping so Chad sat down with Max and read a story.
Max giggled and laughed
Then tried to eat the book.  I love catching these moments.  These pictures make me smile!
Then there is me ad the big boys.  We had been outside all day, and it was so time for bed!!  but all the boys wanted to snuggle while daddy was reading scriptures.  I am grateful for a big chair so that we can all fit together.
These next picture are of Chad and Ron's doing.  Chad was holding and loving on Max and they started talking about how fat he was.
Then Chad started pushing my babies cheeks together and this is the result...
Just so you all know Max was giggling and laughing between each time.  I love it!
On Monday this last week we made rock candy.
The boys had a good time choosing colors and flavors.
The candy turned out pretty good. Next time I want to pick lighter colors.
Because the colors were so dark we did not get to watch our rock candy grow.

WE took family picture yesterday.  Although the family shots I think are going to be a bust (the six, and two year old, were not having it)  I a hoping I got a good one of each of the boys.  
The photographer put one of Max up as a teaser. 
I think it is super cute.  
Love you all until next week!