How do you spell summer?

Warm summer days are upon us. We spent the day at the park with friends and I caught some pictures of these beautiful babies. Brent's first wartermelon....yum!

Nothing says summer more than being outside in a diaper. Such a pretty girl Macie is.

Manly Men

A few weeks ago Jason and Chad got to work on our new fence. It has become a neccesity since Paxton has decided that he would rather be anywhere but our house or yard. He's quite the escape artist.They worked most of the day with this huge ogger to put in the posts for the fence. It was a workout. You can even see thier muscles flexing!

Jason was a little bit out of breath after this one. Tyler and Parker helped out with some of the hard labor as well.Penny was tuckered out after watching all of that work happening.

Hoses, and Mud Pies

Every year it seems we have a freakishly hot day in April. This last month we had two days of 80'weather. It was a great excuse to get the swim suits out and play in the yard! Paxton got to man the hose and isn't scared to get himself and everyone else wet!

That is pure joy on my little man's face.

Bekah is just beautiful, even with mud all over her.

Phoebe and Bekah are such good little friends, they have so much fun together.

Porter just observed all of the water/mudd/jumping crazieness. Cutie Pie.Christoper is a silly boy.

We had a great time taking advantage of the hot day.

Easter Fun

Easter 2009 was a good weekend. We went over to the Hewlett's house for an egg hunt with a bunch of our friends.Paxton was not the most competitive egg hunter. He only got about seven eggs. He then went over to the fence and pushed all seven of his eggs into the neighbors yard. Don't really think he got the idea this year.He did get the idea of the trampoline though, him and Phoebe bounced all over the place.Then I fed Porter his very first "spring oreo". This kid is a huge eater, and he likes the oreo!

Bring it on!

Have you seen the forcast for the next 10 days?

Monday April 13th Sunny High 52'

Tuesday April 14th Rain/Snow High 41'

Wednesday April 15th Partly Cloudy High 49'

Thursday April 16th Mostly Cloudy High 60'

Friay April 17th Partly Cloudy High 64' (Hold on it's about to get a whole lot better!)

Saturday April 18th Partly Cloudy High 68'

Sunday April 19th Mostly Sunny High 67' (wait for it, wait for it..hear it comes!)

Monday April 20th SUNNY High 70'! We hit 70, whoo hoo! With a nice steady build up through the 60's it's feeling like spring! I have a great feeling about next week.

My List

For the last couple of years I have been making a little "to do someday list". Because my days are packed I have felt overwhelmed at the idea of starting an optional hobby or learning something new. With my birthday looming it feels like the perfect opportunity to evaluate my goals and put them to paper. Paxton is almost 3 years old and I can sense that my time is near. I will soon have a few minutes to myself everyday. This is a list of things that I hope to explore with that time.

1. Learn to read music
2. Learn to play piano
3. Learn to play guitar
4. Learn Spanish
5. Learn French
6. Learn to knit
7. Learn to read a pattern/improve my sewing
8. Learn to ski (my husband would love it if I weren't scared to death)
9. Learn to garden
10. Learn how to french braid. I know everyone says its easy, but for the life of me I can't do it!
11. Take a writing class.
12. Learn the ins and outs of the computer, it is so foriegn to me.
13. Become more knowledgeable of the scriptures.
14. Become more knowledgeable of our government. Local, state, federal...how are they
running these things??? What changes/or difference can we make?
15. Take swimming lessons. I can swim, but I'm not any good at it.
16. Take a photography class.
17. Learn how to cut hair, for real. Not just hoping it goes well;).
18. Serve a mission.
19. Learn about the economy on the larger scale. Understand how our retirement savings
are working. I honestly haven't a clue, I'm just trusting that Jason has a good grasp on that.
20. Run a distance race.

I'm sure that my list will change or evolve over time. I may end up hating the guitar, or find the world economy frustrating, boring, or hopeless. Does China really own us?? But, if I try these things and love them, what a gift that would be!