Brycen's 7th Birthday

Brycen turned 7 this summer, July 1st to be exact. We celebrated at J.J. jump with lots and lots of his friends.

Celebrating our 9th anniversary!

July 28th was our 9th anniversary! Jared's mom watched our kids for the weekend. We stayed in a motel right on the water front in Portland, it had an awesome view. We had dinner at the melting pot! Yum! And we visited a rhododendron garden. It was fun to be together without kids! I'ts amazing it's already been 9yrs.

July's Utah Trip

The kids and I flew to Utah in July. Flying alone with the kids is never fun, but always worth it. It was very hot when we were there. I had to take some pictures of the pretty flowers my mom planted this year. One day I will have my flowers looking like this!

I got to see my Aunt Ann for the first in about 10 years. She had never seen any of my kids, so it was fun to catch up.
I also got to spend the day with one of my very best friends, Kelli and her three boys. We were friends all through dental school and our boys became best buddies too!
Brycen and Jace picked up from where they left off, still best buddies. We miss them lots! We had a fun day together. We took the kids to McDonalds to play and eat lunch. Then we went back to my parents house and played in the backyard and had popsicles.



We also got to go to the Oquirrh Mountain Utah temple open house with my mom, my aunt Linda and Christine and my grandpa and grandma Rigby.

Portland Temple

Last Sunday we took a drive to the Portland temple and walked around and took some pictures. It was a fun Sunday activity and we got some cute pictures of the kids and family.

Blake graduates preschool

Blake finished preschool last week. 

 

Miss Emy and Miss Carol were great teachers. Luckily they live in our neighborhood so we didn't have to say goodbye to them!

Blake's classmates, were all friends from the ward and neighborhood.

After graduation we all had a picnic at the park.

Zoo field trip

I got to go with Brycen and his first grade class on a field trip to the zoo. Here are some pictures of Him and his classmates. Brycen always talks about Ella, the dark haired girl four down from Brycen. For example; "Can I invite Ella to my Birthday party?", or "I told Ella I would give her one of my pirate bracelets."  At the zoo, I didn't hear this but one of the other moms told me that Brycen and Ella said they wanted to be alone to talk. Yikes! I might be fighting off the girls a little earlier than I  thought! Anyway, I just thought I'd document that so Brycen can look back and laugh when he is older. 

Blake turns 5!

Blake turned 5 on May 6th.  He had a birthday party at a place called Kids Club. This was his first friend birthday party and he loved it. The cupcakes were a hit too!

I can't believe Blake is 5.  He has started a collection of legos guys (mostly star wars). He spends hours lining them up, taking them apart and putting them back together. This past year he has gone from hardly knowing his ABC's to reading books! He is also very good at math. I was quizzing Brycen the other day on some addition and subtraction problems and Blake piped in with half the answers! He is so excited to go to Kindergarten. He had to have three shots a couple of weeks ago. I told him he could earn a lego guy for every shot he had to get, if he was  brave. On the third stab he let out a little cry but that was it! I was proud of him for being so brave!