Trey's blessing

You will have to forgive me my post will be very out of order I am trying to play catch up of the last 2 months. This last Sunday the 19th we were able to give Trey a name and a blessing at church. We were so blessed to have daddy be able to come home for that and for all of our wonderful family who was able to come and support us as a family. We missed those who could not be there very much. We have had a very busy weekend and trying to get all the daddy time we could because he was only home for 4 days. Ben gave such a wonderful blessing to our little boy and it was so nice to see him up there with both of our Dads and my Grandpa Tucker who was able to make it down and also some uncles who made the trip down for the special occasion. I am so grateful to have the gospel of Jesus Christ in my life everyday and to teach our children of his love and sacrifice for us all.

Kindergarten

This past Monday was Brody's first day of Kindergarten!! I can't believe he is already old enough to go to school. Shelby was also trying to talk me into letting her go with Brody. He was so excited and could not wait that he had a count down going for when school started for him. It was really nice to be able to have his daddy be home for his first few days of school and to be able to give him a fathers blessing the night before his big day. We are so grateful for a daddy who holds the priesthood and is worthy of using it. Here are some pictures of the big boy who is also a poser.

Swimming Kids

We've had a fun time teaching Kendall how to swim this summer. She likes to tell us to back up farther. And she regularly takes off her floats saying she'd much rather swim by herself. I am also reminding her to tell whom ever she is swimming to she is coming. The other day she started swimming to a friend without telling him she was coming. She held her breath for a long time. But she made it and grabbed on tight when he turned around to catch her. Crazy baby. She loves the water and tells me she is going to become a mermaid and live under water.
She will swim and swim without taking a break unless you make her put her floats back on.
She's a FISH.

Field Trip

Field Trip

We went to the fire department that is closest to our house yesterday. It was the last thing Carter had to do to earn his wolf patch in Cub Scouts. I've been meaning to make it a field trip for the kids all summer since I thought the girls and Dylan would like to go to. So after talking to Laura we decided to just go show up the next afternoon. I called Margene a few hours before and asked if she and her kids would like to join us. Kendall has been asking to play with Sydney for the whole summer so I thought this would be a great opportunity.

Question of the Day:
Carter - "How fast does this thing go?"
Fireman- "We can get it up to 76 downhill on the freeway but it doesn't feel very fast cause other cars are still passing us."

Off we went. This fire dept. is so cool. It is 2 stories tall and so they have poles coming down from where they sleep to where the trucks are. The kids got a tour around the truck. They only have a pumper truck there, and then inside for a tour of the building. The kids loved the recliners in their "living area" and the girls really loved the full length mirrors in the weight room.

Kendall loved having 2 friends to play with. She is such a social girl.

4th Fun

We started off the day with our annual 4th of July Neighborhood bike parade followed by bomb pops and the fire dept spraying the kids with water from the firetruck.

Then home for some daylight fireworks. Dad even let the kids light a few.

Kendall wasn't a fan of the noise but was still a good sport.

Then over to the Tallent's house for a BBQ and Fireworks. What could be more 4th of Julyish than 30+ kids and a whole pack of snaps for each and then some going off at the same time.

Then later the sparklers! Oh what fun and a little bit scary watching all the kids with sparklers. The kids had so much fun.

Kendall and Sydney had a great time at picnic together too.

The day ended with Dylan lighting up his own Spark Scooter in the dark.

(The video isn't great except for the sparks you can really see those)

Kendall says the cutest things

Kendall says the cutest things

This morning Zach asked Kendall to give him a goodbye kiss before he left for work. Kendall quickly ran over and gave him a kiss and then promptly said

"Leave."

We busted up laughing.

Happy Birthday Dylan!

Dylan has been counting down months, then weeks and then days til his birthday. The night before he informed me that it was just too hard and he couldn't wait any longer it was just too hard. Zach was coming home from work early and I asked Dylan if he wanted to call his Uncle Ryan who shares his birthday. His responce was I have to talk to my dad first and find out where my scooter is. He has been asking for this particular scooter for months. I don't know what the exact difference is between his old scooter (which is not a razor) and all the other scooters on our block (Everyone else has razors including Carter), but the razor scooters seem to be much faster than Dylan's so now that Dylan not only has a razor but a spark razor he is now the most popular boy on the block! Lucky for everyone else he is also a great sharer. He has let everyone else try it, including his brother and his dad. He has also been great at sharing the walkie talkies he got and has counted his money a hundred times talking about what he is going to buy with it. I guess we are going shopping today.

Now you can see what all the fuss was about. Here's Dylan on his Spark Scooter!