summertime

can you feel it? it's offically June! Oh-I love summer! We've been working in our yard, getting our annuals and pots planted. Peyton has one more week of school and then we are in offical sleep-in mode! Yeah! I am so excited for swimsuits, sunscreen, days by the pool, PB&J picnics in the backyard, 4th of July in Moroni, camping trips, roasting hot dogs, making smores, dutch ovens (peach cobbler dutch oven), fireworks, late nights with no curfew, grilling, walks around in the neighborhood, swim lessons, summer music, shorts, flip flops, tan legs, cool mornings, running through the sprinklers, oh I could go on. Here's a fun pictures that make me love and laugh about summer. What do you do in summertime?

love you

I just needed to give a shout out to my hubs....love you. Shane has been gone all week to San Antonio for a PA Conf. The last couple of times he has gone to a conf, the kids and I or just Shane and I have gone. We've missed him so much and can't wait to see him this afternoon. He's been gone since Sunday morning and I have to say that I've done pretty good by myself with the kids. The week has gone by pretty fast, however, we are ready for him to be home! Thanks honey for all you do for us. You are an awesome husband and father. Thanks for providing a beautiful home for us to live in and for making it possible that I get to stay home with the kids. Thanks for keeping us on track and always encouraging the best in all of us. Thanks for being a great example to our boys. Thanks for showering me with love and affection. Can't wait to see you today!!!

Hello Dorothy

(Just a couple of my crazy, cute boys. They didn't want to be left out of the picture action)
Just wanted to do a funny post about our goldfish-Dorothy. You may ask yourself "Isn't that the name of Elmo's goldfish??" yes. Yes it is. Connor thought of the name. We won Dorothy last June (yes, I did say last June) at Peyton's school carnival. In fact each of the boys won goldfish, unfortunately Peyton's goldfish died within a day or so as most goldfish do. Dorothy however is a bit crazy and is still going strong even after a new fishbowl, and being changed from hardwater to reverse osmosis water. She (we really don't know if it's a boy or girl, but since it has a girl name we refer to our fish as a she) is very crazy and swims really fast in her bowl every time you walk up to it. Pretty funny. Thanks Dorothy for being a good fish. Our kids love to feed her and get a kick out of having a pet. **warning the photo is a bit blurry because Dorothy won't hold still**

Telos Timp Triathlon

I finished!!! yeah! I did my triathlon on Saturday and it was awesome! It was so hard and there were times that I thought I just wanted to quit, but I made it! At the end of the run we thought we were close to the finish line, but nooooo, we still had one loop to do around a park. It was like AHHHHH!!! NO!!! When we got on our bikes the route we did was a 2 loop set. The loop had a huge hill on it and the 1st time I couldn't get my gears figured out on my bike and therefore 1/2 way up the hill I had to get off and walk or fall over. I chose to walk about 20 feet uphill instead of falling off. Luckily on the 2nd loop I got my gears figured out and was able to stay on my bike. The swim was last in this triathlon, which I loved. It felt so good to get into the pool at the end. This was a great experience and I can't wait for another! My time was 1:30:38 This may seem long for some, but I was dang proud since I was planning on about 2 hrs total. The sense of accomplishment was so worth all the pain!

(This is a picture of Diane, me, and Sarah before the race)
(this is us after the race showing off our legs with our age in black marker for everyone to see. Sorry it's so blurry-my camera was having issues)

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Peyton's first grade program

(here is Peyton with Miss Green, his teacher. She rocks!!! We love her!)
Here are some pictures from Peyton's first grade program. He did such a great job! They sang about 6 songs and had speaking parts. The program was all about families and a couple of the songs were a total crack-up. They sang one song called "Daddy Cool". They had to do their own dance moves during this song, and Peyton chose to do the robot, the sprinkler, and a mod move from the 60's where he had two of his fingers in a "V" shape and went across his eyes. So cute!! Way to go Payt-we love you so much and are so proud of the big 1st grader you have become.

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PS-I will post new pictures of our newly completed storage room soon-it's beautiful!!!