Happy 2nd Birthday Garrett!!

A couple of weeks ago Garrett turned 2. I can't believe that my baby is that old now! It went by so fast!! I'm sorry, but I have to say that I think he is smart. Sometimes the kids eat breakfast on colored plastic plates. Garrett knows where everyone sits, and what color plate they usually have. I will give him the plates and he will go set the table. He is a better helper than Carson is. He loves to help clean out the dishwasher. I just hope that he will continue to enjoy helping out. He also loves to look at books, and to sing. On his birthday we went to a park in Chandler in the morning, and then we went to the Hamilton Pool. He loves to swim! They had a lot of fun at the park. This is a fun park!



Garrett likes to scare me. He would stand up at the top and lean out. Oh, it scared me to death!




He loved being sung to, and it took him a few tries to blow out his candles. It was fun to watch.




For his birthday, Stefan's parents gave him this little car thing with a chicken on it. You shake it then put it on the ground and it goes. It clucks like a chicken and plays music. It's pretty annoying, but he loves it! Leave it to the grandparents to give those kinds of gifts. They don't have to be around to hear it all the time. :)

Not again!

Well, it looks like the flu bug decided to visit our house again. So far everyone except Stefan and Keslie got it. First, Carson started out with a fever for a couple of days, then he seemed better for about one day and then the next day he started throwing up. He finally seemed better on Thursday. From the time he got the fever until he started feeling better was one week. He lost 5 pounds. He was looking so skinny. Garrett got sick a couple days later and he still isn't over it. He sleeps a lot and just lays around. Riley was sick for a couple of days. He didn't throw up, but he felt like he was going to. Then I was the lucky one to get it, but it hasn't hit me as hard. I think that once we are moms we should be immune from getting sick. Since we have to go through morning sickness and labor, and have to take care of our kids & husband when they are sick and throwing up. Isn't that enough? This has been a bad start to the summer. We haven't been able to do much yet. I was so excited for school to get out so we could start going swimming and going to the library, and other things, but haven't been able to do that yet. Hopefully by Monday we will all be better and will be able to get out of the house!

School is out!!

I am excited (at least for right now) that school is out. I like not having to have a routine all the time and having to get kids out the door on time. We have some fun things planned for the summer. We are going to swim, go to the library, go to the movies, and the mountains a couple of times. I also plan on going to the gym a few times a week and the kids will get to play. I am hoping that they won't have time to get bored.

First day of school


Last day of school

Oh, the many ways to wear a baseball cap!

As I mentioned earlier, Riley played T-ball this spring. It seemed like there were many times that he seemed bored while in the outfield. He seemed to be wearing his hat a different way everytime he was in the outfield. As you can see below he is modeling several different ways of how you can wear a baseball cap.

First of all is the usual way.


Then there is the popular way of wearing it backwards.


Then, did you know that you could fold the hat in half and wear it backwards?


You can keep it folded in half but wear it to where the brim of the cap is pointing up. (It might be a little hard to tell)


You can also wear the cap backwards, but put the adjuster strap under your nose. I guess if the cap doesn't stay on too well wearing it the normal way backwards you can try this way.


If you need to shade your face or keep bugs from flying in your eyes or mouth you can wear it over your face. If the cap is mesh like his then you can still see what you are doing.


He also had fun playing around with the baseball helmet.


There was another time that he turned his hat inside out and wore it, but I don't think I had my camera that day.

I think that about covers it on ways to wear a baseball cap!

Having a little family fun

I was going to wait to post these pictures because we were going to go bowling today and I was going to post these pictures and the bowling pictures all at once, but Carson got sick so we won't be going bowling today. I am hoping we will get to go next week. We have never taken the kids bowling yet.

Anyways, last week we took the kids to Fun Indoor (A.K.A. - Jeepers, or Jungle Jim's). They had never been there either. They had a lot of fun! I will have to admit that I had fun going on some rides too (and Stefan also). :) I didn't realize that the kids had to have socks if they were going to play in the tubes. I had Stefan stop and buy a pack of socks for all the kids to wear. He bought a pack that would fit the older kids. They were really long on Garrett, but it worked.

Let's play ball!

Riley started his 2nd year of T-ball in April. He loves to play baseball. He was glad to be playing on the same team as his best friend. I think he does a good job.

Have your cake and decorate it too

Also in March I took a cake decorating class. I have always wanted to take one and I finally did it. It was pretty fun, but I had to make A LOT of frosting. I was able to learn some new things, even how to make a rose. Please don't look at them too closely. You will see all my flaws. :)