Is slackerness even a word? Anyway, sorry it's been so long since I posted last--almost a whole month! Where does time go? We have been crazy busy with the end of the semester and all the projects and finals that come with it and now we are enjoying our summer freedom. Unlike most of you, our summer vacation is only two weeks long. But fortunately, Brice's sister and her family are taking their vacation out here in Utah! We love having their family around! But I'm getting ahead of my pictures here. So lets back up. This post has a LOT of pictures so be prepared!
I just love these happy faces! They make my heart melt! I just can't help but laugh when I get these big happy grins out of my kids.
And just for fun, here's a picture of Ryker singing "Book of Mormon Stories." For those of you not familiar with it, it has some hand signs that go with it and one of them is the two fingers behind your head like you would for "Indian" ("Lamanite"). For those of you that don't know Ryker well, he LOVES music. He sings throughout his whole day and he can recognize a song by the first two notes. However, apparently Raelin has a different opinion of Ryker's musical abilities (anyone that knows him sees that he has a bit of aptitude for it--he was even refered to by the music leader at church as a musical prodigy!). Yesterday, the two kids were sitting at the piano together and singing and playing. Suddenly Raelin stopped and in her most exasperated tone said, "Ugh, Ryker, your singing is TERRIBLE!" Where do they come up with these things!?!
A few weekends ago we went camping up at the cabin that Brice has been working on. It was a disaster of a trip. Okay, it wasn't that bad, but we were hungry!!!! We left the cooler behind, so we didn't have much in the way of dinner or lunch. It was so sad! And we also forgot a lighter or matches to start our camp stove with and we forgot our flashlight! Who goes camping without a flashlight!? And by the way, that was the second time in a row that I forgot it. I'm blaming pregnancy brain! Anyway, we camped and hiked and Brice worked a little and we tried to catch crawdads, but we didn't have the right equipment. Namely, fish heads or chicken and a big net. This picture is of Raelin driving on our way home. She was so FUNNY! She would be headed towards the side of the road and she would panic and take a deep, scared breath and then over correct and panic again. Turning the wheel was a whole body affair, complete with exaggerated leaning and pounding on the steering wheel when she adjusted her hands. But such concentration!
Last week was Brice's brother's graduation from BYU with his masters in physics. Now we can really call him a rocket scientist! After the ceremony, we went and took some pictures. When I get some from my sister-in-law I'll post them, but for now, I just have the few from my camera. Here is my pretty Raelin-girl with her big hair. She's got a bit of a double chin in this picture, but just look at those eyes!
That's a better smile!
And our monkey, Ryker.
I love this sequence of Brice and his girl:
When Brice's sister and her family got here, we went to campus to play around and we visited the Bean Museum. We walked around looking at all the taxidermied animals and we watched a reptile show. Our kids go there a lot when it's cold out and Brice or I have an hour or so to kill while we wait for the other of us to get out of class. But the kids still love going there, and all the kids had a blast! Here is Ryanne with a zebra. If I didn't know better, I'd think it was alive!
All the kids took a turn to kiss the baboon (except Ryker who had to go potty).
You see where they get it from!
That's Uncle Wes
A few weekends ago we went camping up at the cabin that Brice has been working on. It was a disaster of a trip. Okay, it wasn't that bad, but we were hungry!!!! We left the cooler behind, so we didn't have much in the way of dinner or lunch. It was so sad! And we also forgot a lighter or matches to start our camp stove with and we forgot our flashlight! Who goes camping without a flashlight!? And by the way, that was the second time in a row that I forgot it. I'm blaming pregnancy brain! Anyway, we camped and hiked and Brice worked a little and we tried to catch crawdads, but we didn't have the right equipment. Namely, fish heads or chicken and a big net. This picture is of Raelin driving on our way home. She was so FUNNY! She would be headed towards the side of the road and she would panic and take a deep, scared breath and then over correct and panic again. Turning the wheel was a whole body affair, complete with exaggerated leaning and pounding on the steering wheel when she adjusted her hands. But such concentration!
Last week was Brice's brother's graduation from BYU with his masters in physics. Now we can really call him a rocket scientist! After the ceremony, we went and took some pictures. When I get some from my sister-in-law I'll post them, but for now, I just have the few from my camera. Here is my pretty Raelin-girl with her big hair. She's got a bit of a double chin in this picture, but just look at those eyes!
That's a better smile!
And our monkey, Ryker.
I love this sequence of Brice and his girl:
When Brice's sister and her family got here, we went to campus to play around and we visited the Bean Museum. We walked around looking at all the taxidermied animals and we watched a reptile show. Our kids go there a lot when it's cold out and Brice or I have an hour or so to kill while we wait for the other of us to get out of class. But the kids still love going there, and all the kids had a blast! Here is Ryanne with a zebra. If I didn't know better, I'd think it was alive!
All the kids took a turn to kiss the baboon (except Ryker who had to go potty).
You see where they get it from!
That's Uncle Wes
And Aunt MelissaAfter the museum we went over to the water fountain and the kids managed to "swim" for at least a half hour without us getting kicked out!
They all had a great time and I think Raelin even forgot about her hurt foot for a while. After William's graduation, we went to my parent's house to celebrate. A gate closed on Raelin's foot and she got a pretty decent wound on the back of her ankle. I took pictures of it on my friend's camera, so I'll post those later. But clearly, she's not bothered by it here! (From left: Raelin, Ryanne, Elias, Mckay)
And here's Leah. She didn't want to get too wet that day, I guess.
But someone convinced her to at least get in on the picture! (from left: Ryker, Raelin, Ryanne, Elias, Mckay, and Leah)
But someone convinced her to at least get in on the picture! (from left: Ryker, Raelin, Ryanne, Elias, Mckay, and Leah)
Melissa got some cute pictures of my two kids. Look at that handsome boy!
And Raelin just had the best time of her life playing with her cousins.
And Raelin just had the best time of her life playing with her cousins.
Here's Raelin and Mckay in a growling face-off:
Back at home, the fun continued. The kids have had a great time playing together and they have been playing SO well! The Andrews are up in Deweyville at William and Angel's house for a few days, but they'll be back tomorrow and Raelin just can't wait! She's been counting down the days until Leah is back so they can finish the book they are writing. Leah is a budding author and it's rubbing off on Raelin. Just look at those cute girls!
And Ryker sure does love his Uncle Wes! One day, Uncle Wes started singing "Row, row, row your boat" but finished it with "Ryker is a dream." So Ryker started singing back, "Uncle Wes is a dream." Uncle Wes is going to have to visit more often or Ryker will be REALLY sad!
4 comments:
you have some great pictures of your beautiful kids!!!
What fun! I love all the pictures, your kids are so adorable, but of course you already know that. :) And yes, pregnancy is a good excuse... :)
no pregnancy is not a good excuse for blog slackerness...you are lame!!!
Those kids are so cute! Lots of GREAT pictures...and, yes, pregnancy is a very valid excuse for blog slackerness! (Coming right from another pregnant woman!)
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