tagged

I've been tagged:  10 Surroundings

Outside my window...tomato and strawberry plants

Around the house...piles to take to our various destinations this weekend

I'm looking forward to...parades, fireworks, hanging out with family this 4th of July weekend

I'm currently reading...Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

I am wearing...BYU football t-shirt, shorts

I am creating...a family yearbook with our pictures of the day

From the kitchen...leftover sno-cone mess from earlier tonight

I am thinking about...Bosten's potty training success today and Kaden having such a fun day with his cousins

I am worried about...there are too many to choose just one

My wish for the week...world peace.  Haha, just kidding.  Happy kiddos

OK....I'm not tagging anyone specific.  If you're reading this, you should consider yourself tagged.

Come on, you know you want to!

can't beat homemade

The boys have been in heaven this week with our snoopy sno-cone machine.

Is that a blast from the past or what?!.  We were beyond excited to bring it home and check it out.

 Getting a close look at how it all works:

Getting an even closer look:

Bosten was pretty interested in the process too:

Adding some flavor:

 Sucess!

 Pretty darn tasty!

Its been fun to try new flavors and we've had sno-cones just about every night. 

random

Here's the highlights from this week:

We're officially Kings fans now.  We were hoping to become Jazz fans, but it wasn't meant to be.

 Kyle's softball team won their opening game in the league tournament.

Bosten has decided he's ready to start potty training.   He made that decision on his own.  Frankly, I was happy to wait a little longer. 

Kaden and I saw Kung Fu Panda 2.  Loved the adoption theme, and yes, I cried at the end.

Some of our recent daily pictures:

Sunday movie night with popcorn

First day of swimming in Papa and Mimi's pool

Homemade Chicago dogs...they were fantastic

Went to dinner at Red Lobster and they brought a lobster to the table for the boys to touch.  Kaden was brave, but Bosten wanted nothing to do with it....weird especially since its usually the other way around.

freezer jam

I, along with my best little helper in the world, decided to make freezer jam this week.

Its not like Oregon, where we would have gone out and picked the strawberries in the field.  Oh well, Costco strawberries worked just fine.

We may have eaten as many as we put in the blender.

 Not too shabby for our first try!

t-ball

We have been waiting weeks for t-ball season to start!  Kaden decided to skip spring soccer, and give t-ball a try.  Kyle and Kaden have been practicing hitting and catching, and Wednesday night was finally the first game.

We're the golden dragons.

He LOVES it.  

He says its way better than soccer (whatever that means...I thought he liked soccer!)

too smart for his own good

Seriously.

teach me how to jimmer

We've been out shooting hoops in the driveway a couple of times lately.  One time, after he'd hit several in a row, Kaden informed me that I could just start calling him Jimmer!

Funny kid.

Sweet.

just like the pioneers

This week we took the boys to the This Is The Place park.  We've never been, and it was definitely fun to go and be like the pioneers.  Thankfully though, when we were done playing, we got to go back to our modern conveniences!

Both of the boys thought it was fun to wash clothes:

We wrote on chalkboards in school:

Kaden plowed the fields and got a shave:

We panned for gold:

The boys learned some wood working skills in the cabinet shop:

We took a pony ride:

We even took a train ride:

As you can see, we had a great time! 

a day at the zoo

Last week we decided to visit the zoo.  Its always fun to have a day out, and see all of the animals.

They had their dinosaur exhibit up and running...pretty cool, and a little scary.

And, our day would not be complete without a ride on the carousel and the train!

We also ran into some life long friends from Oregon.  That was a nice surprise!  All in all, a really good day.