June

I love it that all my babies/kids like books!

Getting good use of Ryan's birthday present!

I love claires and Trevor's big smiles!

Ry loves scooting around on Trevor's bike

I used rice, since I didn't want to have to worry too much if it gets on the ground. Ryan can have rice, compared to all the other little things I have to meticousky clean or else little hands (from one who always seem to be going through a growth spurt) will find and eat.

Yeah my handsome hubby is amazing!  Here he is mowing the lawn and giving Ryan a ride.  I am pretty sure Ryan tore is ear drum again, and naps were tough.   It was the week that Jason had to stay at work late or be on campus every night except one.  And since I was lacking energy to I had to let Ryan cry that night, the next morning he had some bloody discharge out his ear. His ears are pretty sensitive...and he has broken his eardrum without much crying too.  Crazy though.

Father's Day dinner, yum!  We get those precooked ribs from costco( they have them on coupon a lot) and cook them in the crockpot...fall off the bone goodness!  Even the kids devour them!  Perfect way to show hubby how much we love him! (gluten free, dairy free, nut free can't be that bad if you have this!!)

Made these for the dad's in our life.  Trevor painted the green sticks and Claire did the blue.

Jason sprained his ankle at his work's soccer game at let's play soccer ( an indoor field).  Poor guy.  But he still finds way to be helpful with the kids.

Trevor and Ryan have a hard time playing together now, bit this was a rare happy time of playing for a few minutes.  Trevor has really done 100 times better when I ask, "Would you like some one to do that to you". He actually stops being mean to Ryan.  Which is crazy because he would never stop even when I tell him stop then yell at him too stop because Ryan is screaming.  I am so glad I found something that works!

Jason's parent took us out to dinner to celebrate his dissertation completion.  Yay! It will be Dr. Jason in August!

Claire's using her ipad time at restaurant to take pics.

Claire's good example of eating fresh pea pods, gets Trevor to eat them too!

My two little cherry pickers.

Will have to make some cherry crisp!

Ryan's life still... loves my kitchen 100 times more than the kids kitchen

My good friend Paige, moved back to Utah.  She used to live next door to us when we were newlyweds.

Claire and her friend Sophia, they have so much fun together!  Sophia gave Claire the yellow flower as a good bye present. :)

Its always fun at grandma's house, yeah grandmas house, hooray!

Went to the Springville Museum for the 

Kid's Art Festival, we like to go at the end... the lines aren't so bad then.  Claire loved her butterfly face paint.

Gotta love this snuggly guy...our walls are not really that ugly green color.

Went to pick up Claire from her good friends birthday party, Sophia, Trevor has to try it out. Their backyard is magical... My pics don't attempt to do it justice.

funny pic of Trevor trying to ride a neighbors broken tricycle  He is not one to runaway, like his big sis, but sometimes seeing a bike or trike will drive him to do abnormal things.  One day we were outside and all of sudden he goes missing.  Turns out he opened the gate of next door neighbors house went into their backyard of got their little bike.  Silly guy

I wonder if I have allergies, I think I've had a runny nose all summer long, and their has been alot of stuff in the air

Beautiful bike ride

May fun

Claire can ride a bike.  Here she is on day 2.  We bought this bike at a garage sale and took off the training wheels and the pedals!  And viola, it's a balance bike.  I wish I could say I taught her.  But she taught herself.  With the help if her friend Abigail's bike.  It's crazy how much more mature is.... I remember at the end of last summer she was doing pretty well on her friend Abigail's bike and Jason asked if we should put her pedals on.  And I said, I don't want to give her her more reasons to scream and cry...she was still in the frequent tantrum stage. Wow!  I am sure glad that she has stopped tantrumimg, because Ryan has started already!  Trevor gets angry, but never tantrums.  Ryan has the whole throwing his head back in anger whenever mom tries to stop his playing, even if it's just to get him to eat. Yikes!  I try distracting him by singing a song, he could care less.  The one thing that helps is if I ask him, "what Trevor doing". I'm glad I found something.  Silly guy.

She is pretty fast too!

We went to farm country with our friends from preschool.  These little goats were adorable.  Gotta love Ryan's cheeks...I can tell how much he has thinned up in the last few months

They are so excited to ride the ponies.

Here we are waiting for the wagon ride. With Aaron fisher and Rachel halverson (Mary was babysitting Rachel).

Me and my lil guys 

Then we went to the tulip festival at the thanksgiving point gardens. Wow I can't believe I have never gone before.  It is gorgeous.

Don't worry, he didn't pick the tulip. He is just trying to smell it. :)

The weather was perfect, warm but overcast, with a cool breeze.

Standing next to the purple tulips, her favorite color!

One of my favs!

Trevor helped push Ryan.

Aww.. The kids loved the secret gardens.  And Claire overcame her fear/hate of getting her clothes wet...to have fun playing in pools.

Lots of fun!

Claire and I threw a baby shower for my friend Rebecca!

Here is a pic Claire took of her, she is so cute!

We had a really god turnout, yay!

One of the best pics I have of Claire's beautiful eyes!  Blue on outside, green on inside. Yay, no cavities at dentist!

I felt pretty crummy on Mother's Day, I was up all night with stomach pain.  I think I am now allergic to flax seed and other seeds, like my older brother. 

These cuties helped make it better!

We had to take a few silly pics that night, once I was feeling better.

Fun times!

I get the best pics of the three of them, when they are trying to help Ryan..so sweet!

It seems like I have to go through this stage with my lil guys, so I remember to never let it happen again.  At the time, it was hard to cut his cute curls in back.  Now I look and think, he looks like a girl....

Rebecca taught me how to curl hair, and get it to stay.  Then Claire did her hair.  I think my biggest problem, is that Claire and I have thick hair, and I just have to remember to grab smaller amounts of hair to get the curls to stay in better.

More fun!

Ryan liked the Easter bunny ears

He had fun taking them off and trying to put them on again.

Ryan loves to snuggle his giraffe..so sweet

Still no walking, but he gets around on this thing pretty good.

Claire's dance pics!

Getting ready for her rehearsal. The good pics we on my real camera. She was so confident ( even when her dance moves may have been a little off) and so excited to be on stage...so cute.

Ryan finally got a hair cut!  Notice all that brown stuff on the floor

We want to Jason's coworkers sons birthday party.  Daddy even took Ryan on the slide

He loved it!

Have I mentioned how much we love having shade in our backyard!

Went to to our splash pad, Ryan loved it.. Fearless little guy

Loved the water...to bad he had swimmers ear and was up screaming that night.  Thank goodness for garlic and mullein oil!

Getting passport pics for our trip to Canada...love Ryan's expression.

Aaron- our preschool buddy!

Claire loves fancy nancy books.  She thinks she the more she wears, the fancier she is...silly girl

Double rainbow!

June has been crazy good! Jason finished his dissertation and it's all approved by his 5 professors.  Now just to apa format!  And he has til June 30th!  And Trevor is potty trained!  He still has accidents, but it's usually when we are home playing and hes just distracted.  His accidents all take place when he is bathroom, pulling down his pants and can't hold himself any more.... Any suggestions??