July tidits

Ryan has been standing all on his own!  - And by the end of July was taking 10 steps!  - (Now he is walking, and sometimes trying to run.  YAY Ryan!)

Baby blues!

Uncle Brian visited us, while he had a work conference near salt lake, he smiled like this when claire took his picture

4th of July after Ryan's 1st nap, we went to bridal veil falls.  It was hot so the cold water felt great.  

Even Ryan liked the cold water, until he was shivering

Then we drove by Jason's work to check out the new go carts they got for meeting their quarter goal.  But couldn't find the keys. Probably good, no seat belts, kinda scary with wiggly kids

BBQ in backyard.  Claire did a cute job setting the table!

Claire earned her Rapunzel doll for staying in bed!  We are testing taking Claire off dairy, and miraculously the bedtime battles and her going to bed at 10:30-11pm every night has ended.   She now usually goes to sleep at 9:30pm!  (So she has organic soy milk from Costco, but just with her cereal. We decided to take her off dairy, because when testing Trevor with dairy.  After a month, he starting staying up late at night too.  And this is my never gets out of bed, always stays in bed, little Trev.  So, the next day we took both of dairy.  Claire has done amazingly well.  I think it helps that her parents are mostly dairy free too.

Including Ryan...too cute

We all love this song,  by Lennon and Maisy   and not just because that is the title of the song...but the harmonies are awesome! 

Ran into my old roommate at the library! Here is Claire with her little girl Savannah.

Fun summer programs, that I didn't know about, but my friend told me about, so we stayed!

I wanna remember to make the simple cow shirt with cow fabric!  So fun and simple.  

And yes I love chickfila get free food day- And the Chickfila in provo, off bulldog has a little play area too.

Ryan is 16 Months in this pic, yet I have been able to get him to sleep at church.  I later learned, that he was getting in all four molars at the same time.  This may have been a contributing factor.  But if he was exhausted, I would hold him like a baby and take him on a walk outside.  It being bright outside, even if we were under a shady tree, would help him close his eyes...yay!

Climbing baby

Claire graduated from upstarts preschool program.

Chilling in the car, while mom does some cleaning (with his favorite pot)

Loves the kitchen

Wow, my face is blurry, but makes me look 10 years younger...lol- We got a fun new chair, that we all love, even Ryan can climb upon easily!

I was able to meet up with a friend from San Diego, while she was visiting her sister. It was so good to catch up with her!

And then we went to glacier, which is a separate post, and to finish off the month Jason's work, had a summer party.

We also saw our cute neighbors there..so cute how they play together!

It was so much fun!

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