Our Little Fish

Our little fish is about 2.5 years old and loves to swim! Her name is Reagan :)

Reagan has been deathly afraid of the little arm floaties until Today. She screamed when she first went floating with them on and then realized that they are there to help to float. While she swims she constantly says "these wont let me sink" and "these make me a big girl". She is so cute!

the sun was a little bright, oops!

little swimmer fish :)

and a video!

(I took this right when she got the hang of it. She has improved a lot and we were only out there for about an hour! Go girl!)

4th

We had a wonderful and busy 4th of July!! Brian has to work 5am-11am so we got most of the day together :) We had great friends over to swim with for a few hours. Molly and Nate Blackburn and their 2 little girls have moved down to AZ and so we invited them over hoping the swimming would help them with the heat:) They were in our ward back in Fairbanks. We also had Roy and Meagan Bryant over for swimming and a BBQ. They just moved into our ward about a month ago. We had a lot of fun with them!. I forgot to take my camera outside :( We had a nice casual BBQ at moms house with the family and the Bryants. After dinner we decided to head to the church to watch the Fireworks from Schnepf Farms. We met up with several families from the ward and shot up some Fireworks before the show started. Bryson wasn't too sure about the loud noises but Reagan loved all the colors! The pictures aren't the best but we had fun! Thanks everyone!

our 4th of July babies :)

Pretty girl

loves to read!

happy boy

heading to Fireworks :) haha Bryson looks dead but he was just

a little tired and happy except for this picture

crazy looking Fireworks

Dads with their scared boys :(

Reagan with her 1st Sparkler

Headed home about 10pm and more than ready for bed!!

Reagan

Thought I would do a post about Reagan since I always seem to be writing about Bryson.

She absolutely loves her little brother. She's finally calling Bryson by his name instead of baby! It took awhile but it sure sounds cute when she says Bryson :) Her vocabulary is huge! Some times it is still hard to know what she's saying but she's learned to point to it or show us what it is if we can't figure it out. Good job Reagan! And of course everyone has a really hard time understanding her so they always ask me what she said. Some day they will figure out how to speak Reaganeese :) hehe She LOVES the pool and to be outside! She has learned to move her arms and kick her feet to swim. Before we know it she will be swimming without the floaties! She loves to be by herself in a float tube (of course we are always close by just in case!). And she is the kind of little girl that can do everything her self. If she wants to do something and you say you will help her she holds her hand up(like she's telling you to stop) and says "no me, you wait". It's cute now but hopefully she gets over it :)

loves to make her bottoms hats :)

our sweet Sunday Babies :)

Oh and I must not forget her obsession with movies! She has discovered Tangled and absolutely loves it! She would watch it all day, every day if we allowed it! She also is in love with the Cinderella movies. And as you can tell from the picture, it's hard to get her eyes away from the movies.

8 months

It's hard to believe Bryson is already 8 months old! We can officially call him a crawler. Yay!! And he pulls himself up to everything he can reach. He is also slowing starting to walk along the furniture. Before we know it, he will be walking and running every where! We love this happy "big" little boy. He still has just 2 bottom teeth. He would eat every minute he's awake if we would allow him. He gets about 5 bottles a day, cereal in the morning, baby food for lunch and also has dinner with us! And can't forget the snacks in between :) No wonder this boy is a Tank!!

loves the water! (Daddy took picture with sun in face, oops!)

Big boy crawling where ever he wants to go

look at me now :)

Memorial Day

Man I'm just a little behind, oh well! For Memorial Day, we went to The National Veterans Cemetery where my Grandpa's grave site is. Mom and Lars rode the Harley and then Grandma came and got us in her car so it was less parking we had to find :) Every year they do a big program and it's wonderful! It starts about 8am so we have to leave by 630am or so. We were late so we missed the Fly Over and a few other short things. It's amazing how many people come to it. There must have been several hundred motorcycles! I didn't get a picture of them, dang it! They also put an American Flag on every grave! We heard that the Boy Scouts come and place all the flags a few nights ahead. What a long service project! 

why yes Bryson is still in his PJs. 630 is way to early for him!

only a tiny fraction of the graves with flags.

Family Pictures

Thank You Jessica Drew! You did an amazing job!!

Mom had bought some puppets to try to get the kids attention. They definitely worked for the 1st few pictures and then the kids got bored of them I guess. I brought a pack of Oreos and boy did that keep their attentions until we were done! Great idea if your ever doing family pictures with little ones :)

The entire Gang :)

Papa Lars and Gma Jo with their grandkids

love them!

AW! Melts my heart <3

love these kids with all my heart!

speechless...so pretty!

handsome fat boy :)

love him!

Parents and Kids

(Me, Steve, Jake, Mom, Lars, Kaitlyn and April)



REUNITED...

All of my siblings were able to be together again for the 1st time in years! It was so great to have all the family around and to just laugh and have a good time :) Jake has been here since April with his family, Steve and April flew in the 12th and stayed through the 17th. Almost forgot to mention that my grandparents from UT drove down Thusday and stayed through Saturday. We haven't seen them in a few years either. While they were here we did a lot of pool time, lots of eating, family pictures, Sunsplash WaterPark and also a few games.

It was a bad idea to be in the pool while Jake, Steve and Brian were in there playing basketball. When they played, they were extremely rough! Paige, April's daughter, kept yelling "Someone is going to get hurt!" Everyone thought the same thing but never said anything. I joined the boys for a little 2 on 2 and boy was it rough! We all ended up with scratched and bleeding toes!

Friday Night we took Family Pictures at the Temple, which was a blast! They all turned out SOO cute(post to follow!)! After the temple my parents decided to take everyone out to eat so we went to Red Robin. YUMM!!

Saturday my parents took us to SunSplash WaterPark and we had a blast!! It was great to have the whole family there so we could all take turns going down the slides while someone was always with the little kids. All the kids loved the kiddie pool they had with 2 little slides.

And here is a ton of pictures to show how much fun we had :):):)

Jake, April, Steve, Gpa Larry and Gma Henny trying to stay cool during family pictures

Bryson was happy through out family pictures!

Bryson, Paige and Gauge waiting at family pictures

GG, Gma Henn and Gpa Larry found a bench in the shade to relax on :)

Brian and Bryson at SunSplash

Reagan, Brentlee and Paige taking a breatk from swimming and munching

Bryson was SO tired. It was a long day!

Reagan loved the slides!

haha Brentlee and Reagan did each others make up with markers(Reagan has some pink on her face but it doesn't show up as well as the blue!)

GG even made everyone fudge! Reagan was wanting more

Bryson hanging out by Gma Jo's pool

Steve, Jake and Brian playing some intense basketball

Brian and Austin(April's Daughter) playing around

another shot of the boys' basketball game