summer

STRAWBERRIES . . . AND warmth
and a wading pool, popcycles, water guns, suscreen (lots) the beach and hot! Amazing. Today we had a summer day. (24 degrees celcius - hasn't been above 20 all year, hardly, if ever, above 15.) It was so nice. We've had sun. Lots of it. But it's still been cold. Really cold and mostly windy. TOday, It was warm all day, even in the morning and in the evening. Not just kind of between the hours of 1 and 5, but all day, all evening. This is a rarity here to be enjoyed, soaked up and taken advantage of. This is the first week I have ventured outside all week long without a fleece jacket on, since last summer. To venture outside at 6 in the morning, 10, 11, noon without a fleece or jacket is . . . nice. To top off a perfect summer day, our strawberries seem to be ripening right before our eyes. YUM. Yum. yum. And again, Yum. I was very happy to pick about 20 of them today. What a yummy treat. Only about 2 had slug bites, 2 ant bites and one bird bitten. NOt bad. I was and am very worried about the slugs finding my berries before I do . . . Thankfully, they aren't as abundant as I thought they might be, yet.

Here we are together . . .

Almost . . . are we all there? Getting everyone in one picture is a miracle,
when and if it ever happens. Mom tries very hard to snap one
whenever we are together . . .

I read my sister in law's recent blog, how they traveled 7 hours in the car
"to do this". Well, I think we've got her beat, try 20 hours . . . for BOMBERMAN!
Best computer game ever. It was an amazing hit at Grandma's house.

Ok, so we didn't just play bomberman. We . . .

Tried to get a picture of all the grandkids with Grandma.
(I should really show all 20 pictures we took .
It's amazing how hard getting a picture with Grandma can be.

Grandma, of course performed well. But the kids . . . ?)

Played with Legos!!!

Went to the Draper Temple open house.

And . . .

The highlight of our last visit was being there for
Jason & Kelly's marriage.

It was a very beautiful and perfect day. Thank you for sharing it with us!

Sweet!

We were so very happy Great Grandma could make it for this special day!
Our happiness was complete when she was able to be with us.
She is amazing!
(Thank you Aunt Becky! Becky is amazing too.)

Thank you for spending good time with us during our last visit. We love you!

Fun with the Sheley's

Hello family! Thanks so much for taking time to be with us during our last "breeze" that took us your way. We had a lot of fun and enjoyed catching up a bit with everyone we could. Hope you enjoy the picts . . . if you have any to share, we'd love to see them. I misssed a few good occasions - Zach's birthday, a good pict of Katelyn and Mary Alice, shrinky dinks, anything else? Not sure how I missed some.

the boys . . .




Grand-dad's yummy breakfast. Can you guess what it is?
We love to giggle with grand-dad!


It's fun to be 4!

Especially when you can do this!


Reading with Grammie . . . quiet & calm at last!
Before that we ran at the park, dug in the garden, found "treasure"
in the empty lot, made a lot of noise, played with Grammie's toys,
tried to get along, had fun with shrinky dinks, had family night,
ate Grammies yummy food, made lots of messes . . .
Thanks Grammie for taking such good care of us.


Mary Alice LOVES Girl Time!


That's all! We look forward to seeing you again. Love you.

Little Artist

I love the work these little ones do on paper.

It's a little bit of them and how they perceive the world around them.
Isn't it fun?!

What a great drawing Mary Alice!
Thanks for letting me capture the moment.
I Love you!

Great to be Six!

Remember when you first learned how to comb your hair?

Adam did such a good job this time, we had to get a picture or two
to show off his skill.
Doesn't he look great! I love this kid.

Tools of the Trade

Just cute!