It is the start of summer. This is Ellie with Quinn and Levi. We love to have Quinn play at our house. Ellie sure loves to "mother" her as well. Quinn is sweet and takes it in stride!
We had some friends from our old ward over for dinner and Caleb and their son decided to go and play catch. Long story short, Caleb said he should have "moved to the side" instead of letting the baseball hit him square in the mouth. But...he didn't. Luckily, he just loosened a baby tooth and cut his gums. He was quite traumatized for a few hours, but recovered!
Caleb reading to Levi. Such a good big brother.
Levi fell asleep in the middle of the afternoon while watching a cartoon. It was too cute, so I had to take a picture. However, it wasn't so cute when he was up at 10pm.
Ellie's preschool graduation and a trip to the zoo
In June, the Christensens decided to come for a spontaneous visit. We loved having them! Here are a few fun things we did together.
Landon's birthday. We cooked him up some homemade oreo cookies. Fancy stuff, eh?
Levi raiding the cookies. He learned to scoot the stool from the downstairs bathroom to get what he wants on the kitchen counter. Our little cookie monster.
Levi letting mom take a nap!
Caleb's last day of school. This is his teacher Mrs. Melendez.
Caleb and his "friend" Mattie. We asked him if he wanted to take a picture with her. He immediately put his arm around her and leaned his head in. We were all trying not to laugh. Mattie didn't seem so amused.
(OK, so I am realizing that there really isn't any chronological order to these photos. Just know they all occurred between May and August!)
In June, Chris traveled to Florida for work (yea, don't ask why I didn't go...). I decided to take off for Rexburg to visit my three siblings there. We went down the road from my sister Katie's house to a little farm her friend owns. It was literally a petting zoo. My kids loved it.
Levi did not like sharing the black kitten. He is trying to gently (kind of) take it away from his cousin.
Oh, the poor kitty!
Jake and the dog who could catch that bottle any way you decided to throw it.
All of the cute cousins checking out the chickens!
The Sommer's calf shed. Caleb, Ellie and Levi had fun helping feed the calves.
The "play room" up in the loft of the barn. A bit of a climb...made moms a little nervous, but the kids loved it.
Levi and Derek checking out the baby chicks.
The dirt mound. Nothing like it for little boys.
Smores cookies after a baseball game for FHE.
Caleb's 7th birthday. He had a great birthday breakfast of waffles, bacon and strawberries.
Caleb was bummed that his birthday was on a Sunday, so we decided to get ready for church early and open presents.
Caleb's birthday "cool sun" cake. It looked pretty good, but tasted...ummm..not so good. Oh well. It did look cool!
Ellie is super excited to eat the cake. Caleb is just studying it and taking it all in.
Caleb's new "DC" shoes.
Grandma Keller came to visit for Caleb's birthday and made him a nice, big Transformer blanket for his bed.
Thanks for all the other grandmas who sent gifts for our sweet 7 year old. It was a fun day!
Caleb had a birthday party with friends a few days later. I told him that he only gets one fancy cake, so I made a circle of cupcakes with some writing in frosting on the pan. He seemed satisfied. :)
