Busy, Busy, Busy Summer

The boys have had so many adventures this summer it's hard to remember them all. We can at least try though.

Here are the boys helping their Dad celebrate his birthday! They got upset when he wouldn't let them play with his present-- they got him a Durpy My Little Pony toy.

Little M and S had fun celebrating the Fourth of July up North at the pool. We had some family over and it was fun to see everyone.

S taking pictures for us. CHEESE!

We brought some Raw Melissa snacks to the table. They are sooooooooo delicious!

The twins went down South with their Dad for the Fourth and enjoyed time with family down there. They watched fireworks and went to a baby blessing and a baptism.

I had fun taking some of the kids to the Bean Museum with some friends in July. I guess they remodeled the museum. I had no idea. It was quite impressive.

The boys have loved having humming bird feeders this summer. They love watching the birds fly in for feedings, fight each other and fly off. We've been lucky to see a lot of them too. 

The boys also had fun playing in some of the summer rainstorms.

And we have enjoyed some fun times at the local splash pad. 

Little S was determined to get this hose away from this kid.

He had some fun times with the statues as well.

Little H has had some fun too. He enjoys staying up with mom and doing exercises. He comes up with some fun ones too like:

making his own finish line and running through it

or sword fighting the bad guys

The boys also said farewell to one of their primary teachers. She is serving a mission in Texas. We just think she is super awesome, and we were sad to see her go. She was so good with the boys, and even helped out with babysitting sometimes. She's going to do awesome things!

The boys finally made it to the new Captain America movie. And what movie going experience is complete without ugly homemade hats? Not this movie experience, that's for sure.

S didn't go, but we made him a hat anyway. He never would leave it on.

The boys and I went to Kanab in August-- courtesy of Grandpa and Grandma A. We said goodbye to a near and dear family friend who passed away from brain cancer. It was a very quick and exhausting trip, but it was nice too. 

And now for a word from Little S.

Nerds are the best, and the cutest!

Also, if you wear shoes to bed you will be happier. I promise. And when I say, "Shoe," it is the cutest thing on the planet, hands down.

Thank you for your time :)

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer.

Update!

Quick update on some of the things we have been up to. It will hopefully be brief since there is a lot of stuff.

First here are some pics from Little H's actual eye surgery. This was where they went in and reattached the retina.

Here's a pic from our Christmas trip down south.

A pic from the boys Great Grandma A's funeral.

We celebrated Mother's Day.

We went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point.

Celebrated Grandpa A's birthday.

Little M got stitches. A first for this family of four rowdy boys.

We took the boys up for Day Out With Thomas only to find it wasn't happening this year. They had fun seeing the trains though.

The twins graduated from preschool.

We went to the memorial ride for Great Grandpa Guthrie.

We took the kids up the canyon for a small dinner camp outing. They were so excited about it. They wanted to stay and build a fire. They even started gathering firewood and Big H kept telling us we just need to hit two rocks together to start it. We'll  have to take them camping sometime.

And Big H FINALLY caught some caterpillar. . .and then let them go. We tried to find some new ones, but they were not the easiest caterpillar's to see.

Big H had a small dance performance. I didn't think we could make it but he was so excited to go we rushed up there. Then he just froze on the stage. Little H kept saying, "Ugh! He didn't do a good job!" I tried explaining how we should handle the situation, but he still went right up to Big H and said, "You didn't do a good job." Big H was excited about it though. 

We also enjoyed one of the warmest Memorial Days we've had in a long time. We all got terribly sunburned though.

On Memorial Day we also hunted caterpillar's in the park. Big H was very insistent on finding one. Which is why I was shocked when we finally found some and he let them go.

Thanks to their Uncle Brady, Aunt Jessica and Grandpa and Grandma A the boys finally got to movie into their new bedroom.

They love their super hero lair.

Farmall Boy. They fight over this tractor non-stop.

We enjoyed Art City Days a little this year. I took the kids to the carnival. Baby S rode his first Carnival ride. 

We also enjoyed The Fireman's Breakfast.

And we enjoyed fireworks later that night.

The ducks and the chickens are now out in the yard, and eating a ton of food. Sadly we are down to one duck.

This yellow duckling got stepped on, and died  shortly after.

So we bought this duck (the bigger one).

The little duck stayed pretty small even though it grew. One day it got injured and couldn't walk or swim right. I rubbed some Dr. Christopher's Bone and Tissue on him and she started to walk again, but would still trip and stumble a lot. She could swim, but I don't think she could get out of her pool. One day when I refilled the pool the boys threw her in. I should have checked to make sure she got out, but I didn't. Little M found her dead. I felt so bad. Now we have one duck. Duck's don't do well on their own, but I don't think I can handle raising any baby birds right now. So we'll see if we can find a duck to be a companion to ours. 

I think that about covers what we have been up to. That is all aside from all the craziness of normal everyday life.