June

June 9th marked our 13 year anniversary. We asked Ross and Karen if they would watch the kids while we went to dinner. Instead, Ross decided to send us to a hotel and they watched the kids overnight. We enjoyed a relaxing night snuggling with Jackson with no interruptions. It was great!

The kids on the other hand stayed up late, Kallie wet the bed, and they all woke up early. I think our night was better than theirs. :)

The next night my parents babysat everyone while Brandon and I did a session at the temple. It had been quite a while and was the first time we had gone since they shortened it.

On Sunday evenings in June you can always find us at concert in the park. We had to miss the first week because the weather was terrible. We have had the weirdest weather this spring. Tons of cold and rainy days. This is one of our favorite traditions though. I love it!

June 10th summer school started for Tyler, Kallie and Mckinley. They are working on putting on a play called The Empty Pot and they have been loving school so far. It's based on arts this year and it's a lot of fun.

Free breakfast and lunch has been a part of it too and makes life a lot easier for me!

Jackson finally had his first real bath.

Mckinley got to go to a fun scout camp called Camp Jeremiah in Springville with all the activity days girls. She even saw her cousin Mia there too. She had a blast.

I took the little four kids outside and read books on a blanket and just enjoyed the nice weather while Mckinley was gone. Brandon was gone that night at a bishopric meeting too. He's the ward clerk so he is gone a lot to meetings.

Ava is getting really good on the scooter. And she is in a major dress phase right now. Usually wearing play dresses but sometimes she wears her church dresses on weekdays too.

I got a visit from my mission companion Camile. She has been so good at keeping in touch over the last 15 years and always comes to see me when she's in Utah.

She brought these cute little shoes for Jackson that don't quite fit him yet but Ava wanted him to wear them anyway. So he did, for a picture. :)

These kids sure love their baby brother and have been very helpful, holding him when he is fussy. His angel baby phase lasted four weeks and now we have had quite a few bad nights, and lots of fussiness in the day. But for the most part, he's still a pretty good baby.

I took the kids to the Vineyard park one afternoon. It was sprinkling when we went but ended up being really great weather and they had a good time.

Friday and Saturday nights last weekend we got food from Rumbi and brought it to Nelson's Grove park. We always want to take advantage of the good weather when we can.

Ha, here's our little screaming babe. Still love him to pieces. He is getting so big. He already weighs 8 pounds!

We had a few free swimming nights this week at the Lindon pool. The kids love nothing more than swimming!

Jackson and I got to cuddle off to the side of the pool. He was perfect and slept the whole time.

We were supposed to go to the Carillon Bell Concert this week which is also one of my favorite traditions but it was super windy that night so we just got together at Ross and Karen's instead. The kids were pretty disappointed to miss out on the concert so we might have to go have a picnic on the hill by the bell tower sometime this summer.