Oh Man I Can't Believe

that the summer is already over.

Other than my trip up to Alaska we also had two little family get-a-ways. The first was to Bear Lake for the Leavitt Family Reunion. It was such a fun little trip. We stayed at a nice inn and had a ton of fun with the family. The kids all LOVED the beach. It was so nice there. The water is really shallow really far out so it is very relaxing for me. I could just let the kids run and dig and play. Sadly, my lameness with the combo of 4 kids and a camera also showed up at this reunion too. I brought the camera, but forgot the memory card so our pictures are very few. Luckily Andrea was nice enough to make sure we got some pictures of the kids.

No good can come of that many little boys with sharp objects.

Bryce's First Trip to Alaska

Back in July Bryce and I were lucky enough to be able to get away to Alaska to visit my family. I was really looking forward to a little break from the day to day. Bryce was a very good boy for the very long plane ride up there.

While we were there Bryce got spoiled by my mom and sister. And we had a lot of fun just hanging out. Sadly we were so busy having fun that I forgot to take very many pictures.

Bryce enjoying one of many shopping outings

Bryce getting loves from his Aunt Kate

Bryce's first meal at the Eagle River Garcia's

Bryce getting loves from his Aunt Aimee

Bryce getting loves from his Grandpa Michaud

Bryce's first time at Moose's Tooth

The quilt I helped Aimee make

Bryce on his first date (he held her hand)

And last of all Bryce getting loves from his Alaska Grandma.

And really that is pretty much all the pictures I took.

Kevin's Senior Pictures

I also posted these pictures on my other blog so sorry if you are seeing this twice.

Yesterday I did a little photo shoot with my brother-in-law Kevin. It was a lot of fun. These are my top 5 picks:

Baby Bryce is a big boy

Maybe it is because he is my baby or maybe it is because I was really enjoying not having a high chair in my dining room, but I really dragged my feet about starting Bryce on real food. So finally today I went and got the high chair out of storage and let Bryce have his first real taste of "solid" food.

So his first meal with the family was homemade mashed potatoes and he loved them. I was actually a little surprised by how much he ate. He kinda insisted on feeding himself, so I would load up the spoon and hand it to him and then he would put it in his mouth. He did a really good job.

Here he is saying hi while he eats his potatoes. He did start out with a baby spoon, but he stole mine and then I was rotating them so he would always have one ready and waiting.

And here is another cute picture of the kids before bed (Alan decided to run away as soon as I grabbed the camera). Emma is getting so good at taking care of Bryce. To my surprise I will often turn around to find that she has picked him up and they are all playing together. At times like that I try to remind her of the no kids picking up the baby policy in our house, but she really is just trying to take care of "her baby." It is so fun to see the kids with Bryce. He has just been so interactive from day one and now he can play little games with his brothers and sister and he thinks it is just about the funniest thing ever when one of them throws a fit.

6 Babies

Last week we were up in Bear Lake for the Leavitt family reunion...but more about that super fun trip later. While we were there Scott's aunt Tracy had a quick photo session to document the recent baby boom in our family. Check this out.

Bryce 5.5 mos, Jack and Sadie 2.5 mos, Landon 1.5 mos, Mavrick 1 mos, Brigham 4 mos

We Now Have Grass

The day we got our sod was crazy. I woke up sick, it had rained all night, and the wind was intense. Lucky for us not too long after we got started laying the sod, a lot of people came to help us get the job down.

Before

after (can you tell it was a little bit stormy?)

Other than the fear that at any moment a large object would come hurling down the street at me we also got to enjoy the challenge of trying to lay sod on mud that was more like soup that ground. It was so awesome.

Now we just need to finish the back, build up the flower beds, get trees, bushes, and flower and get all the weeds out from the over side of the drive way.

Bryce vs the T-rex

This is Bryce.

This is Bryce, Logan, and a t-rex.

This is Bryce unaware of the T-rex

Bryce has spotted the T-rex

This is Bryce showing the T-rex who the real king is.

Emma's last day of school!!!

School is out for the summer (actually it has been out since the 4th) and Emma is so excited to be going on to first grade in the fall. For the last few weeks before school let out they kept getting the kids ready for first grade. It was so cute almost every day Emma would come home and tell me what first graders do.

There she is...Emma getting off the kindergarten bus for the last time. My baby baby is getting so big!! (tear)

Alan's Last T-ball Game

Well t-ball season is over and it was actually sunny for his last game. Seriously, it seemed like it always got windy, rainy, or cold for every game.

Alan got pretty good over the course of the season and even hit the ball off the pitch and not the tee both times at bat.

After the game that gave all the boys a medal. Alan has been wearing his a lot.

Alan's Preschool Program

Alan had his school program and last day of school on May 19th. His program was so cute and he did really well on all the songs.

After they sang and danced, they had a little graduation ceremony.

As each kid came up to get their certificate they read a few questions and answers about that child. Here are Alan's:

-What do you want to be when you grow up? A doctor.

-What was your favorite thing about preschool? Play with my friend, Eddie.

-What are you afraid of? I'm not afraid of anything.

-What makes you happy? Dragons.

-What is your favorite thing to do? Play games with my dad.

-What will you do this summer? I don't know