July in Review

Danny loves to pull up a chair and help me make cookies. It's a race to get them in the oven before he eats all the dough.

Our new van! Thank you Levi and Libi!

I love this dude. And his eyes.

Grandma drove the van down (thank you!) and we had to stop at her favorite store: IKEA

Being monkeys in the IKEA cafeteria line

I love having such young kids who still think putting a rocking chair on its side and snuggling under a quilt is the funnest thing.

SUPER READERS!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you, Claire, for the goggles! These fish love swimming!!!

Can you guess who just woke up and who has been up for two hours? Yep. That Danny is always very excited to start the day. Early.

BABA!!!! This is his nickname. Danny pronounced "baby" as "baba" when Simon was first born, and "baba" has stuck.

YOGURT!!!

I LOVE SATURDAY MORNINGS!!!! I LOVE MY BOYS!!!!

(But poor Simon always ends up getting squashed.)

My cousin is giving the boys swimming lessons. We swim once or twice a day now. Samuel and Daniel both run and jump fearlessly into the water and swim all around.

Tracy gives them fishes after lessons.

 

This makes me so happy. They take their trucks and bring the plates and food to the table at dinner time.

Here comes the broccoli!

Poor Simon. So often he has this "SAVE ME!!"look on his face. His brothers are crazy. They may look harmless and innocent in this photo BUT DON'T BE FOOLED!!!!!

We discovered a great duet: Jonah plays chords on the guitar and the boys just goof around on the harmonica and it sounds GREAT!

The Gilbert temple is getting closer to completion!

Did they even notice their Dad was standing there with a camera? Oh man. I love these little dudes.

In the two hours that we were gone looking at the new temple and playing at this park...

SUWAMI happened. Look at how much rain fell! The rain is covering their training wheels, burying the speed bumps, and lapping over the curb. They ride bikes is here for an hour--until we had to bring them in to get ready for church. (Samuel insists that it's called a SUWAMI and not a tsunami.) More video footage to come.

Gatorade on sale at Costco = HOURS of fun at home. Here they are using forks to open the packaging.

A Gatorade skyscraper

A Gatorade forest around the train tracks

This is my kitchen full of helpers as I try to cook dinner.

Simon loves this thing at Gymboree

AND I LOVE HIM!!!!

More bikes in the rain. And, yes, we got this bike for free from a girl.

Our return to Arizona a return to THE HALL OF FLAME FIRE ENGINE MUSEUM. Incredible place.

BUG ZOO. The kids are fascinated by the scorpions in this picture.

A king Snake.

Jonah and I are obsessed with family history. Here is just the beginning of our wall of photos.