4th Quarter awards

At the end of May we went out to the school for the 4th quarter awards assembly. I don't remember which awards they got but they both got an award for reading 6000 minutes during the school year and they got to go to John's Incredible Pizza with the principal. They were so excited and I am proud of them for working so hard. I am glad they love to read. 

The pictures in the cafeteria always turn out terrible but I wanted to post them anyway.

 They always give Brett a hard time for not being able to come to things like this. This day he happened to be at a dairy pretty close to the school so he came over to surprise them. They were SO excited!

Family Pictures

 When Kelsi was here she helped us do family pictures. And when I say helped, I mean she did EVERYTHING! She picked out our clothes, found a spot to take them, did the kids hair, and took the pictures. The idea of taking family pictures was so overwhelming to me that if she hadn't done it, it would have never gotten done. I am SO SO thankful Kelsi. 

The last time we had family pictures was at least 4 years ago (below). Definitely time for an update. Thanks Kelsi!

Kelsi's Visit

Our next visitor's were Kelsi and Charli!

They live in Iowa now so we don't always see them when go home. Actually, now that I think about it, they have been there 2 years and we have only been to Utah twice in those 2 years. Pathetic!

Anyway...we were so glad that they would fly out and see us. Charli is just 11 days older than Dalton and Sydney so they had a lot of fun and we had a lot of fun watching them interact! I wish I would have blogged about all of this sooner because I forgot already all of the things we did and all the funny things the kids did. It seems like so long ago. I will probably steal kelsi's post from her blog so that I can have more info for my journal. Most of my pictures will be the same since I stole those from her as well.

The weather was nice so we spent a lot of time in the yard. They loved it.

Workin hard!

Charli didn't like Rollie at first but you will see below that she warmed up to him-BIG TIME!

Horsey!

Tub time

Kelsi and I made a quilt for Charli for her birthday. I had forgotten how much I love quilting and wish I had more time to do it. Brett made me quilting frames when we lived in Pullman and he gives me such a hard time for not using them. Everytime we move he threatens to get rid of them. Someday I will have more time...

yeah right!!!

We spent lots of time in the pool too. Babies loved it!

We found them all hiding in the closet one day. Three musketeers.

We also went boating. Girls did some good skiing (Kelsi included) and charli was ADOREABLE on the boat.

I love this picture! I hope next year we can take our babies.

Love these pics too! Such cute girls. I love how protective madi and saige are.

Kelsi got to go to our first swim meet when she was here. I'm so glad she brought her camera. 

See? Night and day difference. She couldn't get enough of him on her last day.

SO BIG!

Two peas in a pod!