Water and Bubble Day

The Fun Continues...Ashlynn had bubble day when all the rest of the school had a huge water fight. It took us an hour and half to fill all the buckets and trash bins with water for the kids to have 5 minutes of fun. It was great! The teachers were also all in involved with the water fight. Everyone was soaked! The kindergartner's had their own fun with their bubbles.

Ashlynn's Field Day

The kindergartner's also got to join in on the fun for field day. She was acting so silly with all her friends. She had a great time too!

Carter's Field Day

The last week of school was definitively fun for the kids. This is Carter's fun activities at field day. The activities included a dunk tank, hula-hoop, jump houses, slides, and lots of water games. All of the kids had a blast. What a way to end the year!

Lincoln Olympics

Grades 1-6th got to participate in their annual end of the year Olympics. The kids did Olympic type events like running 50 & 100 meters, throwing shot put & discs, long jump and throwing the Javelin. What a fun day! Carter got several golds, silver and bronze awards. It was a hot day, but all the kids had their own water bottles and the teachers where spritzing the kids with spray bottles to keep them cool. I also had a great time helping out with the events. All the kids had a blast!

Ashlynn's grade (Kindergarten) had teddy bear picnic day. They had pizza and popsicles with their teddy bears. She also had a fun day!

Boise friends Visit

The last week of June our dear friends the Ross's from Boise visited us. We had so much fun during their visit. The kids enjoyed playing with eachother and being their crazy selfs. We had a bbq just like old times and then spent a day at lagoon. The girls made bracelets with Ashlynn to take home and we enjoyed the late night talks catching up on life. We hope they come back soon!

Go Rockies...

Carter finished up baseball this week. Our season was pushed out a few weeks because of all the rainy days that we had a the beginning of the season. We had to make up two weeks worth of games. We started the season with very cold weather and then our last game was in the 90's and we were very hot. Carter did really well this year. He is so used to being the small kid and having kids better them him in the previous leagues in Bountiful, but this year in Layton he was one of the older, bigger kids that had the more better baseball skills. He and his friend Ken would try to beat each other with the farthest hit and get the most outs. Being new to this league Carter was use to pitches coming from a machine at 35mph, but Layton league doesn't start machine pitch until 3rd grade. Carter has been smacking the balls being lobbed to him by the coaches. He is feeling pretty confident with his skills. He likes playing in the in-field and getting players out. He is such a character to watch! We ended the season with a BBQ at the park and they were handed very nice trophies with their names on it. We can't wait for next season.

Father's Day

We had planned to have a Kabob BBQ night with our neighbors, but the weather did not cooperate with us. So, we ended up postponing it to the next day. We still had fun celebrating this special day with Matt. We are so thankful for all he does for our little family.

Matt and the kids acting very silly which is quite common in our house.

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We were finally able to have our Father's Day kabob BBQ. The sun has come out and we can now enjoy some summer weather. Bring out the sunscreen - we just need for school to be out to really be able to call it summer. Come on July 1st....it's just around the corner...!

Look at all that color on the grills. The food was so yummy!


Riley and Ashlynn being them silly self's. Got to love these girls!

A not so warm day to swim

We had a stake activity this past weekend at the water park in Roy. We had fun except we were missing the sun. The rain held off for a few hours, but the sun was no where in sight. We even had ice cream pops to top off the evening. The water was warm and we had to run from one pool to another just to stay warm. We were glad to check this place out. We definitely will come back when the weather decides to become warmer.

New do

Ashlynn has been wanting to cut her hair for the last few months. I told her to wait until after her dance concert, thinking she would forget. Nope, because right after her dance concert she says "Okay, lets get my hair cut right now". She is so funny! We finally got some time and had it done last week. The "new do" totally fits her fun personality.

She had to have her llama in every picture.

side view

Back view

Ashlynn and her cute llama from the "llama llama book series.

Team & Dance photos

Carter's baseball team photo. They are the Colorado Rockies. Carter is on the back row on the right. It took me a minute to pick out my own kid because he looks so much older in this picture. Matt was one of the coaches.

Ashlynn's dance class photo. Ashlynn had two dance costumes for her performances. She also looks much older in these photos.

Year-End Revue

The dancing year has come to an end. Ashlynn had her end of the year revue and she did so good. She remembered all her dance parts and she was proud of herself. She is so fun to watch on stage. At the end of the concert a few dancers were recognized and earned a dance bag from the studio for having perfect attendance to all their dance classes. I think that is something to be proud of too. Ashlynn will start up in August again to do all over again. The girl loves to dance!

Matt's Birthday

Matt's birthday was Friday 6/3. We had fun celebrating his day. We ate dinner at Matt's favorite place Mongolian BBQ. We haven't eaten there in many years, it was before we had kids and we would get together with friends back in Boise. Then, we saw the movie Kung Fu Panda 2 and then headed home for cake and played some basketball. It was a fun evening!

Ashlynn's 1st Pedicure

Ashlynn has been wanting to get her nails done for a while. She used some of her birthday money to have her nails painted with some fancy art done on them. She sat in a fun butterfly chair and her foot bath water changed colors. She loved the whole experience and wanted to go back the next day to do it again.

I love the polk-a-dots and the cute flowers on her toes.

She has to show them to everyone she sees. She is very proud of them!

New wheels

The process of getting Ashlynn to ride a two wheeler has been two years in the making. We told her that she couldn't get a new bike until she could ride without training wheels on her old little bike. Well, the plan changed since her bike got stuck to the front of Matt's jeep and he was unaware until he headed down our driveway and her poor bike got smashed as it scraped its way down the driveway. So, we had to say goodbye to the little bike and get her a bigger new bike. The only catch was that we would not put training wheels on the new bike. She then was forced to learn and she has been doing great. She is still a little nervous and not very confident, but she will get better. She is pretty proud of herself and loves the new bike.