The Great Outdoors

we've been trying to get the kids out for some summer sun... maddie and her daddy on a hike in parowan
mom's workin' the sun hat on a trip to the grafton ghost town...
dad takes the kids for a ride several times a week...
our newest addition, frank the tank

my little guy

my little jack jack is getting so big! he loves to climb into things, and he's so close to walking!
he crawled out to see kelt and decided to help work on the motorcycle...
busted! they got into the drawer with the baggies in it...
cutest little boy this side of the mississippi! (and the other side, too!)

Post for Papas!

thanks so much to Kelton for being such a fantatstic daddy to his babies! he's patient, loving, understanding, creative, and so much fun! they love him so much and so do I! thanks so much to all the other awesome dads out there, my dad and Robert, just to name a few!

Natalie

Some more hilarious quotes and stories...
I said "silly dog" and she said "oh, no mom, we don't say that"...
I said that we would go to the park and she said "not today, mom, maybe tomorrow"...
Kelt took her golfing and after a bad hit, he said "oh, that was sad". Every hit after that, Natalie said "oh, das sad daddy"...
She wanted to say the family prayer the other night- "dear Heavy Fawder, fanks for dis day, we pray to have fun with daddy and the golf balls"...
While driving in the car I started to sing and she said "shush, mom! Drakie's trying sleep!"

Posting From Parowan

we're spending the weekend in Parowan, a little town that my dad and step-mom live in and we went for a little hike with Maddie today by the creek...

Whoo-Zoo!!!

On our recent trip to SLC, we took Maddie to the zoo...in front of the sign, so cute! white aligator, the "Ghost of the Bayou"

super pretty tiger
Maddie and me in front of a giraffe

the penguins in their tuxes
a beautiful cougar (you may have to zoom in)

too funny to pass up
this is a huge tortise! i put my foot in the picture for a visual comparison.
this sloth was cracking me up because he was using those huge nails to scratch himself and he was enjoying it so much I thought I might jump in there with him and ask him to give my back a go!
these monkeys were only about the size of a cantaloupe!

daddy and his girl by the huge boa

the zebras showing us their "better" half

I can't take him anywhere!
I have a thing for peacocks, I think they're the prettiest, most elegant birds ever

Just Jack

Here's a little post about Drake...



We call him Jump Jack or just Jack because of his love of his jumper. He just learned to climb stairs and pull up. He has five teeth. He loves to play games such as "I have this thing in my mouth and I'm going to take it out and put it in your mouth and back and forth and back and forth while I laugh and smile so cute" and the "drop toys over the side of the bathtub" game. He is a vigorous army crawler. He just discovered what a mess he can make while splashing really hard in the tub. It often takes both Kelton and me working together to get him dressed. He loves bananas and fruit puffs. He also loves to cuddle and give big kisses (he puts his open mouth on your cheek, lips, chin). He still won't hold his own bottle because he's too busy petting the hair on his head. He is so tickilish. And he looks just like Kelton, which means he is destined to be a hunk.