Soup-tacular !!

Jolie and Bronson had some cousins come up to visit. Jolie decided to help Zane make "Soup-acado" out of the local plant life.

Taste testers welcome.

Gus and Bronson very cleverly utilize the pool water to fill up their watering cans. Too bad they use it to water the dirt instead of the plants.

Future Paleontologists Discover Dinosaur Bones in Local Backyard

Hmm, they look remarkably like sticks...

But then again, I'm no expert.

A Day At The Pool!

My kids love to swim. Even though Bronson doesn't know how to swim on his own, he wants to really bad. When he gets into the pool he wants to do his own thing. If I try to help him or hold him in the deep-end he gets mad. He thinks he can swim just fine and do whatever he wants. Well...he was in so deep his nose was barely above the water when he lost his balance and fell under the water. I grabbed him and pulled him up. As the water was running down his face he yelled "I SWIM!"

Unfortunately, drowning is not swimming. As for this summer we are definitely working on his swimming skills.

FaThEr'S DaY

We love our Daddy!

My kids always love making things for Ben on Father's Day. Jolie's favorite thing is baking in the kitchen. She really wanted to make him a cake. I dont know if she liked making it or eating it better.

Bronson inhaled his cake. Here he is asking for more cake. It was the funniest thing to watch him say cake while is mouth was full of it. He's our little comedian.

House Update

As of now Ben is done with the framing, rough plumbing, roof, and AC. He is currently working on the electrical and will soon have the siding on the outside ready to go on. It's been a really long project for Ben and he is getting closer to the end every day. Hopefully it will be done before school starts in the fall...but you never know...it might be December.

The Front

The Back

New

(to us)

Furniture

Last week Ben and I ventured down to Mesa to pick up his sister's old family room set. They were getting a new sectional and had no need for the stuff they already had. They offered it to us and there was no passing it up. So we rented a U-Haul to bring the couches and tables back. It was a long day but well worth it. Anyways here are some before and after pictures of our family room.

Boring

Comfortable

Mis-matched

Welcoming!

There is a totally different feeling in the room now. We can actually have the home teachers over and not have to sit on the floor!

WaTeR FuN In OuR BaCkYaRd

Almost every day Jolie & Bronson play with the hose in the backyard. Bronson is without a doubt the controller of the hose and Jolie is so patient with him. Jolie has mastered the art of trading toys with Bronson. For example...if she wants the hose she will get some golf balls, line them up, get a club, and start singing while hitting the balls.. "look at me Bronson...this is so fun...I can hit the balls...can you?" Then when Bronson drops the hose to play with the golf stuff, Jolie will run and take the hose. She's very clever.

Bronson loves to drink the water from the hose. This shot is to show his Pre-water belly.

Drinking....

Drinking...

Check out the water gut!!

Jolie loves to smile for the camera.

Bronson is my little cuddle bug. He always gives me hugs.

FaThErS & SoNs

I was suprised when Ben told me he was going to take Bronson on Fathers & Sons. But there was no way I was going to talk him out of it. We've been camping before and Bronson has always loved it. The difference is that I was not going to be there to help out and watch him when Ben is busy. You know like when he's setting up the tent or cooking dinner. When Ben got home he was a little frazzled but said they had fun.

Joy School at the Zoo

Jolie, Madison, Garret, Preston, McKinlee, & Taylor

Jolie had so much fun in Joy School this year. She made really good friends. For our last day of school we took all the kids to the zoo to celebrate. The kids had fun play around and checking out all the animals.

Disney On Ice

Finding Nemo!

We had so much fun going to Finding Nemo on ice. Jolie and her friend Janelle loved the show. I think I had more fun watching the kids get excited about all the character and cool things going on. Here are some pictures from the show.

Jolie & Janelle had their picture taken with Bruce the Shark

Marlin & Dory

Squirt and the other baby sea turtles

Bubbles, Bloat, and Jacques

Dory, Nigel, Marlin and the seaguls

HaPpY BiRtHdAY JoLiE

We had a hoppin' birthday party for Jolie. Most little girls turning 5 might want a princess party or a fairy one...but not my Jolie. She wanted a PiRaTe PaRtY! All the kids had fun making treasure boxes to hold all their loot, jumpin' in the pirate castle until they couldn't jump anymore, and smashin' the seahorse pinata until all the goodies went flyin'. To say the least we had way too much fun.

All the fun with Easter.

The candy and the sweet stuff.

Bronson got this ridiculous marshmallow poofy pop in his Easter basket. He loved every bit of it which he devoured within that day.

My crazy Jolie always dreamed of getting a big swirly lollipop. Whenever she would see one she would always point it out to me. On Easter morning her dream finally came true.

In Jolie's Wednesday Joy School Class we always do little parties around the hoildays. Here we are having an Easter party at the park. The kids planted flowers, fed the ducks, decorated cupcakes and had a little egg hunt.

Jolie looking for her eggs.

Bronson figured he would investigate Jolie's stash.

He decided his single egg wasn't enough and that Jolie could share.

Abby & Bronson. The two the them are only 11 days apart.

Most of the time they just look at each other. They love to play and talk gibberish.

Jolie and Bronson love to hide the eggs in our yard and then find them over and over again. Jolie found some quite creative hiding places.

Sometimes the hiding places are a little obvious but still out of reach for Bronson.


Easter & Spring Break in Mesa

If you can't tell Jolie loves to decorate Easter Eggs!

All the cousins anxious to decorate their perfect Easter Egg.

Pretty Boy

Bronson Owens Mecham

Nicole (Ben's sister) loves taking pictures. These last four pictures from Mesa were taken by her. I love visiting and having her use my kids to better her photography skills.