May & June 2012

 Nate & I were feeling a little "Wicked" that night in May.....

 That is such a fun show!! The funny thing about it was that I bought tickets for Nate for Christmas as a surprise and he apparently had the same idea and bought tickets for me as a surprise.  Great minds think a like.  It wasn't hard to sell our extra pair of tickets once we found out, though.  This was my second time going and Nate's first.  He wasn't disappointed.

 

 

 

 Cutest little bumble bee around...

 

 Future rock star!  Man, Colton looks like such a big kid here.

 

 

 

 What's more fun than running in the sprinklers in the summer?

 

 ... and mowing a lawn with daddy?

 ... and soccer camp? :)

 Lexi and Tyler both improved a lot with this soccer camp.  They had many collegiate players as coaches.  I was really impressed with how they ran it.

 

 

Nate's parents and our niece Kennedy were able to come out and visit for a few days when Nathan was called as bishop (leader of our congregation at church).  It was really great to have them here.  McKinley took to Kenneddy quite nicely!

 

 

A friend at church came up with the brilliant idea to have a daddy-daughter ball in June.  Lexi was so excited to dress up in her fanciest dress and go on a date with dad!

On my birthday, another generous friend offered to watch our kids so Nate and I could go out.  While we were out, our friend had the kids "help" her make a cupcake bouquet for me.  So sweet!!  As you can see they were A LOT of help :)

 

 

This summer we decided to become members at a community pool instead of doing swim lessons for the kids.  It has been so great!  There's a full size pool and a little kiddie pool.  All the kids have gotten sooo much better at/ more comfortable with swimming.  It's been a fun family activity , especially when we grilled up something yummy and had dinner there.  It's been really nice that we have some friends that were also members so the kids always had someone to play with.  I think we made a great decision.