Pictures

These are a bunch of pictures I have that I thought I would share. The first set is when we went to the zoo a couple weeks ago. Michelle took that cool picture of Gavin walking.

Our bunch of kids and Zora and Gavin picking flowers. They held hands and went to go over and pick flowers I wanted to get a pictures but was slow and they didn't do it again. So cute!

Kids playing with sunglasses.

Brody was playing with a bucket the other day. He was so funny would put it on and walk around the house. He ran into the wall once.

More swimming pictures because I know everyone in Utah and Washington get so jealous of these pictures. Gavin loves to swim!! I will probably put him in swim lessons this summer. Brody doesn't love as much, last time he just sat with dad on the pool deck. I sure hope he starts to like it. I need to be better at putting sunscreen on the boys; Brody has red arms and legs just from playing outside in the back yard.

Playing games pictures. The first is a game called mom and dad do a puzzle for me. This is the worst game! I don't even like puzzles and Gavin doesn't put any together; however, he will take the pieces apart and say they don't fit. They Do!! Dad is good at playing the puzzle game with Gavin. Whack a Mole one of the kids favorite games simple they can play by themselves.

5 Year Anniversary

We had our 5-year anniversary on March 6, 2009. The traditional gift to give on a 5-year anniversary is wood. Wood represents the strength of your marriage. Wood is strong and long lasting. So for our gift of wood on our anniversary we went to Home Depot after a yummy dinner at Outback Steakhouse. We bought some wood to build an extra shelf in our laundry room. Chris did a great job putting it together for us. I told him I couldn’t wait for our ten-year anniversary when the modern gift is diamond jewelry. Diamond jewelry links your yesterdays with tomorrow. Diamonds are often viewed as symbols of love and commitment. I have to give him 5 years to prepare for a big purchase.

This website is fun it gives gift ideas and celebration suggestions for your 1st to 100th wedding anniversary. http://marriage.about.com/cs/anniversaries/a/wedannivideas.htm

The top shelf is what Chris built.

While at Home Depot we also bought handles. Chris did a great job putting them in.

I took the kids to Emily's and we went swimming. Gavin said he never wanted to go home. Brody looks cute in his swimming suit.

Gavin is a good little swimmer in his life jacket.

A mom duck and her 14 babies got stuck in the pool. He put a chair in hoping they would get out. I haven't heard if they made it out yet.

We walked over to the lake and feed the ducks at the lake. Gavin would throw in half pieces of bread for them to eat. There was baby swans at the lake.

Brody decided to feed himself the bread and just said Duck over and over again. Brody has got really good at a few words. He says Duck, stuck, rock, and book. He used to say Uh-Oh (First word) when he dropped things, but now has moved on to new words. He still doesn't say Mom or Dad. I must not teach my kids those words because Gavin's first word was Dog and then Rock.

Cute Brody and Gavin!
Brody loves Grandpa! The other day Grandma and Grandpa came over to watch him. Brody comes a walking with arms up, walks right past Grandma so Grandpa could hold him. Now the boys fight to have Grandpa hold them. I told mom it was because I always make her do the mean things like getting their hair cut and such. I do think it is cute that they love their Grandpa so much. He is pretty lucky.

Christopher’s Promotion

We are excited to announce that Chris was promoted at work yesterday. He was promoted to manager, we are not sure what team he is over, he will find out Monday. It doesn’t include a pay increase, but now we will not be getting a decrease. We were worried about keeping his numbers up for Executive Enrollment Counselor, but know do not need to worry. He is excited for the change and we are super excited for him. The Lord has blessed us in many ways and we are so proud of Chris for all he does.

Just some Pictures

A couple of pictures from when we went to Utah. Grandad and the boys.

I made some cute clips. Ok just glued the clips. I bought the kits and then glued them together. Brody got to be my little model. This is the website that I got them from http://www.capellico.com. I got most of the different colors.

Gavin decided he wanted to plant flowers so at the store he picked out some and came home to plant the flowers in his pot. You can see how good my cilantro is growing on the other side. I wanted to have cilantro and tomatoes growing so I could always make fresh salsa. Well the tomatoes never get bigger than a small green ball because the kids pull them off before they have a change to grow. However, they leave my ciantro alone and it grows like crazy.

I just thought I would update everyone on the happening from Arizona. The weather is wonderful!! Nothing much really, the class I am in for school is killing me and giving me second thoughts about teaching math. We are doing geometry and I am not good at geometry just algrebra. I have one week left then hopefully a easy class, I need it!