JUNE

The kids with their teachers the last day of school.

All were wonderful!


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We moved into our house the last day of school, not quite finished, (that may be a bit of an understatement!) hopefully they start school with it almost finished. We are loving it though, even unfinished. We completely gutted the house and added a little on and I forgot to take before pictures. Bummer! Hopefully I remember to take some soon!

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Right after we moved in the pea field across the road was harvested, the boys loved watching the pea combines.

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We are not pet people but we are DEFINITELY not mouse people! Since we were having a little mouse problem we decided to get these cute little kittens.

We ALL got a little more attached than we thought and were pretty sad when they all disappeared about 2 months after we got them. The boys and I are pretty sure they probably found their way back to their mother or maybe found a better home where their owners let them inside the house, because I did not. ( I'm sure it was NOT the coyotes we hear outside every night! Coyotes don't eat kittens, right?!?!)

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Gage started mowing the lawn.

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And my boys are such good buddies. This is how they watch tv and play the wii and sleep all summer.

I LOVE SUMMER!

Jett's Baptism

Jett was so excited to turn eight and get baptized and were so proud of him for making the choice to be baptized. He was so excited to get his own set of scriptures and his new suit jacket. And isn't he handsome!Jett and Caleb

They are both so cute and I'm so glad they were able to be baptized together!This is the group of kids that all got baptized together. 4 from our ward, 1 from the other. Such a great group of kids!

Jett and Caleb's Birthday Party

Jett and his cousin Caleb were born only a couple weeks apart and since moving to Royal have been best buddies and they wanted to have their birthday party together. They had a shooting party and loved it. Here are the pictures to prove it.

jett is 8

It is great to be EIGHT!

And Jett is EIGHT today!

He is so funny, so cute, so stubborn, so smart, so much like his dad, so in love with bb guns, so ready to get baptized and so loves being with his brothers!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JETT!

April Re-cap

Riding/running through the crop circles and mud!

Gage started baseball.

Case teaching Chloe how to ride a dirtbike!
We hiked up to the Wild Horse Monument.

And Case graduated from pre-school. He was so excited and is so excited to start Kinder, me not so much.

random happenings

It's been pretty cold and wet here this spring, which none of us love but we have seen quite a few rainbows and the boys think that is pretty cool.

We came home from school one afternoon and saw these Sandhill Crane in the field behind our house. Gage and Jett were very fascinated by them. I didn't even know what they were, they make a funny noise and Jett knew instantly what they were and started telling me all sorts of interesting facts about them he learned at school. Plowing and planting and fertilizing and whatever else that requires a tractor has been going on out here and Case loves tractors so whenever he hears or sees one he is either out on the front porch watching it go down the road or glued to the window like this. He has also figured out that the red ones have his name on them and tells us every time he sees one.

"Look mom, that tractor's named after me!"

We finally started working on our house, so we've had a couple of these. Probably not the last. The kids are very willing to help haul junk out of the house if they know they can throw it on the fire!

And walking the wheel lines.

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case is five.

five.

and he is so excited to be five.

excited to have cupcakes.

excited to open presents.

and excited to be 5 so he can go to school next year. (me not so excited)

it is so much fun to have him home with me when the big boys are at school! i can't imagine sending him to school next year! good thing i have a few more months to prepare myself!