No more braces!

Conor is super relieved to have his braces off and we all think he looks so handsome! I just can't stop staring at him.

Tom and Crew's fish

Tom had a monday off in April for some reason, I can't remember why, but the kids didn't have school off. So Tom took Crew out fishing and mama stayed home to get some things done around the house. They found a new fishing spot and brought back dinner! Tom grilled them and Crew was so proud that he had provided dinner. What a great little provider!

Spring Break 2011: Roosevelt Lake

Almost every spring my parents rent a house (now 2 to fit us all) at Roosevelt lake. It's always so relaxing and fun. We all go away thinking, "man I wish we could just live there." Thanks Grammy and Papa for the great time, awesome memories, and most importantly the open tab on ice cream!

Jeff and Briston Papa and Crew

The game room

Ice Cream!!!

Games and Crafts
Fishing and fishing and more fishing.

Crew found one of the few areas of dirt. He sat there for a long time just loving that dirt. Leave it to a 2 year old boy to find that. I love that he was contained in one spot for so long!

Papa, thanks for instilling the love of fishing in all of us.

I think this is the first year noone saw a rattle snake. We've got some cool stories.But don't worry we saw a bull snake instead.

This cardinal was very intrigued with us. He keeped perching on our backyard fence and the nearby tree. I wish I'd gotten a better picture. He was beautiful!
I love this pic of Briston and Crew. Crew was blowing bubbles for him.

My fishermen!

Kya is such a fun cousin!
This lady worked there and she apparently likes to rescue these little baby bunnies so they don't get eaten by snakes. The poor starving snakes! Anyway it did make for some cute pics of the kids petting them. Crew stuck around for a long time, very intriqued with the little fur ball.

Crew with his Grammy and Papa.

(I found these next four pictures on Tom's camera. He has his own camera that he likes to take with him on his hunting and fishing adventures. I'm thinkin he's a better photographer than me. I love the pictures he was able to capture from the boat. He's hired!)

Labor day weekend

While Gramps and Grandma were here we celebrated Crew's 3rd birthday with swimming, pizza, cake and presents. That is Batman on a motorcycle on his cake. He calls him Thatman. For the next few days he carried around one of the gift bags with his presents inside and his balloon tied to it. When he went to bed, the bag went with him and when he woke up in the morning and came downstairs, he was dragging the bag with him.
Crew makes our lives more bright each day. He is very energetic and fun and says the funniest things. Tom and I smile and laugh every day over something he has said or done. We're so happy to have this amazing little guy in our lives every day. We love you Crew Asher!

We brought G&G to the airport on Monday and stayed to watch the plane leave. It is a teeny tiny little airport so we could get up close to the plane. I had to take a pic of the baggage car thingy cause the kids were super excited about it. Kya said, "I think that's the one from Toy Story." As you can see Taft was unimpressed with it all.

After we saw the plane off Tom packed us some burritos and we went to our new favorite fishing spot. Since it was Labor Day and we needed to celebrate. Tom caught the only fish of the day.

(So now that I'm caught up on the present I am going to try and post some fun stuff from the spring. I got a bit behind during my pregnancy and move over the summer. Since I print out our blog as a family album/journal I'm hoping to get caught up.)

Taft's Blessing

On Sunday Tom blessed Taft. He gave him a beautiful blessing. It made me think of the many other priesthood blessings that he has given our children during their lives and will still give and I realized how special that first fathers blessing is to give them a good little start in their lives. We feel extremely blessed to have this precious little guy as part of our family. We are all so in love with him!

Gramps and Grandma McDowell were able to fly in for the blessing.

Crew loves getting his pic taken lately. So while I was taking a pic of Con and Ky wearing their matching school shirts he jumped off his bike and came running to get in the pic. He's such a funny little dude!

First day of school 2011

Crew and Taft and I sent two of our best friends off to school. Crew was sad that they had to go back so we brought a lunch to the park and called daddy to come join us on his lunch break.