Going Home!

Tomorrow I leave for Utah for the whole month of July and I can't wait!
Since starting Residency (and moving to the hardest place to get a flight out of) trips home are pretty rare.
Bryce left with the two older boys today for a two day drive and I was lucky enough to get to fly with the little man tomorrow afternoon.
Can't wait to see family and friends and hopefully I'll come back with a lot of pictures and spend another two hours updating this blog in August!
Hope to see some of you there!

By the way: I broke my phone last week and had to get a new one so all my contacts were lost.
Please text or call me so I can update them!

Visit from Kawa's

We were SO excited to have these guys come through on their way to Cleavland. We went to Medical school with this family in St. Louis and will be life long friends. They are starting a GI fellowship in OH and stopped for a couple hours for a break and a BBQ. Landon and Barrett were best friends when we lived there and they just picked up right where they left off. It was so cute to listen to the two of them talk about growing up and going to the same school someday and having their dad's work together. I can't wait until we're neighbors again someday and can do these BBQ's all the time!
Thanks for stopping by!

Chase, Landon, Brady, Paige, Barrett, & Tanner

WT... I know!
It was SO hot that day and we had just finished dinner where he had gotten watermelon all over himself so we stripped him down.
He's still dang cute!

Just love this one... this kid LOVES his daddy!

Trip to AZ and St. George

We were lucky enough to get to take a little vacation to Arizona a few weeks ago and see Bryce's brother Jake and his family be sealed in the Mesa Temple.
That was the first family sealing I had been to and it was so amazing. I'm so glad Jake and Jami wanted us to be a part of it!

Following our couple days in AZ we headed to St. George for some swimming and some fun!
Every morning we would get up and the first thing we would do was head to the pool for some swimming and some sun. There was a basketball court right next to the pool where the boys would also spend a lot of time playing.
In the afternoon when babies would go down for naps all the kids would go to the theater room and watch a movie. I think "The Tooth-fairy" was a favorite.

Brady LOVES the water and was so cute in the pool!

Notice he still has a hold of that squirt gun from the picture above and he's being thrown around.

Sydney and Sammy... Cute Sammy is always posing for the camera. :)

Haydyn and her floaties. This girl has NO fear of the water!

These guys were either loving one another or hating one another....
it changed every minute!

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

But instead of peanuts and crackerjacks... we do granola bars, capri-suns, and whatever else we can find!

This one was especially a trooper during these nights!
The one thing we could count on to occupy this little one during those last few innings was something to eat. He just starting to feed himself and I LOVE it! It's so much easier to just hand him something and let him go to town. He makes a mess, but it's worth it!

Not to mention a little entertainment on the third base line...

Papa Tom comes to Iowa

My dad came to town for a few days and we all had a blast! It was a packed weekend with so much to cram in, but I think we managed to do it all.

What would a visit from my dad be without any of this?

One of the reasons he came this weekend was to watch Landon and Chase play ball.
The boys just adore him.

It's not all play when papa comes to town either!
He remodeled our garage with Bryce and it looks AWESOME!!!

This was an evening favorite...

We took Brady's bouncer outside while we played croquet so he could watch.
He didn't like the feeling of the grass on his feet so he pulled them up like this until I went and got a blanket to put underneath him.

Thanks for a great visit Dad! Can't wait until next year!

Baseball Season

For two nights a week we spent the evenings at the ball park. Both Landon and Chase played this year and both on the same night back to back.
That means we started around 5:30 and usually got home sometime around 8:00.
I love spending the night watching the boys play ball and I can't wait until they get into the more competitive leagues. Bryce is always telling me I'm going to be "one of those parents" because I'm always cheering loud for my kids. Well, if being "one of those" is cheering loud for your kids than I guess I am!
Landon and Chase both improved so much this year and luckily both were placed on teams with some of their best buds which made it all the more fun.

This is a GREAT group of boys!

Luke, Kyle, Landon, Tyler, & Jake

BESTIES!!!

Cute Boys!!!

I have some MAJOR updating of the blog to do... but I couldn't wait to put these up!

Notice Chase sportn' the new hair... some of the updating that needs to happen.

9 Months and the cutest thing ever!

Thanks Robs!!!

THE HAIRCUT...

Before...
And let me mention that two days earlier I had already "cut" his hair so it was actually longer than this...

Look at all those long blond locks on the floor!

... AFTER!

It took me a few days to get used to my Chaser looking so different. He just didn't seem like the same kid without "the mop".
There were so many people who didn't even recognize him at first and even one of the mom's at preschool thought there was a new student in class... for three whole days!
She asked some of the other mom's who the new kid was and they had to tell her it was Chase.
I asked him if he was sick of everyone talking about his new haircut and he kindly told me, "YES"!
Now that we're all used to the new look around here I really like it and I'm sure considering the heat and humidity of Iowa, Chase is LOVING it!

Happy Birthday Bryce!

Bryce turned 32 this year!...

... and I made the BEST cake EVER!
(by the look of Bryce's eyes you might think I added a special ingredient) :)

Happy Easter!

These are the boys dressed up in their traditional Easter clothes...
SO cute! :)
Bryce always gives me a hard time for all that I get the kids on Easter. He never understands why I insist on buying them new church clothes for the occasion every year.
Doesn't everyone get new Easter clothes? I always did.


The family at the Ward Easter egg hunt.
It was held on the property of a ward member, it was PERFECT!
There was so much land for the kids to find eggs and run around, I'm so glad we went.
It was a little chilly and early, but the kids had a GREAT time!

Hunter and Chase before the big hunt... these two did very well for themselves!