First Day of School 2011

Customary First Day of School Pics...

my boys are being less and less cooperative as they get older for these. :(

 Landon, 4th Grade

 

 Chase, 1st Grade

 Aren't they cute?!  I think so!

Chase's 7th Birthday & Brady's 2nd!

Chase turned 7 this year and we were lucky enough to celebrate with all of our family while we were visiting in Ut.

Chase is such a quiet little guy and HATES to be the center of attention (me too).

He is definitely a middle child and is always trying to keep up with big brother.

He has the sweetest little spirit, but doesn't like to always show it. :)

He LOVES to watch basketball highlight on youtube and can be entertained watching his favorite players for hours.

He loves video games, a little too much, but we keep it in check.

He loves playing basketball downstairs or anywhere and is getting to be quite the ball player.

He has always been my best eater and still is.  Offer him a bowl of fruit or a brownie and he'll probably pick the fruit 9 times out of 10.

Happy Birthday Chase!

 

 

 My baby turned 2!

Brady has brought so much joy to all of our lives!

He is my biggest trouble maker BY FAR, but I'm going to chalk it up to he's really smart and gets bored a lot.

He is obsessed with Dinosaurs just like big brother Chase was!  Everything that comes out of his mouth, even if don't understand most of it, always ends with the word "dinosaurs".

He LOVES to watch Dinosaur Train on PBS and documentaries on Netflix about dinosaurs.  Not kidding, documentaries, like the ones they have the the dinosaur museum.  He can tell you a lot of their real names.

He loves his older brothers and is always trying to do what they're doing.

He loves being outside.

He is a Haslem and loves all things with a ball involved.  (kind of hard not to in our house)

Happy Birthday Brady!

 He was so funny opening his presents.

His Grandma Josh gave him this Dinosaur Train set and he was hooked.

Good luck getting him to open anything else after that!

 This was a dinosaur book that made sounds.

LOVED, not to hard to please.

 Love these pictures of these two August birthday boys.

Melts my heart...

 Not sure if Bryce was responsible for this face in this cake, but it was cute.

We just gave him that piece.  :)

I Love Lake Powell

We haven't gone to Lake Powell since Chase was about a year and a half.

Everyone in my family is busy with their own families and half of us live away from Utah so Lake Powell took a major back seat for the Dickinson family vacations.  My dad even sold his houseboat time-share and all of his water toys, which I'm sure was actually one of the happiest days of his life.

Well, the golden child of the Dickinson family (I'll let you decide who that is) decided it was time to start back up in the Lake Powell tradition and being the favorite that he is, my dad agreed.

This time we rented everything and it was AWESOME!  I highly recommend it!  Anyone who had ever been on this trip with my family in years past, I am sorry!  There was no houseboat to get off the bouie without dropping the pin, no instructions on how to flush the toilet 10 times a day and still having problems with it, now houseboat to have perfectly clean at the end, and no pooper to empty only to have spill all over yours brothers friends either!

It was SO much fun!  Even Tom enjoyed himself a little! :)

What's not fun about going off a slide off of the back of the houseboat?

 My older brother Ken and Barbie, I mean Beth, and Crew

 

The following pictures are the kids on the tube being towed behind the seadoo.

I don't think these things quit running the entire time we were there.

  

 

 

 

A little wakeboarding action...

 Chase's birthday happen to be on one of the days we were there so we did a little celebration Lake Powell style...

roasting a marshmallow with 7 candles on it...

 Birthday presents from the marina which included a Lake Powell hat and T-shirt...

 and a family birthday photo.

 The original Lake Powell crew.

The Dickinson's and the Cuthbert's minus a few and having added a lot.

 Landon and Chase wanted to bring home some pets they found on our trip...

um, NO.

 We even had a baby on board.  My nephew Ben.

The captain

Thanks Dad!  We had a blast and can't wait to do it again, and again, and again!

Maybe we'll eventually start paying for ourselves to go too! :)

Little Drummer Boy

Future band member of the Sphincter Tones.

He even has his shirt off like a real rock star.

Lando's 10th Birthday!!!

What?!  Is he really 10 years old?!

Hard for me to believe, but it's true.  Landon turned 10 this summer.

Landon is so full of it.  Really.  He can talk trash with the best of them, the best being all of his uncles.  He knows exactly what to say to get them all worked up and he feeds off of it.

He is a sports fanatic!  You can ask him just about anything and he'll have the answer.  Bryce and I are pretty sure he is a doppelganger of my little brother Bryan.

He can be the sweetest of my boys and the one that drives me the most crazy.

He is a good big brother.  Or at least has his moments. :)

He is super social and loves the be the center of attention.

He is an awesome student and his teachers have nothing but good things to say about him.

He is a perfectionist, just like me.  Good thing and bad thing.

He knows who he is, what he likes, and what he doesn't and isn't afraid to stand up for himself or what he believes in.

We love you Landon!

This picture captures his personality so well, I love it!

 

I told him I was going to get him a Barbie for his Birthday and he didn't believe me...

It was pretty funny.

 Yes, in the above picture, Brady is wearing his older brother's baseball cleats...

in only his onesie...

eating a waffle...

Welcome to our life.

 Landon has a slight obsession with sports trading cards.

He loves to scatter them all over the floor and organize them in his folders according to whatever he feels like categorizing them as at that particular moment.

It drives me crazy!!!

 The baseball cake I attempted for him and his face after being shoved in it after blowing out his candles from his father.

The kid has very little chance.

 

Happy Birthday Lando, We love you!!!

4th of July Celebrations

What would the 4th of July be without a parade in the hot, humid sun?

According to Bryce, it would be awesome!  :)

I did manage to talk him into the parade this year and it didn't disappoint.  It was hot, humid and everyone was ready to go 30 minutes into it.

 

 Walking in to find a spot the boys found one of Landon's good friends, Ben, so they decided the hang with him instead of us and collect their candy together.

We were right across the street. :)

Doesn't my husband look happy to be there?!

What are the odds we'll have a repeat parade experience next year?

We finished the day off with a BBQ with some friends and fireworks.  None of which I took pictures of, but I'm sure most of you can imagine since you were probably doing the same.