Miss Flexible

Jessie has been chewing on her toes a lot lately.

Enjoying some choco chip cookies after dinner.

Duckies growing Up

Looks like these baby ducks are going to be a mix of Peking Duck (white) and Rouen.

The NEW UT Natural History Museum

AT the end of May we went on a lot of fieldtrips with Brigham's preschool class. We went with him to the new Natural History Mueseum up at the UofU. It was awesome. The building itself was amazing with the moderness and architecture, etc.

The had a little area called "Our Backyard" displayng the things that we would find on our own yards. Jessie loved playing in the water.

Christian was showing Sis Warburton a lizard.

They had these awesome animal costumes that the kids could put on and fly or run around the room. Great fun!

Then we headed to the dinosaur display and they all three got to see how big a dinosaur footprint was in relation to them.

By this point, their attention spans were gone and my hands were full so I don't have any more pictures, but there were 2 more whole levels of fun interesting things!
One of my favorite was this large tank that had the whole Wasatch Mountain range inside of it and you could fill it with water or drain the water out. On the mountains they had lines and labels for all the lakes that had occupied our valley and the time periods in which they were. I found that so interesting. We filled the tank up to Lake Bonneville and I showed the boys where we lived in Bountiful and how we would have been under water. So cool!


On our way out of the building Brigham found this treasure and want to pose with him. I would recommend the Museum if you have some time here in SLC. We will have to find you a coupon!

Mother's Day for Katelyn and Me

Mike bought an incubator a while back and katelyn had taken a great deal of time and effort to collect and incubate around 40 of our duck eggs. She waited over 30 days and finally some started to pip through their shells a couple of days before Mother's Day. Out of all those eggs 3 little ducklings hatched. You can see Katelyn is a great Mama Bird for them!

I had a fabulous Mother's Day. I got to take a delicious nap and didn't have to do the kitchen clean up or lunch. It was wonderful. After church Jessie was trying my shoes on. She loves to put on all our shoes!

No More Flooding

Standing water and mold on the foundation

We are just sick of having the basement flood so we finally regraded our front yard and fixed the gutter run off. Mike moved the sprinkler control box away from the front of the house. Hopefully, all our efforts will pay off and the basement will stay bone dry!
Mike rented a jackhammer and had the whole walk taken up in a couple of hours

Thanks to Jodi for giving us some much needed help

Brigham on the side doing his own "thing"

Everyone was real good about helping out! Surprisingly. No pics of Katleyn hauling all the sod. She was awesome help!

Redoing the sprinklers!

Thanks to our neighbors for letting us borrow their very cool, very handy dump truck MANY times!

Christian got to push the button to dump the dirt.
We added 3 loads of dirt to the front yard!

The grass is having a hard time with all the hot weather.So happy to be done with the whole project!

Spring Soccer Mania

We had the oldest 4 kids in soccer this past spring! We breath soccer for a bit- but it was fun and I kind of miss those spring evenings

Tyler hadn't played soccer since he was 4 or 5 so he did pretty well considering. He did make one goal and was a great team player. Usually his coach had him playing one of the forward positions.

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Jessie and Christian sure were good to be toted along. There was a school playground nearby so that was fun for Christian and Jessie was good to sit with mommy and cheer everyone on.

Amy and Katelyn were on the same team this season. They were awesome defenders. There were some tough games with some opposing boys that were really fast runners. They tried their hardest and gave it their best and that was great!

Now one might wonder where the pictures are of Brigham. I am wondering that too. I can't get a hold of Mike to see if he has any on his phone- if he does I will post later. But I think I just never made it to any of those early morning Saturday games with the camera. He missed his team pictures because he was at Fathers & Sons.

What a pathetic mother I am!



I will say this soccer season was tough for Brigham because he had a 7 year old on his team that had legs twice as long as the rest. This 7 year old could run real fast and so the kids on the team figured why should they run if he would take the ball and make the goal in the end. Brigham's team did win every game, but Brigham never made a goal- not one the whole season! This was a big shocker for him and us since he had an average of 7 goals per game during the fall season. We will sign him up again for fall soccer with a different league that is more strict on ages and see if he can get his spunk back after being spoiled.

Brigham to Wheeler Farm

We joined Brigham's Preschool Class when they went an visited Wheeler Farm. We go at least a couple times a year and the kids just love it.

They have some antique tractors the kids like to play on.





There were some new babies: goslings, billy goats and sheep.




We took a hay ride around the property.



The Blacksmith demonstrated how to make a chain link.


A guy told us how they milk the cows and then the boys got to put their heads in the bars (forgot the technical term) to hold them while they get milked the old fashioned way- by hand.


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Jess had a good time poking the rabbits. She was giddy with excitement!


We had a great time at the farm and then had a picnic at the park. A great day!

Funny Kids

Caught us another coon!


All tucked in! Found this girly one night in my bed when I came upstairs to go to bed.No one woke up during the transfer to their own beds.


In the morning you can often find Brigham laying on the back of the couch in the sun like a kitty cat warming himself up while he watched some toons.

Jessie loves hats- any hat! This time she captured one of Tyler's baseball hats. She carries it around and puts it on my head and then takes it off and puts it on hers. This will come in handy when we go swimming at the pool and she really needs to wear a hat. usually kids hat to wear hats for sun protection. We will keep out fingers crossed.



Playing some monkey game in the trees in the backyard. The kids always love the games that Katelyn comes up with.