July 24th...

That's Pioneer day here in Utah. :)

We had a picnic in Sugar house (south Salt Lake) and the kids loooooved throwing pebbles into the stream, especially Spencer. WE also went to the Tracy Aviary and Spencer liked the little Tinamou the best...they were his size. :) I was disappointed the peacocks seemed to be hiding that day.

New apartment

All 3 boys share a room and do great with it! I'm sooooo glad!

Just some pictures of our new apartment.

We love summer reading!

Richard sporting their new public library hats from the summer reading program.

Spencer being cute

Great-Grandpa!

This is my maternal Grandpa, Burke Visick Waldon. He babysits for me sometimes and absolutely loves the boys! He had 3 boys of his own (and two girls, my mom and my aunt) and loves being a Grandpa to the little guys! Richard and Garrett call him "Great Grandpa Burke". He was in the Armed Forces Day Parade and is very proud to be a VFW (Veteran of Foreign Wars).

Mischievious Spencer

This is what he usually looks like...meaning, he's always testing the limits. But he's so cute...

Springtime planting

Here are Richard and Garrett planting in the garden at my parents' house. Richard stays outside all day with Grandpa when there is nothing else to do. Garrett will help for a while, then wander inside saying he's done helping. Richard also loves to wear his hood.

Easter/Conference Weekend

We spent the weekend and a few days before at Grandma Margot's house in Bothell. Ben's sister's little family lives there also so we got to spend a lot of time with cousins Natalie, Lizzy, Tyler, and Jacob.

Egg drop

This morning Richard's kindergarten class had an egg drop experiment. Each child was supposed to place a raw egg in a container that they thought would sustain a long fall. Richard put his in some memory foam inside a cardboard box. He was really proud of it, and it worked! Good job Richard! We decorated it too. :)

It survived!

Park Day!

To show that Washington does actually in fact have sunshine! It was a beautiful day so we went to the park. They wanted to stay a lot longer, but I didn't want the boys to get 'bored of the park' so we left when I was ready so we'd have more to experience next time! Ha!

Fun Videos

In the world of Spencer...

Spencer is my piano prodigy.

Spencer prefers eating his yogurt, pudding, anything extremely messy by hand.

We don't usually let the baby eat out of the garbage...

Guess it wasn't as good as he hoped.

He has been suffering with a yucky tummy lately, but over all is growing and doing well. He takes some steps now, but mostly still crawls. After all, crawling is faster!

The boys with Santa 2009

Gotta love those baby pictures with Santa...even Garrett isn't too happy.

Spencer's 1st Birthday!

Spencer turned one year old January 1st, but we were traveling home from our Christmas vacation that day, and life is hectic...but we finally got the cake made and ready to devour!

First just a finger-ful.

Then we wised up and gave him a fork and a bib.

Then he decided he wanted my spoon and that the handle part worked better than the spoon part.

And the final product: doesn't he look proud of himself?! First birthday cakes are the best!

Can't be complete without the birthday bath:

Boys like to build

Richard is really good at building things now. He makes Imperial Walkers from Star Wars, guns, R2D2 and other interesting characters out of these little 'peggy blocks' as we call them. Here he is with his latest, a model train. He was given 3 different Lego sets for Christmas and his 6th birthday, and he is already pretty adept at building them all by himself. Good job Richard!