Swim Lessons

Introducing our future Olympic swimmers! I was lucky enough to stand in line for 3 hours to sign these two up for swimming lessons! They sure had a good time.

It was really good for Luke. There were a couple of times I glanced over at his group and he was crying because they were pushing him out of his comfort zone but he bucked up and learned alot. He can't wait to get back in the pool and play, he shows me in the bathtub all the things he has learned!

Ryan was in the mom and tots group so I got to get in the pool with him and play. It was fun. They focus on getting to the wall with the little ones and floating. He LOVED jumping off the side of the pool and scoot along the side of the wall to the ladder and climbing out and jumping in again. On the last day of his class Caleb took an early lunch and came to play in the pool with Ryan and had alot of fun.

I loved the swimming lessons because they were right before nap time, and both kids would be so worn out from spending an hour in the water and i was lucky to make it home and get them out of swimming suites before they crashed!

two too cute boys!

Tried to get some cute pictures of the boys for calebs fathers day present but my battery was really dead and Ryan was grouchy! But I did get a couple of them....

Here Ryan is Ticked....

This is his grouchy face (and if anyone has a cuter grouchy face I haven't seen it!)

This is Lukes idea of the perfect picture, he loves to pose for a picture!

Rock Hounds

We had a nice picnic with some pretty fun company while helping them look for 'pretty rocks'. The boys had a great time and so did the dogs, so long as someone kept throwing the stick in the water!

Noftsger Hill Inn & Happy 8 years to us!

For our anniversary we found this cute bed and breakfast in globe (of all places!) It used to be an academy in the early 1900's I believe and it was so neat! We slept in one of the class rooms and they all have chalk boards still in them and people write on them when they stay in that room it was really neat! And in the morning we had the most delicious breakfast EVER! I totally want to go back and see what all the other rooms look like!

I think our bedroom (not including the bathroom) is bigger than our whole house!

Gila Valley Temple open house

I was lucky enough to get to go see the temple open house 2 times! The boys and I went with my parents and then Caleb and I went down for our anniversary to go see it.

We got stopped for blasting or something both times! But Luke and grandpa didn't mind! Not sure what they were looking at but it was cute.

Me and my boys in front of the temple

This is what I LOVE about traveling with Grandma! She knows how to keep boys happy for the long drive!

Easter

The easter bunny stopped by our house this year. He also stopped by grandmas house too and so between conference sessions all the grand kids got to find them (and the easter bunny hides them HARD at grandmas!)

This was a cleaver idea that I did NOT come up with but I thought it was too cute not to try. The night before easter we planted some special jellybeans and in the morning these easter lollipops had sprouted! Luke was pretty impressed ;)

Packard Grandkid Pictures

Ok so this is the second time we have had the very talented Tiana Hunt come and take pictures, once was for our family pictures when Ryan was just tiny and now that Orin is going to be heading off to Idaho for school soon my mom wanted pictures. And this is what we got with 10 kids! And let me tell you it was NOT easy! It was freezing cold,the day before and the day after were atleast 10 degrees warmer!

This was the favorite

can you find 10 cuter kids out there?

Hide and seek, can you see all 10?

tallest to smallest!

Riley, Tyrel, Aften, Egan, Luke, Paydon, Blake, Ali, Ryan and Sadie

I have Tianas number if anyone is interested! She is so much fun to work with and SO affordable!