Broken Wrist

Our very first day of summer vacation within the first 5 minutes, Cade broke his wrist. I had the kids come outside with me to mow the front lawn and Cade was over playing on these electrical boxes right by the driveway. I did not even have time to start the lawn mower when I heard him screaming. I took him to the doctor and he sent us to get it x-rayed. The said it was a buckle fracture in the wrist. He will be in a cast for three weeks. Our very first broken bone.

iris in front-downed tree in back

When I was outside a couple of hours after the storm taking pictures of the runaway trampoline, downed funhouse, tree, limbs, etc, I decided that I had to get a shot of the iris. When Donna was here, I was telling her I was going to mow them down since they had gotten so damaged during the freeze two years ago and hadn't been pretty since. Luckily I had a change of heart, pulled weeds and Todd mulched for me in March. More of them have opened up since the picture from the other day. If you look carefully in the background, you can see the blown down tree on the basketball blacktop between the barn and the old brown shed.

trampoline after the storm

I wanted to show you where and in what condition the trampoline ended up. You can just see the spot of blue down by the pond.

A picture from the storm's aftermath. We actually got off lucky compared to most people.

Jacob Wrestling

Cade also wanted me to upload this clip of Jacob wrestling with some kids at this really fun place Jana took us too. It was called something Island, but had all these really cool treehouses for the kids to play in. They played extremely hard and had a blast.

Cade's Show

At the tulip festival, there is this outdoor ampitheater. My kids both immediately ran down to the stage and put on a show. Here is a a clip of Cade.

Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival

We took Mom and Dad to Thanksgiving Point to the tulip festival. I had never been. The tulips were in 90% in bloom. It was really beautiful. It ended up being a lot of walking so I really wore everyone out. I decided that it was a great activity for my kids.

Park in Orem

Here are some pictures of the park that we went to in Orem while Mom and Dad were here. Scott's family met us there.

This is the Place Monument

We had a really great time with Mom and Dad and Kent. We visited "This is the Place" up in Salt Lake. It was really neat. I had never been there before and I think will have to take Robbie there this summer.

Video Clips

Cade begged me to post this clip. He thought it was so funny.

More Pics

Trip to Arizona

Here is some pictures of our trip to Arizona. Thanks to Jana and her family for a really fun time. My kids had a blast getting to spend time with their cousins.

Easter

Here is a picture of the kids on Easter. It was a little bit cold that day.

Father and Son Outing

I told Tanner a couple of weeks ago that we were going camping and everyday for the last two weeks he would ask me if it was time to go camping. This was more fun than Christmas. Friday morning Nicole called me at work around 9:00 a.m. to say that Tanner had woken up, packed his suitcase, and pulled it out to the front room. He then let her know that he was ready to go camping.

We had a great time, he was so excited to sleep in a tent that he didn’t fall asleep until 12:30, and he woke up around 6:30 a.m. We left the campsite around 10:30 saturday morning and he fell asleep shortly after then napped for the next 4 hours.

kevin's 32nd birthday

This was taken last Sunday, but since his birthday wasn't
until yesterday, wanted to wait until it was current. Then
forgot that I hadn't already put it on the blog.