End of swimming lessons

Cousins

This weekend we watched my cousin's six kids. Yes, SIX! Our kids had so much fun with so many kids to play with. We are exhausted but we had a great time. 

Cool Find

I was browsing through an old (2nd Ed.) copy of The Great Apostasy I picked up from our ward in New Jersey when I noticed it included a list of all of the missions at the time, complete with addresses. 

Overheard at a Recent FHE

Chad: Heavenly Father listens to everyones prayers.  

Rex: Even Satan - the Daredevil?

Summer is here!

This week the big boys started swimming  lessons. They are both doing great and are getting much more independent in the water. We also acted like tourists and went down to the strip. We saw the Bellagio conservatory and the big fish tank at Caesar's Palace. We hate fighting the crowds but at least we can check the strip off of our summer to do list.  

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Guest Post

Hi! My name is Guest and you have to guess who I am. Most people know me so it will be easy. 

My name is a letter.

I am the oldest kid.

I live in Las Vegas.

Leave a comment on who you think I am

Countdown to summer break

We are nearing the end of the school year. Rex had his preschool graduation recently. He did so well this year. He is reading like a champ and is our math genius. He is excited to start kindergarten with all of his friends in the fall. Jay won every school award he could at his awards assembly this morning. He willed himself to be healthy all year so he could get the perfect attendance award. He also made the straight A honor roll, got a citizenship award, and won the mileage award for PE for the most laps in his grade. He's just a bit of an overachiever. We are so proud of our kids and are looking forward to a fun summer!

Adventures in gardening

Our new place has a grow box in the back yard so we thought we'd try our hand at gardening in the desert. So far it's gone pretty good. We've got some cucumbers, some kind I mystery peppers that were supposed to be bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, jalepeno peppers, and several types of herbs. It's been a fun family project. Our only hiccup so far has been that tomatoes were invaded by hornworms but the boys have been good little exterminators. We're crossing our fingers that our plants keep thriving when the super hot weather hits next week.

Eli turned 3!

Eli turned 3 on April 23rd. We just had a little family party for him. His main gift was a new bike. He's already riding it like a champ. Eli's favorite things right now are "gums", toothpaste, candy canes, and mints. He's got a thing for mint. Weird. Our other kids always thought it was too spicy. He loves music and loves when the songs he knows come on the radio. He loves to make us smile and we're so glad he's part of our family!

Happy Easter

Spring break

We've been pretty boring this year and have spent most of spring break babysitting for other people. So we decided to do something fun with our extra dinero today. We bought 1 year passes to our brand new discovery children's museum. The kids had tons of fun today and even got to see George Washington's actual dentures! But it was crazy madness since it is still new AND spring break. I think every kid in vegas was there today. We look forward to many more trips this year.

Park

Since there was no school and the weather was great we rode bikes to the park today. The only downside was waiting an hour for our friends to finally show up to play.

Christmas 2012

The big boys were so excited on Christmas morning they got us up at 5:30 to check out their loot. Eli woke up at a more reasonable time a couple hours later. The kids got lots of fun presents and most of what they asked for but the big surprise was a trampoline from Gwenny and Papa. They had no idea about that one. We've been having fun rotting our brains out with new video games, reading new books, playing with new toys, and jumping on our new tramp! We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.