Cooper

I've come to the conclusion that God makes children look like this when they sleep so you forget about all the bad things they have done that day... and the love you have for them just fills your heart and you're ready for another day! Ya just have to love that kid.

The best purchase of our lives!

Oh how grateful I am for our little trampoline. It sure took a lot of time and effort to finally get it in, but it has all been worth it. The boys live out there, it doesn't matter if it's cold, hot, wet, or even hailing they will still venture out. Here are some pictures of the fun times we have had:
Noah got home from school... it was pouring rain outside and the first question out of his mouth, "Mom can we go jump on the trampoline?". So we pulled up our hoddies and enjoyed the rain.


It was only in the low 70's this day, but the sun was shining so the sprinkler had to be on. Evidently the trampoline is not as fun without the sprinkler on.

Farm Country

This was Cooper's day to hang out with one of his best buddies Cy. We'd planned on the Dinosaur museum, but they were doing $2 tuesdays and I've never seen so many people there in my life, so we decided that Farm Country was a better option. As you can see from the pictures Cooper and Cy had a great time. Their favorite part was feeding the animals, especially the lamas, they both just giggled as the lamas eat corn out of their little hands.

Clark's Planetarium

Noah's new dream in life is to become an astronaut, so what's more fun than taking him to Clark's Planetarium. They have a new movie Fly Me to the Moon, we thought the movie would be a lot of fun for the boys, but they surprised us and had much more fun looking at all the stuff on the different planets. I just really enjoyed watching them run from one thing to the next with eyes as wide as watermelons. Here are a few pictures:

Noah's Soccer Games

It's soccer time, a.k.a. 'magnet ball' all the little kids seem to form one big group around the ball and move up and down the field slowly. Noah sure loves to play though. He and Miles (one of his really good friends) are on the same team, which is good and bad because they are two peas in a pod and get so distracted with things other than playing soccer, but love doing things together. It's been fun to watch Noah get better and better as time goes by, I give a lot of credit to his wonderful coach and his dad cheering him on from the side line!

Noah's in 1st Grade

I think 1st grade was harder for me than kindergarten was, reality finally set in that it's just one grade after another and we're on our way to graduation. He may still be a little dude but he sure is growing up! This year we're trying to walk him to school since we live close enough. I actually really enjoy the walk home hearing all of his stories. The things he comes up with are so funny sometimes. For example: The other day I asked him what he did during class (most conversations revolve around recess) he told me they were practicing writing the letter 'L'. My response was, "you're great with the letter L that must have been easy". Noah says, "No Mom, they were really bad, I can't write very good with my right hand." My response to that was, "of coarse because your left handed, why were you using your right hand?". Noah "Because I have to hold the skittle with my left hand" Evidently they use a skittle to practice spacing their letters out. Noah didn't realize that all he had to do was tell the teacher he was left handed!

BYU Meeting the team night

Another annual tradition is the BYU meet the team night. The boys love the activities they have set up with the track, soccer, and football teams. Noah also took his football to get signed, and they got to eat ice cream. Does it get any better?! Go Cougars!

BYU Women's Clinic

This is one thing I look forward to every year now. Last year it was the answer to Tommy's prayers. For those of you who don't know what it is... it's wonderful. Bronco had a brilliant idea 4 years ago to get the women involved in football, so every year before the football season starts the ladies have the chance to go meet the football players, take a tour of the facilities, hear from all of the coachs, and the best of all run drills with the football players out on the field. It is so much fun to go out and make a fool of yourself with alot of other ladies doing the same thing. Last year Max Hall took us for the tour of the facilites (we were a good 10 mins into it before someone finally told us who he was). This year was fun because we had so much of our family and friends there! If you ever get a chance to go - GO! It's well worth every minute.
Me and my sisters-in-law in the locker room. Lucikly it wasn't to stinky!
This is one of my favorite pictures from the press box. What a pretty place to play football.
Me and my friend Gretchen up in the press box.
Yes men you can be jealous! That is a very nervous Bronco Mendenhall (I don't think he's use to dealing with that many ladies).

Boating on Jordanelle

Me the boys and Kiara had a great day boating with my Dad up at Jordanelle. The water was a little cold, but not cold enough to keep us from water skiing and tubing. Noah was a little scared to go on this new tube, he's use to sitting down inside of one, once he realized he wasn't going to fall off we couldn't get him off. My little dare devil Cooper loved it all as always, including driving the boat with Grandpa!

Hail Storm

We had a really cool storm blow through that brought the biggest hail I have ever personally seen. Noah help me run out and cover our tomato plants with sheets (that was thanks to my moms quick thinking). He had so much fun getting hit by the hail we started jumping on the tramp, we could only handle the stinging pain for about 5 mins, long enough to get a good laugh out of it.