Special Delivery

 

Special Delivery of our good friends Cole and Andy! They also brought a special delivery: our wagon! The boys had a great time playing with Cole-they played lots of baseball and basketball.  He schooled them in foursquare. Turns out all elementary schools have the same rules of foursquare and they aren't the big kids rules so I sucked at it.

Matching shirts from their dads who went to Bonneville 3 years ago.

 

Clare played baseball with the boys and had a good time with Cole, too.  She missed Gage, though!  We all missed Gage and Katie!!  

Family gathering

Over the 4th of July, my family got together at my folks house to spend the weekend together.  It was record heat so water balloons were in order. Aunt Heather found this really neat pack of water balloons where 35 balloons were all hooked up at the same time to the hose to fill simultaneously and then they sealed as they got heavy enough to drop off the hose filler apparatus.  But you can go through 35 balloons quickly so had to stretch it out...piñata balloons!

It's been two years since this whole crew got together. Nice looking group.

Clare was not very happy to participate in the attempt at capturing all the grandkids.

Aunt Cole and Clare cleaning up the cards.

Summer fishing stories

Haven't posted pictures in a while so here's some highlights of our summer so far.

While Clare has watched Nate and Zach fish many times, she's been reluctant to do it herself until this last time fishing at Grandma and Grandpa's.  And she caught the biggest fish.  She loves admiring the fish. 

 

It was a good day for fishing!  All in a couple hours "work".

The Bunny Rabbit Show!

Thanks to my friend Amy and her family for giving Clare this wonderful book.  She warmed up to it really fast and especially after listening to it read aloud online, all of them got so into reading it.  They recite it in the car on our drives to work, they randomly say lines from it through the day and all love reading it anytime.  One of Clare's go to books.