Dallin's Birthday and Baptism

This summer was a very special one for Dallin. He turned 8 and he decided to get baptised. It was also the first year that I let him have a birthday party. I never had one when I was a child so I never had the want to throw my child one, but I finally got over the fact that it is for him and I let him invite a coupld of friends over. Dallin loves Phineas and Ferb, so that was the theme of the party. I think that the boys had fun, the only problem was that it was a little warm outside, but the boys all had fun and got to take away a wooden car that we made from a kit that I bought.

In July, it was time for Dallin's baptism and he was really excited. He was a little scared to have to go under the water, but he went second and was able to see how it went and it was better. I didn't think about until he was stepping into the water how proud of him I was. I actually started to tear up a little bit he is a wonderful boy and I love him a lot.

Lagoon and Family Reunion

This year our family was all alone on our trip to Lagoon. Dallin was excited because he is finally tall enough that he could ride some of the roller coasters. Jeff and Dallin spent a lot of time off riding the roller coasters. But they would come back every once in awhile and Jeff and I would switch. We had a fun time there Kaden and I spent a lot of time watching Isaac, Jeff and Dallin ride the rides, but we had fun all the same.

See he had fun just relaxing in the stroller

This is Isaac riding with his new friend Nick (one of Jeff's co-workers) you can see Dallin and Isaac riding together in the back.

This year my family decided to do a Howard Dee Stockdale reunion(my grandfather). It turned out that Dallin also had his first cub scout's activity so Jeff and Dallin stayed home and Isaac, Kaden and myself went up to Logan for the reunion. I didn't take a lot of pictures because I was busy taking care of Kaden, who had his first taste of pudding loved it by the way, playing volleyball, and playing games to take many pictures. The only ones I got was while we were waiting for the festivities to begin.

Kaden loves the swings

With all of the rain that we had this spring this is what the run of was doing at the end of June. It was really loud we couldn't hear each other talk.

Swimming and a movie

This year we put Dallin and Isaac into swimming lessons again. This year Dallin went into level 2 and Isaac went into level 1. I pick the first session and since spring was a wet and cold one, hardly anyone signed up so Dallin class only had two people and Isaac's had three. It was nice, because they got a lot of one on one time with their instructors. Dallin had fun because he was finally tall enough that he could touch the bottom of the pool with his head above the water. They had a lot of fun.

We went to our yearly trip to the drive-in theater. We choose to go a little early and this year the drive-in has been able to get the movies earlier so it was still a little cold outside, but we had fun. Here are some pictures

as you can see the boys were all taken care of for the long wait for the movie to start.

Kaden and I found other ways to entertain ourselves as we were left out of the fun.

Bowling!!!!

Well it has been awhile since I have blogged so I thought I would round out a few things that we have done this summer. The first thing is that we got a summer pass to our local bowling alley. There is a program that will let kids get 2 free bowling games a day from June 1st to August 31st. Then when we were at the bowling alley we were able to get a pass for shoe rentals so we only had to pay one fee for the whole summer. We also got a family pass, which allows Jeff and I to bowl with our kids. It has been wonderful to go this summer as a family to play bowling with out the wii.