Swimming Lessons 2012

Kylie and Zach had swimming lessons the first couple of weeks of this Summer.

Here is some pictures from their days at the pool. 

Learning to put his face in the water.

What a good looking dive!

Zach had just jumped off one of the starting blocks.

This is the closest we could get him to the diving board.

No way was he going to go down the slide.

It must have looked scary once he got up there!

Hogle Zoo

We took the kids to the Hogle Zoo.  

We missed seeing the new exhibits, so we just might have to go back again.

Kylie and Zach

We went with friends, Jordan and Stefani Hillin and their two kids, Parker, and Barrett.

Here is Parker on the merry go round.

Kylie

Zach

Getting ready to go on the train.  I took all of the kids with me.  Little Barrett was so cute and all smiles while we were waiting for the train, but as soon as we sat down and took off, he started to scream.

Flower Bed Make Over

The flower bed in the front of my house, has needed some major help for a couple of years now. But this year, I had finally had enough.
This picture that you see here is actually what the whole flower bed looked like before I started, totally filled with weeds and grass. (I forgot to take a picture of the whole thing before I started.)



Here you can see besides the small patch of weeds that are left we (Kylie and Me) had started taking the bricks out too that were lining the sides of it. (Easy way of saying that we had extra bricks left over from building the house and this was a cheap way to border the flower beds.) The grass was over taking the whole flower bed, as it decided to grow through the holes that are in the bricks.



Here is the finished look after all the bricks are gone, and no more weeds in sight!



Now this is what it looks like with the new landscaping bricks that we bought. It looks so much better and hopefully will be mostly weed free. I lined most of the bed with the black weed blocking stuff.



Now all I have to do to complete the look is add a few more flowers in between the three that come back every year. We just have to wait for no more freezing at night.
I must say that I did a pretty darn good job!

Potty Training

Zach turned 3 in April, and I decided that no matter what he wanted, we were going to get the potty training done this summer. He was very attached to his diapers and he wanted nothing to do with wearing underpants.
So the Saturday after school started, we woke up in the morning, put all of the diapers where they could not be found and put big boy underpants on.
He was not too impresses, but went with it. (after all there were no diapers to be found anywhere in the house.



Here are two pictures of our first go at it. The first two days were not so great. We had accidents more than we made it to the potty. After he had the first #2 accident, he said, "well mom, I guess I will have to wear diapers again."



When the 3rd day arrived, I tried to put a pull up on him because we were headed to Park City to get some things from Home Depot. He was having none of the pull up. So we went with out little potty seat in tow and he made it to the potty everytime. He has even made it five days in a row with waking up dry (even though the diaper fairy comes in the middle of the night and puts a diaper on him.) Thursday we even made it with Zach asking to go potty, and he ended up with a #2. He is getting to be such a big boy and we are so proud of him.
He even tells me now, "mom, I'm going to try to potty so I can have a treat!" What a big guy!

Riding in the Fire Engine

While the activities were going on at the park, they were giving rides on the fire engine. Kylie, Zach, Nathan, and Allie (Uncle Greg too!) all caught the last ride of the day.
Zach had a great big smile on his face when he got off. He had a blast.

My Little Worker!

This year for the 24th celebration my mom and dad had a cotton candy/snow cone booth.
Kylie was a big helper, with putting the flavors on the cones. She was having so much fun that she never wanted to go home when Zach and I left.

24th of July

For the 24th of July this year we went to Monroe, (which seems to have become a tradition that last couple of years.) This time we were not all staying all over the place at many different houses as we were all able to stay in my mom and dads new house in Monroe. It was great! Lots of room to move around for both the kids and the adults. The only thing missing for me was a great bed to sleep in. (Long story about blow up mattresses!)
Here most of us are waiting to watch the parade. We didn't get to the parade early enough so we ended up on the side of the street that had all the sun shining directly on us. But we ended up having fun even if we also got a little sweaty. We even got to see cousin Jesi, on her float. She was Miss Sevier 2nd Attendant.