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You'd think a person that recently dropped a protein shake lunch all over their computer, phone and work papers would learn their lesson.

But no, I've just got way too much to do. I don't have time to learn from my mistakes. Oy.

::swimming lucy::

When we went to San Diego in late June Lucy got to swim in the pool. She was pretty unexcited at first, but warmed to the floating pretty quickly.


Kathy got her this super cute little swimming suit. Max thinks she looks like a Katamari cousin and I agree.





She was more worried about watching her feet than anything. She didn't even realize she was dressed like a flower.



BUT, she was NOT a fan of the beach. Way too much wind, way too much noise and way too much beach. Shes' going to have to get used to it though. This was just a practice run.

::lunch today::

I had to just force myself to post these photos without editing them because I just don't have the dang time right now. It's a little painful, but maybe it will help me to do better just taking them right instead of having to edit every dang photo.

I FORCED the guys to go outside a bunch today. Mean me. Somehow in the midst of all that forced fun they were excited to take lunch outside so that they could eat on the playground.

A storm was coming over the mountains, but it wasn't quite here yet.

I came out with the camera because I was guessing that they were being cute. I was right, but once I got out there they weren't cute anymore but just goofy and hamming in front of the camera.

Max tries to pretend he's not 100% aware of the camera.




"Wow! What a surprise! Who knew you had a CAMERA?! I just happened to have a sandwich hanging out of my mouth!!"



Har har





Sandy wants to be as cool and goofy as his brother. He's almost there.  Just a little more training.








Just imagine lots and lots of cute giggling. LOTS.  I do love to hear them giggling together even though it sometimes means trouble for me.

I sure do like these boys. They drive me nuts, but they're so dang cute the rest of the time.

And poor little Lucy had shots today so she was taking a long and serious nap in my bedroom. I think she's just about too big for her little bed.




She's so happy and peaceful when she actually sleeps--just wish I could get her to do it more.
And that's today. The fun part of today anyway. The rest was all working and running around and feeling tired.  Classic Monday.

::drivin' home::

The kids were so good on our way home from UT. We did have a few tough spots though.
On Saturday we got all packed up in the morning and then went with Mom & Dad to meet up with Lorri and kids for yummy lunch at Burger's Supreme.  It was really nice, but everybody was already a little tired by the time we actually got going.

Kris and I being ourselves decided that we should push through a little longer than planned and try to make it to Farmington NM. The fact that there's a Cafe Rio type place there might have been a bit of extra incentive.

Anyway, we made it there in time for a late dinner, but everybody melted down there and we ended up leaving so precipitously that I almost left my purse.
What happened was that Max decided he needed to go to the bathroom so bad when we first went into the place that he neglected to pay attention to the fact that we were ordering.  He didn't listen, didn't stick around and didn't tell us what he wanted so he got no food. It was a very sad dinner time--lots of tears, a few trips to the bathroom (one time he came out with toilet paper pasted over his eyes so nobody could see the red eyes or tears) and lots of whining. But he survived, MAYBE learned a lesson, and since Sandy never eats food he got to finish all of Sandy's dinner.
And at least Kris's and my food tasted good. 

It was a relief to get to the hotel and put people to bed. Although nobody seemed to think they were tired.

Kids make life so complicated, but they also make things interesting. Never a dull moment--lots of uncomfortable, embarrassing and poopy moments, but not any dull ones.

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 Lucy is getting so big, but honestly Max is getting even bigger. Murphy took this photo.

It's so cute besides the facial expression of the overtired baby who wants people to just stop taking her photo and put her to bed. Max is stylin' in his church clothes.

::sports camp::

We took Max down to UT so that he could go to All Sports camp at BYU. He did it last year and had a really great time. They do a day each of football, soccer, gymnastics, baseball and basketball. This year it was extra fun because Parker got to do it with him! They had a blast. I didn't get to hear a lot of the stories about what happened during the week because they stayed with Grandma Kathy most of the time, but I do know they had a really fun time and Max's favorite sport this year was baseball.

Soccer was day 1. The boys were so excited to get started! The second day was Football or gymnastics, I can't remember which. Anyway, it's always a blast to get to be in the stadium. (I stole all these pictures from Kathy, since I didn't see the boys all week.)


Even if it's so bright you can't even make a nice face for the camera.



They got treats of course.



And one day after camp Grandma took them to the store and bought them special lego cars. The boys spent the rest of the week racing them and building jumps. They were in heaven.





Cosmo-mobile or something cool.



It was a great week and the boys both had a blast. They finished it off by coming to my parent's house, playing in the yard and visiting the horses. That was really fun too. These boys are best friends and they're very lucky to have each other. Cousins are the best.

::corns::

We went to visit Murphy's house today which was really fun.

While we were waiting for the dinner to cook we all took a walk up into the foothills of the mountains. Awesome views. Murphy and Laura live in a fun area. On the way back down to their house Sandy took a break from stomping on my shadow and found a "corn."

Sandy calls any plant that looks sort of like wheat corn. And he gets super excited to pick the little corns.

He picked one for me and one for him.

We had a fencing fight on the walk back--I thought we were having sword fights but I was corrected and told that this was a "fuzz fight."

We sure do love Sandy.

And his corns.







The End.

::big one & little one::

He looks so gigantic and she looks so tiny. They're a good pair.

::monsoons::

We have been having amazing summer storms this year. Almost every afternoon the storms roll in and we get a little rain.

The other night there was a huge thunder storm after we all went to bed. The kids sleep through the huge claps, but they sometimes wake me. I woke up and I wasn't sure exactly why. Turns out that the dog had gotten tangled in the cords of the two baby monitors that live on my nightstand. He'd tried to get away, pulled the monitors down and pulled the baby's little bed a little ways away. He was rather distressed. I finally figured it out and fixed him.

His thunder fears do cause some trouble for us for sure. He's so scared that anytime a storm starts to threaten he's got to be sitting as close to me or Kris as possible. Like, under my legs. Or he tries to squeeze between us and something else, hence the baby monitor tangle up.
Also, the silly dog isn't smart enough to stay out of the rain. So if we leave him outside when we're gone and there's a big rainstorm we come home to a soggy disgusting dog. And a soggy disgusting dog that wants to sit as close to us as possible--preferably actively rubbing against our legs.

Sandy is conflicted about the thunder storms. Sometimes he loves the sounds and sometimes he's scared enough to scream. Luckily as I said the night time storms don't bother him. He's gotten braver as the summer has gone on, but today as we came home from dinner there was a gigantic storm with lots of rain and a lightening bolt hit the mountain just up from our house. We all saw it really clearly. It was beautiful but intense and Sandy did NOT like it. He had to be carried from the house to the garage in tears. Luckily we got him in some footy PJs and he recovered.

Mostly I just really like the lightening shows. They're pretty exciting. Keep it up weather, we're loving it all.