my first kindergartener

Today was Bastien's first day of school. He was so excited last night when i showed him his outfit he was going to wear, and his packed lunch. He is growing way too fast, just the other day he was my only baby and my crazy little drooler! (til he was 2 and a half!)

when we walked on the playground and he saw all the kids playing..he said .. "wow everyone here is a pyshco." i love his little sarcastic personality.

saying goodbye as the class was leaving, i'm glad he has some friends from the ward in his class.

i think Embry is ready to go to Kindergarten now!

he was really upset when we had to go.

cabin

we had so much fun taking the kids to my step mother-in law's family cabin. it was a perfect weekend with some rain.

finnick did so good. he slept through the night from 9pm-8am! he doesnt even do that good at home. he was so chill sitting around the fire. i think he was just liking the great weather, poor guy is used to sweating in his carseat.

we all ate too many (or maybe just i did) roasted marshmallows because Bastien loved to roast them for us and he was good at it!

steven said he went to bed thinking about spiders crawling on him after he took this picture.

goin on a hike-

we saw super mario mushrooms!

they were so cute running through the forest!

Ruby

i found this blog through a friend and have been thinking of sweet little Ruby ever since.

My heart aches for this mom Ani. Please keep little Ruby in your prayers,

she really needs a shiny new liver.

(click on the pic to go to her blog)

a whole lotta finnick!

i love this picture so much-because it isnt posed. i told steven i wanted to take pictures of finnick after his bath and i came out of the room with the camera and he was kissing on this sweet baby.

i look forward to mine and finny's nap everyday! he always sleeps a lot longer than i do so this is my cute little view when i wake up.

we are kind of obsessed with this baby in our house. he gets lots of (germy) kisses and hands all over him. he must be building up a superhuman immune system with how much "lovin" he gets all day! when finnick starts to cry and stevens holding him, he'll say "ohh did mommy do it?" and the other day i let bastien hold him and i heard him saying that. it was so cute. i cant believe bastien starts kindergarten in just a few weeks! there was a period of time where that day couldnt have come soon enough with all the instigating. but lately he has also been such a great helper and a sweetie i will definetly miss him all day:( i cant believe the summer is almost over. i wish the heat went away when school started. one tradition that we've started this summer is friday movie night. not very creative, i know. but the kids have loved it. we pick out a movie at that new express library in the VF factory mall. then pop popcorn and steven gets the twin's mattress out, we turn off all the lights and stay up late (for them) and watch a movie together! so far we've watched "Gnomeo and Juliet", "Hook" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox" they look forward to it and ask to do it every night!

berkey boys

it's been a fun and fast 2 years! they were my boys first friends. its crazy Bastien was only 3 when we first started hanging out with them, the twins-16 months and Lars was only a 3 month old baby! this is a picture of one of our first playdates-april or may 2009.

we've had lots and lots of playing since but i pulled out the camera the last couple of times we hung out and got some pretty silly pictures.

jasper seems to always be crying in group pictures.

these next few pictures are bastien's face after me saying"put your arm around his neck and say Best friends! " i think bastien really likes cheesy/awkward moments.

haha- i love my "too cool" kid.

we went to toy town and firehouse subs a couple days before they left. i kept saying."this is the last time we're gonna hang out so say goodbye!" but i think we saw them like 3 times after this.

all gathered around the dead bird

remember how me and nicole had baby bumps at the same time?

these are our cute results! our 4th boys!

usually Soren always looks like Tyler, but i think he looks like you here, nicole, ALot!

we'll miss you far far away in Wisconsin!

july so far

steven got to have a long weekend for the 4th and it's always fun to wake up to steven being there for 4 days in a row! we went to see cars 2 on friday with the boys and they all did pretty good. not as mesmerized as they were with toy story 3 last summer. i thought it was okay-but the boys and especially bastien said he liked it a lot! for the 4th we went to a bbq at steven's brother's house then went to my mom's for another bbq for her birthday. that is a definition of a food coma right there. everyone in my family randomly brought a dessert, too. so we were overloaded on sweets as well as food. which is never a bad thing. "lets eat til we throw up!"

(i love you if you know who said that, he's our favorite.)

the berkeys gave us some sweet firework fountains before they left and it totally MADE our fourth of july. we didnt go see a firework show, which i was bummed about but the kids thought this was good enough.

my brother vuna's little boy-sione

some were a little scared of the sparklers. haha!

finnick and kensley-3 months apart.

i was driving out of the apartments when i saw this crazy dark cloud coming. it turned out to be a huge dust storm, that the news liked to call a haboob. and then continued to show the clip of it in between every other news story for the next 5 days.

i love comfy looking babies. we got home and finn's clothes were soaked from sweat from sitting in his carseat out in the blasted heat. so i stripped him (halfway) and he instantly felt cool and comfy.i love to hurry up and get him out of his seat and cooled off. cause i know it feels so good to cool down in the a/c after coming out of that heat!

we tried the bumbo but his head is still a little wobbly, here is good brother bastien making sure his head feels okay.

-its habib haboob!