Oh yeah....Happy Father's Day!!

WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!! Thank you for all that you do for us!!!

The latest

Busted with a necklace!!
Pretty smiles!
Elins'a learning to multitask.
Tyler's first time on the swings--he never really got the hang of holding his neck up though.

Our little athlete!!

So Elina was around 18 months old when her fettish of balls began. She found a ball at a volleyball game and became obsessed with learning to dribble it. She can even dribble a soccer ball down the length of the lawn without pausing. Hopefully her passion for balls will never die :) This clip is what we call volleyball spiking 101.

2 pretty cute kids

Isn't he beautiful!!!



Isn't she gorgeous!!!

(Hey Fran, I'd still love to post the pics we took of her---if you get around to making the accessible for me!!)

Tyler is now crawling!

Tyler's first tentative crawling steps occurred over the weekend but Monday he figured out he can now get places and started taking advantage of it. His is still slow and steady--or maybe not so steady--but I know it won't be long before he's cruising all over the house.

Testing Video stuff

So I'm just trying to figure out how to upload videos and this is one of the older ones that I've taken with my camera. Tyler was just a few months old, and we got some of his first giggles. I'll get one of Tyler crawling here soon. Don't mind my crazy voices to get Tyler to smile, I thought Ryan was taking a picture, not filming. :)

Football tickets anyone?

GRRR.... I just spent like 15 min typing my whole post only to accidentally delete it. So here is the summary of what I just wrote regarding Ryan's birthday presents from myself and the kids (maybe it's better this way so you don't have to listen to the rantings and ramblings of an old woman). Elina made him a homemade card, Tyler's first tooth broke through and he started crawling, and I finally thought I'd gotten his present right this year. I got him 2 BYU season football tickets, which I knew he'd love since he'd asked for them last year. So I make him two mock season football tickets---spending time scrapbooking these things, which I don't do well to begin with---and I'm anticipating a "honey, you are the best wife in the whole entire world".... any ideas on what I actually hear?... "you didn't already buy these did you?...(Yeah)... well now I have four!!" The little turkey never even told me that he'd already gotten them for himself. Well I don't really feel that it is necessary for us to keep all four tickets so the point behind this post is...anyone interested in buying two BYU season football tickets for this upcoming season?

Say Cheese!!

Here are all the Utah cousins. We miss you Owen and wish you guys could be here!!!

Happy Golden Birthday Honey!!!

Isn't this the cutest birthday boy? Ryan celebrated his golden birthday on Saturday--does that give away his age without me specifically spoiling it? :) We celebrated by spending the weekend in Park City--Canyons resort. Ryan was actually participating in an Optometric Conference all weekend, but the rest of us got to party hardy :) His sister's and families came up and we celebrated by going swimming, having dinner (hence the sombrero, which was given to him at dinner--does that give away Ryan's favorite type of food to eat?), and riding the alpine slide, pictured below. We had a great weekend--a big thanks goes to Stephanie for helping out with the yummy yummy birthday cake--and thanks to the birthday boy for giving us a reason to celebrate!!!

Tyler's first time swimming and I guess his look says it all.
Yummy yummy chocolate--I hope you made a birthday wish!!!