St. George

James & I tagged along on a business trip with Steve to St. George.  While we were down there we got to spend the day with Uncle Todd and his boys shooting guns and catching up.

James shot a rifle for the first time, and he was able to hit a stick about 15 yards away without a scope!  Not bad for his first time ;)

Violin Lessons

James started violin lessons this year. (It is a required class at his school starting in 3rd grade).  He was so excited to start lessons...he brings a violin home to practice every chance he gets :)

He also has developed a sudden interest in singing!?  Steve's trying to get him to take voice lessons but he's too being really bashful about that idea?  We must have a musical boy :)

Vegetable Derby

Cub Scouts vegetable derby...enough said.  James chose a cucumber, and he even carved a little cucumber driver (Steve helped a bit).  Soooo much fun!

Soccer Season

Soccer season is almost over, and football season has already begun!  (Man it's hard to get a good picture while 10 boys are all trying to get the ball at the same time! This is the best I could do :)

It was his first season playing soccer, and he did really well! His favorite positions are forward and goalie. As much as he's enjoying playing soccer, football is really wear his heart is (and his dad is probably who we can credit for that. Ever since birth James has watch the BYU games with his dad)

Bear Lake

It was cold this year at Bear Lake, but that didn't stop us from having fun and even playing in the water!

Already looking forward to next year

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday to this guy!

First Day of School

James started his first day of school ad a 3rd grader! (How handsome is this guy?!)  He was excited to see all of his friends again, and this year he chose a purple backpack :)

Last Day of Summer

We ended the summer with a trip to the new aquarium!  We took cousin Ashley with us to have even more fun!  We saw everything from penguins & turtles to pythons & badgers. We got to pet stingrays and we got to see our first 4D movie about great white sharks! It was a fun day :)

Happy Birthday to Me!

Love my boys! They spoil me :)

Yeah Baby!

Steve made a custom seat for Blash's motorcycle so we got to keep it for a week :)  (Blash is James's birth mom's husband for those of you that don't know that)  James was nervous to even sit on it at first, but it didn't take long for him to warm up to it and he was begging for rides all week long!

Steel Days Parade

We got to be in the Steel Days Parade again! LDS Family Services has a float in the parade every year, and since Steve and I are on the board there, we get to help with all of the planning and preparations and everything. The theme we use is "Adoption Rocks" so the kids get to have blow up guitars and microphones, and we blast Kidz Bop music from the float and hand out Otter Pops to the crowd. It's a pretty fun float. This year we had twice as many people show up to participate so we ran out of Otter Pops pretty fast! James's birth mom had to work so she couldn't make it :( but hopefully next year!

4th of July

Happy 4th of July! Today we went out on the boat and did some tubing and knee boarding! The weather was beautiful and the lake was surprisingly not very crowded! Then after a fun filled day on the water, we went to Grandma & Grandpa's house for a BBQ, fireworks & swimming in the pool with all of the family. 

Cousins

Cousins from Sacramento came for a visit and to attend EFY so we decided to do some fun things while they were here.

We went bowling...

and we played mini-golf (in the dark)...

and we hiked the Y!

Already looking forward to them coming back to EFY next year!

Swim Lessons

James started swim lessons again just like he does every summer. This year he is finally good enough to move over to the big pool for his lessons so he was pretty excited about that. He is learning how to dive (while wearing his snorkel mask :)

 This is the first year that James decided to take flowrider lessons as well. He's actually pretty darn good at it! He can't wait to test his new boarding skills out on real ocean waves!

Baseball Season

It's time for baseball again. It's amazing how the kids skills improve in just one year. They don'y all dive on the ball at the same time, but there is still definitely a lot of confusion on the field :) James's favorite position is catcher :)