July Update

We have loved the weather here.  The fruit trees are starting to produce beautiful fruit and the we love being outside.  Dallin keeps asking me where the beach is and when I told him that there was not a beach in Albuquerque he was shocked.  I guess he just assumed there was a beach everywhere.  Even though we miss the beach and pool a lot, I don't miss the heat and humidity.  We tried to take some pictures of the kids before church, but we got a little more attitude that we needed...

Dallin and Brooke love playing and goofing around together.  They are constantly coming up with new games and love pretending they are animals or having pretend birthday parties together.  I'm thankful that I still have another year before Dallin is in Kindergarten all day.  Brooke is going to go crazy without him.

New trick:  Balancing apples on their heads.  Dallin has gotten pretty good!

Grapes from our garden

Game night:  Sunday afternoons have been so much fun for us.  I'm glad Brooke was able to capture some of our game night.  It has become a fun tradition and the kids are becoming great team players.

Caught in the act!  Brooke is always getting into the peanut butter.  She is an addict.  I'm going to have to start hiding it from her.  Every morning the first thing she asks for is peanut butter.  The honey is new...two of the worst things to clean up!!

Fun Comments this Month:

*We were at Aunt Julie's house and she told the kids that they could each have a grasshopper cookie if they cleaned up all the toys.  Dallin yelled up to the other kids to come down and help, "Julie is going to give us a catapillar cookie if we clean up!"

*Dallin asked me if I knew how a french fry is made.  I said yes do you?  He said, "They take the brown kind of tomatoes and cut them up and then put sprinkles on them.  I saw it on a commercial."  The things you can learn from TV.

*Dallin was getting a spoon for his yogurt and asked me, "Are these the little spoons..you know size 4?"

*We were at the park and Dallin said, "Watch mom, I'm going to do a trick on the monkey bars.  Let's see...This is a very dangerous trick so I'm going to need an assisitant."  He looks around the park and then selects me.  A very creative way to get your mom to come help you cross the bars.

*Dallin and his cousin Colton were talking about Doctors last week.  Colton told Dallin that his brothers hated going to the Doctor because they gave them shots on all parts of their bodies.  Dallin said, "I don't like my Doctor either.  He's a mad scientist."