Roasting Marshmallows in the Backyard

Megan and John came over with Daniel and Rachel. It was one of the many times I recruit John to come over and help me chop down trees or some other sort of manual labor. Anyway, to have some fun with the kids we roasted marshmallows.

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Misc. Fun

Just some miscellaneous fun pictures.

The Playset

So we decided before our kids get too big we wanted to have a playset for them to be monkeys on. My parents came up to help build, although we had many little helpers as well. As any part of the playset was completed the kids had to thoroughly test it. After visiting our local Costco, these were the results (Be grateful that I am not sharing the picture of my dad after he split out his pants...):

GGGGOOOOAAAAALLLLLL

Ben decided he wanted to play soccer this year. And most of the 5-week YMCA camp he did, but not always. :) While Ben played both Emma and Spencer thought they needed to play soccer too so we might have a whole family of soccer players by the fall. So here are a few pics:

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Easter

Yes. If you must know it is a little emberassing to post pictures from Easter in May.

Our ward (neighborhood) had its usual Easter egg hunt. Of course Dana was a little busier since she had to help plan it. The kids had a good time although Emma was a little sick the morning of the hunt. (Yes she lost her breakfast just after that 2nd picture.)

Funny 2 Year Old

So I think (and I am pretty sure Dana agrees (and we are in no ways partial)) that we have some pretty good kids. Of course at times they can get a little silly. We find Spencer at this age has his own ideas on how things should be done. Here are a few examples:

Spencer has taken an interest in potty training very early. There are still a few details to work out.

He has also taken an interest in fashion. I am just not sure which fashion.

The culinary world has nothing on him either. He has very good reasons for using an ice cream scooper as a spoon. You will have to ask him what that is.

Well, there is no real explanation here.

And of course as every landscaping expert will tell you, everything is easier if you just lay down in the middle of it.

Ben's 5th Birthday!

Ben had his 5th birthday a little over a week ago. We had a little family party with a lady bug cake. For gifts he got a car race track, robotic bugs, a couple of Star Wars toys and Batman Lego for the Xbox. He is a good kid and from the first picture you can tell he had a good time.

Also, Emma had hawaiian day at school. We borrowed some things from our neighbors and this is the picture.