Baby Rachel

It's been a little while. I've been a little lazy and didn't even take any pictures of my own kids for at least a week.
We have some friends in from Texas and we were able to attend this cute little one's baby blessing today. I also took some pictures of her last week that will be coming soon, maybe even a personal post.

The Cake

I already posted Kendall's One Year pictures, but we didn't have time to do a cake that day. We finally did it at about 13 months. Now a few weeks later, here they are. I wasn't too sure about doing them on the grass, but I really like how they turned out. He really didn't eat that much, but really made a mess of the cake in the end.

Dinner on the Lake

I have been listening to other mom's talking about how excited they are for summer and have been planning fun things for their kids to do. Since Braiden only went to school two days a week and for a few hours, it doesn't seem like summer is a big of a break for us. The weather hasn't been super hot so it doesn't feel much like summer either.
On Tuesday we decided last minute to take the boat out for a test drive and make sure it was ready to go for the year. We took off about 6pm, grabbed some Subways and headed up to Deer Creek. I will admit that after taking the boat out for the first time, I am now really looking forward to summer. I just hope it warms up a little more.





Gotta love the sweatshirt over the jacket. He looks ready for football.


Braiden has a hard time holding still enough to take a picture, so this one turned out pretty good for him.





We let the kids have their cookies while we were drying off the boat. Braiden wouldn't smile without the cookie in his mouth, although that's not much of a smile.




They were both a little hesitant the first time out, but I'm sure it won't be long before they are back in the swing of things. Braiden didn't want to put his feet in the water off the back of the boat, but decided when we were about ready to leave that he wanted to go down and feel the water. Brooklynn was really hesitant about putting her feet in. I think because of the waves coming in. They probably seemed pretty big to her.

Harrison

I do a little mini photo shoot of Harrison every month. These were taken on Mother's day so he's probably due for some more. I normally don't have much luck getting him to smile, but he was all smiles this time. I don't think I spent more than 15 minutes taking his picture this time.





Kris, this next one is my favorite. Let me know if you would rather have another one.






Ok, I hope I don't offend anyone with this next picture, but I had to post it because I think it's a little funny I even got it. I didn't even know I got it until after I went through the pictures on my camera. I took a bunch of pictures super fast and while I did he put his hand up and grabbed his collar and this happened to be one of the pictures in the bunch. (No photoshop involved!)


I had to do a double take when I first saw it. Still makes me laugh that I got it.

Kendall - One Year

I did this photo shoot 3 weeks ago and finished them up today. I'm pretty happy with them even though I was dealing with the sun right around noon. This kid is so smiley, but wasn't that day and he really wanted to play with all the rocks. We didn't have time to do birthday cake pictures and finally did them this last Saturday, so they will be coming soon.















He was ready to be done, but we still got a few more after this one...

The Last 2 Weeks

Here is a little update on what we have been doing the last few weeks, besides getting the soccer slide show done. Warning... there are a lot of pictures!!

Travis asked me a few months back to ask my sister if she wanted to do the Ogden Half Marathon with him. She said she would and while I was signing him up I had the crazy thought come to my mind that if they can do it so can I. So of course I signed myself up, then wondered what in the heck I had just done. We were training for the 5 mile run in Moab and it worked out that it put us in the 3rd week of training for the half. My sister ended up getting hurt playing soccer the week before and couldn't run with me, so I was totally bummed about that. She asked me after the race if I was going to do it again with her and I kept saying that I would have to wait and see. Now that it's been awhile I think I might do it again someday. Anyway, I did better than I thought I would. I'm glad I did it, that it's over and I can say I did it. Here are some pictures from the day...


Braiden ran the kids K race. He was pretty excited to have Travis and Grandpa running with him.


He was also excited about his cow bell medal.






Later that night we took Grandpa's rockets to the park and launched them. Braiden had been looking forward to it for a few months after my dad showed him the rockets. I don't think I got any great pictures of Braiden. He doesn't hold still for very long and all of the other pictures I took were from across the park with my telephoto lens and they didn't turn out that great. I took Brooklynn over so she could launch the last rocket and was able to get these. She thought the rocket was pretty cool and started making it fly around.








The next day we had stake conference so we were out of church before we normally go. Since we were a little sore (ok, my quads were a lot sore) we decided it might be good to go for a hike (more like a walk) up the canyon. I think it might have helped so I'm glad we did it. After hiking we hung out at the park. The boys played catch and Brooklynn enjoyed running around while I relaxed on the blanket. It was an afternoon well spent.










Today was Braiden's last day of school, but they had their Graduation last week. I love the little caps and gowns, very cute. They sang some songs and then got their little diplomas. It's so crazy to think he will be going to Kindergarten. He is more than ready and I think I am too.






Braiden and his teacher...


Thank you to Grandma for coming and also Karli, Kathryn and Kaiden. (Karli you're welcome for not posting the picture with you)