Camping with Miss Tanya

Roasting smores over a cookie, pretzel, fruit roll up fire pit!!  

Everybody get Keith!

They made these cute camping scenes!  Trent has a ninja in his felt sleeping bag!

Lanterns!

Lake

Friday we took Izabelle and Emily to the lake before family pictures!! There were soooo many bugs!!!!

Trent wake boarding!!  

Emily, Grant, Izabelle, Trent

Becker Family Pictures

We had BIG Becker family pictures!!  Meaning Evelyn and Verne!  Izabelle and Emily were in town too!!  

 Verne wanted a shot with everyone holding a letter  . . BECKERS!  Josh is third so we were C!

 Grandkids!

 I actually like the way the gal edited these!  We thought the light was a problem but then I saw the CD and realized her style!

BECKERS

They say . . .

Our kids were having a big discussion in the car trying to figure out something funny Lydia could say.  Like, "What does an Elf say?"  "What's your favorite color?"  They were talking about how funny it is cousin James says "ahhowooo" for big foot!!  So Trent said, "We need to have Lydia say to James, tell us what Cain says!"
I texted that to Paul and his response was how does Trent know about Cain?  I said, he hears everything!!! We have had many a hard night scared of big foot!! 
Let's just say we have not watched Harry and the Henderson's in years:-)) May have brought out that movie a few years too early!! I honestly thought they would love it!!

I was re-wrapping Blake's splint.  I told him to wait a minute and let it breathe!  I looked up and Blake was taking slow deep breaths!!

Blake pushed Lydia the other day into the dresser!  I said, "Blake, we do not push, you know that, you just did the same thing to Lydia that happened to you!"  (I was talking about pushing out of anger!)  I was checking her head while Blake was checking Lydia's pinky finger!!  

We were at Ruth's house and Lydia was checking out Ruth's small dog Sadie!  She asked me 3 times, "Mom, is Sadie a cat?" I told her no!  She then showed me whiskers with her hands on her own face and said, "It has cat cheeks!"  

Josh was mowing the lawn the other day and the neighbor kids kept calling Roxy over! They are afraid of her so they would hide! Josh told them to stop, he said she will come when you call her!  He moved to the backyard to mow!  Now the kids were throwing rocks at her over the fence and ducking down! They almost hit Josh too! He noticed Roxy may have retrieved one and swallowed it! He told them again to stop!  Roxy started eating grass and leaves and throwing up! We knew she swallowed a rock! Josh took her to the vet! We explained to the kids that we would put her to sleep instead of doing surgery again!  Later that day Grant said, "Has dad killed Roxy yet?" It took me back to my appendix surgery when Grant was at the Simmons and so graciously asked, "Max, Claudia, why did you kill your dog?"  Don't we all love a little dose of unfiltered honesty!!

Swimming

Izabelle and Emily flew in Monday night!  Tuesday we went swimming with the Beckers!

John and Grant

Mikaylee, Trent and Emily

Mikaylee, Hadley, Lyd, Blake, Trent, Chase, Grant, John

Cook-out

Friday night we did a cook-out with the Reese's at our barn!!  Grandma Gayle was babysitting the Simmons' kids! Mike and Jill were at a wedding in MI!  We rode 4-wheelers and had hot dogs and smores!!

James, Austin, Blake, Lydia

St. George

We headed to St. George on Friday, 6-14.  Verne came with us! We met my folks for dinner at the Brick Oven that evening!  Josh went for a motorcycle ride with my dad and Grant and I went to see the Mortensens!  Saturday my folks and I drove to Vegas for Sheri's endowment!  I am so glad I got to go!! Josh and Verne took the kids to Superman and swimming with the Mortensens!  From Vegas my parents drove to Glendale! Josh missed the AF half marathon so I could go! He still got a medal and shirt!  HaHa!!  For Father's Day we went to Red Robin!  (and Chuck-a-Rama for lunch with the Mortensen's!)

Me and Suzanne

Splint

Dad came to the last session of Trent and Grant's swimming lessons!  I had to switch swimming all around because of Blake's finger!!  I wanted to show his second splint in this picture!

Doctors

I took Grant to see Dr. Duffy today at 11:45!  He has swimmers ear, which is very painful!!  Dr. Duffy could not believe that they set Blake's finger at Insta Care without putting him under! He said he would have sent us to Primary Children's!  Then he found out Blake did not even have a local and was shocked!!  This was, of course, very upsetting to me!  He told me not to stress and told Blake he would be accepted into the Special Armed Forces because we now know he would not give away our countries secrets!! To funny!!

Dr. Evans, the Orthopedic doc, said they should not have taken off the wrap when they x-rayed Blake!!  I recognized him and found out he worked at the Insta Care sometimes!  That made Trent very uncomfortable I was bad mouthing the Insta Care and found out he took shifts there! I apologized and said I wish he had been there Thursday! He smiled because everything I said was true!!  Blake will keep his splint on tight until next Monday, then get a waterproof hand cast for 3 weeks!  

Tanya Marshmallow Party

The boys helped Blake at this party make his marshmallow shooter!!  They had loads of fun!!!

Blake's Finger

 When Josh and I got home Thursday from TX we drove to Provo to get signs for Josh's work!  We had lunch and dropped Josh off to meet Joel!  While I was home with the kids Trent and Blake were wrestling!  Blake fell back and rolled off the couch and broke/dislocated his finger!  We met Josh at the InstaCare!  No fun!!  While the Doc tried to put it back into place and Josh held Blake tight, I thought I was going to die!  It was awful! He was so scared to go into InstaCare to begin with!  He HATES going to the doctor and needles!  Once the doc thought she had it back in place she wrapped it!  They x-rayed it again to check and took the wrapping off!  Josh said it poked right back out to the side!  We were so proud of him for being so brave despite feeling so scared!!  He goes to the Orthopedic Doc Monday!! 

 Leanne at the InstaCare gave him the dragon!

 Crying is exhausting!

Texas

Josh and I left for TX Monday (June 3) morning and came home Thursday morning(got up at 3am, to be home by 10am)! These are all pictures I texted Trent!  To me Austin is a mix of Glendale, CA and Rapid City, SD!!

 Traffic signals on their sides!

 HEB is the grocery store! Josh remembers that from his mission in Mexico! 

 Oasis Restaurant over looking Lake Travis!  It is set up so everyone can see the sun set!  The Thains brought us here!

 The hill reminds me of Glendale!

 The city!

The Capital!

 Wooded streets, which I love!!

Meanwhile, the kids had a BLAST with Grandma!! Thank you Grandma!!

Grandma and Lydia!

 Blake

 Lyd

 Grant

 Pouring cement!