July

July - We started out July with having Jasmine come and stay with us for week. It was awesome to have her here. We miss seeing everyone and appreciate it SO much when someone comes for a visit. Jasmine and I went rock climbing - we really stunk, but it was a lot of fun. I'm glad she came with me. Ben and Jasmine went race car driving, and we all went to the Birds of Prey Museum.

I also cut my bangs this past July :/ I didn't really like them, so I'm growing them out.

We also started taking family tennis lessons. Ben and I had such a great time playing. Ben plays so well! It kind of bugs me! Just kidding. I love it. Brandon loves it and Bridger can amazingly hit 1 out of 100 balls. I mean it is unbelievable how much he misses the slowest of balls, but he actually still loves it and thinks its just as funny as we do that he cannot make contact with the ball.

During July, we went to a bunch of farmers markets and went swimming a ton. Also, Ben started a guys night with a bunch of friends. They get together almost every week. I think Ben was getting jealous that I always had plans with my friends ;)

Another really fun thing we did, that we haven't ever done before, is float the Boise River. We went with our kids, a bunch of friends, and their kids, it was awesome!! Can't wait to do that again next year.

This is the only good picture I have with bangs.

I stole these pictures from Jasmine. Ben and I took pictures on our phone, but I'm too lazy to get them on the computer right now.

These were taken a the Birds of Prey Museum.

Hanging out in during the hot Summer days.

I went with some girl friends to the Boise Art Museum. The had a shoe exibit. Sorry art, but my favorite part were the appetizers at the show :)

June -

Ok, it is November and I am going to try and do a Summer recap.

We had a really AWESOME Summer. Probably one of the best for me :-) The weather here in Boise was perfect!

In June, the boys and I flew to sunny Southern California, to spend some time with my family. It was so great to see everybody! It was a nice surprise to have my cousin Nadia in town as well. We haven't seen each other in years!

Anyway, here we are at my Grandma Merle and Grandpa Bob's house.

It was so nice to be at her house as always :) She made us a delicious lunch and the kids had so much fun there. Grandpa Bob, swung Bridger on the outside swing, and they were both in heaven. So cute. While I was there my Grandma had me pick out some things I might like to have (because they were thinking of selling the house) and so I picked some of the art work that my Grandma painted. She also gave me another piece of art that used to have hanging in her guest bathroom, that I used to stare at when I was kid while I was… well, you know. :D Anyway, I love it. It is actually something that really reminds me of her house.

While in California, my Dad and Alexis made plans for us to go to camp in the San Bernadino mountains at a camp called Camp de Benneville Pines. I'm not going to lie, it felt a little crazy with the boys and not having Ben with me, but it was SO much fun for the boys. There is nothing like spending time in nature. We went with my Dad and Alexis, Nadia, Jasmine & Jeremiah (Alexis' great grandkids), and Devon (Alexis' daughter-in-law and her son).

Learning to draw castles with Grandma Alexis.

Playing and canoeing at the lake.

Jasmine at the little talent show. (So cute!)

Brandon loved the main hall of the camp. He loved that he could go in anytime and make himself a hot cocoa :)

After the talent show, the kids made a ton of s'mores!

My happy Bridger.

At the end of our trip we spent a couple days at Bryan and Melanie's house with my Mom and Nadia. I love spending time with them. We had such a nice time together. I just love their girls too. They are what make me wish I had daughters sometimes - but then Brandon and Bridger remind me why two boys is quite enough :)

Cute little Tess. My favorite part about this picture is Isabella in the background. That is such a Bryan pose. Hahahaha.

My mom is going to kill me that I posted this picture. LOL!! We are so dumb.

My beautiful Mom and cousin Nadia.

Brandon didn't dare touch Tess, or she would flip out, so that is as close as he would get. So funny!

After our trip we came home to lonely Ben. As always it was nice to be back home. At the end of the month we went to Ben's Summer work party and had a lot of fun. I'm mostly mentioning it, because during the party Brandon went tubing on the boat and had such a great time. As most of you know Brandon can be timid about a lot of things and it was just awesome to see him having such a great time doing that. Ben was kind of shocked. Brandon asked for weeks to be able to do it again. He said he's going to save every dollar he got to get a boat - that lasted until he got his first dollar- then suddenly his priorities changed.

As Cute As Ever!

Kindergarten Grad!

This little Dude is now a Kindergarten Grad!

(sniffle-sniffle)

Utah Bike Trip

We went down to Utah for a quick weekend trip. We celebrated our 11th Anniversary and Ben rode in the Cycle Salt Lake Century (100 mile bike ride) with one of his best friends.

The 2 days we were there were packed full of fun stuff. We spent a lot of Friday with Ben's familia. We went to Thanksgiving Point and the kids had a lot of fun. Then Ben and I went to Snake Creek Grill in Heber for our anniversary. I love that place! While we were eating we were trying to remember what we've done for each of our anniversaries, I think we finally remembered all of them, but it was kind of hard. It was kind of fun trying to remember all of them. We've had some fun ones! The next morning Ben and Spencer started their looooooooooooooooooooong ride and I spent the day with Erin and kids. It was a fun and CRAZY time. (Thanks Erin for the fun time! ;) You are a seriously good sport about everything! ) Ben and Spencer finished and had a great time!

Grandma Jensen is a such a fun Grandma!

How cute is Brandon?!! I just love him!

How cute is Ben?!! I just love him! lol ;)

This is how Erin and I spent a lot of our time that day. Letting the kids play in a flooded playground. Without a change of clothes or towel, but the kids had fun playing in it and sometimes drinking it. Seriously! Drinking it! But make no mistake, we are still good Mom's.

This is the only picture I took of the kids at the Discovery Center in Salt Lake. We were there for like a half hour and then had to leave because our men were finishing their ride. So we didn't get to see everything, but that place looked FUN! We'll have to check that place out again soon!

Easter

Yeah, that's right, Easter.

Yes, it is the first of June tomorrow, yet I am about to post a little something about our Easter. What I can remember of it anyway. I guess really only has been a little over a month, so, not too bad really.

In a nutshell, we had a fun Easter.

Our neighborhood had an awesome Easter fair, with a hunt, games, face painting, a freaky Easter bunny greeting all the boys and girls, a bounce house and an obstacle course slide, it was really awesome. I think if we knew it was going to be so fun we wouldn't have planned going on another Easter egg hunt, but alas, we didn't know and bought tickets aboard the Easter Train at the Thunder Mountain Railroad in the lovely mountains of Idaho. Bridger and Brandon were way excited to go on a train. It was about 2 hours long, an hour up the mountain, where we all got off and had an easter egg hunt, then road the train for another hour back down the mountain. It was kind of nice actually, because Ben and I were a little under the weather, so it was nice to just sit and relax a little.

Easter Sunday, Ben and I were major sickies, and were mad at each other for not being able to take care of the kids because the other was sick. Don't you hate that. It stinks when you are both sick at the same time. However, the Easter bunny did manage to come by our house for a little hunt and brought the already spoiled kids some presents.

Overall it was a nice and fun Easter holiday (aside from Ben being a big baby when he got sick [a total man cold, watch it and you'll know what I'm talking about] and me being understandably upset while being majorly sick :) )

Can I take a picture? Can I take a picture?

Brandon begs to take pictures with the camera all of the time. I really need to get him a kid camera or something. However, these are the pictures he take when we let him have it. I mean common!

This is a good one!

Seriously?! the garbage!

And these are the most interesting of the bunch! lol!