Happy Birthday Ben!

August 30th was Ben's Golden Birthday! He turned 30!!!

Ben in his first decade of life.

Ben in his second decade of life. (with Me & Rob Cary)

Ben at the beginning of his 3rd. 

(Sorry for the funny face picture Ben, but you made the face not me. :)

For Bens birthday we went down to Utah again and Ben & his Dad went to the BYU game. They won, of course, so that helped make this trip a really fun & happy trip.

Happy Birthday Ben!!

and Happy Birthday Rachel!!

Happy Birthday Bridger!

Bridger First Birthday! 

I can hardly believe that a year has gone by. Bridger is so amazing to us. We love him so much. 

Things Bridger loves: loves crawling over, under, between us; he loves fruits & vegetables; he loves Brandon; he loves being chased; crawling up the stairs; escaping out a door he isn't supposed to go through; getting his four teeth brushed; he loves looking over the the banister at the people down below; he loves Us & Duncan; he loves carrying things in his mouth; he love to try and play with the VCR or a remote; he loves to have baby talk conversations, and so much more.  Bridger is such a happy baby! 

Happy Birthday Bridger!!!

and Happy Birthday Melanie!! 

After party pics:

Pictures

Well, I haven't taken the time to do any blog stuff lately, but we're all home from church with a cold, so I thought I would put some of our recent pictures on here.

Brandon showing off his good looks.

My brother Bob (aka Rob) and his family stayed the night when they came through Boise on their way to Portland. It was nice to see them and Brandon loved having is cousins over. I'm really glad they came by it was really awesome to get to hang out.

Tyler & Brandon

Tyler, Danika, & B

Spencer & Erin and Parker also came for a visit. We had the best time with them.  We wished they could have stayed forever! Seriously, come back.

This is us at the Boise farmers market. (We didn't really take a lot of great pictures, I don't know why we don't really like to get everyone together for a nice picture, we seem to just take a picture when it looks like people are standing close enough together.)

Brandon and his beloved popcorn.

Brandon and Parker had a blast throwing frisbees into this water fountain. 

Friday, was Ben's work party. It was really fun with really good food. 

Bridger is turning 1 this week!!! Can you believe it?! And Ben is having his Golden birthday on the 30th, so it's going to be a fun week.

Brandon dressed himself earlier this week and thought he looked pretty great with shorts over pants.

Garden delights

We went to the state fair this weekend, Brandon actually went on a ride without crying, probably because Ben could go on it with him. But it was a lot of fun!

Here is Brandon with the prize winning tomotoes.

Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

I currently have a favorite sandwich that I thought I share with you all. It is so good for a summer lunch. 

Ingredients: Bread, Havarti Cheese, tomatoes, fresh basil, honey, pepper and butter for the grilling.  Put it all together and grill in a pan.

Oh my gosh it is so good, I think I'll go make another one right now!

Couple new pictures

Ben took these pictures with his phone. Bridger looks so relaxed in his sleep. 

Charlie & Lola

Maybe I'm the only one, but I really love the show Charlie and Lola. Brandon really likes it now, but for awhile I would sort of make him watch it because I liked it so much. If you haven't seen it, it's about these cute brother and sister, they are English and they speak ever so funny. Anyway, if you get a chance watch it, they're really funny and not super annoying like so many cartoons. Also, I think that it is very creative and artisic, which I'm keen on :)

Camping at Ponderosa

We went camping this weekend at Ponderosa. It was so so nice and really beautiful. It's about 2 hours North of us. The drive a really scenic. We just camped, swam a little in the lake and just played games and hung out by the camp fire. It was really nice, we're planning to go again for sure, hopefully we'll get some friends to come up with us next time, there was a lot of rafting, canoeing, kayaking, and boating. The rafting looks so fun!

Anyway, here is a picture of the lake. I wish I would have taken pictures of the beach we went to go swimming, it was perfect and so beautiful!

We played Bocci ball and this is Brandon explaining the rules to us, basically his rule was that even if one us wins he wins, so he gets to throw his bocci ball first. We needed to be retaught this every few rounds, just incase we forgot.

Perfect form :)

Brandon was roasting his first marshmellow and grabbed it while flaming, luckily Ben was there in a flash and Brandon just got a little blister at the end of his finger, needless to say not only did he learn his lesson but we did too. We'll wait a bit longer for him to play with fire.

Happy Bridger

Brandon took this picture, it turned out really good.