Jack with Patterson

OK so I haven't posted forever so here are a ton of new posts. We are watching our friend Todd's dog Patterson for the next few days. The boys are obsessed with him. Parker wants to be doing something with him at all times but doesn't want the dog to touch him at all. Jack on the other hand likes to play right there with him. It is so darn cute to see the boys with him. Jack today wanted to hold his leash in the back yard and it was darling. Patterson laid down so Jack laid down right by him. Patterson ended up pulling Jack around by the end of it. Jack would just sit down right next to Patterson when he was sleeping and just poke him. By the end of the night Parker was doing better not being so scared of him touching him. Our hope by the end of this is to have Parker not so scared of dogs anymore. I was a little nervous about taking the dog since I have never had a dog before but today went great. He is such a cute well behaved puppy. It gives me hope that one day I could own a dog which is truly something I never thought I could do.

My Parents fun gift to us

My mom and dad decided to spoil us a little bit this summer and they bought all the Grand kids this fun new water slide. We set it up in my back yard today and the kids had so much fun on it. My nephew's are here from St. George this week staying with Camie and so it was fun to have an activity that all ages of Grand kids could do together. It is going to be so fun to have this summer. They played king of the hill on it and of course all the boys had to torture all the girls by pouring water all over then.

Memorial Day Weekend

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We had such a blast Memorial Day Weekend. Our plan was to camp out in the back yard with the boys but since that got rained out we decided last minute to take a trip to Park city with the boys. We had tons of fun. We went to the Olympic Park and then to Park City resort where they had a small carnival going on. We let the boys ride a few rides and then we went and got some dinner at Cafe Rio one of my favorites. The swimming pool at the Hotel was great. It had a kids area which the boys loved. We had to pull Jack away screaming. We got Ice Cream at cold stone again another favorite and then spent the night watching movies in the Hotel. Our room had a hot tub on the balcony so the boys went swimming in the hot tub the next morning. They loved it. On the way home we went to cascade springs and the boys took the little hike around the fish ponds. That night we went and say my Grandpa Kocherhans grave with all of my family and then had a great dinner. We had all the 4 year old cousin sleep at our house that night and they had tons of fun together. On Monday morning I got to get up early with my beehives and put the flags up all over our ward. The Deacon leaders provided a great breakfast for us and we had a great time putting up the flags. That night we had a BBQ with Dave's family and of course a game of kick ball where Dave and his brothers basically end up beating each other up. It was an action packed weekend but tons of fun. I love when we have a 3 day weekend so we can spend some extra time with Dave. Life is so much more fun when he is around.

Take me out to the Ball Game

We have had tons on fun watching Dave play softball the past few weeks. The boys love it. They just run around and play and cheer on Dad. They of course love the snack bar and have to get some sort of treat every time we go. It is such a fun way to spend summer night plus we get to see Dave more since he gets off work early to play. Dave loves having his boys at the ball park as that is where he spent so much of his life when he was younger. My favorite part is at the end of every game Dave plays he gets both boys and they run all around the bases. I am not sure why he started doing it but he is so cute to see my 3 boys running the bases together. Dave is such a great Dad.

FHE Fun

Dave got me my own fire pit for mothers day(well actually I bought it and told him it was my mothers day present.) since Camie and Erick are moving we can't use theirs anymore :( Anyway so we had a campfire last night with Camie and Erick's family. It was tons of fun. I have to say this is one of my favorite summer activities. We made smores and roasted tons of marshmallow's. Parker last year wouldn't eat roasted marshmallow's, he would just eat them out of the bag, but last night he probably ate like 10 roasted marshmallow's. He said "your right mom these are good" It is always fun to do it with Camie and Erick's family. We will be sad when they are not next door anymore and can't just come over every night. It made me so excited for summer nights.

Dinosaur Museum

We had tons of fun at the dinosaur museum with the kids.