First Sentence!

The Frog said his first complete sentence today! He was working on a little fish puzzle and he said

"Blue one goes there."

Nice one, little man!

Backyard Water Fun!

My ward has a play group that meets every Friday at a different park, and the last Friday of the month is hosted by someone. I only got a couple of pictures when the others were here (us moms like to chat, you know...) but it was really fun to see the kiddos playing in the slip-n-slide and the kiddie pool.

The Frog's buddy, O. really liked to drink the water. He also had a big spoon that he would scoop it up with and drink from. it was so cute.

The Frog wanted to go back out after his nap, so I had time for a lot more pictures. (too many...)

blowing bubbles

The Frog prefers to slide on his belly, and at the bottom, he would blow some more bubbles.

Practicing his kicks!

being cute and wet

swimmin'

trying to slip 'n slide.

The Frog had a lot of fun moving the balls and other objects from pool to slip 'n slide and back.

lookin' cute in my hat.

When I decided it was time to clean up, The Frog decided he had enough of his swimsuit...

but not his sunglasses :D

Happy Birthday Jay!

We decided to spread out the birthday gifts for Jay all day, this year, since he was staying home from work (sick! boo) and I had made him a new pair of summer pajamas, so he got those first so he could wear them all day.I bought the T-shirt from Down East, but the "shpants" are my design. Jay's always rolling up his pants to be capri-length, so I just though I'd save him the trouble.
I love seer-sucker in the summer.

He, of course, got special food all day long- french toast and smoothie for breakfast, In-N-Out for lunch, and ribs and potatoes for dinner. I even bought Goodwood's Sweet and Sassy BBQ sauce- it's our favorite so far.
Here's my boys with the cake and all 25 candles. I can't believe how young he still is- I always forget.
Happy Birthday hun! It's hip to be square :)

Father's Day

For Fathers' Day this year, I decided to try my hand at poaching eggs and hollandaise sauce, i.e. Egg's Benedict.

It was tricky, but it turned out okay and I'm excited to make it a yearly tradition. (Though, probably not much more frequently than that. It's more involved than I typically ask from breakfast.)
I forgot to use the camera all day and forgot to get a shot of my handsome husband ready for church, sporting a boutonniere of fresh garden flowers. (I made 3 to make sure at least ONE of them would turn out looking decent...)
We also had one of Jay's favorite dishes for dinner, and tapioca pudding for dessert.

Here's to the wonderful father of my children. I love you Jay :)

Family BBQ

We had the local fam over for a BBQ and we had so much fun, I forgot to take many pics. Family reunions are going to be sooo awesome in my family- we have a lot of boys about the same age. I just hope we can get another girl in there sometime soon to play with our little woman.