Boys Toys and Lots of Noise

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Temple Fork

We thought it would be fun to drive up in the mountains and go see Old Ephrims grave. What we didnt' know is that the forest service didn't have the gate to get back up in there open yet. A sign at the bottom of the road would have been useful! But we let the boys get out and run around anyway. We had my nephew James with us too.

Blake picked me a flower.

Poor Tyson was trying to get into my cooler and pulled the lid down onto his nose. It bleed pretty bad and has scared up since then poor guys.

It was worth the drive to see all of the wild flowers I though. I love living in near such a beautiful area!

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Man Camping

Bryan has been wanting to take the boys camping for awhile so he took the older boys up camping. Where I'm told the men can burp- fart and drink all the root beer they want. And of course shoot things (with the help of their dads of course). My boys totally loved it!

Bryan's brother Joe and his boy James came. Also Bryan's dad.

It isn't a Palmer camping trip if there isn't a dead animal somewhere...

School's out for summer!

Ty on the first and last day of first grade- serious can he stop growing up so fast???

I was really worried about Tyson having a teacher that was a intern teacher- wasn't sure what that really meant before. (Has done all of their teaching degree but student teaching) I couldn't have asked for someone better fit for Ty though. She worked really hard to help him try to succeed and do well. I bet we e-mailed once a week for the last couple of months to see how he was doing. She sent different reading things for him to do with me at home to try to help him. He went from being in the very top of the class in reading in kindergarden to pretty low but the end of first grade. I read with him ALL THE TIME but he is just having a hard time to get it to click with him. I know he is trying really hard too and it breaks my heart. I'm a teacher for crying out loud I should be able to help him! He is improving though slowly and we will keep at it.

He was supposed to just smile in these pictures... he is too funny.

Blake was going to our neighbor's preschool Jenny Painter. He had so many cute little friends. He is dang smart and really didn't need preschool except for he just loved the social at it.

This is his group after they went to the bug lab at USU. We went and got some aggie ice cream.

Blake's best friend is named Ben Simon. Blake talked about him all the time. He loves to play with him he says.

Not sure if I'm ready to have Blake in kindergarden and Ty in 2nd grade....

May at the Palmers

I've been waiting for Brett to grow up a little bit just praying that life will get a little easier and I have news for you- it isn't any easier! And now my baby is turning into a toddler! UGH! So I've been trying to savor the moments with my little ones as much as I can. Bryan keeps telling me he is so done having kids and it makes me sad to think about that part of my life being done. I HATE being pregnant but I love my sweet babies. How couldn't you love a face like this:

Ty finished up his last month of school. I wanted to cry when he said goodbye to his teacher Mrs. Downs because she was SO GOOD to work with me to help Ty. He has a really, really hard time focusing on things especially at school. I would do homework with him for hours every night trying to help me catch back up with reading. He is a really good little kid at school though and for that I'm thankful. I hope things can get better for him at school soon!

Brett loves the tramp- unless the boys are jumping him all over kingdom come which happens a lot.

We headed to Wyoming to visit Bryan's brother Cory and his wife Katie. I really miss them living close! They had some cute kittens that Stockton was obsessed with! He loves animals a ton. My older boys were so happy to be with their cousins. I hardly saw them because they were off playing the whole time.

My niece Abby (the poor lone girl with all these boys) totally cracks me up in this picture.

Brett FINALLY got his first tooth at about 12-13 months. Not my oldest to get teeth but he is pretty old. His first tooth was his top side tooth just like Stockton. So weird.

We call them his hillbilly teeth.

We did our annual grave visiting extravaganza again. We started out at the Jensen graves (Bryan's grandparents and uncles) and his Uncle Ivan and kids and Aunt Rhea met up with us there.

Then after a fun dinner we headed to the Logan cemetery.

This is my Grandpa Packs grave and below is Grandma and Grandpa Palmers graves. I wasn't going to buy flowers this year to put on them but in the end I really wanted too. I think it's important for my kids to remember the family that got us where we are today.