Catch Up

I am so glad that it is FINALLY getting warm up here. I feel like we've have the longest spring imaginable! Which I really don't mind because I love Spring, but up here Spring means SNOW and that I am tired of. Yet the last few weeks have been really nice and we've had so much fun playing in our backyard. It is wonderful to have grass this year instead of dirt!

We really haven't been up to much lately but since it has been a long time since I posted I'll do a little catch up. Jon finally fixed our truck-- it broke last summer-- because he is done with school now (only has his Thesis left to write!). Asher was cute and got his tools out and worked with him. Here is Asher fixing the back of the truck.

He's also been into building lately and a few mornings ago he and I built this tower. It was his design and I was super impressed it held up as well as it did. Well, that is until Rose came over-- you can see her on the move in the picture!

Hmmm.... lets see what else have we been up to?

Playing at the park with cousins. Rose got SO sunburned that day. I felt like a really bad mom. It just really took me by surprise because it was the first day where it had been nice enough to be outside for a long stretch of time. But don't worry, I am stocking up on spray-on sunscreen(which is SO worth the inordinate amount of money it costs when you have little kids) and hopefully we will avoid bad burns again this summer.

Eating lots of pancakes for breakfast.

Asher really loves pancakes and lately Jon has been making him pancakes that are shaped like trains. This one that Jon made him actually has a face on it (that you can't really see in the picture). I guess he was so excited about this one he decided to hug it! Oh, and stick it to his tummy!

Rose has been very interested in books lately. Her favorite are ones about spiders. Strange, huh? I think it is because she really likes the "itsy bitsy spider" song, but maybe she just like bugs. She does get pretty excited about worms as well. She and Asher love finding them in the garden and carry them around in their pockets. Yuck.

Here she is reading scriptures with Jon a few mornings ago. They didn't know I was taking this picture. It just melts my heart.

Okay and to end this really random post I will end with a really random picture. A few weeks ago we went up to help my brother and his wife do some painting on their new house (which is awesome-- I am very jealous of them). I was in the middle of cleaning up my painting supplies when my brother mentioned that Asher had just ran into the bathroom with a bowl and had turned on the water. When I went in I found him and Rose lapping water out of the bowl and meowing like cats. It was pretty hilarious. Those two never cease to make me smile!

Oh, and he'd also grabbed a carton of chicken broth. I have no idea why!

Crazy boy.