Random iphone pics

We finally got the iphone pics off of Justin's phone, so here are a few I wanted to share.

Here are the kids with a fancy, very expensive sports car brought by our house by a brother in our ward for the kids to see. There are not very many of these in the world. What a fun treat!

At a great big park where we took Oreo on a long walk off leash.

At a Daddy-daughter day in kindergarten just before Father's Day

Havin' a little too much fun at a restaurant

The kids' fort make out of 2 big boxes. As you can see, there are several papers taped to it identifying the members of the club and the rules that the members must abide by.

"Captin Brandon, Presedent Lindsey, Jenarl Katelyn"

Club members include Brandon, Lindsey, Katelyn, Oreo and Dylan

Rules:

1. be friendly

2. raising hand

3. listening

4. thinck

5. pulite words

6. being happy

7. doing wut captin ses

8.listening to presedent or jenarl

9. no braking the club house

10. folow these rules

11. alway have a smile on your face

12. no yelling

13. ask for something politly

14. share

15. be pulite

Did you get that you have to be polite in this club?

Boys....

Cute little puppy Oreo at 3 months

Hmmm. Must have been in a weird mood after church!

Brandon at cub scout day camp

Cute Dylan in the grass

Did I ever post our beautiful tulips in the spring? I don't think I did. They were absolutely gorgeous!! I sure hope they come back up next year!

Lindsey and I at the Mother's Day Tea in kindergarten

On our flight to Arizona. These blissful moments didn't last very long unfortunately.

Miss Linds got to hold her new cousin Heidi

Playin' at the baseball park

Love my boys and their hats!

And here is Dylan figuring out how to play tether ball

That's all for now. Congrats if you made it to the end!

Picnic at our Park

Now that the older kids are in school, Katelyn, Dylan and I try to do fun things every so often. Last week we decided to take our lunch to the park and play since the weather was just perfect.

Goodbye Oreo

We had to make a very hard, difficult decision last week. We have had our cute Oreo for 6 months now and he has become a member of our family. The kids have grown very attached to him. But we had a couple of incidences that we just could not live with. Oreo we discovered had a tendency to feel possessive of bones that he chewed on from time to time. And a couple of times he nipped at kids and actually got them if they were trying to pet him when he had a bone that he really liked. This made us very sad because he was great with kids 99% of the time, but that 1% we just were not willing to live with anymore. 

We worked hard to find Oreo the perfect home and I think we succeeded. We found a great couple looking for a dog just like Oreo. We connected and set a time for them to come by last Monday evening to meet him. I told the kids Monday after school that we had to re-home him and they were all just devastated. It was so sad and hard to see them go through that. We decorated for the fall and watched a movie to distract before dinner, and then the couple came over and just fell in love with Oreo. By 8:00 that night he was gone. We all sat and cried together and then we had big bowls of ice cream.

Each day seems to be a little bit easier for the kids. They still talk about him and say how much they miss him. And I find pictures that they have drawn of him and them being sad around the house since he has gone. I hope that one day we can get another dog that is the perfect fit for us and one that I can trust 100% around my little ones.

And here we are with Oreo right before he drove away with his new family. Very sad!

So goodbye Oreo! Thanks for being such a cute puppy and spending 6 months with us.