Month: September 2015

Let’s finish off our June in pictures. Shelling peas with the boys.  I made the comment that, for me, summertime smells like fresh shelled peas.  Moments later, I am faced with this… Not exactly what I meant. Boys roughhouse.  Even my most mellow son gets a bit too bouncy and dangerous at times.  In June, […]

While eating Arby’s take-out one day, Tommy said, “They make our fries curly by putting them in the dishwasher.” Yum. There you go.

It seems to have become our tradition to host a family party for Father’s Day.  We grill;  we visit;  we play. This year we had the added bonus of getting two of my cousins and their families to spend the afternoon with us.  Given that I only have 11 cousins in all, none of which […]

May and June are baseball season and we had 3 playing again this year.  Billy was the oldest on his 1st and 2nd grade team.  Rusty and Tommy got to be on the same t-ball team one more time. It was a fun season and all the boys got better at their baseball skills. We […]

For the Fourth of July weekend, we wanted to do another family hike.  However, with Bobby being against the backpack carrier, I had to find one short enough for him to walk, but interesting enough for the older boys.  I found one near the mouth of Ogden Canyon called The Birdsong Trail. It wasn’t too […]