Summer Happenings

This has been a summer full of hot days, trips to the community pool, and not much else. 

Summer family walks to Arctic Circle. 

These boys sure love each other. 

Chillin by the pool. 

Colter and Ezra enjoying (or not so much) a ride in the bike trailer. Thanks mom for your old bike! Colter's first time. We rode to the pool. He lost it when we rode through some sprinklers. Ez loved it the whole way. 

We work hard, we play hard, we pass out hard? (HAD to get a pic of Colter actually sleeping with a binky!)

We had Ezra take swim lessons from my friend and neighbor, Emily Dyer. Eight, twenty minute sessions. The first session was rough. He liked it and was excited for about five minutes. Then lots of crying. The next two lessons were even harder. By the fourth lesson, he was really liking it. The next four all consisted of Ezra waking up in the morning and asking if we could get ready and go to his lesson. He came obsessed with Emily. Always talking about her, asking about her, and kissing her arm during the lessons. 

Ezra went from fearing the water to doing some swim positions and techniques (I guess, I'm no swimmer) like the superman, peanut butter and jellys, crab crawl, hops, blowing bubbles, ice cream scoops. On one of his last lessons, Emily brought a camera and took some underwater pictures. I don't know how he goes under without closing his eyes, mouth, or nose. But I'm proud of him. 

Ezra and Miss Em-a-wee. Cute smile, ez. :)

Obviously I struggle being underwater more than he does. Yikes. Embarrassing. Moving on. 

A few weeks ago, Justin, Colter, Jason Parry, Joseph Bair, and I went to Rio Tinto stadium to watch the USMNT vs Cuba (we won). It wasn't very hot at first but then it started to rain and I mean RAIN. After that it was really hot and damp so that was that. We had a good time although I missed singing the "Believe" chant we usually sing at ReAL games. . . But oh well, theres always USA USA USA!

 Justin and Colter at Chipotle, pre-game. 

July 17th marked the 30th birthday of my dear sister Valerie. Unfortunately she's in Florida. Fortunately my little brother Ryan flew out that day and surprised her and delivered her my presents. The best present was a DVD I made her of everyone in our family wishing her a happy birthday. She said she laughed and cried through the whole thing so I guess it turned out alright. The second gift was a box of 30 memories of her I had. 

I was sad to not be able to celebrate this milestone with her but hopefully we won't miss out on any more milestones. :) I love my "Wow"! And we are so excited to be able to fly out to Florida next month. Woot woot!

Val and I, a few years back, at kangaroo zoo!

One thing that has been hard for us lately is date night. But we did manage to squeeze in one last weekend. We left ez and coco at grandma mare's and we had a quick dinner at Cocolitos. Amazing food. I even snapped a picture. Us, not holding any kids (weird huh?):

Twinners in green but jus can't manage opening his eyes. Lol. 

The next day we went to see Despicable Me 2 with grandma mare and cousin dylan. $6.75 for a matinee?!? It was fun though. Mostly. It was the boys first movie theatre experience. Colter probably did better than Ezra. Ez lost interest after thirty minutes, wandered for 20 minutes, and slept on my lap the rest of it (which melted my heart, my sweet baby ez isn't a baby anymore!). Colter fell asleep halfway through too so pretty soon it was just me and Justin watching a show for kids (the most expensive nap ever, haha).  Despicable Me is always a good time though. Fun for the whole family! Ha, okay I'm done.

 

Oh and Colter, don't even get me started on COLTER! Crawling in like a 5 ft radius before five months old? C'mon kid, give me a break!! Oh I love my boys.