Roughing It!

We took a little weekend camping trip this past weekend. We went to Potters Pond by Joe's Valley. We went with Darrin's parents and his sister and her boyfriend. It was so beautiful! The boys had so much fun. Remy and Tate both went fishing with Grandpa and Dad, Tate found many pet rocks and enjoyed eating tons of marshmallows! Remy was entertained the whole time running after squirrels and helping set up and take down tents, and canoeing in the inflatable canoe in Potters Pond. His most favorite thing though, was pretending that Grandpa and Grandma's trailer was his very own house (knock before you come in, please!). On the way home we took the scenic route, which was absolutely beautiful (even though it turned out to be a 3 hour detour). We had a great time enjoying all of God's amazing creations!

Time to pull our hair out...

When the average child is just getting walking down pat, our audacious Tate is going full throttle! He runs everywhere he goes, and he loves to climb!! A couple of weeks ago we came into the dining room and found Tate climbing up the back of the dining room chair to get to the table. Aaahhh! We currently have no real place to sit and eat because all of our chairs (except for Tates high chair and a little chair and table for Remy) are down stairs in the laundry room until we figure out what we are going to do. (Just putting them on the top of the table doesn't work because Tate just finds a toy box or pot/pan and tries to pull them off the table)

His current love is shoes, he thinks it is great fun to carry around and try to walk in everyones shoes (everyones, that is, except for his!). Also, if you look very carefully at this picture you will see Tates first black eye (right eye). Amazingly, he did not get it from climbing (and falling) off something or from his big brother. He and a little friend ran into each other...ouch! We are currently taking bets on how long until our first broken bone or stitches!

In other news, we had a hostage situation yesterday. (see picture)
Some little friends of Remy and Tates came to play yesterday. They left their precious monkey friends, and being the good friends we are, we decided to take them hostage...We took a picture of them and wrote a ransom note demanding 1 million un-marked bananas by nightfall.
To our delight later that afternoon we had a knock at the door. We opened the door to find a pan of brownies and this note:
US ARMY FOREIGN POLICY HANDBOOK (their daddy is an officer in the Army) "As an official of the US Government, I must offically and regrettably inform you that we do not pay ransom. However, due to extenuating circumstances we are prepared to offer you an untraceable account in the Caymans. We appreciate your cooperation, and further state that the parents of said primates will do anything for their safe return."
We returned the monkeys without harm and Remy and his friend Neal got a real kick out of it all! (and what can I say, so did we!) It just goes to show how far we will go to get some excitement in our lives!!

Discovery Gateway

On Saturday we took the boys to the Children's Museum at the Gateway in SLC. It is such a fun place for them. They have a "beehive" where the kids can play with plastic balls and all sorts of tubes for the balls to navigate in. There is a kids village with a construction zone, market, farm, gas station, post office, and water play area. Tate loved, loved, loved the water area and got totally soaked. He also liked the house and the vacuum inside. Remy just had a ball taking his motorcycle to the market and buying food for his house and stopping along the way to fill up at the gas station. Remy has a great imagination and loves to pretend, so this was heaven for him!

After convincing Remy that there was more to see, we ventured upstairs and played "anchorman" and "weatherman" in the mock news station (complete with cameras and video screens). Then Pilot Remy took us for a ride in the life flight helicopter out on the helipad outside. It was so much fun for all of us!

House Update...

We went out to Eagle Mountain to see how our house was coming along. It is going up much faster than we could have anticipated. What fun! Here are the latest pictures.

4th of July

We had a great Independence Day. We started out the day by going to Provo's Freedom Festival parade. Some friends of ours always stake out a spot 3 or 4 days in advance (we are glad SOMEONE is willing to do it!). So we took our offering of grapes and watermelon to the campers and had a wonderful time watching the parade. It is about 2 hours long and has everything from floats to F-16 fly-overs to the Berg Mortuary horse drawn herse (say that 5 times fast). Tate especially loved the many high school bands and Remy liked the HUGE Bob the Builder and Garfield balloons.

Then I drug Darrin and the boys (no, not drugged) to the Colonial Days festivites. We saw the printing press where there is a replica of the Gutenberg Press. Remy signed his name on a replica of the Declaration of Independence, and we saw some Minutemen shooting off their black powder guns. It was fun, but very hot!!!

Later in the evening after some great naps we set off some fabulous fireworks selected by mommy (sarcasm, anyone?) and Remy and Tate tried their hand at sparklers. The boys loved the fountains and sparklers so much Remy begged to do them again for the next two nights and we had to convince him to wait for more firworks until the 24th.

Our House Update...

We are in the process of having our house built. It should be done the end of September or First of October. We have been having lots of fun visiting each Saturday to see the progress. The boys love "exploring" and Remy has been very keen on learning how things are built and put together. Here are some pictures. We'll keep you posted!

Well, apparently we definitely need to get in on the blogging trend! My sister and her family just set one up and while I was in the process of setting up ours some friends of ours (the fosters) set up one as well :) Well, here we go....

I am not very computer savvy, so we will see how all of the "features" turn out. It may take a little while to get photos up and running.

In this crazy, fast paced, world we live in, this is definitely a great way to keep in touch!!

I know like many of your children (and even significant others and/or roommates) our Remy comes up with the funniest stories and questions. So we will feature the "Remy says the darnedest things" spots in our blogs. Keep an eye out for this and other equally exiting posts to come!