Happy Father's Day!

Here are a few pictures from Father's Day.  Reed is such a great dad!

Breakfast in bed:

Conner showing the "I love you" sign:

The kids presenting Reed with their cards and gifts:

Snuggles from Brooklyn:

 

We love you Dad!

 

End of School

The boys got out of school late this year - not till the middle of June.  At the beginning of June the boys had their awards ceremony.  Alan got an honor roll award and Conner got an honor roll award, a citizenship award and a perfect attendance award (for the 2nd semester).  Conner was so proud of his perfect attendance award.  It is the first of its kind in our family.  When he stood up front with his award he started dancing, earning himself some chuckles.  It was pretty cute, and it was great to see him so proud of himself. 
The boys were excited for summer vacation to start but I think they were a little sad too.  They will be leaving Whittier and going to a new school in the fall and they will miss their friends and teachers.  Both boys had awesome teachers this year:

Here is Conner with Mr. Stevens:

Alan with Mrs. Schroer: 

Good bye Whittier!  We will miss you!

Dinosaurs, Day Camp, and New Furniture

Reed and I ordered furniture from a furniture store for the 1st time.  It was pretty fun.  I have always wanted a couch that our whole family could sit on together.  Here are the kids enjoying the new sectional couch:

Brooklyn had been sleeping on her crib mattress since we moved to our new house.  We bought a queen bed to put in her room, so that when guests come they will have a bed to sleep on.  Brooklyn wasn't too sure about the new bed.  It was a lot bigger than what she was used to.  She slept on her little mattress for a few more nights.  I finally found some hot pink sheets and a soft pink blanket to put on the bed and then she got excited about sleeping on it.  Here she is on her crib mattress:

To complete our living room my parents gave us their piano!  So exciting!:

At the beginning of June we headed north to see my Grandpa P. and celebrate his 90th birthday.  I didn't get any pictures of that but I did get a bunch of pictures from our stop at the visitor center of a little town.  They have all these fun rock formations to climb.

Alan

Brooklyn, Reed and Conner

Micah

Micah sitting on a T-rex's toe:

All of the kids posing with the dino:

Oh, I almost forgot, when we were at Grandma and Grandpa Pitcher's house Brooklyn got stung by a wasp.  It was almost bedtime and she was walking around in the backyard in bare feet.  Suddenly she started kicking her foot and screaming.  Turns out she was stung on her big toe.  She cried and cried and cried for more than an hour and a half.  Then she finally went to sleep but she woke up again a half hour later and cried for another hour.  Poor girl, I felt so bad for her.  She still talks about getting "scung on my toe, and I screamed". 

 



Cub scout day camp started right after school got out.  Alan was excited to go and I had fun going to help on the first day.  Here is Alan's group at the leatherworking station:

8, 9 and 10 year old boys can be so silly and funny.  They are fun to be around. 

On the last day the kids did their skits.  All of the leaders and most of the youth from our group left so I went up and helped the boys with their skit: