A little of July

July mostly was a playing around month. Preston is the master of just rolling around on the ground and playing and playing. 

He loves it when I put things on his head for him to grab. That smile kills me too! 

Remember our friends/family in Zimbabwe? I was lucky enough to have another person from the family come visit!!! She lives in Utah, and came out to NYC with two friends to just see the city, it was so great to see her and catch up! 

We loved having friends over to play and enjoyed their company. The boys really liked it, especially since the girl in the middle here helped Spencer figure out some great moves for Planets vs. Zombies, and Preston couldn't get enough of the guy who visited. 

We had lots of days going to the park too. 

Preston loves the swings!

More teeth!!

We also made forts this month. Spencer loved making them, and Preston thought it was fun to tear it all down. 

This is a look I get often. Most of the time it's to see if Mom is watching, and if she is, then make the innocent face. 

We also were able to have my parents here for July 4th and watch the fireworks outside our living room window, but I don't seem to have pictures of it. I guess we were having TOO much fun. 

June catch-up

June was Spencer's last month of school, and Preston started learning how to do a lot more. 

My favorite video of Preston, because you can see all of his fun little tricks that he does. 

Since Preston was mobile, we had to put up the gate in front of Spencer's door so then Preston couldn't get all the little toys in his mouth. During the day he would often sneak back there just to look around in the room, wishing he could play with his big brother's toys. 

Spencer and Tyler got ready for the Father/Son campout for our ward, but sadly a huge thunderstorm was rolling through that whole weekend, and the campsite was most likely to flood so they couldn't go. We were so sad, so we decided to put the tent up in the living room and the boys had a sleepover in the tent that night anyway, I think Spencer had fun doing it. 

Aw, cute Preston, with no teeth yet!

Preston started eating big people food that month, or more of it. He really liked the Oreos I gave him this day.

Spencer's end of school culmination happened, and it was all the things they learned about the second half of the year, which was the history of New York. Each of the kids in class was to become a certain person/job during the 1800s here in New York. Spencer was a cobbler! Here he is in the classroom with his mural behind him ready to tell people what he did and how he did his work. 

Cobbling away.

Finding a costume for this was interesting, but we did it, and thanks to Amazon for one day shipping for the apron. 

These were Spencer's teachers this year!!! They were AWESOME!! Jesse and Michael are so creative and fun, and Spencer loved having them as his third grade teachers. 

This was at a gym that our neighbors go to and they invited Spencer along for a free afternoon. He loved it! Climbing all over stuff is just what he likes to do (he does pretend that he is an American Ninja Warrior). 

Jumping on the trampoline.

The climbing wall!! He did pretty well at this, and got a little over halfway up.

Preston playing with the whale we have, he loves snuggling and playing with him. 

Lifting weights. Getting strong. 

Our friends/family from Zimbabwe were in town in New York for some golf stuff so we were able to see them and have lunch!!! I LOVED that we were able to see them and catch up. To the left is Reeve, whose family is from Zimbabwe and we got to know her whole family REALLY well (we love you!), next to her is Cece who is from Norway, and then Lolly from South Africa. These ladies are amazing people, golfers and examples of service to us all. 

I had to catch this picture of Preston just sitting in the mist of all of his toys, not noticing anyone. 

Then when I came closer he fell over, but still loved being surrounded by toys.

I think this picture of Preston sums up how he is a New Yorker, the King of this city. We were out running errands, and he just is relaxed as anything (even though there are lots of people, cars, and sirens all around). It's like he owns this city!? 

I'm getting closer to being all caught up!! YAY! Good thing to because we are moving in just a few weeks to our place down in Virginia!! Hopefully I can get all the posts up that I want/need to get up. 

Disneyland- the last 3 days

For the other two days we were at Disneyland I did not bring my camera with me, just so we didn't have to lug one more thing around. But here are some of us riding Splash Mountain.

Told you Todd makes good faces for the camera. 

So does Tyler. I don't think Spencer was trying to make a face, but he did a good job at it. 

On Friday everyone went to the beach, but Preston and I stayed home. He got sick at the end of the week, along with three other little ones, so I kept him home. But also because we burn SO quickly, and Preston already had a little sunburn on his legs, so he took a nap at home, and we played. 

Tyler and Spencer went with the rest of the family to the beach and had a blast! Spencer loves playing in the sand, and swimming a little in the ocean. 

They also swam in the pool at the house we rented for the week. I love this picture of the three boys.

One thing Spencer learned after going to the beach with dad....don't have dad put on sunscreen. This is what happens when dad sprays sunscreen and thinks he got everywhere. 

Pretty cool design, and it didn't hurt Spencer too bad. This is when it started to peel a couple of weeks later. 

Tyler lounging on the beach. 

This trip was SO FUN, even though Preston got sick, we were exhausted and Spencer got sunburnt. I would do it all over again, it was THAT good. Hopefully we can go when the younger ones are older, because it was hard with a baby in a stroller. So we'll definitely have to go again as a family in about 5 or 6 years. 

Disneyland- Day 2

Day 2 was spent in California Adventure, and it was all about the rides on this side of the park. First off was to go to Radiator Springs where all the Cars land stuff was, it is brand new, so VERY popular. Luckily we figured out a smart way to make sure we got Spencer on the ride 3 times in one hour!!!! 

First Tyler and Spencer went with the other boys. 

Then we did a child swap and Spencer and I were able to go. If you can't tell, we are going REALLY fast. I think this picture is so funny. 

While in Cars land we went on some other rides. This one is like an air hockey table one, where you glide across to do bumper cars. Tyler and Spencer liked trying to get each other on this ride. 

Then we got to ride one of my favorite rides there California Screamin'!!! Tyler doesn't usually ride this ride because it has a loop in it, and he was worried he would get motion sickness, but he said he would ride this one time with me. Also Spencer can't ride this one yet, so someone watched the boys for us while we rode. It was fun. Also we know where the camera is, so we kinda like to make faces. Todd's are really good.  

Haylee and I figured out what we would do 5 seconds before this picture, and it seemed like A knew what we were thinking. 

 After some of the rides we calmed down to watch the Pixar parade, my favorite parade there. We got the kids in order and got some snacks to wait for the parade to start. Preston did so well throughout our long days there, even napping in the stroller. What a happy boy. 

The parade!

That evening we had tickets for the Color of Wonder water show. It was really cold, and we were not completely prepared for that, but it was beautiful and so fun....the cold wasn't sooo bad. 

 They had pictures projected throughout the show of Disney characters. 

 Ariel.

 We were up on the bridge part to watch, which was perfect, because we only got a little spray and we felt the warmth from this fire. Do you see all the people on the almost middle to right side of the picture? They got soaked, and remember it was cold. Glad we had people in our group on top of things to get recommendations from park people....really a great spot. 

We again went home afterwards and just crashed. Two FULL days of Disneyland can just tire you out. I think this day we were there for over 12 hours. But it was all so worth it, we loved it!!!!