I forgot about father's day!

Will's parents and younger sister Heather came out to Utah to bring Heather to BYU and they just happened to be here father's day weekend. We don't see them very often so it was a great treat to spend a few days together. We went to Temple square on Sunday and had a picnic lunch.

Swimming in the backyard

I got the kids a bigger pool for this summer and pulled it out last week since our rainy June has finally ended. They loved it even though they were shivering the whole time. Hose water is pretty cold!

baby contest

Our city has of summer festival every June and I have always wanted to put Rachel in the baby contest they do. So this year I finally did. for your entry fee you get a photo and an entry in the raffle of cool baby stuff. Sadly we didn't win anything but at least we got a really cute picture for our $12. We still think Rachel is the cutest kid ever.

Rachel's Prayer

We have prayer regularly in our home, at meals and bed time. Rachel knows how to fold her arms and will usually say the prayer if we ask her but we have to whisper it in her ear then she repeats it. This morning she was making play food at the table and she decided she was having pizza and grapes. so she gets her pretend food ready at the table and then says she needs to say prayer. This is her prayer: " Heavenly Father, Thank you for this day, thank you for house, thank you for blessings, thank you for church, thank you for toys, thank you for trees, thank you for outside, um what else, thank you for family, thank you for blessings, name of Jesus Christ, Amen"

I though it was so cute, I had to write it down right away before I forgot what she said. I'm glad she said prayer all by herself.

she's so sneaky

This is how we found Rachel one night last week when we came upstairs from watching a movie. I don't know why she decided to get out of bed and fall asleep in the hall. I guess she wanted to listen to our movie with out getting in trouble.