We Need To Take This Girl To Vegas!

Last week we spent a couple of days on the coast at Seaside. We played a few games at the arcade on the boardwalk and Megan was on a winning streak! With $10 worth of quarters she won over 2,000 tickets! The most expensive prize in the place was 270 tickets. The kids got every prize they could ever want and we still had left over tickets, which we gave to the family standing behind us in line. They deserved it after having to wait for our kids to decide what they wanted.

Expressions From Jack

Money Ball

Sean came up with this game we like to call "Money Ball". It's a win, win for everyone. Sean gets to practice his golf swing while the kids practice their catching skills. For every ball they catch they either get 10 points or 10 cents (depending on how generous Sean feels that day), if they at least touch the ball they get 5 points/cents. After all the balls have been hit the kids gather them up and place the balls in a pile right next to their dad. Now Sean feels like he has his own little driving range in our backyard with ball retrievers and everything! Don't worry, he doesn't use real golf balls, he uses those light weight plastic ones!

Jack's Favorite Pastime

This Must be the Difference Between Boys and Girls!

Megan and Porter asked me to record them singing the 4th Article of Faith. Their performance matches their personalities to a T!

Wobbly Walker

Jack is now 10 months old and took his 1st 5 steps this last Sunday. After he did that we raced for the camera to try and capture it on video and this is what we got!

Porter turns 5!

Porter's birthday was a two day event.

Day 1 happened on his real birthday, July 31. Oma came from New Mexico to help celebrate. First we went to Out of this World ...

Then we went home and opened presents from the family. Porter finally got a new bike.
Next, Oma treated Megan and Porter to Chuck-E-Cheese. It was kid heaven!
On one of the games Megan hit the Jackpot and won 100 tickets, 2 balloons and cotton candy! Can you see her excitement? To top the day off Sean surprised Porter with a giant donut cake called the "Beast"! Porter had to run and get his "Fire Hat" before blowing out the candles.
Day 2 Happened Saturday, August 2. This was Porter's "Donut Birthday Party" (can you tell this kid loves donuts?) where he invited a few friends over for games, donuts and lots of fun.

The Cake

A Few Donuts

An Obstacle Course

Frosting Tag (really silly string)

A Donut Eating Contest

A Scavenger Hunt

Happy Birthday Porter!
We Love You!

I Love You All the Way to the Moon and Back!

Sean and Megan often tell each other how much they love the other by saying something like "I love you all the way to the moon and back!" or "I love you all the way around the world 7 times!" Last week when they were in Utah visiting cousins Sean told Megan...

Sean - Megan, I love you all the way to the Sun and back!

Megan - (a little dissapointed) Dad! That's only 3 planets away! There's 9 planets in our Solar system can't you think of one a little farther away!