Merry Christmas

This one's for Andrew M. if you look at our blog. The turpitude runs deep in our home:)

A Village, A Grave, A Favorite, A First, and A Sealing

First, the Sammy

This is the place Pioneer Village was a lot of

 fun for all of us.  We loved the crafts, the animals, and the trains.

The token tantrum:)

Arrowhead necklaces in the tepee

The supposed spot that Brigham Young actually said "This is the right place."

We've been on a little memorial/grave hunt lately.  After visiting our Richard's name sake (Richard Young) last week, we decided to visit Richard Young's Father's grave (Joseph Young) and Joseph's Mom and Dad's grave (Brigham and Mary Ann Angel Young).  These last graves were in a really nice park right behind the Brigham Apartments in Salt Lake

Joseph Young's Son Richard

Brigham Young's Grave

Brigham's Wife Mary Ann Angel

Brigham and Mary Ann's Son Joseph

The boys with a statue of their great grandfather Brigham

Adam said, "This one is for Grandpa Brigham in his grave"

Adam posing by Richard in an effort to bug him

Along with the Blue Boar Inn in Midway, Ruth's Diner, up Emigration Canyon  is one of our two favorite restaurants in Utah.  Great food and amazing outdoor dining. 

Adam's First Day of Kindergarten

A few quick studio shots with Dad

Adam in his new school clothes w/his backpack

Adam saw two of his best friends on the way in to school!

In the classroom

The look of "what did I just get myself into?"

He actually is liking school so far, he has made a friend named Cooper who he calls Cooper the hooper.

Dan's Mom and Step Dad Paul were sealed in the Bountiful temple this last week.

The Happy Couple

The Entire Crew

Multiple Posts In One

Samuel's Blessing Day

We really enjoyed having family and friends come to Provo to 

celebrate Samuel's blessing day.    

Bowling with Papa

We had a fun time bowling our grandpa at BYU.  Richard won the game with a score of 116

Adam's Kindergarten Class

We visited Adam's Kindergarten class and teacher this week.  His 

teacher is Mrs. Tingey at Westridge Elementary.

Living Planet Aquarium 

We had a fun time visiting the aquarium in Sandy.  

A Visit to Adam and Richard's Namesakes 

We visited the Salt Lake Cemetery to show Adam and Richard the Graves

of the men they were named after.  Richard was named after his great great great grandfather Richard W. Young who is the grandson of Brigham Young and was a Brigadier General in the Army.  Adam is named after his great great great great grandfather Adam Sharp who was a cole miner in Scotland.  Adam and his two brothers left Scotland to join the Saints in Salt Lake in the 1840's.  He helped to build the Salt Lake Temple.  

(Our) Adam enjoyed visiting the grave and didn't want to leave, he said "I'm going to miss him," when we left.

Sammy's doctor Visit

We took Sam to his 4 month old doctor visit.  He did great!  He didn't love the shots but he only cried for a minute.

Adam waited patiently for sammy to finish his appointment

Sammy is rolling around quite a bit now

Adam's Lego Creations

The boys are into Legos, to say the least, and Adam loves to build his own little designs.  He gets a Lego magazine that shows pictures of kids with their own Lego creations.  Adam thinks that all his stuff is magazine worthy so he has us take pictures of his Legos after he builds them 

We had a stake Picnic this summer and they had a talent show.  We told Adam that maybe he could build Legos for his talent.  We didn't think he would really take us too seriously.  When it came time for the talent show he asked about building some Lego stuff for the crowd.  When we told him that they didn't have time for any more talents he got really teary eyed and walked away.  Kids are so innocent and trusting, we'll never make that mistake again.

Dan's sister and brother-in-law invited on a fun trip to Utah Lake this past weekend.  We had a great time playing games, riding jet skis, boating and hanging out.  Thanks guys!

Richard's most recent sayings:

-"Skunks spray babies and kids and whole families!"

-After hitting his leg on our kitchen table he yelled, "You need to take this table back to the store!!!"

-After Adam told Richard that he was going to fill his bed with diapers Richard declared, "Then I am going to go live at a place called Grandpa's house!"

the ice cream truck...

The ice cream truck has plagued our street for weeks.  So it is a constant source of conversation with the boys, "when is the ice cream truck coming?"  "can we get ice cream when he comes?" "did you hear that?  I think it was the ice cream truck." etc. etc.  We had told the boys after days of begging that the next time the truck comes they could get something.  Little did we know that 'next time' would be at 8:30 PM as the boys were getting in bed.   Thanks ice cream truck man for driving by our house at 1 mph blasting "it's a small world".  So true to our word they were  HAPPY  participators of the ultimate summer time experience.  

The ZOO

The fam with Dan behind the camera

We are having our last days of summer here before Adam starts school, so we are trying to make good use of our 'free' time.  (Have you noticed that 'free' time can be kind of expensive?)  So we went to the zoo last Monday and had a really fun time.  There were lots of new baby animals this time, which makes it a little more fun.  It was cool to see the animals up close and the boys loved it.  Richard's favorite was the alligators and Adam's favorite was the monkeys.  I liked the baby meerkats and Dan liked the monkeys, just in case you wanted to know.  

The boys loved the train ride

We had a little extra excitement later that day when Dan helped get a little boy who had somehow jumped over a fence and ended up on the track as a train was coming, crazy!

Our 3 1/2 Month Old Chunky Monkey

We Love This Guy!!!

Every parent loves their kids so much 

and thinks that their is the cutest, well we're right 

there with everyone else! 

He won't smile for the camera too much, but still 

a sweet heart.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEL

Today is Dan's birthday, one of my favorite days of the year.  I love to celebrate with him.  He is a wonderful husband, THE best father and my very best friend.  He works so hard for our little family and I am so grateful for all he does for us.  We have a wonderful life together and I really couldn't ask for more.  So today on this sixth day of July I say to you my love, HAPPY Birthday!!