Lovin' the Warm Weather!

Trevor sitting on his "bike" while Tyler rides his bike.

One evening while we were BBQ-ing we found Trevor had fallen asleep "behind the wheel" of his Little Tykes pick-up truck. It was hilarious. You know, being a two-year-old is really hard work and sometimes you just need a little cat nap.

Tyler loves water and loves to swim. I think he swims every day but Sunday. Sprinkler, slip-n-slide, or pool it doesn't really matter as long as it is water. Trevor, on the other hand, hates water and freaks out when the hose gets turned on. Last summer I took him to the pool a few times but he was attached to me like a leech the entire time. And if water gets splashed on him he screams "ouch, ouch" like it hurts. He's such a drama queen sometimes! But the strangest part is, he loves taking baths. Go figure! While Tyler slip-n-slides Trevor sits in the shade of the umbrella and watches.












I love the joy my boys get from eating the veggies we grow in the garden. Trevor would get so excited when I would snap and open the pea pods and then exclaim "wow! a big one!" when he saw the peas. He'd then gobble them down and wait for me to open the next one. Tyler prefers the snow peas so he can eat the pod and all! I have such good eaters!

Brad has been doing the boys' haircuts outside which I much prefer because it keeps my house cleaner.

We have babies!

I should have posted this several weeks ago because now they are grown and gone but here are two pictures of the baby birds we had in our satelite dish (see earlier post for pic of eggs). The first pic is when they were brand new and just a pile of fluff with little yellow beaks and feet. We had to zoom in on the picture to be able to make anything out. The second one was taken two weeks later when they had grown feathers but were still tucked tightly in the nest. When we went out to take one last picture they were gone. I felt a little sad that I didn't get to see them grown to the point of "leaving the nest" but glad to have my satelite dish back (eww the poop!) and it will be nice to be able to utilize that side of the backyard without scaring the momma bird away.~I wish you could have seen the look of awe and wonder on Tyler's face when we held him up to see if the eggs were still there and instead they were replaced with these fuzz balls. We had not expected it so soon and the look on his face was priceless.~

Is that a Wolf in the Newman backyard?

So, it was a cold and rainy night when I sent Brad to the post office to mail a few packages for me. About 45 minutes after he left I got a call from him telling me he had a problem- a dog had followed him into the post office, had sat with him while he was mailing our stuff and now is trying to leave with him. He had called all the phone numbers on the tags (only a vet and S.L. County license- no owner tag) but couldn't find anyone to help him locate the owners. We decided we couldn't just leave him out in the rain on this cold, wet night so I told him to bring him home; we'd find his owners in the morning. So Brad comes him with this giant, gorgeous dog. We were able to get him settled into the garage and left the side door open so he could go out to use the grass as needed but about an hour after we finally crawled into bed he started to howl and cry. I felt so bad. He was so well-behaved and taken care of that I knew he had a family who loved him. The next morning I took the numbers off his tags with me to work and after lots of investigative work and dead-ends I finally located his owner. He's a 3-year-old male Siberian Husky named Dakota who was recently sold to another family and wasn't adjusting well to his new home. He had run away three times in one week. He was a really sweet dog and fun to have but only for one day.

This is just a classic example of the loving and caring nature of my sweet husband Brad. He is so gentle and kind with animals (including our children). I love you honey!

It's coming to Salt Lake!

I just learned this afternoon that Gunther von Hagens Body Worlds 3 is coming to Salt Lake in September and I am so excited I can hardly contain myself! I've wanted to see this exhibit ever since I first heard about it years ago and was planning to fly to a nearby state at some point just to see this exhibit. But now I don't have to because it's coming here! Yipee!