A pair of birthdays

Todd and Crystal both had birthdays recently. We celebrated a couple of times, once at Red Lobster (sorry, no pictures) and once at home (pictures to follow). I made lasagna, Berrett made birthday cake, and we let Steven play in the water. We let Todd play in the water, too. And also we let Kyle chase Crystal with the hose. We had a good time.

Steven’s favorite activity was drinking from the hose.

 

Todd got into the act, as well.

I don’t know why Judy wouldn’t just give him a big hug.

 

Would you trust this kid around a garden hose?

I like the spikes.

Happy birthday Todd and Crystal!

Lia

I wanted to get this out by Lia’s birthday on July 30, but I couldn’t think of what to say. It’s a big time in her life and a milestone in ours as well and there are a lot of emotions conflicting inside me, so nothing sounds appropriate.

She’ll be heading off to college in just a couple of weeks and won’t be with us for a few months. It will be strange and a little bit emptier.

Anyway, here are some of my favorite pictures of her.

 

We took a lot of pictures at this little turnout at Deer Creek. Now they’ve removed it to add another two lanes to the highway.

My artsy-fartsy-kid-on-a-slide shot.

We both still love to nap.

This was on a day trip we took to Vernal. I love how excited she was to share whatever with us. 

She does still like to do things her own way. 

I’m not sure what Berrett would say of this picture.

  

This is one of my favorites.

This is from the dance that I was supposed to write about more than a year ago.

And now she’s graduated.

(Sigh)