How do you read a book?

The three boys sat down on our big blue chair to read a book on Andrew's Kindle.  When they started reading the book, Bauer was sitting down beside them.  Then I noticed that he was looking at the book, hanging on the side of the chair.

Then he sat for a minute with one leg up. 

Then he decided to get all the way up. 

But then again, a few minutes later, he was back to hanging on the side of the chair again.

Bauer

Last week, I told Keagan and Deker to go upstairs and get dressed.  A little bit later, Bauer came to me holding another pair of pajamas (those are the only clothes he can reach) and looking like this:  

I guess he decided that he needed to get dressed, but didn't know what to do at this point.  While I was taking his pictures, he continued to try to finish getting his shirt off. 

It looks like my not quite 2 year old is trying to act and do more and more like his older brothers

Twin Falls and the Temple

With the Boise Temple being closed since last July, it has been a long time since Andrew and I have been to the temple.  My brother, Cory his wife and 4 kids live 3-4 hours away from the twin falls temple. 

Last Saturday, we decided to meet up in Twins Falls and take turns watching each others kids so that we could all have a chance to attend the temple. 

Since Andrew delivers and drives home from Eastern Idaho early Saturday morning, the boys and I picked up Andrew where he parked his Semi in Twin Falls.  We then met up with Cory and Melissa at the temple.  The kids played at a park from about 9:30 in the morning until around 2:30 in the afternoon while Andrew and I and Cory and Melissa took turns attending the temple.  After we were all done, we went to Shoshone Falls.  We then went to dinner and headed home.  My boys had so much fun and were so tired that within 15 minutes of being on the road, they were all asleep and slept the whole way home.  Since Andrew still had to drive his Semi home, I had quite the quiet drive home. 

Here are some pictures of the falls.

The Zoo

Keagan has been on track break for the last couple of weeks.  We have had a lot of fun with Neal in town, going to Oregon and then this week, we have Andrew's parents in town.  During the whole three weeks, there one 1 day that we were all home together, just us, for the whole day, that was last Thursday.  It was forecasted to be a beautiful day and it did not disappoint, so we took the kids to the Zoo.  Here are some pictures of our fun. 

Keagan and Deker on the giraffe slide.

Bauer

My turn

Lst, but not least, Andrew.

Keagan in the turtle shell.

My boys in the birds nest.

Playing in the "tree house".

And of course, the Jeep.  No matter how many times we go, this is their favorite stop.

Oregon

Just over a week ago, we went up to visit our good friends, Dan & Angela, in Oregon so that Andrew could help Dan paint the inside of the house they are remodeling.  Angela's parents own and live on a ranch and they have a couple of tractors.  Of course, my boys were very excited and had fun playing for the day and a half that we were there. 

Bauer's turn.

Angel's Dad gook Keagan on a tractor ride on Sunday afternoon.  Deker, for some reason, got a little scared and wouldn't go.

On Monday, Angela's brother, Drew was there working on some fences, taking out poles, drilling holes and putting in more posts.  Keagan spent pretty much the whole day up with him riding in the truck, tractor and watching him.  Deker spent quite a bit of time with Drew as well. 

Deker riding on the tractor with Drew.

Neal's Visit

About a month after my little brother got home from serving his LDS mission, he came up for a visit and also to tour a college he was looking at.  Keagan and Deker were so excited to have him come visit.  We had such a great time with him here for a week. 

A scene like this was seen often.

One day while he was here, we took him up to Table Rock which is a mountain that you can drive up and see the whole valley.  This was the first time that we have taken our boys up there and they had a lot of fun.

We had some rainy days, so one morning, we decided to make slime/gak.  We made a blue one and a yellow one.  I would have made one more for Bauer, but I ran out of glue. 

We also went to the Aquarium.  There were two guys working on an exhibit and Deker was more interested in watching them than looking at the fish.

Bauer was quite taken with Neal right away.  The second day Neal was there, I was trying to put Bauer's shoes and jacket on him and he would not let me help him, he insisted that Uncle Neal help him.

We had so much fun with Neal visiting us.  We are so excited that he is going to move in with us a for a few months while he goes to school.

Fire Station

At the beginning of March, Deker's preschool group went to the Fire Station for a field trip. Deker was so very excited about the Fire Station.  Here are a few of the kids in front of a mural on the wall of the meeting room.

During the tour, When you walk out to where the fire truck are kept, there is the first thing you see is this huge map on the wall so that they can find where they are going easily.  Deker is pointing our our address. 

Deker was so excited for days about going to the Fire Station and kept talking about wanting to drive a fire truck "for pretend" he would always say.  Once we actually got out to the fire trucks, though, he got really scared and wouldn't get in it or anything.  After a little bit, one the Fireman got in the truck and I made Deker sit on his lap and after a moment, he realized that it wasn't so bad. 

Me and two of my boys.

The very cool Boise State Fire truck. 

At the end, they gave each kid a sticker and these awesome fire hats.  They even let us have an extra one for Keagan because we knew he would be sad if we didn't have one for him.