Such a big helper!~

Early this summer it came time to finally fix the broken posts in the back fence.  Spen went to work and immediately had a shadow.  Ez wouldn't let him work without being there to 'help.'  As the mom I only insisted on the helmet.  He was happy enough to oblige.

He was very involved with the whole process..

until the backyard neighbors came out with treats and pools and water toys to temp him away!

Even though Spen just wanted me to take him away so he could work faster I secretly knew that he was loving having his little helper every step of the way!

One day Spen'll be wishing he would want to help him.

Elementary School Fun Run

Finding pictures I haven't posted is always fun!  At the end of the school year Ethan's school had a fundraiser fun run to earn money to redo the playground.  As you can kind of tell they had a very good turn out.

Ethan even got Grampy involved.  Fun morning.

Video Games with Dad~

Mason just loves to sit on his dad and play video games.

Dad's Can Be So Silly

Ezra has become quite an eater in the last few months. That boy can out-eat Ethan!! It's amazing to watch him. He has really loved the Gerber Fruit puffs too. Spen loves to tease the boys and sadly Ez hasn't escaped that any longer!

He started to feel them with his hand after a while and eat them off of his face, but for the most part he sat there and happily ate his lunch with stars all over his face!

Ethan thought he looked like he was wearing a star fish on his face! I'm sure that Ez will have to endure much worse over the years from Spen, but this one was pretty funny!

My Boys

4 boys that mean the world to me...

Spen

E

Moose

Ez

Dad Day~

In Ethan's Kindergarten class they had a special day just for the Dads. Dad Day! They prepared for weeks and weeks with special songs and fun things to share with their dads. They made a journal for their dad and made a book for them. When they got there they were able to show their dad their desk and their classroom. Ethan thought it was very cool that his dad was sitting in his spot!
After a few welcoming things they did a little musical presentation for the dads. They sang 3 songs. For some reason Ethan thought this was so funny!
In one of the songs they sang they used some sign language. This is the part in the song that says, "I think you're wonderful!"

After the program and the scheduled activities were done they were able to walk their dads around the room to the 'centers' and show them their favorite things in their class. Ethan immediately went to the computer center to show dad his favorite computer games.

He was mostly interested in showing this center, not so much giving dad a chance to try it out!
Then it was off to the tornado bottles.

They raced and raced with the tornado bottles. Ethan is so lucky to have such a fun dad to play with.
Ethan won!
Then it was off to the sand table to show dad all there is to do there.
After the sand table they went to build a marble race track. Ethan had such a great time. Spen is such a good sport to get all dressed up and go to dad day whilst recovering from pneumonia. Ethan was very worried that he wouldn't make it and begged him the night before to try really hard to make it. Spen was so great to not even let on that he didn't feel so well the entire time he was there. Dad day was a success!

April Fools~

Spen was soooo excited to play jokes and pranks on Ethan! He started by boobie trapping his door with poppers so that when he snuck out of his room at night when he was supposed to be sleeping they would explode!

It worked. The next night he just hid in Ethan's room to pop a popper when he got out of bed. Scared sensless! Ethan must have learned his lesson because he didn't try to sneak out again. Sadly he missed the rows and rows of duct tape that were laid out for him to step in. Maybe another time!

Tile Skating

"Dad, you need to hurry and finish your lunch. You have tile skating lessons!" Now you tell me, how in the WORLD could you say 'no' to that!? Ethan has never been much of a slipper man but at walmart this weekend he found some too big incredible hulk slippers that were on clearance for $1. If you're a mom you know that getting out of walmart with your 6 year old for $1 and no fighting is quite a task! He loves them! They aren't the highest quality and are very slippery - hence, tile skating!

Spen didn't have 'tile skates' so he had to improvise and use his white socks. The lessons were HILARIOUS! There were step by step instructions given, demonstrations, and critiques! I was loving being the 'crowd' with Ezra.

Ethan was more into the running and the tricks than the actually sliding across the tile! He's had so much fun with his new slippers, and his extremely good sport dad!

Ethan Skiing

This year Spencer and Ethan got season passes to Sundance. They have already used them enough to make it worth it! They love going together. Spen is trying to capture some video and pictures of Ethan, but he's just too fast!!!