Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Blossoms, Sun, and Funshine's Birthday

 DeA loves looking at my pictures of apple blossoms.

The boys have been having a hard time with their cancelled baseball season. I took them down to play at the park, and Ryker made sure to dress the part.
DeA has been working hard to perfect her Charlie's Angels pose, I personally think that she perfected it a long time ago.
We asked Dad what he wanted for his birthday dinner, he said burgers and hotdogs. The thing is, what he really wanted but didn't want to ask for was Chayo food. Lucky for him, Chayo and I had already arranged for her to bring him delicious carne con chile, homemade refried beans, and rice. Dad was a little bummed while buying the stuff for burgers (he was supposed to wait for me to get it) but started to get hopeful when he realized that I wasn't grilling anything before dinner. He was especially excited when Chayo showed up with the food. 
Chayo food!
Maybe we are the ones that were played, because he got both things since we had to cook up the burgers the next day.

Rock is definitely his mother's son.


I have a new "office" at work. It is literally a closet.
Dad has been doing campfires in the evening. DeA can't handle that much partying.
The nice weather has been great for pictures of DeA.
Jensley seems to have had a wonderful unicorn birthday!


She really wanted a BB gun for her birthday, and did her little hop dance when she got it!
What a rough looking crew that looks ready to take on the Clayton Gang

A Few Walks With the Kids

For years, I've struggled to be able to golf. Not that I physically can't golf, but the cost was always too high. Not the actual money cost, but the marital cost associated with leaving DeA alone with the kids. I'm a little embarrassed to admit that it took me 15 years to get a family pass. I went from being an absent husband, to an great father. 

Anyway, here's Ryker sizing up his 7-iron.
They insisted on hitting every shot, so things got a little chaotic. 
I think we had fun.
The weather has been perfect for walks in the blossoms.



Ryker wanted a picture in front of the cool clouds. Also, DeA and Jens were behind us in the car and were trying to take food to Doug and Jama's for family dinner. Ryker wanted to pose for many pictures to keep the girls waiting.
DeA let me take a picture of her when we were leaving. She just loves getting her picture taken. It's her favorite.
Ryker and I had a good walk back, he wanted another picture in front of the rock chuck rocks.


 

Friday, June 11, 2021

General Conference Donut Weekend!

Homemade donuts!!
Spiritual naps!
Under-supervised kids with hot oil!

The back of Ryker's head!
"Teamwork" 
Delicious final results!
After conference walks to try and burn off some sugar!

Leo photobombing an otherwise beautiful picture.
More naps!