Naps, Quinceneras, Sunshine and OUCH!

One of the things that we love about Jens is how good of a sleeper she is.  Her brothers could be blowing stuff up right next to her and she will keep on sleeping and looking adorable while doing it.

 On Sunday DeA decided to try out Jens' quincenera dress.  She looked pretty pretty in it.

There are our girls.  And even though they are outnumbered two to three, I have a feeling they will find a way to break that majority. 

 For example: Crying and punching.

 DeA took the kids down to the park to lay in the shade and play.  Jensley likes the sunshine.

 So does Gyky.

 They liked laying and posing for pictures.

 He isn't even hurting her too much.

 Best buddies, at least until she learns how to take his Goldfish.

 MMM...Goldfish.

 MMM...milk...

 Here he is reverse attack facing Jens.  He has all sorts of moves like this.

 They almost look like they love each other.

 Almost.

 It was almost 100 degrees out there today, so DeA made sure they put on sunscreen.  And boy did they.

 Globbed that stuff on they did.

 That leg will never tan again.

 Tonight Dad and I took the boys up to Nate and Girl Nate (Sara)'s house.  As soon as Rock got out of the car he took off running with Emma, then biffed it on the concrete.  He rubbed dirt on it, iced it and then put a band aid on his hand and returned to playing.  He rode the Razor scooter like a little pro for the next twenty minutes.  But his face...his beautiful face.

 Nothing a milkshake and some Nilla Wafers can't fix.

 But his face.  His beautiful face.  Poor guy.  I'm going to go kiss him better again while he sleeps.  His face.

Headcam Madness and the Rodeo!

Grandpa Dale has been playing around with his new helicopter headcam.  A recent project was to put the cam on Ryker's helmet and see what he sees.

I would post the video, but it is pretty boring and can cause seasickness.

As I left for work on Friday the boys were busy 'summering'.  They were too busy to get up and give me a hug.

After work DeA brought the boys into Chelan and met us at the pizza place.  Ryker fell asleep in the car and we couldn't get him awake no matter what we did.  Here we put his head up against a plastic chair to make him uncomfortable.

Eventually we gave up and just put him in Jensley's carseat.  He didn't look comfortable there, either.  But he still didn't wake up.

Deano brought his parents and Wyatt up from the river to meet us.  They all enjoyed some cold beverages.

After dinner we went up to the rodeo to enjoy some buck and broncs.  Rock made sure to look the part.

He even go to learn how to lasso, and caught something on his first try!

Ryker enjoyed his first rodeo, especially the popcorn, hotdogs, drinks, cotton candy, nachos...

Yeah, he loved it.

He loved it a lot.

Rock got to participate in the chicken race!  Try and see how long you can follow him in this mess of kids!

He didn't catch a chicken.  He wasn't okay with that.

Los Chicos

Jensley is still growing and being all cute and adorable.

So is out Gyker Dale.

He is starting to get long and skinny, which isn't like me at all, but our mailman in Iowa....

You can notice that he still has the scar from Deseret Book.  Poor little guy.

Rock looks handsome no matter what he is wearing.

He was pretty excited that his cousin Hudson was born the other day.  He loves holding the little baby.

Jensley recently discovered how awesome the pool and water is on a hot summer day.  She loves soaking in the rays and sipping daiquiris. 

 She is becoming quite the little fish.

 Speaking of fishes:

The other night we got our redneck on and went shooting.  

 Rock and Ryker had fun running around with the big bangs going on behind them.

They did like watching the shooting and even got to shoot some guns, too.

 We celebrated by eating watermelon.  Ryker decided to eat the watermelon the messiest way possible.

 It got pretty messy.

  Jensley couldn't believe what she was seeing!

 You'd think that she'd be used to seeing Ryker making a mess with his food.

 Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if his older brother didn't encourage him...

 Last week I ordered DeA some beautiful flowers to keep her feeling loved while I was away at my race.  On the website they asked who the flowers were for, and I realized that there are some lonely, lonely people out there.