Kittens

We inherited a cat when we moved here. Anni noticed her “playing” with another cat in the deck this spring. I looked over and took note that we could expect kittens at the beginning of summer 😳😂

Pace asked if we can bring the cat with us when we move to the house that we build because “he and the mother cat spend a lot of time together and are really close.”:

Fathers Day

Kami and Isabelle got Shawn a piñata for Father’s Day this year and it was a real hit (pun intended):

Caden has a tie business and makes the coolest ties! He sees some for Shawn and Jim:

Snippets of life happening

One Sunday night we celebrated Jim and Marilyn’s 52nd anniversary (with a cake made by Isabelle):

What they do in their spare time-Nolan biting his nails and Abram wiggling a tooth:

My friend Susan Tietjen needed a dance partner for her daughter and Pace said he’d be willing. They did a ballroom dance to “Beauty and the Beast”. When the dance team showed up for pictures, Susan asked Pace if he felt like a prince. He looked disgusted and replied that he felt like the BEAST! So much cooler.

Jim and Marilyn came and watched the performance:

My kids and Eli spend a lot of evenings together talking and watching movies late into the night. I love the good friends that they are! This sequence speaks for itself:

Eli and Kami painting Nolan:

We take time lots of evenings to examine our cow Rosie and speculate on when she’s going to calve:

My little boy:

On a Sunday walk with my girls:

Anni at gymnastics:

Elgin lakes one afternoon:

They’re proud to be called little monkeys

Evening picnic at warm river:

Luckily Pace and Abram brought their goggles so that they could see what was going on under the water😂

Nolan mowing Rosie’s pasture:

Abram reading to Anni:

I sewed a lot of masks when soccer ended and we heard there are now a lot of Corona Virus cases nearby. Nolan’s last soccer tournament was canceled altogether because Pocatello teams had it. And now a lot of stores, like Walmart require them:

Isabelle baked a cake and we celebrated grandma Shirley’s birthday:

Pace creating new sandwich toppings:

This chair had some issues: 

We dug Into our storage and found one of our piano benches. Finally.

Nolan ran the “foamy 5k” with Nick Roberts:

We went bridge jumping in Chester and Anni kept saying she wanted to do it too. She really loves water and is a little fish so Shawn dropped her in, with a life jacket on, to Caden. She smiled all the way down and came up crying. I didn’t know that Shawn was going to do it and kept hoping no one that was watching would turn us in😳😄 She says she would like to do it again sometime though.

My curly- heads:

Sunday school was apparently very fascinating last week:

Pace: