i have so few pictures of just ryan and i so it was fun to have brooke take some pictures of just the two of us.

family pictures

brooke did some amazing pictures of our family. she is fixing a few of my favorites which all blog but i was to excited to wait! she did awesome!

kids say the darndest things...

on the way home from janets house on sunday, saxon told ryan to put on his seat bealt. landon pipes in " yeah dad, do you want to die?" ryan responds joking " i don't know, sometimes." so landon says " your my dad, i don't want you to die, besides if you do mom will just marry someone stupid." so after laughing i say," i don't think i would get married again landon." and he says "yeah i know because dads the most handsome guy ever!" so now whenever i see ryan i say " hows my most handsome husband ever?"

cute kids

landon and saxon were running races.

i had to chase delyla around for this picture. she thought it was a game.

when we went camping with janet and dean, delyla loved the four wheeler

so cute!

All work and no play makes jack a dull boy...

i don't know if you all remember our back corner, it was all weeds! here it is now!

these two pictures are backwards. here is our house after the paint!

here is the house before the new paint...

so between house projects and ryan studying for the dat. it has been a bummer summer! so i hope we are excepted somewhere to make it all worth it!

here we are at the lindgren family camp out. we went up for two of the days. that was about all i could do without ryan. he of course was studying for the dat.

saxon and darwin in gretchens trailer having fun.

landon and hans, best buddies.

yes, your eyes are not deceiving you delyla is asleep on the back of ryan's legs. they were wrestling and she got tired.

it was a long time coming, landons first day of school! and no i have not been sad for one second. i love landon to pieces but let me tell you how quiet it has been at my house since he has been back to school. no fighting or crying.

while landons away the younger ones play! saxon, delyla and i went to the zoo and had a ball! we saw the baby giraffe and just went any where saxon wanted to go.

WELCOME TO MY WORLD

let me give you a little taste of what i go through with my little manipulator landon. i'm going to type it just how it went down.
today is landons first day of summer. landon says "mom, i want to play with my friend aspen from school today" i say " i don't know aspens phone number, do you?" landon " no, can't you just look it up on the computer?" i say " do you know aspens dads name and her last name?" landon " no, can't you just look it up in the phone book." i say " not with out a last name and her dads name." some whining takes place for a couple of min. i say " you might have to wait till you go to first grade and see her their and get her number then." landon " no, that's too far away." he whines some more and says " she says she lives by the blue park, can't we just go knock on every ones door by the blue park till we find her house?" i say " no, i'm not going to just knock on a bunch of strangers doors till we find aspens house." landon " well, can i?" i say "no!" landon " well when we go trick or treating we knock on strangers doors" i say firmly " i'm not going to let you go knock on strangers doors till you find aspens house! maybe sometime this summer when we go to the blue park, maybe she will be their and we can get her number and i can talk to her mom." landon " well, can we go to the blue park today?" i say " no" landon whines and cries for a couple more minutes till ryan comes out of our room and says "landon enough! we don't have aspens number you can't play with her ok." ryan leaves to go back to getting ready for work. landon says to me quietly so ryan can't hear " mom,can't we just go to the blue park and yell her name?"
my mom says his persistence will make him a great missionary some day. and i said if i let him live that long, this will be the story i tell at his farewell!