Three Stories and A Snack

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Random Fun at the Goeckeritz House

Chad found this cool new park by his office in Holladay. It has lots of fun and different things. Tate and Max especially loved being the coachmen of the pumpkin carriage.

Camping at Nana and Grandpa's cabin

New Family Picture

Fun at the Bee's Baseball game

What do you do at a baseball game? Why, you find an old napkin, decide it's a map, and get all of the kids around you to help you search for buried treasure of course!

Tate and Grandma and Grandpa's dog Indy

Ode to Grandma and Diet Coke!

Max and Uncle Kevin

Monday, May 11, 2009

Finally!

So I've learned the hard way that trying to get a picture of both of my little guys looking somewhat happy at the same time is a bit of a challenge. I finally wised up, and realized that my ideas of a cute picture were not my kids ideas of a fun time. There is an old tractor by my home that my kids are always begging to go "check out." I decided to bring my camera along to see what we could get...

1st attempt at cute picture. They really look like they love each other huh???

Apparently, an awesome orange truck is required for all pictures in the future. Good to know!

Friday, April 24, 2009

Fun At the Tulip Festival (And Other Fun Events!)

We had a great time this past weekend going to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point. It was stunning! 250,000 tulip bulbs all blooming at the same time is definitely something to see. My boys especially loved the giant hill by the waterfall. They would run to the top and then roll down. They had a great time! As usual my camera got lugged along for some pictures...I'm learning that my kids are getting a little teensy bit tired of me taking their pictures--the only way we could get Max to sit still was to put candies in his front pocket, then distract him by having him look for them!

We had a wonderful Easter--the boys favorite part was our new puppy Gracie! she is 11 months old and is just a sweetheart. The boys think she's their new best bud!

Now how can I get that candy?

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Spring?

At least my fruit trees are trying to give us spring--hopefully the weather will cooperate soon!

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Fun Times

So we thought about getting a dog, then decided a fish was more our style. Max and Tate love having a fish, and are great helpers dishing out the fish food!

Great-Grandpa spinning Tate around on the chair

Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar? MAX!

Great-Grandma, Max and Tate playing their kazoos. (Mommy and Grandma have a deal that the kazoo's stay only at Great-Grandma's house :)

Playing tug of war!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Tate the Great is 4!

Tate had a great time celebrating his 4th birthday on February 26th. It is hard to believe we have had this great little guy in our family for four whole years. We think he is great! Happy Birthday Tate O' Bug!

The party room at Dimple Dell rec center/pool all set up for the big day

Playing in the pool

Tate had a construction themed cake. He was thrilled that he could keep the toys on top!

Tate and his party friends

Tate and Grandpa Craig

The Birthday boy!

Tate's birthday dinner request? Pancakes and watermelon!

Tate and Ashlyn shiverin' before jumping back in the pool

What do you wish with a bump on the head?!

Yea for Pictures!

My computer card has been impudent lately, and wouldn't download onto the computer. Of course I eventually won the fight (as with a toddler, you just need a new strategy!) So here is basically an overload of belated picture from Christmas until now.

Vegetables and meat for the toy dog. Cheerios and graham crackers for Tate.