The Fabulous Summer of 2009!!

Well, here we go! It's been about two months since I've posted, so I thought I'd finally update anyone who's interested on what we've been up to this summer! It's been pretty busy, but lots of fun also! We did just return from an 11 day trip to California, but it just so happens that we took somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 pictures... so until I manage to sort through them all, this will have to suffice!

Hope you are all doing well, and in the meantime I just though I'd share this picture because I think it's just about the cutest ever! Little boys definitely need their daddies. :-)

Swimming, Swimming, Swimming...

"Hey there, Mr. Grumpy Gills. When life gets you down do you wanna know what you've gotta do?"

"No I don't wanna know."

"Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim."

"Dory, no singing."

"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ho. I love to swim. When you want to swim you want to swim."

"Now I'm stuck with that song... Now it's in my head."

"Sorry."

Yeah... so the shorts are a little big...

Benjamin wasn't quite loving the bigger pool... but Noah liked it!

The Park!

Benjamin's very first time on a swing. ;-) He liked it after a few minutes!

THE FRAY!!

It was pretty much awesome. And yes, for those of you with sharp eyes, he is in fact, standing on his piano.

Welcoming Home Elder David Schreiner from the Germany Berlin Mission!!

Um... yeah... so maybe he's been home for over a month... did I mention it's been a busy summer?!

Benjamin LOVED the balloons we had! I mean, he was excited to meet David too, but he LOVED the balloons!! ;-)

I sometimes think...

...that Benjamin is cutest in the bathtub, because you can see all of him!!

He's learning how to splash... and getting VERY good at it! (It takes some concentration though!