Better late than never!

Lexington James joined our family on May 25th! He weighed 8 lbs 4 oz an was 21 inches long. He is a sweet baby and looks just like Phx! Here are a few pics from his 1st month of life

Picture dump

Tee ball

Miss independent

Lexington James 5-25-13

"Sweet Cheeks" as Phx calls him

Pixie cut

High dive (best swimmer in his class!)

Ready for kindergarten! 

Getting big (15 lbs). Almost as big as Skylee

So cute 

What a goof

Juice king

Recent conversation with Phoenix: 

Phx "I am the juice king. Guess what my favorite food is."

Cory "Juice?"

Phx "No, pancakes." 

He said it with a total attitude, too, like it was the most obvious thing ever. 

Had to share

A cute pic of skylee sleeping. She was apparently too tired to finish her book.

It's alive!

Really, I know it's been a long time. We have had a lot of life changes since October! I started teaching preschool part time at a private school, called Challenger. It goes through 8th grade. They have an incredibly intense curriculum and way of teaching so it's been a steep learning curve, but really fun. The kids both go there and it is amazing the things they have learned. Phx is reading pretty fluently now, skylee is learning to sound out words.
Also, we are expecting baby 3 at the end of may! Another boy to be named later. We're excited.
Finally, Cory started a new job two weeks ago. He is the Human resources director for Ashley Manor Care Centers. It is a huge change from working at the county (more travel, more hours, more responsibility) but he is super excited and really likes it so far.
Here is a pic of the kids and a random "garage sale" sign we saw when driving around a couple of weekends ago.

Choose the left

Phx has been doing a great job of making good choices lately and "choosing the right". A few nights ago Cory asked the kids to get their Jammies. Phoenix quickly ran into his room saying "I will get my jammies, I will choose the right!". Skylee gave Cory her sassy pants look and said "I choose the left." Classic Skylee.

Mom, take my picture!!

So cute!

As you all know by now Phx loves the hawks! Here he is reading a book with a couple of the players. I adore this picture!

Summer stuff

We had a family reunion in morgan Utah last week. Cory couldn't come b/c he has to go on high adventure next week :-(
We went to the Dino park, played in the hot tub, and played outside a lot! The kids loved it but they were exhausted!
The next pics are from settler's park. It's huge and has a splash park and there are always about a million kids there.

A before picture of the office. Yikes!

Hawk's Kid's Club Camp

Phoenix LOVES the Hawk's baseball team, and loves going to their kid's camp every year. He broke his toe last week, hence the boot. Here are some pics from this year:

The office

Not the show. My office. Redone. Finally. Sorry for the not awesome iPhone pics :-)

Calamari

From Ivars in Seattle.

How could I forget?!!!

I had LASIK surgery in January and I love it! I have 20/15 vision these days. Amazing!
Also, I surprised Cory for his bday with a weekend trip to Seattle for a Mariner's/Angels game. It was a lot of fun. We went to the game, of course, but we also did Pike Place, the Waterfront, hiking at Discovery Park, and the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. Look 'em up if you're not familiar with them. They're so fascinating.  We ate at Ivar's, a local seafood place and loved it. I will have to post a pic of the calamari I had.  My parents watched the kids for us. It was a great weekend!! Here is an awkward self portrait of us at the beach at Discovery Park.

Yay for iPhones and the blogger app

Now I can keep you updated on the fly

Portland: "Where young people go to retire"

We went to Portland last month. Our first family trip with out mine or Cory's parents. It was so fun! Our kids were awesome in the car, and such troopers with no naps. Highlights of the trip: Multnomah Falls, the Oregon Zoo and the Washington Park Zoo train, feeding the seagulls at the beach in Seaside, feeding the seals at the Seaside Aquarium, tide pools at Cannon Beach, and of course, Voodoo donuts! PHX got the "gingerbread boy" donut (the vudu doll). Better than the one that he thought was a "Y", but was actually a male body part. Awkward. 

 If you ask the kids, though, the highlight of their trip was swimming in the pool at the hotel.