Fun times with fun toys

We went to visit the kids one day and they were just coming back from a walk.  Corbin didn't want to ride his 4 wheeler anymore so Emily helped him.
 

For being so young, Corbin knew how to ride that toy!
 

Tyson had to show us how he could ride his bike.
 

Tyson selling us candy bars he had to sell for T-Ball.  He was a great salesman!  We bought 20!
 

Cutest lil' cutie pie!
 

Tricks
 

and more tricks!
 

Happy to show off!
 

And just plain Happy!
 

Joel's Intership at USAA

Joel accepted at job at USAA in San Antonio, Texas for most of the summer.  He and his dad drove the long distance together.
 

Joel took the suburban so he would have a vehicle while he was there.  Yes.  It still runs.
 

Off they go!  Joel had a good experience down in Texas with the company.  They offered him another internship for the upcoming summer in 2013 but he hopes to find another company to work for to see the differences.
 

Tyson's Graduation from Pre-school!

I will always cherish living close to grandchildren.  There is nothing better in the whole world than seeing them succeed and grow up.  So when I say that I wish all my children lived close by, it is definitely for selfish reasons and I miss our lil' Josie not living near us.  I am so grateful that I am invited and can attend these special events of my grandchildren!

Tyson graduated from pre-school in May.  He was one excited lil' boy!  His graduation ceremony reminded me of the one his daddy had when he was the same age.  We had moved to Kemmerer and I was pregnant with Janessa.  Jason needed some friends since Jared was in school all day so I put him in pre-school at KCDC.  Jason's graduation was with caps and gowns too.  So cute to watch!
 

Tyson found where we were sitting.
 

Showing us how excited he was to see his family!  hahaha!
 

With his teacher.
 

His graduation gift from Grammie.
 

Everyone was excited for the event except Corbin.  We could not get a picture with him!
 

Being silly with Uncle Joel.
 

Sleepover Part 2

Tyson loved the Carousel!  In fact, we were in Malowi's eating pizza and he spotted it way across the street!  It cost $1.00 to ride.  One of the few times I actually had money so it was easy to say "yes" to Tyson.
 

Before he got inside he told me that he likes horses and they are his favorite animal.
 

The toy store was fun.  I don't know how much this contraption was but Tyson sure had fun on it!  It seemed easy enough to manuver for him too.
 

He wanted to jump and hop around the plantings along the stores.  Of course Tyson also asked me to take his picture in between the trees.
 

If you look really close (click the picture to make it bigger) you will see Joel's Thursday night date.  She is 6'2" and very pretty.  They were in the same ward this past semester and she came over to say goodbye to Joel.
 

Have to remember Tyson's prayer......last night before bed, we read our scriptures and had prayer.  We asked Tyson if he wanted to say it and he said no.  This morning though we asked if he wanted to say it before we left in the car and he did say it.  So cute!  He was thankful for being able to come have a sleepover at grammie's and grampie's house.  He blessed us.  He asked us to drive safe.  He said how much fun he had.

I love this little boy so so much!

Sleepover

Emily, Tyson and Annaly have been in DC visiting Emily's sister and her family so we haven't seen everyone for awhile.  We went over to visit last night so we could see the kids (and Jason and Emily).  It was fun to see Annaly now crawling!  Corbin fell asleep after a few runs around the room so we invited Tyson to come have a sleepover at our house.  We told him that he would have to go on a long trip to pick up Uncle Joel the next day from BYU and he was excited.

We got home and blew up his little air mattress and put his sleeping bag on it.  He promptly pulled it into our room and put it right against the end of our bed.  He has done this before.  When he was younger, he use to sleep in the front room.  He slept very good.  We got up around 7 a.m., had a breakfast of doughnuts and chocolate milk and then headed to Provo.  I told Tyson that I was glad he came along for the ride since Grampie fell right asleep when he got in the truck.  At least I had Tyson to talk to on the way down to Provo.  We looked at all the colors of trucks and wondered if we could find a purple truck.  Sure enough!  We saw one awhile later.  Tyson was so good!

After loading up Joel and all his belongings we headed to our favorite pizza place in Provo.  Malawi's.  It is fresh items and the dessert pizzas are excellent!
While we were eating, Tyson spied the carousel across the way.  We headed over there after we ate.  

Next stop was the toy store in the same area.  Tyson loved riding this toy!

He must have had a good time because the car ride home was very quiet.  He fell asleep after we passed Bridal Veil falls in the canyon and didn't wake up until he woke him at his house!  Thanks for playing Tyson with grammie and grampie!  We had a fun time with you!

A week with Kinsley

Today is Kinsley's ONE WEEK birthday!  Here are a few pictures I took of her during her first week.  Such a good baby!

2 days old here and loving the sun.
 

It's Sunday so time to dress up! (3 days old)
 

 

Made a few hair clips so had to try them on her at 5 days.
 

6 days old and loving her front pack!  She slept so good this day being so close to her mommy.
 

Peek-a-Boo!
 

6 days old.
 

It's awake time!
 

 

Babies

Lil' Kinsley came home this evening.  Here she is about 26 hours old.  Did we mention her hair?
 

I can't believe how much hair she has!
 

Here's 2 babies!  We love them both!
 

The end of March and early April

At the end of March, Redi was invited to attend a Jazz game against the Kings.  Jimmer Freddette is a rookie on the Kings.  He played last year at BYU.  I was sad to hear all the boo's for him every time he was put in to play.  Utah can sometimes be so dumb.  Let's encourage the boy to excell instead of  trying to make him mess up.
 

The Jazz lost in the final second by one point.
 

These guys were pretty awesome to watch during one of the time-outs.


Easter Sunday we had Janessa and Kasey over for our 1st BBQ of the season.  Here is a picture of Janessa 4 days before she delivered Kinsley.
 

We don't get too many pictures of Kasey since he seems to work all holidays so I had to take this picture to show that he is around sometimes.
 

Later that Easter Sunday we took a drive with Janessa and Kasey up into the mountains around Henry's Fork and came out by Lone Tree.  Still alot of snow up there.
 

Wyoming beauty
 

Dad was honored at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Wednesday.  The town of Lyman choose him to be their Citizen of the Year for 2012!  Jason and Corbin had flown back from DC (visiting Emily's sister and family) the night before.  Corbin was still a bit tired from the trip.
 

Andy Hewitt, the Mayor, presenting dad with his award.
 

Yea for dad!