Ah...Father's Day...yeah, we've caught up to June 21st...

On Father's day we went to church, then we walked over to what the kids call the secret or hidden park near us and played for a while. Here we are...

Happy father with his kids! Kindle swings
K & E swing

So happy

Ender.

Solace

Armour

Wes jumps...

Army hangs on tight

Ender hangs on tight

Solace hangs on tight

I swing

Another Wes jump

I attempt to be as awesome as my husband

Kindle Cat ant that wily ice cream cone...

Kindle ate ice cream for her first time in June. She loved it...too bad we have since discovered that she is lactose intolerant...oh well, enjoy these anyway!

Solace met an astronaut...

Solace was invited with about 100 other kids in Omaha to go to a program at the Children's Museum on World environment day and to meat and learn about our Earth from the first African-American female astronaut, Dr Mae Jemison. We thought it would be cool for her to go to, so she did. I snuck in the door and tried to get a few pictures between the news cameras. They did not turn out well, but here are the best ones.

Solace Dr Jemisen
(While she was at the program, the other kids and I played around the rest of the museum. Her is Kindle in Elmo's World in the visiting Sesame Street exhibit.)

Ender on the rowing machine

All 4 kids by the tree Solace helped plant for the program.

One night at dinner (back in June)...

Just too funny not to share...

OK, so after Canada On May 22...

Our flight to Salt Lake City from Vancouver Canada got was scheduled to arrive about 55 minutes before my cousin, Tiffany was scheduled to get married in the Salt Lake temple. We made some crazy arrangements, but were able to make it and to see our kids right after the ceremony. Here are a few pictures...

Beautiful Solace Kindle could not stop hugging her dad-she evidently missed him A LOT!!
Handsome Armour

And the always debonair Ender!

My brother, Spence

Me with stunningly long beautiful hair with my aunt Angela of equally long stunning hair.

Angel & Melanie (my sister)

Solace and Angel

Wes, Kindle, me & my nephew Tomas

Spence, Wes & my kids

Army

Solace and Army (he is upset as she is invading his space)

Spence and Ender pretending to read their Books of Mormon at the Temple

Bride and groom: Tiff & Mike exiting the temple

Bride & mom (my aunt Mary)

Bride & big brother Nick

Bride & baby sister, Angelina

again

my Xiaxia & Papou with bride & groom

Army

Book Club for August

Read Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz for August book club! :)

New book club book...

Note there is a new book to read this month-if you have not yet joined book club, or if you have been away for a while, you can still join or come back!!! I am excited for this month's book-The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

Who wants to read with me, huh?!

Whale Watching

We decided to splurge and pay for a Whale Watching excursion. Mats and Heidi came with us. We were all geared up and excited to go, but in the end it was a bit disappointing. Kinda funny though because they drove us into US waters to see the whales-we ended up just off of Seattle. It was like 3 hours out on the boat. Wes had convinced me to take a seasickness pill so I wouldn't get sick-I didn't, but I did get drowsy and had a heck of a time staying awake! That aside. I am glad we did it, and here are the pics...

Wes at the start...we sat in the very front. Eagle
Sea lions

On the left is a US island , on the right, Canadian. Right before we went into US waters.

We never got really close to the whales, but here are a few of the better pics I got...

This is a baby and his big brother...

Seals

Here we are at the end

The boat we were on