Logan Walks

Logan is walking!  Well he has been for about the past two weeks now...I am way behind on my posting.  He is growing so fast and is such a happy guy.  We are so blessed to have him in our family!

MTC- the send-off

Pendleton gang

Wrights

Girls

President and Sister Rowley

Piura Peru Mission

Hopefully we'll get there to see you in the next 3 years.  We love you!  Good Luck!

...and some more

McKay singing and making faces at Lily

Happy Kenzie

Silly Brooklyn

Aunt Katelyn?

There was some of this...

...and a lot of that! 

They loved wrestling and being wild together!  McKay and Joshua just wrestled and wrestled and were happy as could be.  I kept thinking one of them would come of crying but they just kept at it and were laughing.  Crazy boys!!

I sure wish these guys lived closer!  We had a great time together!

Setting apart

About a month ago, my parents invited us to their setting apart with Elder Oaks in Salt Lake.  As we told McKay he would get to meet Elder Oaks we showed him the picture in the Ensign of Elder Oaks.  He said, "No, I want to meet him" and pointed to President Monson.  Everytime we talked about going to Salt Lake he would say he was going to meet President Monson.  Well his little prayer was answered.  As we were waiting to go meet Elder Oaks the security guard in the waiting room told us Pres. Monson was going to be passing in the window behind him.  We watched and saw him.  McKay's face lit up.  Several people went over to meet him but we just stayed and watched for a bit.  Slowly we scooted closer and closer until Pres. Monson saw us and called out, "Who's this handsome little man?" and called McKay over.   We introduced ourselves and shook hands.  He talked to Brooklyn and McKay for a minute and even wiggled his ears for them!  They were both so excited.  His security guard was getting impatient so we stepped back so they could continue on in their little golf cart.  It was a neat experience and one I hope McKay will never forget.  As everyone was flocking to President Monson, President Uchtdorf snuck out the other door, smiled waved, and gave us thumbs up.  I think he planned his timing so he could sneak out quickly while everyone was distracted with the prophet!  I wish I could have gotten a picture, but the memories will have to do.  We did go up and meet with Elder Oaks and Elder Maines of the the Seventy for a special meeting.  What a sweet spirit they had and a neat experience to have has a family.  As we were leaving, we met Elder Perry.  He said McKay was a "Firey young man who will be a great missionary."  It was a neat afternoon!

Well we had to commerate the event with pictures on Temple Square...

Poor Logan was too little to come...He got to stay with Grandma Margaret

Grandma and Grandpa with the older grandkids- Lily and Joshua had to stay back too

Mom and Dad

The Girls

and we couldn't pass up this beautiful backdrop for a few pictures.

I love hollyhocks!

Elder Oaks, Elder Maines, and the family

Park and Stewart Falls

Brooklyn and Joshua came over and played one day and we walked to the park.  I made the kids hold hands as we crossed the road and then they just kept walking and holding hands!  It was super cute.

We hiked up to Stewart Falls with us and Uncle Dale's family.  I debated about taking Logan but with everyone's help holding him it wasn't too bad.  He is a good sport!

McKay and Daddy with their hiking sticks

We made it to the Falls!!

And we're on the way back...uphill both ways Dad!

Our family

Monday FHE

So I said we crammed as much into a week as possible, I wasn't kidding...  Monday we went swimming and then had Family Night with the Farias Family.  I was in charge of the activity and we had Marble Races- it was a lot of fun!

We wore poor Brooklyn right out- she fell asleep at the dinner table!

Smile!

Matt and Steve heading off on the Marble Race

Farewell Sunday

We had a really nice Sunday afternoon visiting with all the family and friends.  My parents spoke in church and Lily was blessed so we celebrated with a big hurrah and ate and ate and ate...and then ate some more!  It was a fun day to spendd with everyone.

The grandparents

Aunt Katelyn and the kiddos

Happy McKay

Mom and Dad

Mom with her sisters and Grandma Harding

McKay loved playing with Lily and entertaining her.  It was his personal job to get her toys to play with all week long.  He still gets toys and asks if he can give them to Baby Lily- too bad she won't be back to get them for a while!

Fun with the Cousins

The Pendleton clan flew out for a couple weeks in June and we got to enjoy some time with all my family before everyone spread out for the next 3 years.  We lived it up and partyed hard for while.  Here are a few of the hundreds of pictures we took.

The Cousins waiting for Grandpa to come play in the water with them

Aunt Ris, Baby Lily, and Kenzie

Grandpa came and brought buckets- the water fight is on!

Happy Fathers Day!

Happy Fathers Day Matt!

Thanks for all you do for us.  You are a great dad and husband.  I love you.

Little Shadow

McKay helping Grandpa Bill mow the lawn

 

Happy Lawnmower

Logan bearcrawling to get a strawberry

Fishing- Part Two

After our "delightful" fishing trip, Matt was determined to redeem fishing.  This time, I convienately had to stay back with Logan so Matt took McKay and his Dad to Maple Lake.  The boys had a great time and even caught a few fishes.  McKay was so proud of his first catch and caught on to the fisherman ways pretty quick.  The fish he caught was about 8 inches but the next day when my dad asked him how big his fish was he stretched his arms out as wide as could be and said, "It was THIS big A-pa!"  He was so proud!  The boys enjoyed themselves and Logan and I had a great afternoon nap- the best of both worlds!

McKay's first catch

Fishing- A true story

So I thought it would be a fun family Saturday activity to go to Payson Lakes for the day, take a lunch and go fishing.  I had never been fishing and thought it sounded like fun for the boys.  Sounds good doesn't it?  Well by the time we got everything ready Saturday morning, we got off to a late start.  By the time we got to the lake everyone was hungry and ready for lunch.  We ate enjoyed lunch and then...well have you ever tried to keep a 10 month old still?  Logan wanted to crawl everywhere and eat every rock, stick, and bug in sight- I hate being dirty or having my boys be all dirty...so that was frustrating.  So I decided to take the boys to walk around the lake while Matt enjoyed a few peaceful moments fishing.  We had a good walk but as we got back McKay had to go the bathroom.  And he refused to do it in those outhouses.  The lake was filled with people so we couldn't just hide behind a tree.  He is crying he has to go the bathroom.  Logan is crying because I won't let him crawl around and eat rocks.  I am about in tears because I am sick of both of them crying.  And Matt is mad because he hasn't caught a fish yet (it didn't help that McKay kept playing and messing up his fishing pole).  Needless to say we were all onery and desperately needed to leave.  Matt loaded up the car and we all drove home- oh did I mention we had to throw out Logan's pacifier so he cried most of the way home?  Yes, I had a wonderful first fishing experience.  Matt keeps telling me I have to give it one more chance before I give it up for good but I'm not quite sure.  I took a couple pictures when we first got there but then I was to frustrated to take any more so here are our happy moments on our first (and most likely only) family fishing adventure.

Getting their poles baited

McKay digging with is fishing pole in the water...

The fisherman

Cute little guy

Photo Shoot

I told McKay for my birthday I wanted a cute picture of him and Logan together so I dressed them in their cute summer clothes and bribed with goldfish to get them to sit still.  Well they sat still but they looked everywhere but at me...oh well.  Out of the dozens of pictures I took, here are the ones that are actually pretty fun.

...and they're done!