Here are the boys (and Jefferson's best friend, Daniel)being silly while waiting to dye eggs:
The dyeing has begun!
All of our dyed eggs:
Jackson signed up to "sing a song" for the Primary talent show. Of course, we didn't find out until the Primary leaders passed a list around in Relief Society to notify parents of what their children signed up to do, the week of the talent show (which was very smart to do, otherwise a lot of parents would have been clueless, and a lot of kids would have been unprepared). I asked Jackson what he wanted to sing, and he said "shake, shake song." I told him that that probably wasn't a good song to sing, so pick another. He chose "Fireflies" by Owl City. He sings it for his preschool teachers all the time. So we practiced it several times and no matter what, he sang it as a whisper when we practiced. I wasn't expecting much better for the talent show. Jefferson ended up joining him up front to sing. If you listen real close, you can just barely hear them sing along. It was cute because Jackson didn't quite get how to use the microphone and the leaders ended up having hold the mic.
(Click on picture to watch)
By the way, Jefferson had the words printed out to sing from, but Jackson sang from memory.
After our trip to California for Thanksgiving with Nate's family, we decided to spend a couple days in Vegas, since we had to drop Nate off there for a business trip. We hadn't ever been to the Hoover Dam, so we drove out there and showed the kids where "Megatron" had been kept all those years.
The new bridge they've been building for awhile:
The Hoover Dam
Jefferson in awe:
Jenson hanging out in the van:
1st group shot
2nd group shot
We didn't take the time to walk along the dam, hopefully we'll go back soon and do that, but it was way cool to see in person!
Overall, I can't complain about how the boys' pictures turned out. Jefferson's hair didn't stay put, Jackson's freckles kind-of make his face look dirty, and Mason was quite a challenge- just getting him to stand in front of the camera was difficult, and he was doing everything he could to not look at the camera or smile, so the fact that the photographer somehow managed to get a picture of him looking towards the camera without his eyes scrunched shut and his mouth in a frown was a miracle!
We did have some fun this summer, but I don't have a lot of pictures to show for it since I kinda broke our camera. It still takes pictures, but it's now more like a film camera since I can't preview the picture anymore thanks to my clutziness that led to dropping the camera for the hundredth time (dropping it 99 times is okay, 100? Not good.) and breaking the LCD screen. Since the LCD screen on our camera is also the viewfinder, taking pictures isn't particularly easy, therefore causing me to just not bother taking pictures. Hopefully I'll be able to get a new camera soon (Nate: hint, hint!). Anyway, here are the few pictures I did take and a brief description of what we did:
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To start off, Jackson and Mason got some haircuts-
Befores:
After:
We took a trip to California to visit family, and during one of our pit stops the kids enjoyed watching a train pass by:
While in California we went to the California Science Center (a free museum!) and the kids enjoyed looking at some planes, among other things (and I dropped and broke our camera), while Jenson hung out in his carseat:
We also celebrated some birthdays, while in California:
First Mason's
Then Mason's and Jackson's together later in the week:
We also went to the Los Angeles Zoo (but sadly, did not find any of the wax animal dispensing machines :( ):
We swung by Travel Town in Griffith Park for a train ride:
We also went to the Griffith Park Observatory, but I guess I didn't take any pictures there.
We had some fun at a park in Ventura (and since I can't see what I'm taking a picture of, I can't always do a good job of centering the subjects):
On our way home from California, we got a flat tire:
In pretty much the middle of nowhere:
It was an adventure that caused us a six-hour delay in reaching our destination of St. George for the night. Which led to us taking another trip back to St. George a couple weeks later, in which we did some sightseeing and hiking, and swimming:
Yeah, just the one pic.
We also had a fun free day at this place called Libery Land:
We celebrated birthdays some more-
Jackson's actual birthday:
And Jefferson's:
The Primary had a bike parade:
Jenson tried some baby food for the first time:
Mason took some self-portraits:
And Jefferson started playing soccer this year:
I also managed to get a picture of the boys in which they are all looking at the camera, just not all smiling:
And here's one of just Jefferson and Jenson:
The End
(that's not all we did, but pretty much all I have pictures of...)
