Our new camera

Bryan wanted to buy a new camera. I conceded after realizing that my joys with my kids now are what is going to keep me smiling and no better way to help me remember than taking lots of good pics. From the first day July 7th.
Aaron just waking up from his nap by a mean dad who is now an avid photographer.
In the kitchen
Snuggling up for a story

Summer Days

Chocolate pudding painting for one of our "Power Hour" days. It's a term I made up; it refers to an hour or so of mom and girls time doing whatever I plan. For chocolate paint day my objective was writing their names- Ash refused to write but ended up drawing pictures. Em wrote her initials and drew pictures. Other days we have played scrabble, made muffins for our neighbors, and done workbook pages. Today we drew pictures of our favorite places and wrote some sentences about them. Ashley's was McDonald's. She drew the kid zone with a slide and she had me write, "There are two slides and two climb-ups. I like to eat chocolate and vanilla ice cream." Emily drew a slide with a person sliding and had me write, "Chuck E Cheese is the best place to go in the entire world. Chuck E Cheese has a playground too." I drew a mountain and wrote, "My favorite place is the mountains because I like to hike and see nature. I like to see God's beautiful world."

Emily got a book from the library called 006 and a half. It's about a girl who loves to play she is a spy. One day after that Emily drew on herself a brown marker mustache to play spy. Bryan jumped on board and bought the girls a spy kit and walkie talkies. He gave them yesterday as an early birthday present to Emily. Ashley didn't want them to be walkie talkies but wanted to call an imaginary friend. They lastest 20 minutes before a major battle ensued and had to be put away for a while.

Aaron is a happy guy. He is 13 months old. He has 5 teeth- 3 on top and 2 on bottom. He loves to eat a variety of foods, play outside with his bikes, take baths, eat rocks, play hide and seek, play piano and the drums, eat paper, and take rides in the wagon. Generally be cute and find trouble.

His eye surgery seems to have gone really well. We go back in August to check if eyelid surgery would be appropriate.

He sleeps great, and just learned how to wave bye-bye. His nickname is doo-doo or boo-boo as well as Aar Bear and we all adore him.

Father's Day

Thanks for Bryan for being a great dad. He loves being with our kids and he is great at taking time to play the games they want to play- pollies, legos, whatever. He is a great financial supporter and lawn mowerer. He also rocks the house down on guitar, drums and recording. He loves his land cruiser, cholula hot sauce and riding his mountain bike. We love you daddy!

Thanks to my dad for being a great dad too. His support is never ending and as well is his love for teasing. He shows me a great example for working hard and also for playing hard. He also looks out for the guy in need which has always been an inspiration to me.

Shout out to our flowers that bloom without much attention and to my mom for taking the pictures.

We went to the Bountiful temple for a primary activity. We missed being with most of the group, but did see our dear neighbors the Moultries. The toured around with us and we had a great cold day.

Ragnar Relay

June 18th Friday-19th Saturday

Ragnar Team #754. Team Name: TBD

Results- 31:55:47.9.

Logan to Park City- 188 miles! Bryan and I and 10 other people took turns running for 31 hours, 55 minutes. My part was 3.4, 7 and 6= 16.4 miles. We ran, slept (3 hrs-ish), ate, complained, got massaged, ran more, ate, smelt, cheered, pottied, loved it and hated it. Van 1 start time was 5:15 am. Bryan and I were in van 2 and we met in SLC around 7:30 am and I think we started running around 11 am? Honestly it's a lot of a blur now.

Van 2 from left to right- Kelsey, Bryan, Maegan, Brian Fries (Bry Fry), Shalee the driver, Wes and Adam. To check out more photos go to http://flo-foto.com/ (team 754)

2010 Wasatch Ragnar Relay- check. :)

2011 Watsatch Ragnar Relay team #198, temporarily named 'Cool Runnings' is now accepting all applications for 10 openings. June 17-18 2011- put it on your calendar.

Yellow Ladies

We were ready for church a few minutes early- thank you 1 p.m. church! These dresses were for my sister Carlie's wedding in 2007 and they still fit. Here you can see some of our annual spring time flowers- the pink ones, yellow roses and purple snap dragons.

A day at the Hanks house- May 28, 2010

Aaron waking up from his afternoon nap. He is 11 1/2 months old. You can see his eyes are looking straight at you- yay eye surgery success! You can also see his left eyelid is still a little droopy which may or may not need surgery sometime in the future.

He loves to suck on his fingers for comfort. It's always been 4 fingers. With his fingers getting bigger it's narrowing down to 3 (his pinkie finger is barely in there). He takes two good naps a day and is a happy baby most of the time. Here he has a green nose.

Emily has finished eating a peanut butter sandwich and has some remains on her cheeks. She has out the twistable crayons and is about to color a picture, probably for her friend Maddie.

She is a good artist and loves giving pictures to her friends with her generous heart.

She is 5 1/2 years old, with her birthday in July.

Her permanent teeth are coming in her empty spots, 2 on the bottom and 2 on the top.

Ashley is in our garage with her two friends Sarah Wright and Kole Johnson- both are neighbor kids. I brought out coloring stuff and they are having fun in the heat of the day.

Ash turned 4 in March and is really growning up. She is wearing her new headband and Emily's roller skate shoes. She learned how to roller skate last week and wanted to try these kind on.

She loves to giggle at her friends doing silly things.

Sunday Cuties & Moab

Three little sweeties all in a row. Taken May 16th

Bryan, Drew, Matt and Jameson (not in the picture) all went on a bike trib to Moab for 3 days 2 nights. They road on the White Rim trail where they camped for a night and then opted for a hotel with a hot tub the second night. They had a fun trip and brought back lots of pretty pictures and only a few scrapes.

We played Settlers (with Cities and Knights expansion) for almost 4 hours one night while Drew was here. Bryan beat us both by double our points-sheesh. It was fun and brought back memories of our newlywed days when we used to play together a lot.