A toothless grin!

Tristan lost his first tooth while we were camping! He was SO excited!! He even has a 2nd loose tooth right next to it. The tooth fairy just visited him last night (I told him she can't fly in the mountains cause there were too many trees). He was so excited to wake up to find a dollar under his pillow this morning!

A much needed vacation

We went to Moon Lake up in the high Uintahs. Other than the rain storm on the way there it was perfect weather all week. The lake was SO high from the last time we were there. It was crazy how much overflow there was at the dam.

The view driving in, after the nasty hail storm. We saw a power line get hit by lightening and had ping pong ball sized hail.
A chipmunk in his home. There were like 4 in this tunnel and they were everywhere along with squirrels galore.

Brown Duck River. We walked to this around part of the lake.

Griffin fishing

Tristan fishing

View of the lake from the dam

Tristan on our hike. Once we got to the river we had to go up the side of the mountain farther just to check it out.

The otherside of the lake. If you can see the sandy beach on the other side of the lake that's where the campgrounds are and where we started. It's about 4 miles round trip (we walked it 2x)

Tristan at the top of the mountain sorta (with an owl feather in his hat that he found)

How Griffin spent most of our first hike.. carried by grandpa

Griffin after surviving the hike

The last night looking at a map with Grandpa about all the trails we took and could take. Me and Tristan started on one that would have taken us farther up the river we saw but far from the lake.

The boys around the campfire

The boys exploring by a little stream

A possible bear cave we found near the stream. Perfect size for hibernating

Tristan posing near the bear cave

Griffin was less than happy at this point cause we didn't go the way he wanted.

Tristan and a very grouchy Griffin

A very unhappy Griffin


All my boys

Tristan and dad

Playing by the stream, Tristan was teaching Griffin how to balance on the log.

Snail Love

Griffin cracks me up! I love that kid. He has a "pet" snail. He carries it all over and has tried to sleep with it. He keeps it in a basket. I told him he should take it outside so he can find food/water etc. He said "No, my wuv him. My bufer (brother) gave him to me." with the biggest pouty face and puppy dog eyes you've ever seen. I'll have to get a pic of his pet before it dies lol

First Loose Tooth!

My baby is growing up!!! Last night at dinner he said mom I think I hurt my tooth. I didn't think so since it was just grilled cheese sandwiches so I asked to look at it and sure enough he has his first loose tooth! It's on the bottom right. I almost cried right then and there! Loose teeth, Kindergarten and he's almost 6! Who said he could grow up???

In other news he had his Kindergarten Assesment the other day and he did great! He can write his name, knew 17 capital letters and 10 lower case letters, counted to 12, knew all his shapes and colors, some letter sounds and could show which pictures started with the sound given by the teacher. He just needs some practice on pencil holding, rhyming and phonics. But so far so good! I'm so proud of him!

They gave him a book before he left and I showed him how to read the first page (the horse is brown) and he "read" the entire book by himself. I think it was mostly picture reading but before that know one else had read that book to him! I can't get over that he'll be reading soon too!


In some Griffin news, he knows the letter T and the letter O. I had no idea lol! We were sitting waiting for tristan's testing to finish and they had magnetic letters out there to play with. he grabbed each t and brought it to me and said t mom. T. Then he found all the O's and said o, mom, o! So proud of him! His speech seems to be getting a tiny bit better too, but he has a long ways to go!