Something exciting

The park is so close to where we live. We can take the wagon sometimes. With so much grass, a slide, swings, sand and even a climbing wall, the fun is endless. Thank goodness!!!

This picture speaks for itself. One of those perfect moments caught on film.

To announce Keagan's pending arrival to our families we put a t-shirt on Tylita saying, "I'm an awesome big sister." Here are "Awesome Big Sister" and "Little Brother." He does like his status most the time!

There is our cute man posing perfectly for his naked baby shot! Notice his legs are also crossed. That is how he sits most of the time!

Another perfect moment caught on film. We think our kids are amazing!!!

We had a really fun summer

The river here moves so slow and is so low in late summer that it was fun to go and play a few times. We even caught a crawdad. Tylita liked that!!!
Tylita, Keagan and I are taking an institute class. After we walked out one day we saw this beautiful flower garden with a convenient path up to rocks perfect for sitting on. Obviously I wasted no time in taking pictures.
Keagan loves the swing!!!
Keagan also loves to play the piano!!! He also understands when to smile!
Keagan is 10 months now. He is learning everything he should, many things he shouldn't, loves his sister and is all around happy. There was your snapshot of us!

Fun in the Summer 2011

Laramie has Jubilee Days. They held a carnival and we loved the rides.
Tylita has learned how much fun swimming is!!!
What a sweet and adorable smile.
We took this on one of our hikes/camping trips. Isn't it beautiful?
Another picture of Tylita in the carnival! Sorry no pictures of the little man enjoying summer. Better luck next time. We do have some, don't worry.

Fun at the lake

We went fishing to Lake Hattie, the fishing was terrible, but the beach was fun!

Keagan still doesn't like the water, give him some time, he'll love it like his sister.

Tylita learned that a life jacket can hold you up in the water. She loved holding onto our hands while bobbing in the waves.

This is how to do a proper push up: back straight, up on your tippy toes, arms shoulder length apart. One, two, three...

Here's to random fun!

I thought this was the other one where we were all focusing on the camera. My excuse is in the Dancing. I don't blog more often because I am usually dancing or running through water with the kiddos. I have decided I need to share the fun we have more often. So here's to random fun!
I just think this picture is such a awesome shot. She loves stairs and she loves slides. She is in Heaven at the park. The best part for me is that she invites me to play with her. Here's to going down slides I'm too big for!!!
Now isn't that cute!!!
Ames Monument. Highest point of the old transcontinental railroad. Aren't the men in front cute!!!
Ponds in the Laramie Mountains are fun for Rainbow trout. She caught the fish and said it was pretty. That's all folks..... stay tuned next week!!!

Lake Powell 2

Here's the clan with Grandpa Bond and "the other Grandpa Bond." That probably was a little confusing for her, but Tylita loves her Grandpas.

My goal was to catch a fish longer than Keagan. I didn't succeed, but I had fun trying! The closest I came was this 5lb largemouth.

The little pirate loves fishing in the boat!

We love Grandpa Bond!

Lake Powell!!!

Yeah I know, our trip was a couple weeks ago and we're just now getting around to blogging about it. Our excuse is we've been having too much fun playing, no time to sit on the computer.
We took our boat down and met the old men (Grandpa Bond, the other Grandpa Bond, and uncle James). Weeks before the trip Tylita kept talking about taking daddy's boat to Lake Powell (I don't know who was more excited, me or her). The weather was nice and warm, a wonderful change from this cold wet spring. We fished every day and had tons of fun. Tylita used her new fishing pole and caught her first fish. It was a smallmouth bass, she loved it! She wanted to touch it, but refused to kiss it! Keagan didn't know what to think about fishing, he mostly just laid down on the floor and slept. He's a Bond boy, so he's destined to love fishing, give him a few more months and he'll get the hang of it.

Yay!

Keagan man loves his feet, they are his favorite toys. He loves to play with them, pull on them, and even try to eat them.

To celebrate the end of the school year we went exploring in the mountains by our house. It was a great trip! We saw new places to camp and all kinds of critters. We took these pictures on our drive. Tylita loved looking at the animals, Keagan didn't care at all, he slept the whole time.

We saw 3 herds of elk and several deer, in the above picture is a porcupine that Jenni chased up the tree.

We saw these bachelors less than a mile from the cows, there were more but they ran over the hill before we could get the camera out. The one on the right is going to be a big bull. (I know where I'm going hunting this fall!)

Ever hear of Ames monument? We saw a sign about it on our exploration, so we thought we'd take a look. It's a giant pyramid, dedicated to brothers Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames, Jr. The monument marked the highest point on the transcontinental railroad at 8,247 feet.

Easter celebrations

A couple weeks ago it was snowing (surprise) and we wanted to go camping. So we decided to boycott the weather. We set up our tent in our living room, equipped with our air mattress and a sleeping bag for Tylita. Although she decided that the queen size air mattress was her bed and tried to commandeer it from us. Fortunately for us she went to her own bed (after much persuasion). We had fun, and we're excited for when/if it warms up so we can pitch our tent outside.

Tylita got a fishing pole for Easter. She had to beg her daddy for it, after much persuasion and arm twisting he gave in. She's excited to try it out this summer, almost as excited as daddy is to show her how to use it.

Grandma sent Tylita a new dress for Easter, she loves it. Here's the two little cuties in our front yard. Tylita was excited to take pictures, Keagan wasn't so sure he liked the idea.

Here's Keagan sporting his new bolo tie and his blessing outfit. We had to shorted the tie to fit him better, he seemed to like it. He likes how it tastes anyway. Since this one was a big hit we're gonna have to find some more ties that fit him.

Here's the princess, after an Easter egg hunt. She had a lot of fun, but it took her a bit to figure it out, she would run past 5 eggs to get 1. Once she got that one egg, she wanted to open it and immediately eat the candy. I had to convince her to wait until later to eat it, now she needed to get more eggs so she/we could get more candy.

Happy Easter

So I asked Tylita who we are celebrating tomorrow and she says, "Jesus, and he talked to Joseph Smith" I was impressed, and asked, "What did he say?" She answers, "he showed him his hands!" What an awesome Easter Message. I am so grateful for my children. They are teaching me how simple the gospel of Jesus Christ is.

Adorable babies and race trucks

The other day Tylita and I made a some pie crust for our yummy berry pie. We had a little dough left over so Tylita made her own little peanut butter and M&M pie. She rolled out the dough, put it in the heart shaped pan and put the M&Ms in it. Tylita couldn't handle putting all of the M&Ms on her pie so few of them fell victim to her uncontrollable urge to eat chocolate. She ate most of the pie, Jenni was forced to eat the rest.

Happy Super Keagan Man!

We put Keagan in a bag to weigh him. Our scales were a little off from the doctors. Three weeks ago the doctors said he was 15 lbs 5 oz. He's in the 50% for his weight and 90% for his height. He's growing fast!

For Elders quorum we raced made pinewood derby rockets. We attached a C cylinder rocket engine to cars and raced them down a cable. One of the engineering nerds brought a radar gun to clock the cars. Although mine was knocked out in the first round with a mere 60 mph, I ran it after everything was over and it went 76 mph (faster than any other car raced that day). Tylita got to push the button to ignite the engine. She loved it! She loved watching the cars go "really fast" and she loved pushing the button. After we got home she kept talking about pushing the yellow button, and watching the cars go fast. She played with one of her own cars making it go vrooom vrooom! This is daddy's "little truck".