June 2019

June started with a much anticipated day! Lincoln was baptized and man was he excited! He was part of every step of the planning from the program, the paper and font for the program, who offered the prayers, talks, songs, the witnesses and who baptized him. He had a few different men on the list for a while and finally chose his oldest cousin Mason.

Lincoln's baptism was at 11 in the morning. At 7:30, he was ready to go. "Mom, can we go yet?"

 Side note. Ezra loves water. ANYWAY he can get it.

 We got to help at field day in Oliver's class. Thomas was a lucky participant as well.

 We went on a fun hike and picnic in the avenues with some friends

 There was a steep hill and Thomas was the kid ring leader. That kid went up and down without any trouble. He was feeling extra adventurous.

 Let Summer Officially Begin!!!

We hiked to the rope swing in Centerville with Holly and Ellen and co. Unfortunately, the swing had broken and someone tried to replace it with a swing right next to the trunk. Way less effective/fun.

 We found another bike park out in Draper. It was a bit too skilled for our young team, but the boys still had fun getting in people's way.

 Mom, where's the key?

 Khari makes every day better. We got to play with her for a whole day!

 Lincoln got to make a crystal tree as a reward from his violin teacher.

 With summer here, I decided we needed some official Graham Summer T-shirts. They were useful all summer long!

 Someone get this baby a bib!

 One of my favorite weekends of the summer is Father's and Son's outing. I went out to dinner with friends in the ward, then Jodi and I hiked Grandeur Peak on Saturday morning.

 A morning with my sister is few and far between and it was awesome!

 We spent many a days up Milcreek Canyon. So refreshing!

 Ezra was blowing bubbles on the coffee table during FHE. Making me laugh!

 Another lose tooth!

We met Poll cousins and Grandma in Ogden for a fun filled day with the Get Out Pass and Puzzling Adventure. It took us on a walking tour of Ogden. Great start, but way too long for this crowd. Lucky for us, Grandma treated everyone to ice cream after a couple of hours.

We met at a park just for something to do while we waited for everyone to arrive. Turns out, it was a great choice of park as there was within an hour, free lunch served, free crafts for kids, free story time and free books for the kids too!

Our little tour took us in front of the temple too! Last stop til ice cream.

My good friend Trish got married. I got to attend the sealing.

We all went to the reception which was awesome! A fun park with outdoor stuff galore!

We got on the shuttle to get back to the cars and Ezra was very sad to leave!

We took advantage of a couple of library programs too. A fun magician had the boys on the stage.

They each performed well!

Another highlight was the arts festival! I think I'm going to make this a tradition. There was so much to do for all of the kids!

Since Thomas is never allowed to touch Lincoln's violin, he found an opportunity to use this one.

Art for everyone!

Oliver even made some noise come out of this horn!

You've got this Lincoln!

We took Gram Graham on a hike for her birthday. These two boys made it to the waterfall in about 20 minutes. They were awesome! There was too much snow to play at the waterfall, so we turned back and got some lunch to eat at a park in Salt Lake.

Even Grandma needs to blow out some candles.

Another wiggly tooth. Only this one changes a smile!

We went climbing with the Bird's. The kids had a good time and all did great! Ezra was very needy, so Natalie did the Lion's share of belaying.

Lincoln is my blossoming climber for sure!

We started a tradition of Waffle Wednesday at our home. The boys were great most of the time in helping set up and clean up. Some weeks had more in attendance than others, but it was a fun tradition this summer!

Wednesday's were also our service days. The boys did good at finding ways to help others and not complain. We pulled weeds at Nancy Day's house one day. We knew she was gone for a couple of hours, so we went in, got it done and got out.

We talked Ellen into taking us to This is the Place for a day. It was a hit...as always!

They even participated in some Native American dancing.

Lincoln and Oliver did a round of swimming lessons to start off the summer. It was good to have as we definitely got a good dose of swimming this summer.

Another trip up Milcreek canyon with hotdogs,

and a little hike.

We spent a Saturday with Troy and Marissa's family in Syracuse. It started with their traditional breakfast and parade and pounds and pounds of candy.

We used our Get Out Pass and spent a couple hours at The Rush. These boys are getting the right idea!

Thomas was not afraid to fly into the foam pit...Having big kids is pretty fun!

Then we went to a golf course and use our pass to hit a few buckets of balls. It was hot, and so fun!

June was awesome! Summer is Awesome! Four boys is awesome!

My goal, perhaps as a mother it to make sure my boys have fun away from screens. I'm not sure why I don't like them...at all, but I don't. So we came up with a plan on spending different days of the week with different activities and it turned into a screen free summer!

Mountain Mondays

Water Tuesdays

Service Wednesdays

Get Out Pass Thursdays

Friend Friday

Summer=FUN!