Summer fun

Boating with Grandma Lori and Grandpa Sheldon...

Luke "reading" uncle Jake's letter to Halle

Luke getting a ride on Grandpa Sheldon's motorcycle. He loves it!

Grandma Lori says...

I called Dave and Dixie to talk about tuxes for the wedding and asked them how it was going with the kids. Dixie said she is really sympathizing with grandparents who end up raising grandkids. She didn’t realize it would be so hard, although, of course, she is loving having them there and getting to know Halle better. It’s just that we are old! We decided if something ever happens to Lindsay and Cory we will just have to move next door to each other and raise the kids together. Cute Jamie Ferguson has been a very, very big help to Dixie. In fact, she won’t go out with her friends because she doesn’t want to leave Dixie all alone with the job of taking care of the kids. She worries her mom can’t handle it, which is silly, but it’s really nice of Jamie. Dixie said she thinks the experience has been good birth control for Jamie. Jamie won’t want to be getting married and having babies any time soon, after taking care of the kids.

We are in our house

We are in our new house! We are getting all settled in and loving all the space! 

Bath time!

Grandma Lori says...

When Lindsay came (Cory is out of town for work) Luke walked in proudly holding a gift bag for dad, immediately walked up to dad and started taking the stuff out of the bag one, by one to give to Dad. He was very proud because they gave dad 4^th of July things like sparklers, poppers, etc. It is so funny to see the things kids do.

A few days ago Lindsay and Cory were here and Luke had a balloon. I don’t know if you saw the helium balloon canister that Dad bought, but every couple of times Luke comes he blows up a balloon for him. Well he blew one up and after a while Luke wanted to pop it. They usually let it go in the sky, but this time he thought it would be fun to pop. We were discussing if that was a good idea and Luke was holding the balloon tight when all the sudden it popped, right there in his face. Luke had about five or six emotions on his face within 10 or 15 seconds. He was startled, ecstatic, scared, surprised, happy, sad and his eyes started to water, but he couldn’t decide what he was feeling. We tried to make light of it and started clapping so he tried that, but that didn’t help. He just couldn’t figure out what he was feeling and it was so cute and funny to see him try and figure it out. He stayed a little upset so I suggested we let Halle’s balloon go in the sky and that diverted him and made him happy really quickly. Don’t think he will want to pop balloons again soon.

Grandma Lori says...

Luke wants to go “wakeboding” so we are probably going to have to go in the afternoon or Saturday when Cory can go. They want to take Luke on the tube. Wakeboarding will be no good, but that’s o.k. Dad and I can go any morning ourselves and get good water.

St. George and Park City

The last few weeks have been very busy and we've been a little of here and there and everywhere! Cory had to go back to New York again to work for two weeks so after he left I headed down to St. George and was there with Cory's family for a couple days with the kids. Cory's parents were really nice to offer to tend the kids while I flew back and stayed with Cory in NY for four days. When Cory got back we went to Park City with Cory's family for their traditional 4th of July weekend in Park City. 

ST. GEORGE...

It doesn't get better than eating Cheetos by the pool for Luke.
Luke surprised me and after a little practice can swim great with the floaties on his arms all by himself without any help! He loves to swim.



PARK CITY

We stayed with Cory' s family at the Canyons at a new condo area there called Escada. It was way nice and we had a lot of fun.

Riding the gondola

Luke and Grandma Dixie watching fireworks
At the Olympic Park

Grandma Lori says..."Cyc-lyc-lyc-lyc-go"

So one quick story about Luke. So the other night he was running down the hall in his PJs, then he would jump sideways land on his knees and say "wake board." Then he would run back into the family room jumps sideways, lands on his knees and yell "wake board". Back and forth again and again, it was pretty funny and Lindsay says he came up with that all by himself from that day he came boating with us. It was really smart that he paid enough attention when we were boating and figured it out himself that you need to jump sideways when you say "wake board" as he would fall down.

Second, his new way of saying Motorcycle is: Cyc-lyc-lyc-lyc-lyc-go. (I listened closely and I really think he's throwing on 4 'lyc' sylables)

Grandma Lori says...

Grandma Lori sends uncle Jake a weekly email on his mission. In her letters she always includes things about Luke & Halle. So I thought it would be fun to have her send me what she sends about them and I can include them in the kids' journals.

This week, she said:

Lindsay and Cory came over last night and Luke played for a long time in the sand box because I kept getting him buckets of water to scoop and pour water out of and he loved that. However, he was a very dirty boy when he got done so Cory and Lindsay had to give him a bath. They put Halle in there with him and very quickly he poured a cup of water right into Halle’s face. Cory told him “No” and took the cup away from Luke. I was standing at the door and just cracked up when luke got this scrunched up eyebrow mad face and said, “I need cup!” He was trying his very best to exert his authority over Cory. I have never seen him do that . He has thrown little tantrums, but this was something new and it was very funny.

Luke has also started doing this run and sideways jump he calls “wake bode.” It’s actually pretty good. He really, really wants to go on the boat again so we are probably going to go on a late afternoon or Saturday morning with the crowds and get the tube out. Yes, it’s true. The tube.