Ready for church

Here are the boys just before we walked out the door for church today. In the picture below, if you had not notice Ryan is wearing two ties. He could not pick which one to wear. So we let him wear both ties to church. The teachers in primary saw him with his two ties on because he gave the scripture today in primary. When we picked him up from primary, he only had one tie on though. So I asked him where the other tie was. He told me it was in his scripture bag. Of course I checked to make sure. He never said why he took it off though...

Swimming

I put the boys in swimming lessons again. I asked them if they want to do another set first, Kyle and Ryan were all for it Tylor said he wasn't sure... he said something about homework but it was really about video game time...
We had a lot of fun, but I do have to say it did make our week a bit busier but fun.

Here is a picture of Ryan. He is learning free style swimming. He is getting pretty good at it. Now we just need to teach him to breath while he swims, he currently does the swim then stop breath then swim some more.

Tylor is getting really good. His class was swimming the length of the pool I believe it was 25 meters. He also learned how to do the flip in the water so he can turn around underwater. Needless to say, Tylor was swimming 50 meters at time by the end of lessons (Yesterday).


Kyle is doing very well too. Here is a short video of him "diving" into the pool, in the deep end (12ft). He really likes to swim under water. In fact that's how he usually swims, all underwater then up for a breath of air, and then back under.

Happy (belated) Birthday Carmen!

Well, Wednesday was Carmen's birthday -the ___ anniversary of her 25th birthday.
So last Saturday (on the 6th) I took the boys shopping for presents. Ryan refused to go with me, he insisted on staying here with mom. We went to Target they boys didn't have any ideas -I had one but it was mine, and my only idea so I wasn't giving it to them -yes I was letting them fend for themselves.
Anyways after 20 minutes of pointless wondering they decided that some scented candles were the thing to get her. I got her a movie (the Princes Bride) and then we went to the Disney store to get her this pj set she thought was cute the last time we were there.
Walking into the mall Kyle slipped on the floor -both feet straight out in front of him and wham! right on his rear end -for the next day or so he kept telling us it hurt I don't think he broke his tail bone as it's not hurting him anymore but I really felt for him having taken some hard falls myself.
So we got home -and like a dad who's done this before I'd picked up a present to be from Ryan. So we wrapped them, well OK we put them in gift bags but it's nearly the same, nearly...
Then Sunday morning (the 7th) Ryan gets up early and comes in and asks me what day it is. I tell him it's Sunday, and he says "Is it mom's birthday today?" I tell him "nope, not today, gotta wait for Wednesday."
Monday morning rolls around and when Ryan gets up he comes out to the living room where I am, sits down next to me. Then he looks up at the gifts on top of the entertainment center and says, "Dad, what day is it?", I tell him that it's Monday. He then asks "Is it mom's birthday today?", I tell him "nope, not today we've gotta wait until Wednesday."
Tuesday morning Ryan gets up and comes out and looks at me and asks, "Dad, what day is it?", I tell him that it's Tuesday. He then asks "Is it mom's birthday today?", I tell him "nope, not today, it's tomorrow."
So Wednesday morning, I'm expecting the same routine but true to being a kid he gets up he walks past me (as I'm awake and trying to get breakfast ready) and he goes in and wakes up his mom to tell her that it's her birthday and she can open her presents.
So the reason I didn't post this until like 4 days later is that we put the boys in another round of swimming lessons they're after school and it converted our doable but busy schedule to something absolutely CRAZY! It's a good thing it ends this Friday. I don't know if we can take it much longer, Ryan is so tired that he becomes an emotional roller coaster every day at 6pm...

Ryan's "other" smile

So Ryan brought this fridge magnet home from preschool and when we asked him about what we viewed as a lack of smiling in the photo, he replied "that's my other smile". We told him we didn't think it was as nice or cute as his original smile...
what do you think?

Riding Bikes

Last Saturday we took the boys to the "barn-park" as Ryan calls it -it's real name is Tumbleweed park but it has a huge barn roof over the play area, so it's the barn park...
Anyways here are some pictures of the boys riding around. As you may notice their faces are kind of red... Well we tried to go early before it got too hot but it was still well over 100 when we got there. Alas such is life in the valley of the sun (burn)...