Scout Camp for Matt (07-03-2010 to 07-09-2010)

Since Matt is the scout master in our ward, he had the opportunity to join the scouts at summer camp this year.  He had a great time, of course, and the boys and I had a relaxing week without him (although I've already instructed him that he can't use his vacation days for that next summer and to start talking to the dads now!).  Anyway, he took most of the pictures, so he wasn't in very many of them.  Here are the ones that he was in:

Trying to be cool...

The whole group

And it's not often that you find "Lasater" spelled correctly on anything!

My boys...(07-02-2010)

This day was pretty rainy but we finally got a break just after lunch, so we went out to take a few pictures of the kids.  They humored me and I got this really cute one of them...I love that they are laughing in it!

Cows? Really? (06-27-2010)

So we wake up Sunday morning to cows grazing in ou front yard!  Yup...not deer...we see those all time...these were cows.  The same 2 cows that I came face-to-face with when I went running a couple weeks before.  They were just chowing on the grass, leaving cow patties behind!  Matt and Cody couldn't get them back where they came from either time...they were too skiddish.  Finally that week, the county sherriff came by while Jace & I were mowing the yard, so I gave him these pictures and the kids had fun seeing the sherrif's truck.  I think they must have caught them because we never saw them again.

Happy Father's Day (06-20-2010)

We brought Matt breakfast and presents in bed for Father's Day.  All kinds of handy things like...

A lighter for his grill...we want you to get it up and running!

Some new bungy cords...now you can go pick up my piece of metal for my giant magnet board!

And a few other handy things like some mini screwdrivers that he asked for.

And then he went outside to head to church and found this little gem.  The pink flamingoes from Grandma's magically appeared in the yard overnight with a happy father's day sign on it (remember Kathi's in town)!  Ha!  I'm sure our neighbors thought that was awesome!

Happy Father's Day honey!  We love you!

Cody' 4-wheeler (06-19-2010)

So Jace got his first little job this summer.  Cleaning our neighbor's 4-wheeler.  But you can't just clean it, you have to take it out for a little test drive beforehand!  Matt took each of the boys out for a little off-roadin'.  They had a great time and then they got the 4-wheeler all clean!

They wish they could take it out themselves!!!

Kat Comes to Visit (06-12-2010 to 06-27-2010) Last Hurrah

The last night Kat and Ryan were here, we got a sitter and came over to play a little Rummy Cube.

Here we all are

Kat, why do you make us take silly pictures like this?

I love this picture of Mom and Dad!  Having a good time!

Bye Kat!  We love you guys!  See you in December!

Kat Comes to Visit (06-12-2010 to 06-27-2010) The Beach

Here we are at the beach!  We headed down to Corpus to spend a day on the shore and getting sun burned.  Yeah, that's right, we ALL got sunburned.  Word to the wise, when the side of the sunscreen container says "wait 20 minutes after application before entering water", it means it.  Anyway...

Yes!  That's my mom!  In a swim suit!  In the ocean!  We could hardly believe our eyes!

Here's Grandpa, checking out the sand castle building going on...he's about to take over the task.

And this is how boys build sand castles.  Apparently, Grandpa, Matt and Ryan couldn't get the little castle molds to dump out the castles (I told them the sand they were using was too wet, but did they listen?)...so this is what they did...nice.

And here's Grandma, proving that you really CAN build a sand castle the right way!

Me and my boys, Matt and Brett in the water.

Bayli in the surf...cutie girl!  Love those goggles!

And Bronco was so willing to have his picture made!  These are my favorite attempts...

Jace and Brett in the surf...

There were several of these little guys to avoid...

And after a long day at the beach, some down time was in order!

On the way home, we made the obligatory Jewell family stop at Cracker Barrel for lunch!

Fun times were had by all (minus the sunburns!).  We would definitely do it again!