Bruiser

For Father’s Day we told Josh we were going to take him to dinner and a movie.  So Monday night after getting back from the reunion we decided that we would go.  We should have waited for another night!  I spent over half the movie down at the bottom of the chairs letting Lincoln walk around because he wouldn’t hold still and be happy at the same time.  There was two little stairs that he kept climbing up and down and he finally took a spill.  The end result?  The movie was over for me and Lincoln…..and Lincoln got a black eye.  However, dinner was really yummy.  So here are some pictures of Link’s first black eye.  It looks worse in real life! It’s his left one.  The pictures really don’t do it justice.

He loves hats too.  These are too cute not to add.  He almost always gets it on backwards.

Family Reunion

This past weekend was the Whitney family reunion in Marysvale.  We showed up on Friday afternoonish.  We had lots of fun!  There were lots of us there and it was fun to see everyone and visit.  The boys had a blast playing with all their long lost cousins for the weekend.  They were outside running and playing all day long until it was too dark and they had no choice but to come in and crash.

Tracen played with Millie all weekend long.  He was her little shadow.  This also meant that he played with most of the other little girls…Elise, Alyssa, Missy etc.  Tyler and Jesse ran around with all the boys….there were lots of them, shooting pvc pipe guns, playing war and mountain man games.

Uncle Dennis taught the boys all about being a mountain man and they had fun playing games and shooting/throwing weapons and all that good stuff.  there were also crafts for the little kids and lots of food to eat.

One of my favorite parts was listening to Jack, Gaye, Kristi and Jill play.  It’s always one of my favs :)  It was a good weekend!

Josh hanging out with Anna:

I think Jill’s hair is so dang cute.  Isaac caught a bunch of crickets.  Josh tried to talk him into eating one or two but it was no go.

Dennis telling us all about Mountain men.

Even Link got good and dirty everyday and played in the dirt.  He refused to wear shoes.  He took them off every time I put them on.

It wouldn’t be a family reunion without shooting off paper rockets.  They did this for several hours on two different days!

They spend hours constructing these.

Sunday we had testimony meeting.  The kids all sang “because God loves me” and Aunt Donna taught them sign language to go with it.  Sammy, Tyler (not my Tyler) and Gaye accompanied on guitars and violin.

All my parents grandkids…

Karate—summer games

The boys were in their first karate competition last weekend.  They competed in the summer games.  There were tons of people there.  They didn’t medal but they did an awesome job I thought.  We had talked about how the important thing was that they went and did their best and had fun.  I think that they did!  They competed in board breaking, flag sparring, sword fighting and then they each did their kata.  The video of their katas are below this post.  They were on opposite sides of the gym so it was kind of hard to make sure we were there for each thing and getting pictures and videos.

Board breaking:

Flag sparring:

Ty got this girls flag in this picture:

Sword Fighting

Ty…both boys are from the same dojo so they have the same uniform.  Ty is the one with the black helmet, facing towards the picture.

Kata: For their Kata they have to introduce themselves to their judges and tell them what they’ll be doing.  They spent a lot of time practicing this over the past few weeks!  They did the same kata.  They took turns critiquing eachother and being the judges…it was fun to watch!

I had to take Ty’s pictures from way at the top of the bleachers with my big zoom lens so they’re a little far away.

Karate Kata

Random facts, photos and quotes

Link loved these oranges…he wouldn’t put them down anyway, but  I love his face :)

Tracen has been pretty cute lately.  He said to me the other day…. “mom I wuv you berry much”  Ahhh.  He also said “Mom we are good boys huh (meaning me and him)  You are mom and I am Tracen.”

 

The boys went to SUU science camp this past weekend.  They had a blast.  I bought the video and was hoping that the individual pictures would be on there as well because there are some good ones of the boys.  But a 20 min video is a little much to upload.  The theme was survivor, they went crawdad fishing, swimming in some hot springs and learned survival skills including eating some bugs, worms and chocolate covered crickets.  They had a little dinner and program at the end.  They are excited to go back next summer already!

Just Dance

A couple weekends ago my parents came to town and brought David, Jacob and Millie with them.  Tyler had  borrowed his Aunt Crystal’s Just Dance game and one afternoon I woke up to this.  It was pretty dang hilarious.  I wish I’d had my video camera handy!

I would have gotten pictures from the front, but I was fairly certain if they’d seen me out and about with my camera all dancing would have ceased.