Oh what do we do in the summer time?

Apparently not blog.  Life has been busy, but fun. Summer is flying by way too fast.
Here are some things we have been up to:

• Catching big fish with Staci and Tom

• Putting up tents with Auntie Ree

• Being silly

• Mama has been silly also. I accidentally jumped on a blender blade (dropped it on one foot while washing it, then jumped up in horror and landed on the blade with the other foot). I got lots of stitches! But it is now finally healed. I had to forfeit the Utah Valley half marathon, but there is always another race.  

• Harper is such a fun, sweet and cute girl. She is just a little angel. She sleeps well all night, naps when I put her down. I am now at the point where I can stick her in her crib awake and she falls asleep. Hallelujah. 11 months old!! Can you believe it? She is also a superb eater. Thank goodness she has 8 teeth with molars on the way!

• Jasper is just too cool. He is going into 8th grade in about a month, I can hardly believe it.  He has lots of friends, and they are over at our house all the time, eating us out of house and home. But we love it. He can never have enough time to spend with his friends. Unfortunately for him, I have to give him chores and summer homework anyway, and it completely puts a damper in his style, but what else are moms for, right?

• One of his basketball teams (yes there have been a few) won a tournament. Yeah champs!

• He is a very good big brother to both Harper and Jackson.  With Harper we call him "Biggest Brother" and you should see the way she completely lights up whenever he enters a room. She gets a huge grin and just squeals!

• He can even make being on a horse with a baby look cool. :)

• Staci is engaged! To Mr. Tom Kotter. They will have their wedding on September 6th of this year. We are very happy for her. Tom seems wonderful and he certainly makes her happy. So yeah Staci!

• Dave has been busy with work, and trying to do fun stuff with the kids. 

• Like sleeping. :)

• Oh, and lucky us, one day a couple of weeks ago, David went out to go to work in the morning and found the car like this. Someone had thrown a brick into the back window of our car. If you look closely you can see the brick used, between the front seats.  Not nice.

• That's all for now. Harper says "Hi" she's real good at that. 

What we're up to...

Basketball, backyard camping, and being cute.

How to...

How to put a binkie in your mouth.  

A tutorial by Harper Lynn

1. Be sad, because your binkie isn't in your mouth

2. Locate the binkie

3. Raise binkie, and aim at face.

4. Keep at it until you find your mouth!

5. Spit it out so you can smile. Yeah!

My Cutie Pie

Just a few pictures I couldn't resist posting. She's only 7 months old once, right?

Snowboarder Extraordinaire

A few weekends ago, we were lucky enough to go skiing/snowboarding with some McKinnons and with Jasper's friend Nik.

This was Jasper's first time ever snowboarding, and he was pretty stellar from what I hear. I stayed back with the littles, and was happy not to be plummeting to my death down a snow covered mountain.

Anne-Marie, Jasper and Nik

Ree, spread eagling down the hill

Staci Lynn

Staci and her new beau who arranged the whole weekend.

A good time was had by all! We are so lucky to live by such beautiful mountains.

Halfie Birthday

It is Bennett family tradition to have a "halfie" birthday for all babies at 6 months of age. They get a few small gifts and try their first piece of cake. The cake is usually just played with and maybe a bit of cool whip gets past the fingers and into the mouth.

Harper really enjoyed her halfie birthday a few weeks ago.

She was lucky enough to share her halfie birthday with her Aunt Michelle's birthday.

Such cute birthday girls!

 

Grandma Bennett - what was all that about anyway? I like your shirt.

Jasper with his movie theater 3D glasses.  He is super cool.

Harper is big and happy at 6 months old. She sits up on her own very well. She is sleeping through the night (after a couple of hiccups from coughs and colds). She coos and smiles! She has 4 teeth - two fangs on top and two smack in the middle on the bottom. She is a mama's girl, and if I'm in the room, she really wants me and no one else. She loves to roll over, and is trying hard to figure out the crawling thing. She loves to chew on toys, and watch her brothers.

Happy Halfie Harper!

Play Pals

These two are great play pals. He runs around, and she watches. Sometimes he watches her too.

 They've had a lot of practice entertaining each other, since we've been sick in this house. Lots of inside time, and I'm about to go crazy. I may have already.

I think Jackson is near the end of his cold, and Harper is beginning hers. Jasper has been sick too - but 13 and sick is much easier to manage than 3 and 6 months.


Hopefully we'll get out of this house soon!! In the mean time, enjoy more posts to come.