Brayden loved playing on the playground in the backyard.

Conner loved going on rides on the 4-wheeler. He almost looks big enough.

Conner taking Brayden for a "ride".

Porter is starting to sit up on his own. He still is a little unstable, but he is doing pretty good.

He even wanted to sit up in his car seat.

Here is Conner looking so cute.

Brayden posing for the camera in the yard.

Another one of Conner.

Brayden's new thing is to take every pillow and every blanket that we own and put them all into a big pile. He calls it his tent. Here is one of the many that he has made. Notice Porter laying in the bottom left hand corner. He likes to include Porter in his tent, so I have to keep a really good eye on him so Porter doesn't get covered up.

Lance playing with the boys on their bikes.

Lance was fixing the boys bikes and they had to get right in there to help.

I got Porter giggling.

Uncle Lance bonding with his new nephew, Porter.

Grandpa taking the boys for a ride on our 4-wheeler in his backyard.

My brother Lance came home from his mission today, August 9, 2006. My parents flew out to his mission to pick him up and spent a week with Lance touring Church History sights back east. When we were watching for him we were looking for a missionary in a suit. We almost missed him because he was in casual clothes. We asked him about his suit and he said that he was given permission to wear casual clothes while traveling with his parents. It is nice to have him home. This is my cousin Shawna's oldest son Corbin welcoming Lance home.

Lance and I. Conner went to him kind of slowly, but warmed up after a few seconds. Brayden gave him a hug, but almost jumped back into my arms. I was very proud that he even gave hiim a hug, because he is so shy. Lance left on his mission when Brayden was only 2 months old.

Lance just talking.

And talking.

And talking again.

The whole group, but my mom.

Here is the welcoming party.

We have a million blackberry bushes in our back yard. Our land lord said we could have free reign on them. About 2 weeks ago we picked quite a few and made some very good jam out of them. The boys love to go back there and pick them and have a feast. And I wonder why they don't eat their regular meals. Their shirts ended up looking just like Brayden's face.

Lance was washing the kitchen floor the other day and the boys wanted to help. Lance went and got them their own rags and had them clean the kitchen walls. They did a great job.

Here is a cute picture of Porter having some belly time. He is just growing up so fast.

I tried getting one with him smiling, but I kept getting him with his eyes half shut.

Here is a great shot of Porter trying to suck his thumb. I say trying because he still isn't doing it all of the time, just here and there. It is still cute, though.

Here is a great picture of Lance's uncle Dale dancing with our sister-in-law Julia.

Lance with his brother's Brian, Wes, cousin Doug and brother Mike.

Here are the boys at the pond just east of the Salt Lake Temple.

My brother-in-law Wes just got married on July 19th. Here he is with his new wife Melanie. The family here is Lance's uncle Gary (his mom's brother) and his wife Kathy and their youngest son Eric.

I wanted to get the boys doing some crafts so we cut out a whole bunch of shapes and Conner had a ball making his picture.

Here is Brayden doing his craft using my Grandpa Kitchen's famous "Kitchen Tounge".

Lance and Brayden at my mom's family's 4th of July Picinic. It poured on us. We were grateful we had a pavillion, but the boys wouldn't stay out of the rain.

Grandpa with his "co-pilot" Brayden.

My mom was making a flower arrangement for a friend and Conner wanted to help. My mom went and got some supplies for him and let him go at it. This is what he did all by himself, my mom didn't even touch it. I think it looks great.

I was cooking dinner one night and the boys were watching cartoons. I kept looking over and seeing the back of Brayden sitting in this rocking chair. From the back I didn't know he was asleep. It looked like he was just watching T.V. As I got closer I found out that he had fallen asleep.

Here is his front view.

This was at the airshow at Hill Air Force base. This was a picture of old and new jets together. It was a pretty cool show. There were tons of people. The boys loved it. They were able to see a lot of the planes up close.

Here is all of the blue angels in formation.

Here are the blue angels.

Here is Conner practicing photography. He took quite a few of my mom and did pretty good.

We saw my cousin Justin and his new wife Diana at the air show. They live clear down in Springville. We thought of all people to see, we saw them. Small world.

I've been trying to get Porter's smile on camera because he has a very cute smile. This was as close as I could get. He is sure a cutie.

Conner is trying his hand at photography. I figure we aren't losing anything with him practicing on our digital camera so he's getting to try it out. I think he is doing pretty good.

Conner lined his dinosaurs up and took their picture.

There was a chocolate fountain at my Grandpa's reception and Brayden sure enjoyed himself. It was all over his shorts too.

The kids with our new Grandma Henny on the day she and my Grandpa got married.

Brayden wanted to get in with the big kids in my Grandpa's kit car.

Brayden with his new haircut.

Lance's mom leaves for her mission tomorrow (June 5th). She has been called to the Washington D.C. mission to serve in the temple. We decided to take some pictures of her with her boys that were in town today. Her 2nd oldest son, James lives in Georgia, and her youngest son Bryan is out of town driving truck, so we were only able to get 3 of her boys. Wes is the oldest and he is on the left. The one to the right of Joann is Mike and he is just younger than Lance. Then Lance is on the right end. We are going to miss her, but know that she is going to do great work.