The yard is almost done!

We've almost finished the yard, what a nightmare. Well I guess I shouldn't say we, but Dan!! He's done everything himself. I did help him pour curbing though. This is just out the sliding glass door from the kitchen. That's our garden!









Here's Brodyn, on the front pathway. It is coming from the park strip in front of the house.












Here is our house. We will have been in it 2yrs This Christmas. We have enjoyed it so far, Dan loves it, he built it all himself, he is so talented I can't believe it! I love it other than the hordes of mosquito's we get in the summer.

IT'S GETTING COLD!

Emmy and Brodyn, we'd just been outside on a stroller ride, and I couldn't believe how cool it is getting.













Brodyn, crawling around with his little sister!













Emmy chowing down on her animal crackers, cookie crumbs all over her face. Her hair is coming in, but she is still "Miss Fuzz-Head!"












Here are my little
"Thatcher Monster's"
again! Bundled up ready for fall!

"Summer is Over!"

The Pool has closed for the summer, we are so sad. We tried to go once a week, during the summer, but right toward the end with that cold weather over labor day weekend we put in as many days in a row as we could. I knew winter would be on our toes soon and Brody and Emmy would be inside for most of it. So we were soaking up as much sun as we could!
Here is Emmy with Jeannine, she was getting so tired and sun worn that she took a break with bean under some shade reading twilight!! She loved the pool, she won't keep her little hat on though, I should have gotten one that snapped under her chin, but we kept sunblock on her and she didn't get one sunburn!!
I put Brodyn in a waterbabies class. It lasted 2 weeks and we went everyday. It was such a blast I can't wait to put Emmy in it next summer, while Brodyn gets to be in the preschool age swim class. Waterbabies was fun because I got to get in with him and learn safety with kids in the pool. Brody learned how to blow bubbles in the water, dunk his head, jump in, and my favorite is, hold his breath under water. Before the waterbabies class he was a little unbalanced in the water, but after he was doing the crocodile crawl, bunny hops, dunking his head, holding his breath. Now he is a fish in the water, or rather a "shark" that's what he calls himself.

This picture is of him counting to three with his fingers before he jumped to dad in the water! he says "one...free. two...free....jump!!"

The funniest thing is that he'll belly flop into the water and stay submerged because he's holding his breath but it looks like he's drowning. Other mothers in the pool would look over at him and think he was drowning, one mom actually reached down to pull him up, but of course he popped up before she needed to save him. I was always right by him too. I'm such a worry wart!!

Emmy Grace

"Princess n' the Pea!!"

This is our little "princess and the Pea!!" That is what I call her all the time, because she is the definition of Drama!
The funny thing is, is that I love how dramatic she is. I know it is just because she is a girl! She is so funny, if anything is going on around her she has to be apart of it. Whether she is exhausted or not. She's looking around just being in "every one's business!"




"Playing at the Park"

We call her sissy sue sue, or Emmy Gracy Sue Sue, just a dorky nickname I came up with! When Dan heard it he said, "You call our daughter...Sue?" He wasn't too happy about that one!
Here she is giving me her silly face.







"Swinging"

We doubled them up, Eliza and Emmy, but we couldn't get both their cute faces. Emmy loves the swing, she just giggles and giggles, she is such a happy baby!

From the time she was 2 months she pretty much slept through the night, but right now she gets up in the middle of the night and wants a bottle, but at least she'll go right back to sleep.










"On the Prowl!"

Emmy is 10months on September 14th! She started crawling at 8months, and she is already pulling herself up on things. Yesterday I was sitting down and she crawled over to me and pulled herself up on me all the way to a stand. I hope she figures out walking before she turns 1yr. She's two months ahead of what Brodyn did. He crawled at 10 months and walked at 13 months.

Brodyn...terrible two's?

"Dennis the Menace"


Doesn't that look, just look like he's just about to do something he shouldn't! He was actually moving around quite a bit so that is why it is a little fuzzy!

When he is getting into all sorts of trouble I call him Dennis...he is such a little rascal. What 2yr old isn't though!











"GIDDY-UP"


Horse back riding with dad is one of his favorite things to do, and riding on dad's motorcycle!

Dan said that he kept saying "Run, Run...Blue", that is the name of that fancy mustang you see right there!

At the fair this summer, Brodyn got to ride a little pony, because our ward was doing pony rides, he loved it and didn't want to get off, I think we need to get him a little pony!


"Grandma's House"!!

My mom runs a daycare, so it is pretty much heaven for Brody with all the toys and outside stuff to do, he loves the sand. I hate sand it gets everywhere, so it is a good thing grandma's got the world's biggest sandbox, that way I don't have to have it at my house!








"Vroom!"


Brodyn playing in one of grandma's cars. Look in the background see how many toys, it is the best place for kids! We love both grandma's houses, especially this summer since all we have is dirt. It was nice to go and play on grass!!







"Hoouge-ISH"!!


This was actually in the spring, but he is telling me his fish story. He got to go fishing with dad up around Sid's pond, which is just up the street from us. They caught a big rainbow trout, that somehow swam into the pond. I asked Brodyn how big it was, and he spread his hands out like this and said "hoouge ish"...translation, "huge fish!!"

MOAB TRIP

LET'S RIDE!

Dan was able to go to Moab this summer as well. He went with his brothers and Dad and a few friends. They biked the White Rim trail.

The trail is 100miles and they did it in 2 days! 50 miles the first day and 50 miles the second day!






These are some of the caverns they went through.

The trail is pretty popular, you have to get reservations to stay at the camp sites. I guess you have to reserve them a year in advance.

Dan's dad has this ghetto Winnebago (driving RV) and all of them just piled in it and drove down there. Then his dad followed them while they biked.






You would think it would be warm in Moab, but it rained the entire trip, Dan said it got pretty dang cold. I think the last day they got a little sun!

We were glad to finally get him home though, I hate sleeping alone in a dark house at nights, I just get both kids in my bed and lock all the doors, I'm such a sissy!

Dan's Alaska Trip

Alaska Trip!

Dan was so lucky this summer, he was able to fly to Alaska and do some salmon fishing with his buddies.

He was gone for a few days, one of which was my birthday. That was a little bit of a bummer but I got over that pretty fast when I saw how much salmon he brought home with him!

Dan said there were black bears all over the place, just waiting to steal a fish or two. One bear in particular came down to where one fisherman had a pile of freshly caught fish and one he'd been filleting. the bear chased him off and stole the fish the man had been filleting...smart bear!!

This picture was taken from the back porch of the small cabin they were staying in, only about 50ft from them. The eagle's are my favorite pictures. I think they are such awesome animals, they are such big birds!

Dan had so much fun, he wants to do it every year!

Thatcher Kids

Love's his horses

We just joined the book club, and I got Brodyn these little horse books, and they came with a stable and four little horses. Here he is now mauling them! He won't put them down.

Getting Ready for Church

This is Emmy "Gracey-sue", ready for church, She does the best gummy smiles, they are so funny!