Lise+Mike

Lise and Mike got married on Tuesday. It was the most fun, magical, beautiful, perfect day. Lise was beautiful and so incredibly happy. I'm so glad for her and Mike and so glad that they found each other!

Here are a few of my favorite pictures of the day:










Congrats Lise and Mike!

We had our family pictures taken before my brother Joe left on his mission.



It didn't quite hit me how big this brother of mine is until I saw this picture of us siblings. Even though I still think of him as my little brother, he is all grown up!



I'm so proud of him for serving a mission. He seems so happy in Orlando. I'm so glad my boys have such a great uncle to look up to. . . even though we're going to miss him plenty!

Cousins

I came across this old picture of cousin Izzy holding baby Lola:



I couldn't believe how similar this picture looks of Lola holding Stella:



It's a little crazy to me how much my kids look like their cousins. . . even though with Nate and Katie being adopted, they don't share the same genes. It definitely shows that families are meant to be together!

FoUR

Just trying to figure out when I got old enough for these fOuR kids to call me mom.

Love them.

Baseball

Jacks had such a great time playing baseball this season. He improved so much from last year and I loved seeing his new confidence. He wasn't on the best team this year, but he had so much fun with the boys, had such great coaches, and we loved spending our summer evenings at the baseball diamond.

Stokes Camp

Every June we head up Logan Canyon for the annual Stokes camp out.



This year we only went one night since we were leaving for Seattle, but it's something my kids look forward to every summer.



It's such a great time to spend with these amazing great-grandparents



and these amazing grandparents, to eat yummy food, to run around in the trees and enjoy being together as a family.

Floodin' the Sandbox

So far this summer Miles' favorite past-time is a little game he likes to call, "flooding the sandbox." It involves digging intricate roads, passageways, tunnels and other whatnot and then taking the hose and destroying it all.

It is a huge mess.

But it keeps that little guy's mind and body busy so this mama allows it to happen way more often than most sane people would.