House Full of Boys!

Last Saturday Jared's little brother Ehren was married. We spent the day in Columbia, SC at the temple and then went to Ruth's Chris Steak House (which by the way has the best sweet potato casserole I have ever tasted!) for dinner. We were without kids for the entire day, Sheri, a friend from church and who works for Jared's parents watched our 3 boys with her husband and her daughter Morgan. They took the boys to the river and played and fished. The boys have never been fishing before. They had a good time except Aidan was bummed that he didn't catch anything. Here are some pictures of Ehren & Jessie and some of the boys. Ehren & Jessie Eli at the river Aidan fishing Adley learning how to fish

The middle of July the big boys took swimming lessons for the first time at a local city pool. They had a great time, but are still a little nervous in the water. The like to use the float belts and doggie paddle around but don't like to try and float on their back yet. Both of the boys surprisingly will dunk their heads under water though. We will probably repeat the same class next year and then hopefully move past beginners. The boys really haven't been in the water much, we have only ever been to the pool a couple of times and then the beach. While I am in Arizona in August, Jared is going to take them back to the city pool and work on everything they learned. Here are some pictures. Adley 'doggie paddling' with float belt Adley holding on Aidan practicing with his teacher Aidan waiting his turn The Boys!

So we have been home from the beach for a week and yes I am finally posting pictures. It has been a busy week at our house and I have been at work A LOT! We had a great trip to the beach. All of the boys loved being in the water this year. This was Eli's first trip to the beach and it did take him a day to get used to the water and sand, but by the end, he was jumping with the waves, smiling and laughing. We stayed with the parents of Jared's friend Doug. We picked up Doug and his girlfriend Keely on Wed and continued on to Wilmington. This was the longest car ride (6hrs) that Eli has ever been on - I was running out of food, tricks and entertainment by the time we got there. We went to the aquarium again and also walked on the Pier and got ice cream. Here are the pictures. . . Aidan jumping in the waves Alligators at the aquarium Eli and a turtle Crazy pelicans - they were everywhere on the Pier and were not afraid of people at all We built a big pile of sand in front