These are a few of my favorite dads. . .

Happy father's day to all the dads in our lives. We love you all. Several are not pictured because we didn't have pictures of them and they aren't bloggers so we couldn't steal them, Matt, Mike and Grandpas we love you too.

Carter- Tagged

10 things you might not know about Carter Jeremy Redd:

1- Carter is his younger brother's hero. Everything that Carter does Logan does- or tries to do. He is an awesome big brother and is always willing to let Logan tag along- hopefully that continues.

2- Carter is an amazing reader. I don't know exactly what the scores mean but on the reading test given to all Kindergartner's he scored a 125 about half way through the year, the goal for Kindergarten is to be at 25 by the end of the year. I'm not bragging or anything. . . alright, I'm bragging.

3- Carter is hilarious. Some of my most favorite sayings are. At age 5 he asked one day "Mom, have I ever told you that shiny metal objects can only be destroyed by bountyhunters thermal detonators?" (this is a fact you need to know when playing starwars Lego that I didn't know but now I do). Also, the answer to his teacher's question during parent teacher conference at the first of the school year when asked what he wanted to accomplish this year "Oh that's easy, I want to grow a dorsel fin and some gils."

4- Carter is a great athlete. He is really starting to enjoy sports, and is really pretty good at everything he tries.

5- Carter is a POOR sport. Unfortunately he is used to being the best at everything he does so when he isn't it is not pretty. This is something we are constantly working on and trying to fix but so far, no luck. Any suggestions?

6- Carter's room is always clean- unless Logan messes it up. He is not one to be super messy and I know when he has his own room he will keep it clean.

7- Carter's best friends are his cousin Spencer and our neighbor Trek.

8- Carter is really good at Wii, he is almost a pro in boxing.

9- Carter has recently started a bad habit of spitting- ALL the time, EVERYWHERE (including in the house if he doesn't think about it). Again, something I'm trying to break and I'm not sure where he got it.

10- Carter is and always will be my little man. I can't believe that he's 6 1/2, I wish I could freeze him now and not let him grow up anymore. He is such a loving, fun kid and he has taught me a lot about having fun.

Carter Tags: Quincy, Cohen and Spencer R.

2 Yr old + chips/dip - supervision= bad idea

Need I say more??

Teeeeee-Ball

Carter just finished his last year of tee-ball :( I love watching tee-ball- I wish my kids would just stay that size. He did really good this year and finally really liked playing and is already excited for next year when he gets to play machine pitch. He was on a really fun team (thanks Kristen) with his best friend Trek and his cousin Jake.

New Blog Template

So, I haven't really ever liked our boring blog template but I chose it because it wasn't too girly and Jeremy still thinks it's his blog. So we were trying to find one we both liked but that just wasn't happening so we both picked different templates that we like and he agreed that we could do a poll and whichever is best liked we will use. So please see these two links:

http://www.pyzam.com/bloggertemplates/details/boston-redsox-1

http://www.pyzam.com/bloggertemplates/details/lotus

And vote on which you like the best.

2-year old for sale: $1.00 OBO

This latest art peice happened minutes after I had spent hours cleaning up the last one- which was on Camryn's beadboard walls (which are plastic so we can't repaint over them), he had used a variety of colored sharpie markers on that peice and it was much more creative than this one, and also much harder to remove- You can still see it if you look hard. I'm sure you can tell from the picture how bad he feels, this was after a timeout and a hard "talking to" but I can gaurantee if we leave a marker in his reach he will do it again, any suggestions on how to reason with a 2-year old are appreciated.

Camping

We finally made it on our first camping trip for the year. We went Friday night after work to Cottonwood and played in the stream, cooked some hobo dinners, played some baseball, got a good nights sleep, got up and headed home the next morning to get back to chores :( We all had a really good times and we're really excited for many more trips this summer. Carter even said it was more fun than staying home and watching TV!!





Check out that stance- he's ready for the pros, but he might need a new bat.




Hangin' out eatin smores, yum!