You Are My Sunshine

This little man was probably one of the craziest two-year-olds in the history of two-year-olds.  I didn't know how I was going to survive him!  I felt like in spite of my best efforts to prevent having a very spoiled youngest child, he was going to grow up and be just that!

Turns out I was wrong!  He has grown in to an amazing little boy (he hates it when I call him "little", but I can't seem to stop!)  He is just HAPPY!  He is friendly and sweet and kind and smart and handsome. . .  With some of the struggles our family faces, he truly is just a ray of sunshine to me.  A real blessing!  Nathan turned eight on April 16 and was so excited to be baptized and start scouts.

Nathan's first day at scouts.  He looked at himself in the side mirror on the way and said, "I do look good in this uniform!"

Sam was able to baptize Nathan.  Now Sam doesn't always think Nathan is the sweetest thing in the world, so a brief second there I did wonder if Nathan would make it out of the water :-)

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A super fun ward Christmas Luau. . .

Then some more band and choir concerts. . .

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. . .

Starts out with the Madrigal Dinner! This was Katie's first, and Sam's second. It is WORK! Katie came up to me in tears and said, "I hate Christmas!!" The hard work definitely pays off though! I love the sweet Christmas spirit the Madrigal dinner brings

REWIND!!

The boys along with Jim Pitt's boys got to spend a morning up at the helibase one morning. Due to the fire activity in the area, the Forest Service had 2 Sikorsky S-61s, a Bell 407, a Blackhawk, and a Chinook helicopter later in the week. We also had a reconnaissance plane they toured. The pilots were awesome and gave the boys a tour of each ship and taught them how they work. Not sure who was more excited, the boys or the Dads!
A Sikorsky S-61. Huge!
DJ in the Pilot seat of the Sikorsky.
Standing in front of the Blackhawk.