Zach is a Happy Dude

We have had a great summer so far, busy but fun. I got a season pass to Seven Peaks Water park and take Zach once or twice a week with our friends, Sherry , Baby Hay and Baby C.C. We have had some fun times with the kids in the neighborhood too. Zach started preschool too! Some of the moms in our neighborhood organized a little home school preschool rotation. Zach loves it.

Here are some pics of Zach having fun with some of our neighborhood friends. Syd, Sarah, Max and Caleb had a great time in the kiddie pool while the parents had a chance to chat.





Another mess by Zach: He loves to put on my makeup. I found Zach looking in a very dirty mirror with makeup all over his body. He was happy to pose and he Kept saying into the mirror "Cute!" "Zach Cute!"

Pioneer trek Pics, finally

Here are some of our pics from Pioneer trek with the youth in our stake. The first picture is us with our eight children. Andy was a very good looking, if scruffy, Pa I must say. We didn't have the camera out very much because the weather was so very wet. So we have pictures of the driest day we had and our "family" playing pioneer games and a picture of the snow we woke up to the last morning. It kept snowing for quite a while after we took the picture. The rest of the day we had all kinds of fun weather. Sleet, hail, wind, sun and more rain. It turned out to be an amazing experience. Despite the very cold, very wet weather we had all of the youth said they wouldn't have changed it because they gained so much faith from the difficult conditions. We are so glad we had the opportunity, even though it was A LOT of work!

Memorial Day Pics

Over memorial weekend we had a great walk down the street from my parents house, feeding horses and enjoying the beautiful view. Saturday was a beautiful day to take the canoe out to cutler marsh. The Wellsville Mnts. looked so pretty that day. Zach had a great time with his buddy grandma throwing rocks in the water and hanging out with the aunts and uncles. We went to visit my Grandma and Grandpa Benson as usual on memorial day for a BBQ and to visit the cemetery but it was pouring rain so we never made it to the cemetery. The battery was dead on our camera so we didn't get any pics of the extended fam! Next time...