Uncle Alex (kind of) catches a fish!

We had the absolute treat of going up to Minnesota to be with the Hachtmans and experiencing the glory it has to offer. Ikea, the Mall of America and....

(You have to try them. If you can find them. And afford them!)

Alex and his dad also treated us to the most Minnesota of experiences, boating and fishing.  It was awesome!!  I personally didn't believe people could actually catch fish (I've never seen it happen!) but Alex proved me wrong.  Kind of :)

Articles of Faith

Since we discovered that Solei has freakishly good memorizing skills, we figured we might as well put them to good use and have her memorize the Articles of Faith. We have the first 10 down so I made video documentation of our wonder 3 year old. We may have the next 3 learned before her birthday next month, we'll see!

Sibling Love

I was looking through the pictures of our summer yesterday - what a busy summer!  It makes no sense that when the weather gets absolutely gorgeous here we leave for half of it.  But, people got married,  families needed to play and pageants needed to be enjoyed so off we went.  One thing that struck me was that I do not have any frame-able pictures of of just Solei and Forster.  Forster is so photogenic it's ridiculous, and Solei is so fast it is also ridiculous, so it seems impossible that I'll ever have one of those cutesy pictures on my mantel of my offspring looking all noble and peaceful.

I do try, though.  At Dallin's wedding extravaganza, we has a picnic a few days beforehand in my parent's backyard, and I asked Solei to give Foster a kiss.  The results:

Maybe they do belong on the mantel.  They are pretty funny :)