June, a bit of July, and don't forget the pudding!

Aeden on his last day of kindergarten with his angel of a teacher, Mrs. Savage.

Zerin was asked to help with the flag ceremony on the last day of school

I don't have a picture of the actual day of the sealing, but my brother and his wife were able to be sealed to their two little boys Scott (Aiden) and Tyler (Laken).  It is always a special, sacred experience to be in the temple with family, but to watch children sealed to their forever families is priceless.

It's always fun to go see who the kids' teachers are going to be for the following year.

We spent a few days up at a cabin with Bryan's family.  Poor little Mandalen had a fall that resulted in this lovely black eye :(  This picture is after about a week of healing, but the sweet little thing didn't miss a beat being her happy self.

To usher in summer, we invited some cousins and neighbors to watch "The Sandlot" in our backyard.  Nothing says summer like Wendy Peppercorn :)

The kids wanted to earn some money to go camping, so they spent a few days making pet rocks, suncatchers (pictured), and otter pop holders.

We held a little garage sale and made enough to go camping later this summer!

Our sweet neighbor, Carol Rawlins, brought a picnic lunch and taught the kids how to make hollyhock dolls. Zerin even got into it by making a hollyhock ninja ;)

We had a fun day at the zoo with some of the cousins, Bryan's brother and his wife, and Grandma Skelton

Belen and her best friend, Gwen.  I swear these two are more like sisters than just friends.  Since Gwen was going to be moving at the end of the month, we tried to spend as much time together as possible and had lots of dress up, baby carrying, and dancing parties :)

  The family I work for went on a trip, so we got the awesome opportunity to spend some time at their home with their son Christian (Chuck).  We all had soooo much fun together and even went to the West Bountiful 4th of July Parade.  Chuck loved holding Mandalen, and kept insisting he was her favorite babysitter :)

When my brother-in-law and his wife went on Trek for their ward, we got to watch their boys, Kade and Cardon, for a couple days.  There were too many hilarious pictures to post them all,

but this was one of my favorites...I told Kade and Asher to look tough.  

I love it that Cardon is just watching them from a safe distance :)

At one point I had some other nieces and nephews here too, which meant I had 12 kids.  So much fun!

This is pretty indicative of their relationship:  Belen is aggressively displaying her undying affection for her sister, and Mandalen is passively and pleasantly tolerating it :)  I hope they always love each other this much.

If a picture tells a thousand words, this one is the novel of my life :)  It was nearing the end of the day...a very long day.  Belen had gotten into the pudding, and then left it down where Mandalen could finish the job.  Alex is quietly in the background doing one of the many things that endears him to me, and that is helping me clean up after the kids (I know we're horrible for letting him have people food).  

Coming soon:  24th of July, another wedding, camping, and other shinanagins