This past Saturday we went to the Apple days parade, then the Peach days carnival in the evening. Its no Avocado days celebration, but much more kid friendly. I hadn't been to the carnival for a while and I forgot all of the "colorful"(whitetrash teens) people that show up. Now I know, once my boys hit puberty, don't take them to the carnival. Maybe that's why I only remember going to the carnival as a kid.

Here is a somwhat recent fun moment. Sarah went down stairs and found Kyler in the toy room like this. Somehow a marker found its way down there and he found it. Notice the felt tip is gone. After calling the nurse hotline, we found out it won't hurt him but make sure he "passes" the tip. It took all the next day but after looking at alot of "Hulk" poop, he "passed" it (and by "passing" it, I mean he pooped it out.

Here is a milestone for a parent. The first time your kid(s) does serious damage to your house. Not just coloring on a wall or spilling something on the carpet. I mean possible structural damage. Kyler likes to pull all the paper off the rolls. I don't know if Austin was trying to clean and be helpful or what, but he decided to flush all of it down the toilet. He then walked away without telling anyone. By the time Sarah discovered it, the entire hallway was soaked and the water seeped through the floor and into the basement bathroom through the ceiling. Since I was at work, Sarah and Kade did the best they could to minimize damage. They used all or our towels and a lot of pots. After a few days of fans on the carpet, it is just a memorable milestone.

So here is one of my proud moments as a dad. Kade took a step towards manhood and learned to skip a rock. Now everytime we go to a river or lake, Kade is looking for a "good" skipping rock. He's pretty good.

We had a fun 3 day weekend thanks to Pioneer Day. I took the boys to the zoo in SLC and they had dinosaur days going on. They had about 10-15 animetronic exhibits with the sound. The boys didn't really care about the real animals so most of the pictures are of the dinos. It was a long day...

... so the kids slept on the way home.

Monday we went to the local splash park. Its nice when the kids like to do things that are free.

Here are our boys sleeping. Austin is sleeping like a normal kid, and Kaden...
... not so much. Aunt Miss (who is pregnant) showed up today and I'm guessing that has something to do with it. Hopefully he did this in his sleep, but then again what would he be dreaming about. I can't imagine doing this on purpose and trying to fall asleep. Anybody else's kid do weird things in thier sleep?

This was fathers day. No way was I about to lose a 3 legged race. Sorry for the graininess of the video, it was done with an old camera in our back yard. In case you can't tell I am the one in the red shorts.