Happy Birthday Dallin

Happy Birthday Dallin, I Loved Today. We went swimming in the morning, then had ice cream out by the basketball court. We shot around for a little before we went home. A couple of Dallin's friends came over. Steve came home for lunch, Dallin got to open 2 presents. A Lego game, and a fishing pole. The boys played the game for a while and then were going to come fishing but had to go. So it was just he Codner kids. We always have a million kids with us and today it was just mine. I loved it. I kind of sat back and just watched them plat in the backyard with my camera. Honestly, I love our backyard.

 Handsomest 10 year old I have ever laid eyes on. I love this kid.

 Spencer chasing the duck.

 Eliza told him to stop and got him to start feeding them. Then he chased them.

 Dallin taught Eliza how to fish.

 There's is that best big brother I always talk about. Dallin is always telling me he can't wait for Spencer to grow up so they can really wrestle.

 My deck, I just found a chandelier I love.

Tomorrow night is Dallin's friend party. He is having a water fight, movie on the lawn and a backyard camp out. Eight boys, tomorrow night, can't wait. Right before we went out to eat tonight for his birthday he started saying he didn't feel well, hopefully we don't have to cancel a party.

Bearazonia

 It's been almost 2 weeks since my knee surgery, and I'm not going to lie.... It was a little tough. Times like this and every Sunday night, oh yea and holidays, I wish we lived by family. I didn't have to much help so there wasn't much recovery time. Turns out my right incision split, and got infected. I went in on Friday to get it all resealed. On Tuesday I took the kids to Bearazonia, with friends. It was a fun day. 

 Obviously you drive in your cars, through a wilderness park. They have wolves, buffalo, big horn sheep, ect... and bears. 

 Liza and Tabby

 It was great having Spencer around he was carrying around his baked Cheetos. All the animals could smell them and came right to the fence.

 He was chasing this poor chicken all around, u weren't supposed to go off the trail, but since I couldn't keep up with him, he torched the poor animals at the petting zoo.

 Spencer saying hi, and bye to the goat.

 Best big brother ever!!! Dallin road with his buddies through the park. Once we caught up with him at the walking park ,he was such a big help with Spencer.

 My girlfriend Gretchen got to be the audience help. She was a mouse while this huge owl snuck up on her.

 Dallin and Eliza getting a close up.

 I was counting 1, 2, and. When I said and the bear covered the kids eyes.

 There's their cute faces.

 Spencer being his cutest self.

 Notice the girls posed so cute with the bear in their picture, The boys wanted to hook Dallin's head phones up to the bear and blow out his ears.

Spencer's in a BIG BOY bed, kids trip with Grandparents

 So my kids left for their grandparents on July 18th. they were gone until the 16th. The first 24 hours was an adjustment after that was smooth sailing. I spent 3 days cleaning. I cleaned out every room even the garage. The next 7 days I had all to myself, and Spencer. We went out a lot, Steve would get home from work and instead of being wiped out we would run errands. We went shopping one night. We went out with friends, went to a concert. I tell you we were living large. The morning they left, Steve pulled out Eliza's other tooth. Now she has a big gap in the front. Dallin got his spacers put on the day before they left. Phase one of braces, I guess there is 3, keep working Steve.

 To bad the kids missed this, one night at dinner we walked out to eat a saw this rainbow. It ends right in front of us, we put dinner away and went looking for the pot of gold. Never found.

 We switched Spencer into his big boy bed, since he started climbing out not to long ago. Here he is at bedtime.

 Big surprise he wasn't in his bed when we went in to check on him.

 There he is, Dallin's bed. He climbed into Dallin's bed every night he was gone.

We went to the Chris Izaak concert and had the most fun. My girlfriend Gretchen and I danced the night away.

The kids came home on Sat. afternoon, I was so happy to have them back. I realized how much I missed them :).  Eliza has promised to never leave me again. The week after they got home we spent every day at the pool, and just hanging out. On the 22nd i got knee surgery. They took out the rest of my meniscus. I guess I shredded it and split it in two. On my way to recovery. My kids have taken excellent care of me. 

4th of July

 Happy 4th of July

We got home from Cal, on July the 3rd. So there was no time to plan anything major. We bbq with the neighbors down a few houses they have boys my kids ages, and a few other families came over. The kids got to decorate their bikes for a parade later that night.

 Plenty of good food.

 There was a silly string war, they shot bows and arrows, fished and fireworks. That's right fireworks, even though they are illegal.

 The bike parade.