Family Night Day Fun

The Day began with some very funky "doos!" This picture gave them no justice at all, but I got a kick out of them all morning long!
We spent the morning working in our garden...planting summer veggies, and making a place for the rest. Max and Justin were very intrigued with all the worms we dug up, and filled our planters with them.
Our other very cool discovery was finding a birds nest with five blue eggs in it in a flowering bush by our compost pile. It's so beautiful!

After all the work was done, later in the evening we played walkie talkie spies! Geoff and Justin wore their walkie talkies and ear pieces as they rode their bikes to accomplish the secret mission for the night. I was "motherbase" at home with a sleeping Max. TOO FUN.

Sour Dough Bread Success!!

Thanks to Gwen Lund and a little tenacity through the failures, we are now producing some DELICIOUS sourdough bread. We ALL (Max included, amazingly enough) love it. Above is a cinnamon swirl loaf. It was so pretty coming out of the oven, I had to take a picture.

The best part of this bread is the simplicity of making it --no need for a Kitchen Aide or Bosch, just a bowl and spoon, some starter, flour and salt and a little time. We even cook it on our expensive Home Depot Cooking stone...a ceramic tile that cost about $1.

Our next adventure will be sour dough crackers!

Justin's latest Art Lesson with Nanna

Justin loves the Niagra Falls, so this was his choice to paint during Session 2 with Nanna. Justin really looks forward to these lessons...he loves art and loves Nanna!

Little Garden is blooming

It is SO EXCITING to see our little garden sprout. It a pure miracle that our peas survived and even thrived through the deadly explorations of Max! He is our garden's worst enemy! We are loving our strawberry planters (stacked 5 high) especially with our limited garden space. We are planting summer stuff now. We're learning a lot about producing our own food...little as it is.

Return to Rock Island

Almost every day Max begs to go to Rock Island. It is our HAPPY PLACE!!!! We could live there!

Sunny Days at the Park

Running
Swinging

Rolling

Hangin Out

Buddies in every way

As Justin says, "BEST FRIENDS!"

Easter & the Journey!

Easter was very fun this year! We did all the traditional things (coloring Easter eggs, pistachio trails, Hidden Eggs, Easter FHE with the 12 eggs, learning more about the Resurrection...etc.), but the Easter Bunny did venture out a bit and brought the kids a small collection of candy this year...you can see their "HUGE" stash in the picture above. They were totally excited.

Our ward put on a program called "The Journey to Christ" in which Geoff was one of the Apostles (Pictures coming if I remember). It was viewed by over 3,000 people in 3 days...a memorable and inspiring event. Our ward building was COMPLETELY transformed so that when you entered you felt as though you traveled back in time to the days of Christ. It made this Easter Season extra special!

Family Pictures

Cummings Family

Char, Roger, Russell, LeiLani
JaNae, Mom, Jolynn

Grandkids

Kaytlin, Makayla, McKenna, Lincoln, Brinley, Kailey
Jentry, Maddy, Courtney, Becca
Max, Charly, Sam, Caleb, Justin, & Abraham

Cummings Children & Spouses

Larin & Roger, Russell & Carrie, Jolynn & Alex, JaNae & Geoff
(Brent) & Char, Mom, Lani & Joe

Max with an attitude!

EP Geo Dome/Jungle Gym

The boys had a hay day setting up Joanna's Geometric Dome/ Emergency Shelter. Our Family has been looking into getting a good temporary shelter, so Geoff was especially anxious to check out Joanna's! We like this one because we could use it as a green house as well. The boys love it because it seconds as a HUGE jungle gym!

Sister's Week 2009

This Sister's Week was AGAIN so much fun! It is a time we ALL look forward to and anticipate greatly. It is inspiring, fun, educational, relaxing...and everything good. I love my sisters!

A few pictures to sum up a very good time!

Westgate Lodge, Park City

First night with a whipped cream explosion!!!

Lunch in our lodge...a feast!

The Price is Right

Personal Pampering

Yoga

Dinner Out

Dinosaur Museam & Soccer

The men & some of the kids! What great guys!

A little snack at Thanks Giving Point

After a time of playing soccer together, all the kids got hot and jammed into the van to watch a movie...so the big kids were left alone to play a game all to themselves.

TOO FUNNY!

Thanks Giving Point Tulip Festival

Day 1 in UT -- Brinley's Baptism

What a great way to begin our tip to Utah! We went to Brinley's Baptism which was really neat. (We are really looking forward to Justin's baptism in July!) It has been special to attend most of his cousin baptisms this year.

We spent a good portion of this day with our Cummings Family. A fun day!

On the Road to Utah

Traveling with Justin and Max right now is really quite fun. They are in a good stage for getting along and entertaining each other. Of course our DVD player helps a bit too. The rest stop this time provided some great tree climbing fun.