[..aLL gRowN uP..]

My little baby boy is finally becoming a big boy! This little man is almost all the way potty trained!! We still have some work to do, but for the most part Tatum stays in his undies ALL.DAY.LONG. One day about 2 weeks ago he watched cousin Noah go on the potty and he knew from that second on he wanted to go on the potty like a big boy.


Its crazy how well he has caught on...he can get on the potty, do his business, flushes and then gets his little stool and washes his hands all by himself. Its so stinkin' cute to me but at the same time its totally scary how grown up he is.

Tatum we are so proud of you, good work little man!

[..Lets go fly a kite..]

One of my favorite things about my house is its location. We are nestled right up to AF canyon and the mountains are so close you could practically touch them. One of the benefits of living so close to the canyon is that every night around 6 o'clock there is nice breeze that come through our neighborhood. It is a perfect wind for flying kites. So out we went to buy some kites and headed out to our neighborhood park to fly them.



My Sister and her family moved into our basement while they are in between homes, Tatum has loved having a buddy around 24/7!!

The boys lost interest after about 2 minutes when they found these lone scooters!


Another 10 minutes after that they decided they were ready for dinner and Eric and Jason stayed out flying the kites until it was dark.

Score... Boys:6, Girls:0

This week we added two more baby boys to the Larsen Grandchildren! We are so excited to have these two finally here and born only 2 days apart!!

[..Lake Powell..]

Lake Powell is seriously Heaven on Earth! It is our most longed for destination during the Summer. We got to spend a few days down there and loved every second of it! Sorry there are a TON of pictures, but I figure it makes up for the MONTH of not blogging :]

Here are the reasons why we LOVE it:

We love the breath taking views...


Tatum learned to love his life jacket....it took some time!


He loved reading stories with JJ and Pop-Pop...


Boxing JJ...


Searching for lizards...


Where's the lizard?


Nope, not on the ground!...


We had fun jumping off the top of the house boat...


and off the cliffs...


We enjoyed shooting water balloons, rocks and fish at the people who decided to park next to us...


We had fun tubing...


and then getting pulled over by this guy for sitting on the back of the boat...


And last but not least we love the wake boarding, skiing, knee boarding etc...


Can you see why this place is our Heaven??