Bike Sale!!!

Okay, not really a sale... actually, not at all a sale, more of a claim-your-bike opportunity.

Dad's going through the garage. A part of that going through includes getting rid of a lot of stuff.

Bikes included.

I took pictures of the bikes left behind, and we're now giving you the opportunity to claim them. If you want them. If not, they will be given away / sold for pennies (or maybe some nickels).

Without further ado -

 

pretty sure this one is mine. just wanted to show you the awesome teal and hot pink combo.

this one started out as caitlin's... right? not sure if it got passed on or not...

was this one faithy's?

That's all I got. Let us know if you care to claim any of them.

Tired times

I was trying to post this to our Cotterell blog and it ended up here. Then I thought I'd just leave it. A little update for us.
Love to all.

I'm not going to say I wish things were different. I know we made the decision to pursue this line of work. And I really don't wish they were different. But I am going to say it's hard. Spencer's schedule is really busy. 12- to 13-hour days in average (we are getting to the end of the month and August will bring us days of 5:30a to 6p consistently, so that will be nice - but then September will probably busier than July. But, "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." (New Testament, Matthew, Chapter 6) - so I'm trying not to borrow trouble!) It's really okay and we're all doing well. It's just really tiring. Especially when I've got a headache like now. And especially when we've been having 100+ degree days for some time and they're scheduled for the next 10 days. Forgive me, but i do wish that were different. We have several movie days in our near future, I think. We kicked it off with "Pirates of Penzance" after our trip to Sam's Club this morning. The kids really enjoyed it and I'm glad I finally showed it to them. I hope I hear that in the background much more.

And you know, things really are great. Just hot and tiring. But these kids are really fun.

Mom's Little Birdies

Decided to sit out on the back patio this evening and try to catch the hummingbirds on camera -

and a couple of bonus pictures -

Yesterday's Birthday Girl

On video chat -

And her brothers -

Harps Playing Softball

To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, Mom, Dad and I went to watch Spanky play softball in Provo and then ate at Los Hermanos. I volunteered to take pictures of a 5k in a couple of weeks and figured this was good practice for taking action shots.

Now here's a whole lot of Spanky -

pitching

swinging - check out those arms!

more muscles! (:

harper's friend clay.

leaving 1st

nice leg muscles.

coming home

riley nelson swinging

with the Y

Thanksgiving Point Tulips

It was cool and rainy but, thankfully, not windy, when we went to see the tulips. Always beautiful.