Fall soccer just started up.  Today was the jamboree and Riley loved it!

GOAL!!  It's Riley's first this season!

Stories

It has been too long since my last post.  I have been wanting to post but I've been terrible at taking pictures lately.  I kept thinking I'll wait until get some good pictures then I'll post these great stories.  I've decided to I better post the pictures later before I forget these stories.

About Jeremy:

When Jeremy prays he prays strait from his heart and it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.  Not to mention the fact that he seriously has the sweetest voice, that is when he's happy.  It has the opposite effect when he's whining.  Well a couple of weeks ago Jeremy said the prayer in primary.  After church a someone came up to me and commented how Jeremy did the prayer all by himself and he prayed right from his heart.  It was so sweet.  When we got to the car, Jeremy with a big smile on his face and while nodding said, "I did a spirit prayer!"  (For those who need an explanation he means that he said a prayer that invited the Holy Ghost).

The other day Jeremy came up to me and said, "Mom do you know what my specialist things are?"

me:  "What?"

Jeremy:  "Jesus, Heavenly Father, and angels!!"

I really long time ago I'm sure I posted about how Jeremy has a special blanket.  In the beginning it was a blanket that he confiscated from my mom's house, that had pink satin on one side.  At some point it got lost and he adopted a yellow blanket.  It is fuzzy on on side and satin on the other.  Jeremy loves satin.  And when I say loves, I mean loves.  It is not unusual that if someone is sad, or if Jeremy is just in an especially loving mood he shares his special blanket with you.  Well this evening was especially cute.

Jeremy:  (puts his blanket on my shoulders) here mom you can use my yellow blanket.  (he steps back looking so pleased).

me:  Oh thank you Jeremy I love you're yellow blanket!

Jeremy:  You can sleep with it tonight!

me:  Oh I do?  Thank you!

Jeremy:  (looking even more pleased)  You get to sleep with it for two nights!!

me:  Two nights?!  Thank you!

Jeremy:  You get to sleep with my blanket for two nights.  It has super good dreams in it.  Something at night has been telling me to do that?

me:  What do you think that is?

Jeremy:  I think it's my spirit.  Or maybe it's Jesus' spirit.

me:  Or maybe it's the holy ghost.

Jeremy:  Yeah that!  I was going to say that!  Don't forget you always sleep with the smooth part (meaning satin).  The smooth part has good dreams.  This part has bad dreams(fuzzy side).

About Riley-

Yesterday as we were driving home I over hear a conversation Riley and Jeremy are having.  I start to eaves drop.  This is what I hear.

Riley:  "The best day of you're life will be when you go to heaven and live with heavenly father and Jesus."

About Tyler-

Tyler is into all kinds of mischief these days and he relishes in it.  My new favorite word he says,

"P Bu-er"  In translation- Peanut butter.

4th of July

On the 4th we went over to my Mom's house.  The boys played in the sprinkler and slip and slide which they loved and played with squirt guns.  They had so much fun!

Then we went home and were going to put the kids to bed.  We figured, "oooh we did fireworks last night we should be good."  Not so, Riley remembered that the last two years we went to the Tigard Fireworks show and he was feeling ripped off!  So Lane and the boys went and bought a few fireworks.  Once it was dark all the neighbors were lighting theirs and it really was good.  Not to mention the fact that on all sides you could see the illegal fireworks going up.  So it worked out good.  We didn't have to battle the traffic out of there after all.

3rd of July

On the 3rd we went to my Dad's house.  Just like last year he had the boys wear their safety glasses- a definite COOL factor.

Riley and Jeremy's favorite part was getting to light them and run.  They took that very seriously as you can see below.

Tyler liked watching the fire works but was totally freaked out by the sounds.  We put some ear phones on him and that seemed to help but he preferred to enjoy them from a distance!

Garden Progress

This year we decided to start a garden for the very first time.

It is doing so well and we are really loving it!

San Francisco & Muir Woods

Fisherman's Wharf in San Fran was tons of fun!  When Jeremy saw this tie down anchor Jeremy stops and says, "TAKE MY PICTURE!"  Not quite sure why he was so excited about it or why he wanted to spread his legs into the space but he did.

There were some awesome break dancers down near the pier.  We all loved watching them.  
Muir Woods-

Cousin Katelyn, Spencer, Riley and Jeremy

On our way down to California for our family reunion, we stopped in Ashland, OR to camp for the night.  They had this great park too.  The boys loved climbing on that thing.

this is my favorite part.  I don't know if you you can see Tyler's face on the uploaded version of this video, but try, it's worth it!  He kept telling us the fire was HOT-ot-ot-ot!  He is so darling!  We all had a lot of fun camping that night!

Boys first Fishing Trip

Jeremy caught 3 fish!

Riley caught one but he was more interested in finding the salamanders.

Never mind Jeremy obviously needs to go potty!

Have you ever seen a white peacock or maybe its albino?  Not sure!

It's official

After 4 years of undergrad and 4 grueling years of dental school,

Dr. Lane Cook

Lane's parents came down for the graduation.  You can just see how proud they are.  Lane graduated with clinical honors and he was the only student in his class to graduate with high honors!  Wooohooo!  

Now Lane is going to kill me for posting the rest but I'm going to do it at his brother Vaughn's request.  He really wanted to know about the awards that Lane got as well as several of his other siblings.  He asked me to post them on my blog so he could read about them.  Since he didn't get to make it I am going to fulfill his request.  For the rest of you all go ahead and skip it.

Honor Society:  Omicron Kappa Upsilon, Delta Chapter

Alpha Omega Scholarship Award

awarded to the student attaining the highest academic  average over the four-year curriculum

American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology Award

Awarded to the student who has demonstrated exemplary aptitude and achievement in oral and maxillofacial pathology.

American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Radiology Achievement Award

Awarded to the student who has demonstrated the greatest interest and accomplishment in oral and maxillofacial radiology.

American College of Dentists Award

Awarded to the student who has displayed honor and integrity, influencing and promoting the highest of professional standards.

Certificate of Merit AAPD Predoctoral Student Award

Awarded to the student who shows the most promise in pediatric dentistry.

School of Dentistry Alumni Association Award in Memory of Stephen P. Peglow

Awarded to the senior dental student who posses those qualities most desirable in a dentist including integrity, humility, compassion, skill, sensitivity to patients needs, and dedication to service;  nominated by the senior class, then selected by the class and faculty.

Since he wants to be an orthodontist we have 21/2 years more school left.  He starts his Orthodonic residency on July first.  Then I can start counting down until we're done with school.  Yeah!!

One of a Kind

On Sunday afternoon I had this conversation with Jeremy,

Jeremy:  Look at my sliver Mom!

(holding up the palm of his hand to show me)

Me:  Oh did it fall out?

Jeremy:  No I squeezed it out.  It persecuted!  And I did it!

So the next time you have a sliver that persecutes you Jeremy can help you out with it.

Jeremy is one of a kind.  He cracks me up!  When he is at his best there is no one sweeter.  Likewise when he is at his worst...well let me just say I try to persevere.  My very favorite things about Jeremy is that he loves to pray and when he does it comes straight from his heart.  He is a spiritual giant.  Another thing I love about him is that he is so determined.  Once he makes up his mind there is no changing it.  I'm figuring that as long as we can get and keep him on the right path, he'll be steadfast.  

His favorite color has always been orange.  And this is his favorite super hero getup.  He likes to mix up all of his costumes and he called them "mixed up superhero's."  The ensemble he is sporting in the picture above is an astronaut jumpsuit, The Flash mask and a blue lightening bolt cape.  He loves it but is somewhat self conscious about it.  He doesn't wear it out in public too often.   I just love Jeremy!  He is such a special boy!

Jeremy's 4th Birthday!

This year Jeremy wanted a Star Wars Clone Wars birthday party.  He really wanted a pinjata and since I couldn't find the right kind, and because they're now made out of cardboard and don't really break, I reused an old one from Riley's.  Jeremy was quite pleased.
Tyler's face was priceless when all the candy fell out.

Happy Birthday Jeremy!  We Love you so much!!

Tulip Festival

Several weeks ago we went to the tulip festival.  I am so behind on blogging.  It was beautiful and we had a great time.

There were several booths and one of the booths was a bird rescue.  The boys got to hold them.  Riley was very eager and Jeremy had to work up the courage.  Riley loved both but ....

This green quaker parrot was his favorite.

More Riley projects

This one was a creation out of our recycling.  Their are several room and all of them connect by tunnels or doorways.  It's hard to see in the picture I know.  There is a movie theatre room and a massive bowl of popcorn(made out of paper)  and an ice skating rink to boot.

I know this has some resemblance of an athletic cup.  Trust me!  It is NOT!  I don't think he's ever even seen one.  It's part of a large plastic egg from easter and a head strap made out of tape and crayons.