4th of July

Left side top to bottom: Grandpa Pay with Samantha and Lincoln - McKinley and Lincoln - Mom, McKinley and Lincoln at the Kaysville Parade

Right side: Porter cousins before the parade - Alli and McKinley at fireworks - Grandma and Grandpa Porter in the parade - Lincoln thinks the parade is loud

Late Summer

Labor Day - St. George Temple
Layton Park - Multiple trips during the summer
August - Bear Lake
July - Lagoon
July 25 - Riding Frontrunner/SLC Temple/Tour of the Conference Center

McKinley

Here are a few pictures of McKinley. She is getting to be such a big girl! This is from 5-8 months. I can't believe she is already 9 1/2 months!

Lincoln is 3!

Lincoln's presents - Scooter, jeans, church shirt/tie, toy helicopters and airplanes

Lincoln's birthday was on a Friday this year. As luck would have it, Jefferson and I both had the day off! We hung out and did a little shopping in the morning. In the afternoon Lincoln got to play at Grandma Porter's house. He asked all morning to go and play at her house! For dinner we went to Iggy's in Centerville. Lincoln wanted pizza for dinner and they have that on the kids meal and it comes with an ice cream sundae. On Sunday we went to the Pay's house to celebrate with my side of the family. Lincoln had chocolate cake and ice cream - his favorite! He got lots of fun toys - a Buzz Lightyear car, a big "dumpy" truck, playdoh, a Buzz/Woody kickball and a soccer ball. We are heading to the Porter's on Sunday for the October birthdays. So much fun to celebrate!

More pics:

St George Trip

This year we went to St. George for Easter. We drove down after school on Thursday and came home Sunday afternoon. On Friday we drove through Zion Canyon (it was free entrance at National Parks). We stopped here and got out to walk on the rocks. Lincoln loved climbing the rocks and looking for sticks. He still talks about the "beach" as he calls it.

Lincoln, Mom, McKinley

Ganges

Saturday we went to the outlets to look at the kids clothes and then headed to the Farm for the McArthur family reunion. We missed the treasure hunt, but made it in time for dutch oven and potluck salads. SO GOOD! Lincoln got to look at the bunnies and chickens. He also went on a tractor ride with Jefferson. I heard it was a wild ride! That evening after naps we went to a park by the Porter's house. Lincoln loves the park! We went for a drive around town that evening.

Sunday was church. Before church Suzanne hid eggs around the house for the kids to find. Lincoln picked right up on the game. I left his Easter stuff at home, so he got it when we returned. Church was really nice. Here are the kids dressed up for Easter.

Lincoln doesn't like to look at the camera and smile :) He had a great time and talks about Grandma's House, the Farm and the Beach constantly. McKinley was a great girl and just hung out the whole time. So glad she is such a happy baby.

Lincoln Dancing

Here is Lincoln dancing with some of his cousins at Grandma Porter's house. It's his favorite song to dance to. Sometimes he will throw a fit if it's the wrong song :)

Catching up: Christmas 2010

Christmas was a little stressful this year, wondering if McKinley would be coming early. Fortunately, she stayed put and I was able to enjoy Christmas out and about with family.

On Dec. 23 the Catlin clan got together in Bountiful for dinner, games and catching up. It was fun to see all my cousins and their families. We were missing the Washington folks, but everybody else was there - even the Schwabs from Virginia. Here we are trying to get the kids to take a picture. Lincoln was crying and Corbin is hiding. Thanks to Maren for trying!!
On Christmas Eve we went to the Porter's. We had dinner and games, along with the Nativity (words and songs!). Of course there were presents. We usually take a family picture each year (on a timer on someone's camera - nothing fancy) but we didn't this year. We will have to remember for next year.
Christmas morning we woke up and opened presents before heading to the Pays. Lincoln got a "bike" and loved it from the moment he saw it. We had to wake him up so we could leave on time so he was slightly asleep when we started down the stairs. The first thing he said was "Bike!" It was cute.
He got some books, a shirt and a little car as well. I gave Jefferson a remote helicopter and trick car. He gave me cash :) [I have since bought some clothes with that money!]
We got dressed and headed to my parents for presents and breakfast. It was a little more low-key this year since we only had our family and my Grandma/pa Pay. Usually we invite more family, but since we saw them Dec 23, we didn't. It was nice! We didn't take any pictures at the Pays.

The next day was Sunday. I tried to get a nice picture of Lincoln. I think this was the best one. He doesn't like taking pictures. The other ones are pretty hilarious :)

Dog Food

Today I was feeding McKinley upstairs and Lincoln was running around. He went downstairs and was being very quite. I started getting nervous. When McKinley was done I headed downstairs to see what Lincoln was up to. I met him at the top of the stairs with a guilty look on his face. He had dog food on his face and shirt that he had spit up. The rest of it was on the stairs and the tile. Bear came and ate the big pieces (gross) and I cleaned up the rest. What was that kid thinking? :)

On a completely unrelated note, here is a picture JP took the other day on his phone. It's a fun family picture (minus him).