Greg's Graduation! August 12/13, 2010

Toby, all tired out from all the ceremonies and speeches!

Happy for Greg!

Meeting the president of BYU

Greg kind of looks like a wizard from Hogwarts in this picture!

The Kimball Tower, the building Greg worked and studied in

BYU's past and future (hopefully) walking together

The science building. Isn't it neat?

Yeah! I'm done!

Big Tall Columns

Isn't the BYU campus pretty? Toby's holding up the water bottle we bought him as a souvenir. I (Ilene) got a shirt and bag and earrings, Greg got a tie pin and a hat as souvenirs.

Marlan and Linda came to both days of graduation, and also took us out to dinner. It was so nice!

Congratulations Greg!

Hogle Zoo

And one more from Julie

Julie

Family Talent Show 2010

Doug

Tanya

Dono

Greg

Dad, Mom, Julie & Ben

New Haircolor-

Here's another picture of my orange- no, golden hair. :) It's actually been lightened and the red toned down a bit since this pic, so I'll post a pic of that too.

New Haircolor

Here's my new haircolor for the summer! It's kind of an "oak cabinet" color (that's what someone called it!) and it's growing on me. Maybe after a few months I'll dye it to my original haircolor, light brown.

Tobyisms

I swear I'm going to get better at recording these things.

Tonight, Toby wanted to go out "in the backyard" to play. I told him no, because it was dark outside. A few minutes later, Ilene and I wanted to go to a movie to celebrate, and we were going to leave Tobs with grandma.

Toby told me: "no, can't go. it's dark outside!"

he repeated it over and over, insistently, and on the verge of tears. he really didn't want us to go.

it breaks my heart that I disappoint him so much!

Ilene can go the distance

or, at least half of it. :)

Congrats to Ilene on a race well run!

milestones:

race complete

all running, no walking

6 minutes better than last year's time

no collapse at completion of race

Cheesy Smile

Uncle Ben teaches Toby his "Cheesy Smile" -

Toby Can Read! Sort of :)

So Toby has been learning his letters and their sounds and these are a couple attempts at reading! He's only two and a half years old so we're pretty excited about him learning to read at such an early age. We're not pushing him, he just likes letters!