Puddles and S'mores

We went down to Vancouver for a weekend visit. I can't wait for the day that we have a house with a yard. It was so nice to just go out in the front or back yard whenever we wanted to play.

It rained and we played in the gutter puddle. One of my favorite childhood memories is racing cars down our street after a summer rain fall with my brothers. Stephen found some Styrofoam boats he made for a school project and we floated those.

We had the best pizza ever at a local restaurant and then came home for Doran's first ever s'more. I made him a memory book and it has one of these pictures of him in it. Sometimes when he sees it he says, "chocolate, marshmallow" (in his language, of course) over and over again. That boy loves chocolate. Clearly, learned that from me.

Except, he doesn't like to get his hands dirty. "hans,  hans" means he wants his hands cleaned. 

Klahanie Ward Youth Conference

I work with the Young Women at church and had the opportunity to spend time with the youth at Youth Conference.

It started out with a temple trip.

Followed by a Swim Party. Lots of junk food, and socializing. The kids swam and the leaders sat out and chatted.

The Mia maid table. (I'm pretty sure that every picture Noelle took of me, was just as fabulous as this pizza stuffed in face smile)

Or this one...



We woke up the next morning and head out for House of Hope where we stayed and did our main activity: service project building garden beds. Doran got to hang out with me for a little bit. I brought him home and then went back up for the night after Devin got home. I'm pretty sure we were more distracting (by we, I mean Doran) than helpful. He loved all the attention though.

The kids put a lot of energy and hard work into building 8 raised garden beds

This is my favorite picture from the trip. 2 types of levels. Doran's cup and an app. 

 

We also had a lot of fun goofing off and playing games. Giant game of ninja.

They played paint twister and water balloon volleyball while I was gone dropping Doran off at home.

When I got back, we made bracelets, and had a campfire devotional followed by s'mores.

In the morning we had breakfast, braided hair and finished the garden beds.

Followed by a huge marshmallow gun war. 

Overall, it was a great youth conference and really brought our ward closer together. I really love that it was centered around building garden beds for the residents of House of Hope.

Clowards visit Seattle

Family from my Mom's side of the family (Grandma/Grandpa Cloward, Jamie, and Connie/Ron and their family) came to Vancouver for the week to visit my family. One of the days the drove up to Seattle and Matt and I showed them around.

We went and rode the Ducks again. Which was just as fun the second time.

 

I got a more realistic picture of the space needle this time.

We got to see hydro planes land and take off this time.

And, I was able to get a picture of the Hammering Man. He only gets labor day off.

Grandpa Cloward told my Dad it was the must fun he's had in a long time. I'm glad.

Next, we stopped at the Freemont troll. Matt took these next pictures. Doran was asleep, and I had already seen the troll and wanted Doran to be able to nap. I had the car power on, but not the engine. When they were done, I put the car in drive and pushed on the gas, and rolled down on the car behind us. Luckily, it only broke their license plate frame and gave me a tiny ding. Not my best downtown Seattle driving day.

We finished up a the Ballard Locks where we watch boats come up and down the canal.

I don't know why, but Doran loved this door. He just wanted to play there.

The Wells children

Happy Father's Day 2014

Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there. This is Devin's second Father's Day as a Dad! It is so much fun for me to watch Devin be a Dad. My favorite moment of Doran's delivery was watching Devin watch Doran. I still love watching the two of them together!

Doran got his name from Devin's Dad, Doran. Other than the name, any resemblance?

Left: Doran George Hill, Right: Doran Devin Hill

We've been working on a project of digitizing pictures of Grandpa Doran and I thought it would be fun to share a few today of Devin's Dad being a Dad. You Hills will have to let me know if we got all the babies right. I also decided to share pictures of Devin and Nathan holding Doran, because it shows how much they are like their Dad.

Left: Chelsey and Doran, Right: Nathan and baby Doran

 

Left: Devin and baby Doran, Right: Doran and Kalen

 

Left: Doran and Devin, Right: Devin and Doran

 Doran, Nathan, Kylee

 Doran and Nathan

  Doran and Nathan

Devin - Doran's Dad

Doran is one lucky little guy to have Devin as a Dad. He loves his Daddy. Doran is always so excited when he sees Devin and screams, "DAA!!!!!!!!" 

Great Dads, Great Grandpas

We love you! Thank you for all you do for us and for Doran.