SUMMER FUN

Ben & I (and Sophie & Kennedy) got a season pass to 7 peaks and I think it was the best purchase of the summer!

Benjamin seriously thinks he is a fish! I can't get this kid out of the water without him throwing a fit. He just splashes and swims and has absolutely no fear of water!

We've spent time with our friends. My good friend from High School is having a girl and is due the same day as me!! Congrats Linds!!

Benjamin has had some serious "Happy" Feet.

He absolutely LOVES shoes. He brings out his shoes and hands them to me - even if they don't match. He has to be wearing shoes ALL the time!

They don't even have to be his own shoes!

The Johnson's went up to the Weber's cabin in Wyoming. My dad celebrated his 58th birthday up there.

Benjamin even went down the GIANT slip & slide.

And since I couldn't go down the slip & slide, I slipped down the stairs and broke my toe!

WARNING - the photo is a little yucky!

I chipped the corner of one of the bones in my pinky toe!

The day after returning home from Wyoming with a broken toe, Mitch & I headed off to New York. I was probably the slowest moving thing in Manhattan. On the plane out, we discovered that our good friends & my former neighbors - the Heslops - were going to New York too. (Their hotel was even right next to ours).

Thank heavens for the Heslops. While our husbands were working, Joan walked around the city with me and I was SLOW (pregnant and broken toe). I can't tell you how glad I was to have someone to roam the city with me (I'm not sure how glad Joan was, but she was a good sport).

After visiting New York City, I've confirmed that Mitch has to be the best looking man on the planet. Nobody even came close.

GOTTA LOVE THE SUMMER TIME!

FOUR

On Wednesday, Ben & I came home from playing at Seven Peaks to this:

One bouquet for each year of our marriage with a note explaining why he loved me.
That night, Mitch took me here:

Afterward, we went to this movie:

I am probably one of the luckiest women in the world.
I love you Mitch!
Happy Anniversary!
It's been the best 4 years of my life!

& thanks to Sophie & Andrew for watching Ben!

Rencher Invitational 2010

Happy Birthday

MITCH!!
The night before Mitch's birthday, some of his family and I joined him for a crab dinner at Joe's Crab Shack. Joe's had him turn his bib around and wrote crab man on the back. Mitch decided that wasn't showy enough, so he grabbed 2 crab legs and ran around the restaurant while they sang Happy Birthday saying "I have crabs! I have crabs!"
It was a great evening! Thanks to those who came!

3rd Annual Rencher Invitational
For the last 3 years we have celebrated Mitch's birthday by having a Golf Tournament! Two of Mitch's favorite things in the world are family, friends & golf, so the combo is unbeatable!

There's the handsome birthday boy himself!

His stealthy team.

Andrew and the ladies.

The crazies :) and their beautiful wives.

Yes, this group is a bit outnumbered, but my dad made sure that he took enough shots to make up for the missing players!

My wonderful uncle and cousins!

I love this man more than anything in this world and I am so lucky to be married to him!

Thanks to everyone who made it to the tournament. It means a lot to Mitch to have those he cares about join him in the activities he loves!

Loopy for Laura

Laura's only request for her birthday was to play games this year. Our family got a little loopy with the games we played. We tried to get an Oreo from our forehead to our mouth using only our face. We stacked apples and golf balls. We taped a Kleenex box to our backs and tried to "dance" out the ping pong balls. We made human pyramids, and stayed up all night playing card games.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA!!
We Love you!

And the winner is...

We're having a baby

GIRL!!

We couldn't be more thrilled!

Mother's Day Part II

Traditionally, Mother's day is a time that children try to express their love and appreciation for the women in their lives - namely their mom's. Many gather for dinner, give special gifts, send flowers, write notes/cards of appreciation. Well in the Rencher family, the boys decided to show their mother what magnificent men she created.

As we sat around visiting after the Mother's Day meal, B-Rad comments on the size of Mitch's calves. The next thing you know you have tape measures being wrapped around biceps, calves, heads, thighs. Leg length, total height and chest width were being compared. (At that point, the men invited the women to join the comparisons. We politely declined and hoped that wasn't a sign of things to come.)
Who knew mother's day could inspire such competition?

I'm sure that Cherie watched with sheer pride at her masculine boys.
We love you Cherie! I'm glad you are such a great mom because I am reaping the benefits for eternity!

Mother's Day Demolition

Every year for Mother's Day, the Johnson kids gather to do a service for Mom. She prefers this over gifts because she says that its something she can't buy.

This year was especially great because my dad finally agreed to...

BUMP OUT THE HOUSE!!!

The back deck has been rotting away for a couple of years. We decided to start the home renovating by demolishing the deck.

While the men did the dirty demolition work, the women cleaned out the garage.

Ben felt the whole thing was all too serious...

...so he went inside to make a mess

I have a feeling he was not alone

After all that work, we had to have a little fun

WE LOVE YOU MAMMA JO!