I thought I should probably update what has been going on here lately. First of all, my dad came and visited us for a few days when we got back from our vacation in May. He was the first family to come visit, and it was really fun! I feel bad that I completely spaced taking pictures with him, so I'll just have to write about it. We took him to Boston for a day and we played at the beach, ate some good clam chowder and lobster, and visited the oldest lighthouse in the Nation. Then we took him to New York City and went on top of the Empire State building and visited Ground Zero both for the first time. Then he took us to Korea Town there and showed us which Korean food is good to order (SO yummy), and we went through Times Square for a while, it was a great day! Then we made Dowse chocolate chip cookies and sang and played the piano for a while (traditions :) ) I'm so glad he came and visited, we had a blast!
Then, at the end of July we had more family come and visit! Taylor's brother Jason and his wife Becky and their kids Joshua and Breanna came and visited for a few days, it was really fun! We hadn't seen them for over three years, it was really good to catch up. And once again, I didn't take pictures of our time with them, what is my deal? Anyway, we had a great time in New York City as well, we road the Stanton Island ferry to see the Statue of Liberty, we went into the Hershey's store, the M & M's store, the Nintendo store, and the LEGO's store. They were awesome, as were other things around Times Square that we saw. We ate at China Town and it was very good as well! We went to the beach for a while and had fun there. It was sad to see them go, Caden really bonded himself to Joshua. Joshua is 12 and Caden wanted to be just like him. When Joshua walked with his hands in his pockets, Caden had to do it too, it was pretty sweet. We are glad they came and visited us!
Taylor has been doing really well this semester, and tomorrow is his last day of his second semester! He's been a little busier this semester as he's started doing clinical rotations, and next semester he will be even busier, he said that he will start DOING epidurals by himself for the first time! That starts in less than 2 weeks. And he will have evening classes after he gets home from clinicals, which means there will be less available time for him to study. It's getting quite intense. But I'm so proud of him and how he's handled everything, he is such a good student, it might be stressful, but he will do well.
Here are some updated pictures of the kiddos!
Sorry Babe, I just had to :)
Thanks Matt and Jen for taking our family pics this year!
Out our back door.
The view from our balconly.
My sister's friend brought his horse over one day and the kids went nuts over him.
They didn't really ride him, just sat on him happily.
My cute sister, Hannah.
My cute mom.
Tyson loved the unripe tomatoes from the garden.
The sniper in the garden.
My brother Clinton and Kylee's baby boy, Maddox. He's so adorable.
Cute boy in the car on the trip home from Clinton's.
This was one of the highlights of Cadens trip, my mom's jetted bath tub. He thought he was in a hot tub, and was more excited about this than the horse. 
Well, at least one of them is smiling:)
To top it off, I'd like to end with a rendition of "Stayin' Alive" by Caden Corry:) Enjoy!
As you can see Tyson is not scared of him at all! (Sorry he is only in a diaper in some pictures and videos...)
In fact, they are pretty good friends...and sometimes a little TOO good of friends:) Tyson loves to share his drinks and food with him, which means that I have to watch him really close to make sure he doesn't give him something he shouldn't have.
The kids really love to cuddle with him, he's a very wrinkley lazy dog, and he'll get more lazy as he gets older, which will be nice for me (hopefully that means less work!).
The first place we went to was the Joseph Smith family farm. This is the Joseph Smith family cabin replica.
Us inside the cabin.
The farm and the Sacred Grove in the background.
This picture is really neat, it's of the Palmyra Temple taken from the Joseph Smith farm.
We learned that when they buildt this temple, they put glass windows inside that look out at the Sacred Grove. And they cut through the trees here so that you could actually see the Grove.
Here is the Sacred Grove!!
It was quite the spiritual experience and so peaceful just walking through it as a family.
The next place we went to was the Hill Cumorah. This is the hill from the freeway.
This is taken from the top of the hill.
This is also from the top of the Hill Cumorah, the monument was really nice.
This is the LDS chapel that is between the Sacred Grove and the temple. I just thought it was pretty neat looking.
Next we went to the Book of Mormon publishing building. This is one of the rooms they first published the Book of Mormon. We had such a good experience in Palmyra! I'm so glad we were able to go, it was really fun, we learned alot, the kids did quite well, and it was just nice to actually be there and see things with our own eyes that we've only seen pictures of or read about. Definitely worthwhile! 
