Kids – Page 10 – Kotter Family

Samuel walking

We finally have a walker on our hands. He’s been able to stand up on his own and balance really well, but hasn’t been taking a ton of steps until lately. Once he found out he could take a few steps successfully though, he’s now walking everywhere. Not sure why parents (myself included) are so anxious for their kids to crawl and then walk, as it makes it a lot harder to keep an eye on them. But milestones are always fun!

Recent pictures

Good thing McKinley loves to push him around in it

Mr Trouble Maker. Loves getting in all the cupboards, more so than our other kids ever did

Shooting some targets at Ehlers’ shooting range

Baseball/Softball season

Lucas is playing baseball and McKinley is playing softball this summer. They both have games Monday and Wednesday, so we are at the park from about 5:00PM to 7:30PM. Makes dinner and FHE difficult (I guess we’ll just have a picnic dinner twice a week all month, and move FHE to a different night) but the kids enjoy it.

Teton Valley

Nice paved trail right outside our condo

Decided to go hiking to the Darby Wind Cave. Didn’t realize they’re would still be snow on the ground

Trail ended up being so snow covered we had to stop and go back. Lucas and McKinley are at the top of that snow pile

Standard picture in front of the antler arches

Found a children’s museum in Jackson we decided to try out. It was pretty small and didn’t look like much from the outside, but it actually was really nice.

Sam loved this pretend grocery store and filling his cart with “food”

Going on another hike right next to our condo, down to the creek

Memorial Day

At Freeman park, listening to some music

Going to see the thousand flags at Freeman park

Super reader

Lucas loves to read and has earned lots of rewards this past school year (field trips, treats, etc). We got a call from his school wanting us to come in to an assembly, because he was going to get a “special” award, they said.

It ended up being a much bigger assembly than I was thinking, lots of parents there and lots of awards given. Lucas ended up getting the 4th overall top reader in the school, which was pretty awesome. He got a nice trophy and $25 from some sponsors, which he was super excited about.

He was part of the 300 point club and ended up with over 500 points

Father and Sons

Sitting by the fire. William wasn’t feeling good but he seemed to have fun

Sticks in the fire, favorite past time for all boys

Bro Hillam brought his airplane and was giving rides but William wasn’t feeling good so we had to leave before Lucas had a turn

Spring

Gymnastics and Dance

We just got done with both McKinley’s gymnastics recital and Kryssi and McKinley’s dance recital. They both did great at both.

Both of us are thrilled to spend half of Saturday watching dances

Temple Open House

The Idaho Falls Temple open house has been going on for a couple weeks now. We got the opportunity to go just a couple days after it started and it was great. It was nice to be back inside the temple, as it’s been closed for quite a while for renovations. It was also really awesome to take our kids inside and let them see it.