We had the awesome chance to have cousin Orion, Sarah’s son come to Utah for a few days! These kids played so hard! Ammon was so excited to have a boy around! Thanks for coming Orion! He is off to Switzerland to stay with his dad for the summer, but we get to see him again in September. Love you Orion!
Orion is such a nice, sweet boy. Alana was so excited that Orion was coming that she could barely stand it! She kept saying, this is the cousin that will wrestle with me, right?
Jumping on Grandma's Tramp.

This is in honor of the best man in my life and my children’s lives. Our SUPER DAD, AARON!!!! Love you Dad! Happy Father’s Day! We could never ask for more!
Dad and the Boys! There's no mucsle like Cothran Mucsle!!!!

We have a dad that reads to us, plays with us, sings to us, talks to us, squirts us with water, loves us, lets us watch him play, cuddles with us, shares his root beer with us, plays hot potato with us, and best of all, he is all ours!!!! LOVE YOU DAD!

Alana graduated from Kindergarten! Hooray!!! She had the most amazing teacher, Mrs. Robinaugh. This teacher truly went the extra mile for these kids! Alana is reading, writing and is doing it well. They had an amazing program called writer’s workshop. It really worked! Congrats Alana! And on to the rest of your life…..

Can you believe that she will graduate in 2020?!!!!!?!!!!

Alana with the famous Mrs. Robinaugh.

This is our primary presidency in our ward. Oh, we have way too much Fun! The theme for the month of June in Primary is focused on the Temple. So, we took all the primary kids to the Timp temple on a Saturday morning. They each got to walk around it, touch it and even walk in the front doors. Then we colored cards that said thanks for coming to the temple today and put them on cars in the parking lot. It was such a neat experience. I was in charge of a message, so I am all teary-eyed about families being together forever when one little girl yells, did you know that a dragon is the only thing that can make a temple fall down? Thank goodness for the Sunbeams. Where would we be without them?

Ammon was so proud to touch the temple! He keeps telling us that the only way to the temple is the staight path.
Alana was amazed that she got to walk inside the temple. She got to see a man in white.
I love to see the Temple, I'm going there someday. To feel the Holy Spirit, to listen and to pray. For the Temple is a house of God a place of love and beauty, I'll prepare myself while I am young, this is my sacred duty.

Ammon is so proud of himself to be riding the big boy bike. He has gotten really good now. He is our sweet boy. It’s hard to believe that he will be 4 in July! This bike was the best 10 dollar yard sale find ever. Good one Grama Annie!

This is what our yard looks like now that it’s summer time! We should open a zoo, oh I mean a daycare! The kids are all having way too much fun! We are so lucky to have great neighbor kids around. I just wish there were more boys for Ammon!

Alana is our little artist. She is especially good at unicorns. She begged me to water color the other day. We also love to paint with water on the sidewalk. Do you remember that Becca and Emma? Here Alana is drawing her much-adored webkin named UNI.
This is baby MAC with one of his favorite toys, his own broom. Sweep away! He sure is cute, I guess we will keep him. :)
This is our Marrick Aaron. He is 15 months old now. Did I mention he LOVES to play in the dirt? Well, he can also be found often in the gutter! My, what good parents he has!

This is our ward youth conference that Aaron and I got to go to. It was at Bear Lake, Utah at the end of April. Aaron was pretty much in charge of organizing, and running the conference. He did an amazing job! The very first thing he had the kids do was: 3 miles away from the lodge we were staying at, he had all the kids get out of the cars and hold onto this rope and walk the rest of the way to the lodge. The idea was that no one could let go. Him and our friend Jordan hid on the hill watching the kids and at the end, ended up cheering them on. That was the beginning of a lot of really amazing experiences.
Here is Aaron Sharing his wise wisdom with the kids. Don't they look excited? No, it was very neat, he related it to the gospel of Jesus Christ and how we all have to be steadfast and immovable.
This lodge was amazing! It was and old storehouse, recently remodeled. Our ward got a killer deal on this 9,000 square foot place for 2 nights. The basement was a big kid playroom pretty much. This was very helpful considering there was still snow on the ground outside.
This was the most amazing activity I have ever seen! It is called the truth platform and trust fall. Each kid had the opportunity to stand on a platform and be asked questions from anyone. The questions got very personal and most of the kids were very emotional. The spirit was so strong, there was hardly a dry eye. There are so many youth today that deal with broken homes! It effects them so deeply. After they answered questions, they had to fall backwards into the arms of their peers and trust that they would be caught. In this picture, Aaron had helped a girl that was very hesitant to fall. It was an amazing experience that we will never forget! Thank you Grandma Annie and Pagah for watching the kiddos so I could see how truly amazing Aaron is with these kids!

These are our two sweet brown eyed babies. Alana is so funny with Marrick. She loves to chase him around and growl at him. Baby MAC thinks it's the best thing ever. He runs and laughs all over the house and then peeks around the corner to see if she will do more! What a good sister!
This is Marrick in the "assume the position" stance. Everytime the front door is opened, this boy is in the dirt. He eats it, digs in it, rubs it in his hair and dumps it wherever he can. This boy LOVES dirt. I'm sure you'll see more dirt pictures this summer! Oh, Marrick!
This is our idea of dress up at the Cothran house. No princess dresses here!
Then they got even more creative. But aren't they cute. Yes, those are puppets on their hands and feet. Gooses!