Let's just say I have been really busy, and when I have a moment, somebody needs something!
July 26th Trevor started the 3rd grade. His teacher is Mrs. Turner and so far he really likes her. I really like her too, because she has this folder with everything they need in it, and she give a daily behavior score. It is seriously the best thing for a parent. His teacher has already figured him out too, and that makes me even more happy.
August 3rd was Dilan's first day of Kindergarten. He was so excited! I had some issues with his paperwork. I thought it was all done and ready for him to start, but apparently something had happened on the doctors side and we ended up having to do his kindergarten appointment all over. It was a NIGHTMARE! It didn't matter to Dilan, he was so excited to ride the bus with Trevor to his new class, and has loved every minute of school so far. He was the VIP the second week, so we got to make a poster of him, and I went to talk to his class about him with a treat of course.
August 12th Bryson turned the big 4! He was so excited to have a birthday. He has been waiting to be four for most of his little life, because he knows that means only one more year till five. We had a family party for him, took him out to dinner, and pretty much the whole week seemed to be celebrating his birthday. I wouldn't have it any other way :) He had his four year check and he was 37 lbs, and 40 1/2 inches tall.
August 14th Kairi is four months! I can't believe she is already so big. She had her normal four month check and her stats were....15 lbs 2 oz 80%, she is in the 95% for her height, and 50% for her head. She is a happy little girl, and rarely cries. She loves sucking on her hands, watching her brothers. She can roll from her back to her front, but rarely front to back. She is strong and really doesn't like to be held or lay down in your arms unless she is asleep. She loves being laid down in her crib, and will usually smile as she is going to sleep. She wakes up at almost five every morning, but otherwise she sleeps pretty much through the night. I LOVE HER!
August 17th Dilan had surgery. Dilan has seemed to have hearing problems to Spencer and I for a while. We finally got it checked and sure enough, it wasn't good. We meet with the ENT and he told us straight up Dilan was going to need tubes. He had a lot of fluid sitting in his ears, and it was old and thick. We scheduled his surgery right away wanting to get it taken care of, so he could hear better at school. While they put the tubes in they checked his adenoids. His were large being a 3+ with a 4 being the biggest. Needless to say they removed them to make sure they would no longer cause problems either. He was such a trooper and so sweet. He came home to a huge Batman balloon, popsicles, and a bear. He was so excited! He went to school the next morning, and the doctors that called were shocked, because usually with adenoid removal it makes kids really off for a few days. By the weekend he had really over done himself, and we did have a chill weekend.
September 6th we headed up to Silver Lake or the board walk. We wanted to get the kids out for maybe the last chance of the year. It was so crowded! I couldn't believe how busy it was, but even with all that we had fun. We ate beef jerkey, licorice and M&M's on a bench. We walked around the lake and enjoyed the fresh air. It was a perfect day! We also bug bombed our house while we were gone :)
September 12th I am a single mom for who knows how long....my sweet huz went to Texas.
September 14th Kairi is five months! Kairi is still a sweet baby. She does make you really work to get a giggle out of her though. She is starting to scoot a little and she can really hold her body up. She can get around in a circle trying to get a hold of something. She has had a few servings of rice cereal and so far isn't a big fan....ha ha. She seems to know some what how to eat it, but still finds the food being put in very intrusive. She can munch on a few puffs already, and she likes them once they are soft, but the initial shock of it being put in is still funny for her. Bryson is so cute with her. He calls her his "Best Girl." She was definitely worth the wait, and I could never imagine life without her.
September 15th I am now 32. It was kind of hard birthday not having my husband here. I woke up to a normal day, because it isn't like the boys really understand my birthday with Spencer not being here to remind them, and I didn't really care. I went to McDonald's for lunch with some friends, and that really helped make it a better day. My mom wanted to take me to dinner, so I went to meet her and she planned for my whole family to come. She tried to surprise me, but a few goofs in conversation had me suspicious and I kind of guessed it before I arrived. It was so nice to have the family there because by this point I was really missing my husband, even though he did send me a dozen long stemmed white roses. I ended the day playing volleyball, my favorite thing of the week, and it ended up being a really Really great birthday minus the huz :)
September 17th Rest in peace dad, but Happy Birthday! sure do miss him :(
This was a really fast way to catch up the blog, and hopefully I can add some pics soon.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Let's go HIKING!
DONUT FALLS
July 26, 2000 was a day I never thought would be really that important, but you truly never know what will happen. Ten years ago Spencer and I meet for the first time on a group date. The date wasn't even set up for us, but for two of our friends. For the date we hiked up to Donut Falls, so last night July 26, 2010 we decided to hike the same hike again. It started raining the moment we got there. We had planned for some rainy weather and had all the kids bring a jacket. Only did we find out after we started hiking that we had forgotten Tyler's at home....Oops! We packed along some Lunchables to eat for dinner.
We didn't go all the way up the falls, because it was really wet, and we didn't want any of the boys to fall. Trevor was a nice big brother, and he gave Tyler his jacket to wear. It really wasn't that cold, but just really wet.
I carried Kairi in our Snugglie and she even ate her bottle in there. She didn't seem to mind it was raining, and loved just being carried around.
Dilan loved playing in the water even though he was soaked!
I couldn't get Bryson to keep he feet out of the water, so I had him stand on this rock for pictures....it worked for a while.
Trevor had to pose while I took his picture...he even did that face on purpose. He is so funny sometimes.
Spencer and all the boys.
Then on the way back down from the falls, Bryson spotted this rock and said it was a submarine. I love to look through a three year olds eyes sometimes.
As we were heading down the canyon we saw a deer on the side of the road. This in my mind made it the most successful hiking trip possible. Deer always make me think of my dad, because he loved when we got to see them when he took us hiking. Even though it rained, this was a really fun thing to do with our family, and we have decided that it will be a tradition we do as a family every year.
July 26, 2000 was a day I never thought would be really that important, but you truly never know what will happen. Ten years ago Spencer and I meet for the first time on a group date. The date wasn't even set up for us, but for two of our friends. For the date we hiked up to Donut Falls, so last night July 26, 2010 we decided to hike the same hike again. It started raining the moment we got there. We had planned for some rainy weather and had all the kids bring a jacket. Only did we find out after we started hiking that we had forgotten Tyler's at home....Oops! We packed along some Lunchables to eat for dinner.
We didn't go all the way up the falls, because it was really wet, and we didn't want any of the boys to fall. Trevor was a nice big brother, and he gave Tyler his jacket to wear. It really wasn't that cold, but just really wet.
I carried Kairi in our Snugglie and she even ate her bottle in there. She didn't seem to mind it was raining, and loved just being carried around.
Dilan loved playing in the water even though he was soaked!
I couldn't get Bryson to keep he feet out of the water, so I had him stand on this rock for pictures....it worked for a while.
Trevor had to pose while I took his picture...he even did that face on purpose. He is so funny sometimes.
Spencer and all the boys.
Then on the way back down from the falls, Bryson spotted this rock and said it was a submarine. I love to look through a three year olds eyes sometimes.
As we were heading down the canyon we saw a deer on the side of the road. This in my mind made it the most successful hiking trip possible. Deer always make me think of my dad, because he loved when we got to see them when he took us hiking. Even though it rained, this was a really fun thing to do with our family, and we have decided that it will be a tradition we do as a family every year.
Friday, July 9, 2010
July 4th weekend
I have been trying to write this for a while now...date will be off :)
What a fun weekend. I saw somebody comment on how dumb that we didn't just celebrate the fourth on the actual fourth, but I completely disagree...why celebrate one when we can do three? Saturday, Spencer and I worked most of the day on a swing set for the boys. It is still not nearly done, but we did as much as we could that day. We headed up to my moms house for the fireworks/carnival at the Eaglewood golf course. This has been an annual tradition for my family now, and I LOVE IT! My kids now look forward to this every year and talk about it all year long. This year almost the whole family came, plus friends too. It was awesome!
Us with just the boys
Tiffany and Natalie
Kairi with her aunt Kay
Tobi and Mason
My Mom sporting some sunglasses
My sister Mandy took these pictures and she isn't in one, Thanks Mandy :)
Monday my family headed up to pineview reservoir. We got the boys life jackets this year, so it was even more fun, because we didn't have to stress where they were constantly.
Bryson loved just laying on this raft
Trevor playing in the sand
Dilan loved that he got to eat ding dongs at the beach..ha ha
Tyler thought the water was too cold, so he enjoyed playing with everything on the sand.
My mom just read on the beach too, but helped out holding Kairi for us too.
Spencer enjoyed his day with the boys
It was fun with Kay, Ben, Tobi, Mandy, Chris and her fiance Randy and mom Gloria, and my cousin Jenny too. We ate hot dogs for lunch, and of course treats :) Days like this make me so grateful for my family. I love that my kids get to be with their aunts and uncles for holidays, and I hope they realize how lucky they truly are to have so many people that love them around.
What a fun weekend. I saw somebody comment on how dumb that we didn't just celebrate the fourth on the actual fourth, but I completely disagree...why celebrate one when we can do three? Saturday, Spencer and I worked most of the day on a swing set for the boys. It is still not nearly done, but we did as much as we could that day. We headed up to my moms house for the fireworks/carnival at the Eaglewood golf course. This has been an annual tradition for my family now, and I LOVE IT! My kids now look forward to this every year and talk about it all year long. This year almost the whole family came, plus friends too. It was awesome!
Us with just the boys
Tiffany and Natalie
Kairi with her aunt Kay
Tobi and Mason
My Mom sporting some sunglasses
My sister Mandy took these pictures and she isn't in one, Thanks Mandy :)
Monday my family headed up to pineview reservoir. We got the boys life jackets this year, so it was even more fun, because we didn't have to stress where they were constantly.
Bryson loved just laying on this raft
Trevor playing in the sand
Dilan loved that he got to eat ding dongs at the beach..ha ha
Tyler thought the water was too cold, so he enjoyed playing with everything on the sand.
My mom just read on the beach too, but helped out holding Kairi for us too.
Spencer enjoyed his day with the boys
It was fun with Kay, Ben, Tobi, Mandy, Chris and her fiance Randy and mom Gloria, and my cousin Jenny too. We ate hot dogs for lunch, and of course treats :) Days like this make me so grateful for my family. I love that my kids get to be with their aunts and uncles for holidays, and I hope they realize how lucky they truly are to have so many people that love them around.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Mega Blog!!!
So, I am way behind on my blog....here is my mega blog to catch it up.
Anniversary!
June 7, 2010 Spencer and I celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary. In the nine years we have been married we have had five kids, which means I have been pregnant for half our marriage, and pretty much the other half we have had a newborn/infant. I can't believe we have been married for nine years, and almost together for ten. I wonder where the time has gone. I find it more amazing that people can get divorced after years of being with the same person, because I couldn't be more in love with my husband now than the day we got married. Spencer is the greatest person I could have ever imagined myself with, and I think our kids are just so lucky to have him as a dad. I look forward to the many more years of life with my wonderful husband, and our five beautiful kids :)
Vasectomy Time!
Friday June 11, 2010 Spencer went in for his vasectomy. It has been a week, and he is back to pretty much being normal. He was in quite a bit of pain for the first couple days, but still went into work Monday for a 12 hour shift. This was a pretty fast decision for both of us, but we both knew we were done having kids. It was a bitter sweet moment that morning waiting for him in the waiting room though. I know we are done having kids, but the idea of never being able to make that decision again was a little odd. Ever since we have been married it was always when are we going to have the next baby, or oops I am pregnant. I had so much love for him when he walked out though, because I knew he had done this for us. I could have had my tubes done while I was having Kairi, but I have heard horrible things about having this done from many women, and I made the choice not to have it done. This meant Spencer needed to have a vasectomy, or we would always worry about getting pregnant. I really appreciate my husband and his willingness to just go get this done without any kind of disagreement, Thanks Babe!
Two Months!!
Kairi turned two months on June 14, 2010. I can't believe it has already been two months. I love this little girl so much though. People always told me that there wasn't a difference between the boys and girls until they were older, but I couldn't disagree more. I am not sure if it is because I have only done boy for eight years, but to me it has been very different. Changing the diaper is obviously different, but with a girl you have the hair bows, flowers, tights, bracelets, necklaces, shoes, outfits, and earrings. My little baby is so sweet too. Even when she is crying I find her so cute. At her two month appointment she was 12 lbs and 3 ounces, and 22 1/2 inches long. When she got her shots she cried so hard, and I pretty much joined her. I think I look at her different though, because she is the last one. She will be the last baby that I get to do all the infant things with. I don't mind getting up and feeding her, because she will be the last one I get to have this moment with. I love her so much, and I couldn't be more grateful that we chose to have her.
Father's Day!
Father's day is a really hard day for my family. My mom has a really hard week leading up to it, and I think the rest of us do, but we don't show it as open. I miss my dad, and so wish I could still tell him in person what a great dad I think he was. On the other hand, I have such a great dad for my kids, it kind of balances out. Spencer is a really great husband, and a super dad. Spencer's dad and family joined us at our house for pulled pork sandwiches, salad, and ice cream cones. His dad also brought along a friend he taught on his mission from Belgium. I love my husband and the awesome dad he is, and his dad for the awesome grandpa he is as well. I am writing this late, but Kairi just initiated him fully as her father. She pooped all over him! It was a getting to be bed time and time for a diaper change. She is at the point where she doesn't poop as often as the newborn, so it had been a few days. Well, those few days ended up all over Spencer....I laughed so hard, Dilan's eyes got huge with disgust, and the other boys just laughed with me. What a fun night from a mess!
Anniversary!
June 7, 2010 Spencer and I celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary. In the nine years we have been married we have had five kids, which means I have been pregnant for half our marriage, and pretty much the other half we have had a newborn/infant. I can't believe we have been married for nine years, and almost together for ten. I wonder where the time has gone. I find it more amazing that people can get divorced after years of being with the same person, because I couldn't be more in love with my husband now than the day we got married. Spencer is the greatest person I could have ever imagined myself with, and I think our kids are just so lucky to have him as a dad. I look forward to the many more years of life with my wonderful husband, and our five beautiful kids :)
Vasectomy Time!
Friday June 11, 2010 Spencer went in for his vasectomy. It has been a week, and he is back to pretty much being normal. He was in quite a bit of pain for the first couple days, but still went into work Monday for a 12 hour shift. This was a pretty fast decision for both of us, but we both knew we were done having kids. It was a bitter sweet moment that morning waiting for him in the waiting room though. I know we are done having kids, but the idea of never being able to make that decision again was a little odd. Ever since we have been married it was always when are we going to have the next baby, or oops I am pregnant. I had so much love for him when he walked out though, because I knew he had done this for us. I could have had my tubes done while I was having Kairi, but I have heard horrible things about having this done from many women, and I made the choice not to have it done. This meant Spencer needed to have a vasectomy, or we would always worry about getting pregnant. I really appreciate my husband and his willingness to just go get this done without any kind of disagreement, Thanks Babe!
Two Months!!
Kairi turned two months on June 14, 2010. I can't believe it has already been two months. I love this little girl so much though. People always told me that there wasn't a difference between the boys and girls until they were older, but I couldn't disagree more. I am not sure if it is because I have only done boy for eight years, but to me it has been very different. Changing the diaper is obviously different, but with a girl you have the hair bows, flowers, tights, bracelets, necklaces, shoes, outfits, and earrings. My little baby is so sweet too. Even when she is crying I find her so cute. At her two month appointment she was 12 lbs and 3 ounces, and 22 1/2 inches long. When she got her shots she cried so hard, and I pretty much joined her. I think I look at her different though, because she is the last one. She will be the last baby that I get to do all the infant things with. I don't mind getting up and feeding her, because she will be the last one I get to have this moment with. I love her so much, and I couldn't be more grateful that we chose to have her.
Father's Day!
Father's day is a really hard day for my family. My mom has a really hard week leading up to it, and I think the rest of us do, but we don't show it as open. I miss my dad, and so wish I could still tell him in person what a great dad I think he was. On the other hand, I have such a great dad for my kids, it kind of balances out. Spencer is a really great husband, and a super dad. Spencer's dad and family joined us at our house for pulled pork sandwiches, salad, and ice cream cones. His dad also brought along a friend he taught on his mission from Belgium. I love my husband and the awesome dad he is, and his dad for the awesome grandpa he is as well. I am writing this late, but Kairi just initiated him fully as her father. She pooped all over him! It was a getting to be bed time and time for a diaper change. She is at the point where she doesn't poop as often as the newborn, so it had been a few days. Well, those few days ended up all over Spencer....I laughed so hard, Dilan's eyes got huge with disgust, and the other boys just laughed with me. What a fun night from a mess!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Wonderful White Weekend!!!
This past weekend was one of the best weekends of my entire life. The weekend started off to a great start with Spencer being able to baptize Trevor. This was a huge decision for Trev. I have gone over baptism with him for the last two years, because I really wanted him to make his own decision with out the influence of anybody else. I didn't want him to do it because all the other kids his age at church were, because we wanted him to, or because he felt pressure to do it from teachers. I really wanted him to make his own decision. I told him I didn't care if he ever did, and I didn't. To me this is a really big decision, and I really wanted him to remember making it himself. For a long time he told me he wanted to wait till he was ten. I am not sure why ten, but I never cared. When his birthday got closer he told me he decided he wanted to do it this year. I told him to really think about this decision, because it was the first big one of his life. Well, Saturday morning we went to a wonderful service and watched my oldest little man get baptized. I was so proud of him for making this decision, because I have been truly blessed by this in my own life. It was one of those surreal moments where you are so happy you want to cry, but too proud to do it. After the service we had waffle bowl ice cream sundaes at our house. It was so fun having everybody over eating ice cream. The boys loved it! We had six different kinds of ice cream, hot fudge, caramel, sprinkles, whip cream, magic shell, and even cherries. If you didn't want a full sundaes we had ice cream cones too. After everybody had their fill we headed down to Pirate Island Pizza to celebrate Trev's big day. It was fun and uncrowded....the way we like it :) The we headed home to play outside and go shopping for the next day.
Sunday morning was a beautiful morning, and a busy morning as well. We got our beautiful little girl dressed in a beautiful white dress to get blessed in the church. She was also wearing a little sweater her great grandpa made before he passed with matching booties...so adorable! Her dad gave her a wonderful blessing and she was such a great baby during it. We had many people join us for the meeting, and I really appreciated all the support, especially from all our non-member friends as well. Then we headed to our house for a barbecue. It was such a great turn out with so many family and friends. Unfortunately our air conditioner decided this was not a day to work, ugh! My sisters did an awesome job taking pictures of everybody with Kairi. As warm as our house felt, it really was just an awesome day!
Trevor holding Kairi after he was baptized, she is wearing my blessing dress.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Preschool Graduation
Last night the boys graduated from preschool 2010. The program started by doing an alphabet rock. They were so cute wearing their sunglasses rapping in the mini microphone.
They did many other fun songs with all the stuff that they have learned with numbers and a glow stick, days of the week, months of the year, and fun ones like tooty ta.
They each had a part to say and a mini part in a skit. Bryson was part of the monkeys swinging in the trees being snapped by an alligator, and Dilan was the biggest goat on the troll bridge. It is amazing at how much the shy kids have come out of their shells. Bryson got the award of being able to make anybody laugh. This is so Bryson. The other day I walked them into the preschool and he was laying on the floor with his tongue out. All the kids were laughing at him, and I was like "yup thats my kid!" Dilan got the joy of helping out award. He was always making sure the kids cleaned up their messes, like a little mom. They each got a book from all the stuff they did this year. It includes things like how big they got, how much better they can write, and the many preschool field trip adventures. My boys love preschool, and I love that it is so close, and that their teacher is such an awesome person. She couldn't do a better job, and I really am grateful that she doesn't charge as much as other preschools especially with two kids in...YIKES! I can't believe the year is already almost half over, but I know Dilan will be reminding me everyday that he soon will start kindergarten. He asks me everyday if it is August yet....at least he is excited for school so far :)
They did many other fun songs with all the stuff that they have learned with numbers and a glow stick, days of the week, months of the year, and fun ones like tooty ta.
They each had a part to say and a mini part in a skit. Bryson was part of the monkeys swinging in the trees being snapped by an alligator, and Dilan was the biggest goat on the troll bridge. It is amazing at how much the shy kids have come out of their shells. Bryson got the award of being able to make anybody laugh. This is so Bryson. The other day I walked them into the preschool and he was laying on the floor with his tongue out. All the kids were laughing at him, and I was like "yup thats my kid!" Dilan got the joy of helping out award. He was always making sure the kids cleaned up their messes, like a little mom. They each got a book from all the stuff they did this year. It includes things like how big they got, how much better they can write, and the many preschool field trip adventures. My boys love preschool, and I love that it is so close, and that their teacher is such an awesome person. She couldn't do a better job, and I really am grateful that she doesn't charge as much as other preschools especially with two kids in...YIKES! I can't believe the year is already almost half over, but I know Dilan will be reminding me everyday that he soon will start kindergarten. He asks me everyday if it is August yet....at least he is excited for school so far :)
Monday, May 24, 2010
Field Trip
So, I am a little late in writing this, but wanted to write it anyways. The boys had their last preschool field trip for the year to Kennecott Copper mine. This was one of my favorite field trips. It wasn't even anything really special, but because Spencer is working for Kennecott right now, it was fun to go see. We went up to the open mine which was far bigger and way cooler than I had expected. We went into the visitor center, watched a movie, and looked at many years worth of history. The movie was pretty cool, because it showed what they did at each location of Kennecott. I found this to be really cool, because Spencer had tried to explain this to me, and now I got to see exactly what he was saying. Dilan and Bryson loved when it would show the blasting and the big trucks. In the rest of the visitor center it showed models of each location, how they help the rejuvenate the environment, Olympic medals, different rocks, metals, trucks, and ways to use energy. Then we headed to the Copperton(?)city park. It was a fun park for kids, but I as a parent, found it to be a little dangerous. My sister Mandy had the day off so she actually came to the field trip with me, and took all the pictures. The boys and me both enjoyed having Mandy with us. She was a life saver at the mines and carried Kairi the whole time. She was fun at the park because she played with the boys while I sat with Kairi on the grass. Not sure if it was having Mandy with me, or if this really was that fun of a field trip, but between the two....it was my favorite!
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