YellowStone Park!

This summer we headed up to Yellowstone National Park~ We camped with Mom and Dad! Bobby and Jen plus there kids, and Scott! I have been there at least 14 times but it had been along time since then so it was fun to see the sights again! My parents took us kids every summer since birth it seems like! I have alot of memories there we got to take are friends a couple times and I took Cindy my best friend! We had so much fun playing together jump rope singing Cinderella, cooking marshmellows it is really the only thing I can remember that I liked about camping is being with her and the family! I am not to big on it now but try and go for my kids to have good memories too!!!
Brendan was so excited he loves fishing, camping and hunting! He thought Old faithful was the neatest thing and couldn't wait to explore the other geysers! Treyton was excited to make so mores and sleep in the trailer! We laughed he called it gellystone all the way there!~

Everyday we made plans to different places at the park! We went to Old faithful then had lunch and shopped around all the gift shops! We smashed pennies for there souvenir books~ Bought T-shirts, stuffed toys and had a ball eating fudge sickles! Ledger had it all down his face for the very the first time it was so cute!! He loved it wanted to eat all of ours!

Fire hole was packed and they all headed over for a day of swimming even though I thought it was too cold! The falls are so pretty there! The water is about 65 degrees due to the lava from geysers that run over miles down the road into the river! I usually swim but it was a colder day and I just wanted to go Old faithful again and eat ice cream! Which turned out to be a good plan since the geyser was much bigger the second time! Treyton wasn't to impressed by the first one and loved the second much neater and bigger! Crazy I never knew it was different every time!

We went to fishing bridge and even though they no longer let you fish off the bridge like they did when we were kids it is still a neat little stop! With tons of buffalo to see all around it! With tons of tourist too see as well haha~!

My favorite place we went to was West Yellowstone Montana! We headed in the Bear and Wolf discovery and seen wolves up close for the first time! It was a neat little place! Then headed down town to walk down the streets to shop all the little stores! It was a really pretty drive on the way back we seen a brown bear my first not in captivity! We were all quiet thinking oh gosh another buffalo people are taking pictures of then we seen it and screamed BEAR~~ Ledger jumped in his seat and we all bailed out for pictures!!

The boys all went with Bobby on the boat and fished and fished! They had a blast in just a few hours in one of there trips had of forty fish between all of them! It was crazy never seen fish bite like that before! Morgan never wanted to stop and my boys were so excited~!

We didn't stop at Artist point Brendan wanted to stop at the geysers! After busting butt up the steep mountains to where they were Brendan ran gagging he was going to puke! It smelled so bad to him! I was laughing so hard this lady behind me was in horror of it all! Just made me laugh more~! So he seen them and never wants to smell them again!

We ended the Trip back to West Yellowstone and down through Idaho to see Palisade and Swan Lake very pretty lakes to fish at as well! I slept most of the way home we were tired from not sleeping to great in the trailer and couldn't wait for showers and are beds again! Ledger was so happy to be home and get crawl around and be a baby again after being cooped up!
Vacations are great but """There's no place like home"""!!!

Swim LeSsOns! 2010

So it just isn't summer with out Swimming Lessons in it! I been taking Brendan now five years I can't believe it! He is in the last Lesson and did so amazing! He swims so great! He dives and even jumps of the diving board! Where did my little scared boy go?? It seems like I blink and they are older every minute!
Treyton is learning to go across the pool on his own in the deep! He was doing amazing and really liked his coach Scott he told him I have a Scott too! Had to laugh kids are so funny in there stories they tell! He was so excited he got to go in the big pool I walked in and there he was a grin from Ear to Ear!! Look at me Im in the big pool!!!
Lessons went fast this year I only did two weeks since we left via Yellowstone on Vacation!!!
The boys loved getting up and going it was a great two weeks that just flew by and was lots of fun!

Baby Hopes!

So its been hard past few weeks and a challenge! I went to the doctor eager to see the baby for the first time so small! I was so shocked when he looked and no baby nothing but the sac! I cried and cried!!! He said I might just be to early and to come back in a few weeks! Deep down though I just felt like something was still wrong! So weeks went by slowly! I kept myself busy making Lady Liberty towels and going to Eclipse my favorite book of all time! But it was always on my mind! The day came and still no baby! He did a blood test and the numbers were so low they knew it wasn't a viable pregnancy the baby hadn't made it! It is heartbreaking to here! I left knumb and sad! Maybe I shouldn't have anymore kids just kept running over and over through my head! I been on medicine now hormones to get my body back to normal I guess nursing really can mess some women up aka me! So here we are back to square one! I am enjoying the summer and my boys trying to stay busy~ Putting trying for another baby on hold and just relaxing and enjoying the warm days of summer! I am too sad to try again right now!

jUly fourth!!!

The fourth arrived! I woke stuffy, sore throat, and just plain miserable! Brendan who now has had strep for almost five days finally was feeling better! After taking him to the doctor we learned his tonsils are just to big and he would have to get them out here soon! Poor Brendan! I too had mine out when I was four! Not fun at all!

The weather was depressing rain, wind, clouds seriously what not today!!! We all got ready and headed to the fort for the parade! Luckily the sun had popped out for it and turned out to be really fun!!

We had a fun day of going to the fort for a play western shoot out! Had to laugh it was kinda silly but the guns were neat they shot! Ledger was so funny they shot them to get every ones attention aka with blanks!! But it scared the crap out of me I jumped! WE all looked at Ledger waiting for tears but he just started giggling! It was hilarious we all busted up!!

They had a mechanical bull and Brendan really wanted to try! He hopped up and did amazingly well got up to level four and only felt like he had to puke a little bit! The guy was so fun running it!

The boys did "kick the can" ice cream! Pretty neat it was the first time to do it! They put the ice cream ingredients in a plastic baggy put it in a coffee can with the salt and ice around it! Taped it shut and told them to roll or kick it for a good half hour to get the best ice cream! They strolled around taking turns kicking the can!!! Around the fort and when they got it out yummy vanilla ice cream it was really good ice cream and frozen so neat!

Brendan had such a ball with fireworks this year! Our neighbor's had a big fourth of July party and they invited the boys over to it!! He was all over it!! Laughing running and letting off fireworks with the big boys, they really got into it with games, music and prizes!! Treyton preferred to watch Brendan light or dad but begged and begged till one gave in to do it!! This was Brendan's first year lighting his own he did it for hours with supervision but enjoyed it allot!!! Leonard too enjoyed his play time with fire and explosives!

Ledger wasn't scared one bit of the fireworks! Loved!! Loved!!! them he laughed ooh awwed and said wow!! His new word Uh OH!!!! It was so cute he really is my WILD child!!! He slept through half the parade! Laughed in the middle! Then cried at the end the fire trucks and ambulance did him in! Leonard covered his ears and he smiled through his tears! Literally this is the only thing I have seen make him cry!

My aunt brought over this yummy cute star cake she made us!! It was chocolate,with cream cheese frosting! It tasted like chocolate short cake with the fruit it was so so good!!!!!! It was almost to pretty to eat!! It was really nice of her!

Another year gone and memorable! Happy Fourth of JULY!!




Cake from My aunt Linda!

The joy of letting off bottle rockets

Finally at the parade to get candy been waiting for days!

American Baby!!

Asleep missing the first half of the parade!

CaNdY!!!

Kicking the can!

Yummy

Happy cute fourth of July boy!



Woo hoo ride em!!!

9 MoNtHs

**Summer is finally here and we are loving the sunshine!!
I took the boys to Spray park in Green River the day before Ledger turned 9 months! I put his swimsuit on for the first time and I think it is the cutest outfit ever!!! He didn't like the spraying cold water too much but who could really blame him!!
Brendan ran and ran through it on the other hand!! He met up with a school friend Caleb and after he left made a new friend! He is so social and gets along with everyone! Treyton stayed close to mom he too does not like cold water must be the Arizona blood in them lots of laughs!!!!

**Ledger has now mastered army crawling and follows us everywhere we go!!! The kids rooms full of miniature Lego's are one of his favorite places to try and roam!! If that don't work with Mom eating the dishwasher!! Its the cutest thing ever to watch him scoot along! He stops now and then and gets up on all fours then goes back to the army way!!

**Since he is sick I didn't get his shots yet but he weighs 20lbs 8 oz!!! Wow Big Big boy!!!

**He is learning to drink from a sippy and eat by himself too! He no longer eats much of baby food and just literally will eat anything we give him! Very not picky!!!

**He is very vocal all the time testing his voice I guess to the limit!! Screaming and babbling as loud as he can!!! His first real word now besides da da is UH OH!! It is so cute to here him say something new!! Still no ma ma yet! But he does da da, la la, ba ba! Got to come soon!

**His new love is anything with wheels and not a baby toy!!! He knows Treyton has the funnest trucks in his room and heads to get them every morning!!!

**He has eight teeth now four on the top and bottom! I thought few he is done for a bit but as soon as I thought it trouble struck!! He is now getting his back molars! Been a bit of a sick month with that having an ear infection and cold on top of it!! He is doing better and mom is sleeping again too~

**We have tought him to shake his head from side to side when we say CRAZY baby it is so funny! He smiles and laughs shaking his head!!!

**I have yet to get him sleeping in his crib but I got to it is my new goal for this month! He is in his big boy chair I had enough of the baby seat! It was just too dang heavy to carry and well he just don't need it anymore! He looks so cute in his new big chair in baby blue, black, grey looks so cute in my car!! He is also happier can see out the window as we go and see mom driving! Its wonderful he smiles very big happy too!