FLowers!

**I just love flowers and growing my own! Last year we didn't get to do very many due to construction and me being pregnant and high risk that I am suppose to do as little as possible! Which for me his very hard to sit and not do much!
**Treyton's Kindergarten class started growing Sunflowers in cups at the end of the school year! He was so excited when he brought it home to plant out in the yard and watch it grow over the summer!
Well Summer started out very long and cold so I kept the cup inside growing bigger! It finally got warmer and he begged me to plant it! So we got our flower area all weeded and new dirt put down and wild flower mix down and then put in his little sunflower! I through in a line of them from seeds he had given me for mothers day!
They had so much fun helping me plant them!!!

**My mom has some really pretty flowers in her yard and some neighbor kids were picking them! He came and told me (Mom) them boys are picking grandmas flowers! Proceeding to tell me how he told them they shouldn't do that flowers are very hard to grow and when they bloom it took along time so you shouldn't pick them! It was so cute!! He is such a sweetheart!!!

**Treyton's sunflower took off and is the biggest out of them all! He is so proud of it! Every time I am out watering he checks to make sure his is still growing and the tallest! In the picture it was the same height as him!
Just two weeks later it is now taller than me and very close to blooming! I sure hope with the cold nights that it still blooms!
He is so proud of it! Next year we are going to try a garden!!
I will post his sunflower when it blooms and if it does I sure am hoping it survives!!!

Just in two weeks it is now over his head!! Above!

Tonsil and Tubes!

Its been a crazy last few weeks of summer!
****Brendan had his tonsils out he went into surgery okay anxious and nervous but was fine other wise! They came out and got me around 25 minutes later! I walked in expecting a quite sore waking up boy! Well instead he was yelling and screaming! His eyes burned! He was mad wanted to leave! Yelled at the nurses to leave him alone! Wow what was wrong! The doctor explained to me that anaesthesia makes some people angry and mad when they come out of it! Oh wow my shy,patient,most quiet kid in the world angry!
We finally got to leave and they made him wheel out in a chair! Again mad yelled I didn't have knee surgery I can walk! I was so embarrassed and laughed it off to meds! ****A few days before his surgery he got his God of War shirt in the mail and has been begging us to wear it everyday before school starts!! WE decided after going through such a surgery he could have it for comfort I also got him the book on the games that has cheat codes and tools to help you along the way! He has literally wore that shirt every day till it needs washed then back on again! He is so obsessed with him its funny!!!**** He did quite well over the next few days he got so sick of ice cream and pudding by the third day was begging for a cheeseburger so I gave in and to my surprise he ate the whole thing! After about a week his ears started to hurt and the scabs fell off wow what a pain! I am sure glad I had mine out at four I don't remember a thing about it! It looked and sounded very painful! He is now eating and loves how big his throat is much easier to swallow! He is up and happy over it all!

****Ledger had to get tubes in his ears after he came down with his ninth ear infection! Dang it I thought through the summer he would be fine and be able to make it through the warm months that we wouldn't need to put them in! It proved wrong after he got his third one in late August! He went into surgery happy and smiling! It was very quick and I was back with him in less than fifteen minutes! He was very sleepy and just a little bit miserable! Crying every now and then when the weird nurses in hats came by! Other than that after about four hours of being home he was like nothing had happened! We are so glad this is over and hope it helps keep him from getting more infections throughout this winter!!

10 Months

Ledger has changed so much the past month its crazy!
He has gone from a baby to a toddler in so many ways! He is now had his ninth ear infection and is now going to have tubes put in this wed! I thought he would be fine through out the summer well I was hoping but it didn't turn out that way ending up with three now this summer! Darn it I am hoping this ends his pain with his ears!
***He is so dang cute with his stink bug crawl and his one leg lift! He gets up in the stink bug position and lifts one leg up as high as he can look at me I'm dancing!!!
I think is the cutest thing ever I have seen him do and just love to watch him do it all day!
***He also mastered going from that stink bug to sitting position and continues to do it all day long over and over!! He changed so fast from not knowing how to just sitting content I don't know how they learn so fast!
*** Just the past few days he has started pulling himself to standing position on the dishwasher...stairs scared the you know what out of me and couch! I can't believe he is trying to stand! In my mind he is still a little baby!
***I did I am so proud of myself but I got him to sleep in that darling crib and room I designed for him and I just love it! What was I thinking keeping in that little bassinet???
***Ledger has now learned NO no NO no and even almost says it! We are constantly telling him No! Kinda funny! He also waves bye bye and hi now and it is the cutest thing when he sees someone he knows and just starts grinning and waving!!!
((((He finally says MOM its a miracle and it is so cute I LOVE IT!)))
**I am busy planning his first Birthday!! WOW I know time just flies and my baby is no longer a baby here soon!
We are looking forward to more first words and walking he is such a joy around here so fun to watch grow and change so much!
LOVE You Ledgie POOH!!!



Yummy my very first fudge Popsicle in Yellowstone!

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!!!