Abbey's first day

Grinning from ear to ear. She couldn't have been more excited!!! She looks tooo grown up!I had to add this picture too.
Getting off the bus. She is a little nervous about tomorrow :(

She is afraid she won't know which classroom is hers, I'm soooo glad Tucker can help her.
All smiles still!!!!!
We said a little prayer tonight to ease her nerves, of course now that I know that she is nervous now I will be, and she will most likely be fine now!

Tucker's first day of second grade

Aug. 18th

Strike'n a pose.

This was ALL him.And a pic of the back of his shirt, he's been waiting and waiting to wear this shirt ever since we got it! He has even come out with the whole outfit on to show us a few times :)

Tim was on his way to work so he dropped him off at the bus stop. He loves leaving with his dad he thinks it's soooo cool.
The night before the first day of school Tim gave ALL the kids a blessing. It was so nice and I'm so thankful for having that in my home. There were things said that I wouldn't even have thought of and were a nice comfort.

Abbey's second tooth

August 5th
After losing her first tooth and realizing it doesn't hurt to bad Abbey decided she was brave enough to try out the string on a door knob. So Tim hooked her up and we let our spring loaded door do the rest. Well the string just came off. We tried so many times and nothing.


Abbey wanted to get it out so bad she didn't want to give up. The rest of us were starting to give up.

Finally we realized she should stand on a chair (okay it was my idea) And voila that did the trick. She didn't even know it worked, it hadn't worked so many times that she thought it didn't work again.

Dishwasher

Awhile ago I was finishing blow drying my hair whenIi heard the sound of silverware clanging, I investigated and found Porter unloading the dishwasher for me (at least they were clean dishes) This is his new thing he likes to help with, for now. So if any of you like his style I can arrange for him to be of service.

I've been tagged!

Hopefully I'll get to blogging all that we've done lately.... we'll see :)

Dani tagged me and I didn't even know for awhile cuz I hadn't had time to read her whole blog yet, so here we go.....

What were you doing five years ago?
I had 2 toddlers, Tucker 2 (almost 3) and Abbey almost 1. I'm relatively sure that we were doing some kind of remodeling on our old house in North Ogden. And helping Tim finish off his last year of school. Wow how pathetic is that that I can't remember that well?

What were you doing ten years ago?
Tim and I had just been married in Feb. and were getting ready to buy our first house. A major fixer upper complete with the 70's thing going for it. But it was worth all the hard work we put into it and definitely a whole NEW house when we were done with it. And like my mom always said "once you finish it you'll move" and she was right!

Snacks you like: chips & salsa, Dr. Pepper, cheese & crackers, IKEA chocolate, hot tamales, & doughnuts (my sweet hubby took me to Kholer's the other night just to get me some). I love salty snacks!

5 places you have lived:
1. Logan, UT
2. South Weber, UT
3. North Ogden, Ut
4. Lehi, UT
5. Lehi, UT

5 jobs you've had:
1. Sew-N-Save
2. Davis Park Cafe
3. Zions bank
4. Manager of Prometric Testing Center
5. MOM

5 things on your "to do" list:
1. laundry
2. tackle all those boxes in the basement!!! and either chuck it or write down what's in it
3. finish Porter's dino quilt
4. scrapbook (just cuz I want too)
5. did I mention laundry?

If I were suddenly a billionaire I would...I can't tell you the answer to this cuz then it wouldn't be a surprise.... well okay since it will never happen. Send my parents on a mission, pay off every ones houses anonymously. Buy my mom a lavender VW bug just cuz she would be so cute in it. Education for my kids and cousins. Pay someone to do the LAUNDRY!


5 things people might not know about me
1. I have an obsession with buying paper (okay a few of you know that)
2. I'm a computer nerd, well not a huge one, but I can often fix my own and have even built my own computer in the past, and if Tim brings home a new part for my desk top I usually put it in. I'm his mom's personal to go person :)
3. I've know Tim since I was 16, and never kissed him till I was 20. (okay that was a lame one but apparently I'm an open book people and not to exciting of one either)
4. I really can be shy, I know all of you that know me don't believe this, but when I'm out of my comfort zone this is soooo true, which is to often these days.
5. I love being outside with my kids and a good book, too bad I get caught up in the humdrum of everyday life to often to remember to do it.

I 'm supposed to tag other people....Brooke, Emily, & Tracey.

4th of July

I know July is almost over and I'm just now doing the 4th, I can't believe I skipped over it. It's one of my families FAVORITE holiday. I guess we partied so much I was to worn out to post about it. We actually stayed 2 nights up at my parents house and it was a party from the get go. FOOD FAMILY FRIENDS. What more do you need? not much except maybe more FOOD!!!! everything seemed to revovle around food, not a problem!!! After the parade we walked behind the city building to a park and had lunch, it was perfect we didn't have to fight the traffic and the kids played football and baseball. And Porter played puppy with my brother dog, it was hilarious, the people next to us thought we were just weird!!! Porter and the dog each had a plate and were drinking their water. Oh and did I mention SLURPEES!!! another of our fun things of the 4th, but that store is packed that day, I wonder if it's their busiest day of the year?
The fireworks were great!!! My only complaint was that not everyone stood up for the national anthem, that made me a little sad. I just love our country and I'm so greatful to live here. It makes me sad that so many of us are forgetting the little things that make or should I say helped to make this country so great.
All in all it was a fabulous weekend. They even had free bounce toys on the other side of the high school, next year we are going even earlier to play on them more, they were so fun!!! Big enough for adults to go on too!!!!

anyone need a bed?

My child really does have a bed, this is just one spot I often find him! Abbey slept with the boys that night so who knows what happened. you can see part of her on the left half falling out of bed herself. When I checked on them before I went to bed Porter was in the middle. I bet a video of kids sleeping could be pretty entertaining.

HUGE Slip-N-Slide

For Family Night we went to the Gardens and enjoyed the HUGE slip-n-slide!!! It was so much fun! Even Tim and I went on it. Tim went down the first few times with the kids while I tried to get some pics, our dang dinosaur of a camera the delay between pictures was soooo annoying! I never did get one of Tim. Oh well.

Here's one of Tuck the first ride down.

I got this one of Abbey on the second run.

Here's Porter declaring that he'd rather sit in the stroller than go down again. He went down the first time with Tim and ended up kinda getting dragged, so for the next run he sat in the stroller. You can see the stroller way up the hill behind him, at least I knew he wasn't going anywhere. When I went down he came with me hanging onto me like a koala, he would turn his head slightly to see in front of us. The next time we went I tried to turn him around on my lap so he could see and that was not happening. Koala again it was. But at least he had fun.

After we went on the slide a few time we went over to where they had the sprinklers on. They had buckets with sponges in water so you could throw them at each other. What a great idea, no filling of balloons and they didn't hurt. We had so much fun pelting each other! I'm so glad I wasn't a stick in the mud, I almost didn't wear my swimming suit. Then I did something well Tim thought it was mean I thought it was pure GENIUS. I filled up a bucket with water, snuck up behind Tim and SOAKED him. He had a shirt on that was dry before this :) . I got him good!!!!! How often does that happen? not very.

We went back over to get some more sliding in. On the last one just as we got close to the front of the line the were pulling the hose away from the slide, Tim was on the side with Porter and motioned for us to just go for it. So I grabbed the kids hands and off we went with about a million other people. Tuck had wanted to race me and Abbey had wanted to go alone so she promptly let go of my hand! Tim got some GREAT pictures of us. I was so glad he got the camera!!!! And I didn't even ask him too!

Check out this pic, she's in the air!!!! These last two pics were in the same one I just cropped them so you could see them better.

Abbey's smile

I just love Abbey's little smile it makes me so happy to see it, maybe that's cuz she smiles a lot more now that she is feeling so much better. When she was little she would say "mom I mile at you" They just melt your heart. Well today her smile has officially changed and will never be the same again! She lost her first tooth, it was a little traumatic, it's been loose for forever!!! And since the new tooth was coming in behind it the roots weren't getting eaten away at anymore. We all took turns wiggling it and she was so brave! She wanted it out so bad but of course didn't want it to hurt. When it was over she said that didn't hurt to bad, I think it hurt more to get it loose than to actually get it out. Tim covered her ears and told me it needed to be pushed back to come out, but that he wanted her to sit up so she wouldn't swallow it. Then he said just use your little finger to push it back, he had sat her up so his hands had moved and she hollered out "I heard that!!!" I laughed so hard. The next one will be easier and it's already loose and a new one coming in behind it too. Can you say braces? :)

The not so great outdoors

We go camping nearly every year with Tim's side of the family for a reunion. We go to the same place they went to with their cousins when they were little so it's fun for them to hand down traditions from when they were kids. We had a new thing this year that we all hope will NOT be a tradition!!!! Sick kids with the stomach flu is NOT fun in a tent I repeat NOT fun. OF course kids get sick at night and not during the day. Tim's sis's little 3 yr old was first just when we were about to put everyone else to bed so they took off to his parents house where their night would be easier. Needless to say about 2 hours later I was JEALOUS of them. Poor little Porter was so sick I spent the night leaning against our air mattress holding him and playing games on Tim's cell phone. Thank heaven for Text Twist!!!! Abbey joined the fun at about 8 AM the funny thing is after her tummy was empty she said I need to go potty and sat up and saw what was all over her shirt, the noise of disgust, astonishment, abhorrence (is that even a word?) was so hilarious I literally busted up laughing. So you know that after freezing my but off because I was out of the bed, holding a sick baby it had to be a good noise to get me to laugh!!!! I thought DUH what did you think would be all over your pajamas?

Okay now the fun, at least the kids had almost 2 whole days of fun, dirt, mud, water before they got sick, I've got tons of pics so I will probably go over board. but I think we will definitely NEVER forget this year!!!

Porter fell asleep just before we left to go home at 4:00PM. We put him on the couch to let him wake up. Well.... he slept until 10:00AM yes all the way through the night, he did get up for little drinks. Then he fell asleep in my arms again at 1:20 PM and slept until 7:30PM a six hour nap after an 18 hour night. He then still went to bed at about 10 PM and slept until 9:30 AM. I have never had someone sleep that much EVER. I think between no naps for 2 days, playing hard and being sick he was wiped out!!!!!

Porter spent a lot of time here in the water, and throwing things in the water, wearing the water, you get the picture.

He also spent a lot of time here in this make shift time-out spot for throwing things in said water

crossing the water to clay mountain

climbing clay mountain

This is clay mountain, Tim and his cousins would come here every year and get the clay and make things out of it. the tradition goes on.

YEAH clay from clay mountain
Monkey Tucky
Oakley and Dayten, the boys made this swing themselves
Porter assisting G'pa

Can't remember who knocked Tim backwards, but I think this pic is funny!!!
We play card a lot if you couldn't tell from all the pics.

Abbey and her adventures, YES she is in there in the middle, one side of our camping spot had a huge mountain side and she would go clear up it! that girl has no fear, and she used to be such a wimp and not dare do anything! click on the pic to make it bigger and you'll see her.
Oakley, Abbey, Camden, Tucker, Dayten, and Porter taking a break, it's hard work getting dirty.

Is Abbey somewhere under all that dirt? I have NEVER seen such dirty little girl shoes, remember my girl is ALL GIRL, or so I thought, she was a maniac up there, it was so fun to see her like that, she is still surprising us with her newness after her new meds. I LOVE it.

Porter fell asleep on my lap, something the busy guys never does. At the time I thought he was crashing and burning, now I'm pretty sure he was just tired from his body starting to get sick.

Abbey waiting for the water to heat up in the trailer so we could bathe her, if you'll notice Porter is in her jacket and she is in his. Hers is the only warm comfy thing I could find in the middle of the night to put on the little guy. She was not thrilled about it in the morning but then stated "well I do like blue"
Me and the little ones waiting for their baths.
Poor little Abbey so sick so we put her in the wagon with lots of blankets to be comfy and wheeled her next to me while we played cards. We didn't want to ride home for 2 hours in the car until we knew the worst of her tummy trouble was gone.
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New School

My niece Brittney is deaf and so is her little sister (age 2). Unfortunately the school system seems to be passing them by. They move their school every year and the accommodations aren't pretty. I'm attaching a link of the protest made this morning at capitol hill. I couldn't get the video to upload so if you want to watch it you will have to link to it. My sis, her husband, niece Brittney, and my Mom were all there.

"People who spoke at the rally wanted to remind residents to write to their representatives about this problem. They said the only way the system will change is if more of the public speaks up."

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=3712456

So in other words please speak up!!! These kids have to learn 2 languages sign and English and they need stability in their education not mobility! I've taken sign language classes and the set up for sentences is very different from English, it can't be easy for them to learn both of them. Their parents need them to have stability too because they are learning the language as well. They deserve the same education as anyone else, they have just as much potential as the rest of us let's help them reach it.

We have a Puppy!

Isn't this the cutest puppy you have ever seen? He loves his bowl of water and has the softest hair. He loves to cuddle too. Kisses are abounding with him around, even slimy ones with his tongue. He asked for milk in a bowl and was denied that option. Yes our puppy can talk he is amazing!