MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

 Well, we really wanted to go somewhere with our trailer for the whole weekend, but it didn't quite work out that way, so we were happy to get to camp Sunday night up Beaver mountain.  Everything up there is still under 4-5 feet of snow, so we stayed up to Little Cottonwood just 5 miles up the canyon, and still got snowed on!  According to Tanner the best part of camping was the hike that we went on Monday morning...this hike consisted of walking about 50 yards down to the Beaver river that is running so high and fast.  They had a fun time throwing rocks and sticks and watching them bounce down the river, I had to keep a firm hold on Camrie so that she wouldn't lauch herself into the water along with the rocks she was throwing!  We went back down to my mom's  for lunch, and on the way out to dump the trailer tanks, we noticed that Kersiek's nursery was giving little train rides around their farm and greenhouses.  We went and got Camrie and Tanner and went back down where my good friend Jeff Kersiek and his little boys were  ready to give us the farm tour.  We had a fun time seeing all the animals, and feeding the chickens.  They gave the kids each a peacock feather and containers of strawberry plants from one of the greenhouses. We didn't have time to feed the peacocks this time but drove around to show them to the kids.  Braxton wasn't with us this time, but when he was little, he'd always get excited to go feed the 'cockpeas' when we'd go to Beaver.  We also ran up to the cemetary, to see the beautiful flowers, we also stopped in Cedar to put some on Troy's mom's grave.  I sure wish that me and the kids could've known her. We decided to park our trailer at my gma's house in hopes that sometime the snow will melt and we can get up to Tushar!  We had a fun memorial day.

Tanner & Camrie being silly instead of eating!

Kason showing gma how to shove both hands in at once!

Why do kids always get so crazy at bedtime???

Kason sound asleep sucking his thumb

Throwing rocks in the river

Train ride around Kersiek's farm

Camrie feeding the chickens

Tanner in one of the greenhouses

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAMRIE!!

Camrie officially turned 2 on Friday, May 20...I say 'officially' because it seems like the terrible two's began about 9 months ago! I can't believe where the time has gone, it seems like I just had her!  Since I had to work a 12 hour shift and it was Father & Son's, we opted to party on Saturday instead of Friday.  Camrie has been so excited for her birthday and has gone around for the past week saying, "it's almost my happy birthday!"  and has sang happy birthday to herself at least once a day.  Friday morning, we all went in to wake Camrie up singing Happy Birthday with a cereal bar 'all-a-flame', and she surprised us in that she had taken her jammies off in the night! At school she got to wear her happy birthday crown and got bubbles from her teachers Ms. Jessica, Ms. Melanie, and Ms. Lisa, she also took little cupcakes to share with her friends (sorry Paige, that Josh came home with blue frosting in his hair!!) What a difference a year makes, last year Camrie wouldn't keep her little birthday crown on for anything, and this year, it has caused tears to take it off  long enough to get her dressed! Friday night,  Camrie & Kason went home with Paige and Josh until I got home from work, Paige asked what they should have for dinner since it was Camrie's b.day and Camrie promptly yelled PIZZA! Thanks to the Marshall's for watching them for us.

Saturday, we crossed our fingers that we could have one day this week without rain and wind so we could have Camrie's party up to RedCliffs, and also that it wouldn't be too crowded for all of us to find parking spaces.  It all worked out and we had a fun time with all our family.  The kids had fun playing in the water and being prepared, I took a few towels just in case! (of course, Braxton went home half naked! and Cash went home totally naked!) We had a pinata, cake and ice cream, and opened fun presents.  Almost every present Camrie opened she had to take over, show Gpa Webb and tell him all about it.  I was excited to give her my little doll cradle that my mom made and gave me for Christmas when I was 7. She tole painted Strawberry Shortcake and strawberries on it, and made a little blanket and pillow out of strawberry material, funny that Strawberry Shortcake is back in style now!
Camrie is deffinatly the 'princess in charge' at our house, and she knows it too, but I can't imagine her being any other way! She is so much fun and so smart - she began talking so early, and is still quite petite, that people can't believe how old she is.  Her funniest thing to say lately is "what the heck?" with her hands on her hips.  Happy birthday Camrie we love you!!

This weekend was also our ward's father and son's outing, they went somewhere out by Gunlock and were lucky to only have a few sprinkles of rain.  The boys had a great time playing, fishing, and hanging out with dad.  Tanner loved throwing rocks into the river, and showed off his throwing arm, by nailing the bishop's son, in the head with a rock (on accident of course). 

I wish I had pictures,  but it will be an exciting week of getting 2 new things....our truck back (with a new side & paint job)  after being rear-ended by a Jimmy John's delivery truck a couple weeks ago in the parking lot of a personal injury attorney (how ironic is that?)  And a new garage door - I came home from work the other night and tried to close it, and it kept coming back up, so I made sure nothing was in the way of the sensor and tried again this time it made a loud noise and one side fell off the track! I screamed and yelled for Troy praying that it wouldn't totally fall off on the car (we didn't need 2 vehicles in the shop!) We finally got it back on the track and down and had it looked at and fixed with a temporary bandaid the next day. It's functional for now, but I cringe & hold my breath every time it goes up or down.

Fathers and Son's

sporting her Happy Birthday crown

Singing Happy Birthday

Wow, look at that face!

Fun cake I made using edible sugar sheets

Some of the party crowd

Camrie going after the pinata

Make A Wish!!

Uncle Mark helping Camrie eat, he is the best!

doll crocheted by Gma Webb

Princess mirror from Aunt Valerie's family

Showing Gpa Webb her new little puppy and it's house

doll cradle made by Gma Smith

Kason and Gpa Webb

the kids playing in the water

The Marshall's

Crazy cousins

Camrie & Josh.  Thanks to the Marshall's for letting Camrie hang out until mom got home from work on her birthday





3 months old...

Fun things about Kason at 3 months....
~ his newborn cry is gone...(ok, that's not so fun :( )
~ he always looks up and to the right when being held
~ eyes are for sure BLUE!
~ Huggies size 1 diapers are our choice to corral his runny poop
~ now wearing 0-3 month clothes, only 1 newborn outfit still fits.
~ takes 3 hour nap in the afternoon
~ smiles SO big, even in his sleep!
~ is the best traveler, 12 hours in his carseat roundtrip to Tooele to pick up new 5th wheel & hardly made a peep.
~ so loved by his brothers and sister
~ getting so pudgy

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's back to work I go....

So today is my first day back to work.... besides driving to work with blurry eyes from dropping Kason off at the daycare (I love his teachers btw!), almost clocking in my ID wrong, showing up at 8:30 to find that I had an 8:00 patient waiting, not being able to remember how to use the RIS, nor find my images on PACS, and not forgetting any anatomy on my first few patients, I'd say the day is going rather well.  I can't wait for 5:00, to see my 4 cuties and listen to them whine and argue all the way home!!!

Another project....check, check, and check!

Last week I was able to scratch off  the last project off my home improvement list I started 6 years ago! My list has been hanging inside one of my laundry room cupboards and as we tore them out it was hard to throw my list away.  We have done so much and it's been a fun process (at least for me, Troy may beg to differ....). So the last item was to replace the cupboards and countertops in all 3 bathrooms and the laundry room, and to tear out the wet bar in the living room and replace it with a built in bookcase.  
David Kerksiek from Beaver redid my sisters kitchen/bathrooms and he also did the cabinets for the addition on my parent's house, so I asked him if he would come and give us a bid and some options for what we could do.  Everything turned out so great and we love it.  The bookshelf is amazing and so much more than I expected, and David was excited at the finished product, as he had just purchased some new equipment and wanted to try out the patterns.  I was just glad that with our extremely uneven, not even close to being square walls, that everything fit just right.  So if anyone needs new woodworking done...here is my shameless plug for Kerksiek Wood Design, they are awesome!!

Laundry room

One of the bathrooms

bookshelf

Love the detail.  David's newest design.

The plumbing in the bathrooms has been a bit of a challenge getting them hooked back up, since they raised the counters up, Troy has had to replace pretty much everything underneath because now it's too short.  Also all the mirrors had to be cut shorter, and we had to move the plug and jetted tub timer up a few inches so that the mirror in our bathroom would fit. 
This leads us to really the very last project, that wasn't on the list but, it's time to replace the tubs and showers.  We had Rebath come and give us a quote, and I think that's where we end our thoughts of using Rebath....I'd rather hire someone else than deal with that JERK!  But that project will have to wait until next year perhaps! 

I also just have to throw in a few extra pictures.  This one of the newest addition to our family.  She came cheap at just $2.99 from the Dollar Store, and calls me 'grandma'.  Camrie loves 'Baby W' as she has named her.  Baby W goes everywhere with us, and there is drama if she is left behind.  She is so cute with her and it's fun to watch her be the momma.  

The next is of Tanner's body being traced so he can decorate it for this week's celebration of the young child  at DRMC's Child Development Center.  Both he and Camrie, (and ultimately mom) had fun scribbling and decorating their sillouettes to hang on the walls outside their classrooms.  The kids always have such fun projects at school and are so proud of them.

 Tonight for FHE, we talked about testimonies and why it's so important to share them.  We set up our 'audience' and each one of us took a turn bearing our testimonies, over our fantastic pulpit.  The kids thought this was fun, and it was a great chance, especially for Braxton, to learn what is appropriate to say, and practice without being totally intimidated by a chapel full of people.
On another note, we are yet in the midst of another home improvement project (yes, we are almost done!). We are getting new cabinets and countertops in the bathrooms, new cabinets in the laundry room, and a new built in bookshelf in the living room to replace the existing cabinets and wet bar (really who puts a wet bar in the living room?). We are having a guy from Beaver do the job, he has done both my mom's and my sister's kitchens/bathrooms and they are beautiful so we are excited to get them installed tomorrow. So out with the old, and I will post with the new later.

Braxton

Tanner

Camrie

our audience

Kason

Love this little guy!

Things to remember about Kason at 2 months:

~ 9 lbs 8 oz  21.5 inches long

~ he is losing the 'newborn' cry :(
~ newborn clothes finally fit just right
~ he has grown into his 'old man' wrinkley forehead
~ more awake and alert during the day
~ most playful and smiley at 4 am
~ pretty sure he will have BLUE eyes (and mom's quite happy about that!)
~ not as sleepy of an eater
~ has the cutest dimples when he smiles
~ loves to snuggle with mom and dad
~ likes to hang out in his swing
~ starting to turn head and look toward noise and voices
~ can hold head up for about a minute
~ prefers to lay on his back
~ makes the funniest 'sigh' after sneezing hard
~ was a great trooper while having RSV at 6 weeks

open up and say AHH!