Thursday, August 27, 2009

Our trip to the ZOO!!!

This is how far behind I am on blogging! We went to the zoo at the beginning of the summer with my dad and Jan, the kids had a BLAST!!!
Brooklyn absolutely had a blast on the carousel, every time we went around and she saw Dale she gave him the biggest cheeser
Mommy and Brooklyn
Why do my children love to pose!?
Love that smile!!!
Are you serious with the posing Mckinley!? I guess I can't complain, my mom said that I posed in every picture (I guess we have the pictures to prove it!!).
The whole clan, minus cousin Bostyn
What a sweet girl, she was so patient riding around in the stroller all day!
My sweet kids, look my bag matches the animals in the back ground!
Dale, Mckinley, Brayden, and Collin
Gma Adams and the kids
Thank you dad and Jan for a fun day at the zoo. The kids always love when you come to town, you always make your visits so memorable!!!
We love you!!!

Monday, August 24, 2009

Prayers by Brayden

Brayden has always been energetic, crazy, funny, and at times out of control. One thing he is not is moody, and ornery and sassy, that's Mckinley's job. That is until now!
I can't handle it, he is so bad some days that I feel like he spends the entire day in time out. I want my sweet little boy back! Brayden never had a care in the world, now he wants to pick out his own clothes, and when something isn't going his way he throws a nice little tantrum.
With the way that he has been acting these days I literally am counting down to bed time. With bed time comes scripture study and prayers, of course the kids fight over who gets to say the prayer every night. Brayden never waits for Mckinley to say it, he jumps in and starts saying his own prayer and let me just say, when he says the prayer it makes me realize I can make it through another day with him! He no longer needs help, because of course he can do it all by himself, and let's just say the "wit" comes back! Here are a couple samples:

After we took the kids to the Oquirrh temple open house:
"Heavenly Father thank you for this day, thankful for my dad, thankful for my mom, thankful for my big sissy, thankful for my baby sissy, thankful my baby sissy is still a baby so tiny and cute, thankful for my gpa's and gma's I love them so so much, thankful for the temple that we could go to and the diesel I saw on the way....."

Tonight Dale was gone so I did the bed time routine by myself, and this is the prayer we got tonight:
"Heavenly Father thank you for today, thank you that my dad could play paintball, thank you that my mom, and me, and my sisters could eat spaghetti and that I could protect them for my dad, thank you that Mckinley could make some money and sell some cookies and lemalade (lemonade)....

This isn't a prayer, but while we were grocery shopping today I asked Brayden if he would like some carrots,he said "no I don't love them, but I sure do love you mom" and gave me a big hug and kiss.

So it's times like these that make all the orneriness, and moodiness bearable. It shows me that my sweet boy is still in there and at times he is fighting to get out. I pray that someday he will re-join us for good, I can take the craziness much better than the other.
I love you Brayden, thank you for making everyday an adventure!!!

Thursday, August 20, 2009

4th of July weekend!!!

So I know that I am way behind (to say the least). I'm actually sitting here feeling really guilty that I haven't posted Brooklyn's first birthday yet and that on the first day of 2nd grade for Kin I didn't get any pictures. Why? you ask, I can't find the battery to my camera, therefore I can't upload Brooklyn's birthday or take pictures of Mckinley on her first day of school. I know, good mom, huh!!! I guess it's a good time to catch up.
Our 4th of July weekend was busy, we started off the festivities with our ward party. It was a lot of fun! We had burgers and hot dogs catered by Burgers Supreme, a children's parade, and a firework show. The kids had a blast!!! Christian and Brooklyn getting ready to go in their matching attire!
Me, Brooklyn, Christian, and Melissa
Kin riding in the parade
I was worried Brayden would plow someone over with his reckless driving. He did good though and even did the parade route twice!!!
Brooklyn looking pretty with her daddy
What a cheeser!
Oh and there was some dancing by these two crazy kids!



The next day my dad and Jan came into town and they took us to the Owlz game. You can't have a 4th of July weekend and not see a baseball game, it's un-American. My kids love to go to Owlz games and we have really slacked this year, normally by this time we have seen at least 5 or 6 games, we have only seen 2:(
We got to sit with the Wilde's
Brooklyn learning to blow a whistle, she did it!
Two of the cutest baseball fans I have ever seen
Plugging his ears during the firework show, at least he is watching them this year!
Collin didn't like the loud booms either


The next day was a fun filled day starting with the pool and then a pizza party and firework show at our house. We always have a lot of fun when Grandpa and Grandma Adams come to town.
Weirdo, but he's so dang cute!
Dale and Brayden going down the slide
Collin, Brayden, and Brooklyn
Mckinley and her cousin Kambree
Our 4th of July family picture
Brayden riding his bike while waiting for the firework show
Waiting patiently
Sparkler time
Iliana, me, Brooklyn, and Sarah
The Wilde's and the Gardner's joined us for the show!!!
Look who's holding a sparkler! Brayden is terrified of sparklers but he couldn't let Tyler show him up:)
Collin, Brayden, and Tyler



Stay tuned, I'm starting my "post a day" in an effort to get caught up and to do a better job of keeping track of our family adventures.