Adam is ***4***

Adam turned 4 last month and we threw a party!!  Although I was still very sick I sucked it up for a day and I have to admit it turned out well.  Lots of his friends from preschool showed up along with some of his favorite family members like Papa and Mima and G-Ma and Grandpa and Aunt Sarah, and Aunt Lindsey too.  He also got his best buddies Caleb and Kien to come down from Agua Dolce, he is one lucky and loved little man!!

I made these cuties to give to all of our winners/participants in our field games!!

Toss the rubber chicken was a big hit!!

Sack races always are fun to watch :D

3 legged races are fun to watch too

We also had just plain races and tug-o-war which were not photographed

then we ate some lunch (hot dogs and chips) and opened some gifts!!



Here is some of the gang, left to right

Braden, Garvey, Adam, Brandon, and Kevin

Then we had cupcakes in ice cream cones!! They turned out super cute and the kids thought they were awesome!!

I want to give a special thank you to Papa who was our grill master and the only reason we have any pictures of this event, so thank you so much Papa!!!

I Love My Boys!!

well I just found a treasure trove of new pics on my computer from where my hubby downloaded his phone pics, yay and I found some fun ones that I had to share!!

So here are some pics and why they are so awesome!!

They play ball with Dad!!

scooters are way big at our house

boys don't mind getting dirty!!!

or wet for that matter

They innately love camping and hiking (at least mine do)

throwing rocks into water will never get old for us!!

boys are crazy no doubt about it



they don't have to wear shirts and steal each other's food!!



Sand from head to toe is definitely not something to worry about

a messy face is pretty normal

climbing up on big rocks to get really wet and scare mom is the most fun



for these and many many more reasons we are so excited to be adding one more boy to our family

Boys Rule, Girls Drool

(at least at our house)

Utah!!

So, way back at the beginning of August, we packed up the family in our Mini-Van and took it on it's first real road trip to Utah.  We drove to Las Vegas the first night and stayed there then left for American Fork, Utah, where our good friends the Thompsons now live and they were so gracious to let us stay with them for a few nights.  On our way we stopped in St. George to see this beautiful Temple. 

 and who should we run into but our best buddies, the Cooke Family also heading to Utah.  We were all headed to Utah  for a decidedly sad occasion, Our good friend's the Gray's had just lost their newborn son, Henry, and we were going to stand by their side I had to wait a considerably long time to write this post because I am just so dang emotional about the whole thing.  Seeing Emily and Brent and their strength has really strengthened me in my testimony of our purposes here on Earth and the love our Heavenly Father has for us. 

 We got to American Fork and walked to the neighborhood park to get all those car trip wiggles out, it was beautiful we were little enamored as neither Bryan nor I had been through Utah since we were children and I had just driven through on one of our Cross Country Moves.

 it poured down rain the second we walked back in the door to the house...with lightening and thunder and all, quite a treat for my boys!!

 The next day we went to Salt Lake City for the funeral.

We decided to stop by and see the Salt Lake City Temple before hand and it was really nice and the boys absolutely loved it, plus they got hang out with Kien and Caleb and that is always fun!!

 touching the door to the Temple:  Kevin said he could here Jesus talking inside.  I asked him what he said, He said, "He said to be a Good Example"  man, I love this kid...

We went out for lunch after the Temple and after the funeral we went out for lunch again?? but we wanted to get to spend a little time with our friends the Stevens

6 of the 7 boys all 5 years old or younger that we took out to eat, that poor waitress!

I stole these pics off of their blog...but I'm in em' so I figured it was okay  :)  Here we are, an old gang reunited

after the funeral was a get together at Brent's family  home.  It was so nice to get to see our friends, Brent and Emily, Kristen and Jake and the kiddos, and Claire and Eric and the kiddos, all friends we hadn't seen in such a long time as we all live in different states or countries right now.

 Saturday we just hung out with the Thompson's and took it easy before we had to leave for home that evening. The boys had their first experience with  a slip-n-slide (they are hooked).  and we picked apricots which was another really fun pastime...

 we got lots of apricots!!

 

 Then we headed home and that is when we got this news!!

(it is related to advil and my desire to take some but fear that maybe I shouldn't)

 Then we went swimming at the hotel!!  Then headed the rest of the way home.

 I brought HALF the apricots home and decided to make apricot preserves...and thus had my first canning experience (as and adult) and it was good so yay!!

The End

When 3 just isn't enough

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