Parades, Picnics and Pool Time

This summer we spent a lot of time up to Grandpa and Grandma Jones's house. Grandpa is running for Summit County Clerk, so we helped in 5 parades. We had so much fun being in them and collecting candy on the road as we handed out rulers to people!

This is Penny in the picture with the girls. So sad, Penny got sick last month and went up to doggie heaven. We miss Penny--- well, the kids do.
Eating some yummy lunch for energy before we go hit the road to be famous.

Oops, a little didn't make it in my mouth and is still on my chin! Dad made the best fried chicken, I still drool thinking about it.

Of course we have to get our 4 wheeler ride in. One day we will have one.....

Grams holding Hailey.

Party time, whoo hooo.

Two great men in my life, with a special little lady.

Don't forget to vote people, November 2nd can't come soon enough for these folks.

The Three Amigos campaigning together.

Brian and Hazen playing in the pots of flowers.

Food... yummy, yummy food.

Off to the South Jordan Rec Center Pool. We went a couple of times. Andrew would go swimming with the kiddos while I sat and watched on the sidelines with the little guy.

Look how big he is getting. If I could stop time for a while, it would be when my babies are two months old. They are still tiny and snuggly, they light up and start to smile when they see you and are starting to get into a schedule.

Our sweet little munchkins enjoying time in the backyard. This pool was a great investment!

7 is the lucky #.

July 7th our little spitfire Alyssa turned 7!!! She is 36 POUNDS and 100% attitude.


Her excitement is contagious when you are around her. She was so happy with all her gifts.

Cake time, all in one breath.

Change is in the Air!

We had some big changes and progress our month of being home with a newborn. The biggest, we took our house off the market. Not only did we feel inspired to put it on, we felt just as good about taking it off!! We had over 40 showings, just a few of those "no shows" but were so grateful to not have to keep our house "show ready!" Let the dirt and grim come once again.

See the binki, NOW YOU DON'T!!! Yeah, Hailey went cold turkey with getting rid of it. We as in (I) was so tired of her talking with it, one day I gathered up literally 12 binkis and hid them. She had a ruff couple of days but we were so proud of her to grow up and become a BIG GIRL. Not only did she get rid of the binki, we got rid of diapers!! She was potty trained fully in less than a week. Tell me what I was waiting for, the energy to do it.
(My babies)
Almost forgot, she graduated into a toddler bed. All in the month of June. Check those off my list of things to do.

June went by with the blink of an eye

Happy Father's Day Daddy





Play time with friends and neighbors.
Mommy Daughter Date to Thanksgiving Point Gardens.

Adam's Two Weeks Old

Adam had his two week check up on Aimee's Birthday. He weighed 6 lbs 15oz. I realized he was struggling with the bottle. Sometimes it would take 1 hour for him to drink 2 oz. of milk. Mostly frustrating to him because he was so hungry, he would give up and go to sleep. So I changed bottles and things were so much better. I had to take him in for a follow up doctor appt. to make sure he was gaining and in one week he gained 1 lb. to 7 lbs. 15 oz.

Aimee's What?........11!

June 8th, Yup Aimee's Birthday. Our baby, well not anymore, our oldest turned 11 today. If I close my eyes and think that 11 years ago I was going to be the mother of 6 I would have told you, that was our plan! We have 3 birthdays in 2 weeks.

Aimee was a trooper, she went to school, came home and had a wonderful dinner that she chose for me to make and then we ended the day going to a wedding reception. We had a fun day, girls night out. Andrew stayed home with Brian, Hailey and our newborn baby brother, Adam.
Her new I pod nano, blue of course. Not much of a surprise there, she picked it out months before her birthday.
And some other girly things from Justice.

Hailey's Two

We ended her day on a good note of having us all there. We love our family!




Yeah for the clock ride!

Brian with the Birthday Girl.

Hailey at Chuck E Cheese.

Hailey needs us! We are coming Little Missy.

May 25th 2010
Who would have know 2 years almost to the day that we would have Adam? Adam came on the 24th of May and Hailey is the 25th. While I was in the hospital with Adam, Hailey was so sick that all I could do was think about my baby being home sick, it was her birthday and I was in the hospital with a newborn. I told my nurse, I need to go home, she needs me. So Adam and I came home! Andrew came and picked us up. She had been able to keep some juice down and her fever was gone. Poor thing didn't even know it was her birthday. Good thing we celebrated the Saturday before and went to Chuck E Cheese!!

Hailey is one loving walking and freedom that comes with it.

Hailey's Two!

Hailey had a crazy entrance into this world also. It was a Saturday night, Andrew and I had been doing our nightly walk to bring on the contractions. We just finished watching a show and was going to bed around midnight when my water broke. Amy (our next door neighbor) came over to stay with the kids. When we got to the hospital, they knew Hailey was under stress by the color of the fluid. The doctor told us it could be the cord was around her neck, so They brought in the nick unit to be prepared. I got really sick and started to throw up. It was so late and I was ready to deliver that the doctor on call, Dr. Froerer, delivered Hailey at 5:oo A. M. She did have the cord around her neck, he cut her cord and handed her over to the nick u. They put her on oxygen and checked her out. Thank heavens everything was perfect. I was really sick and had lost a lot of blood. I had to get a shot to stop the bleeding and after a while they almost had to give me a blood transfusion.

Things did not get any better. The hospital was so understaffed that I was forgotten about. Andrew had to go get a nurse to help me several times. I was throwing up and almost passed out. We actually watched one of the nurses bathe our baby while Andrew held the throw up bin for me. It was horrible. After I finally got some medicine in me, I was exhausted and so was Andrew and my mom and dad who had also been at the hospital. Andrew went home to the kids at home to tell them our happy news about the baby and get some "rest!" My mom went home and came back to help me that night since she was so disgusted with how things had gone.

Hailey was such a good baby that I could get some sleep. Richelle spent the next night with me and we were glad to get out of there!!