PHOENIX TRIP (Day 1) BOATING BABY!!!

Just getting started, the boys had never been on a boat, they were in LOVE

Bosten HATED his life jacket, but LOVED the water... it was pure bliss sooo refreshing

Uncle Mark getting ready to jump off the rockAunt Hillarie, Daigen and Me playing in the water... it was PERFECT

Dan skiing

Hillarie two skiing... she finally got up for a little while. YAY!!!!

Sooo tired and beat from the sun... it was over 100* that day

Mark two skiing

Me enjoying the scenery and ride.. I couldn't do anything.. elbow still not healed

Daigen, starting to not feel good, notice his red eyes. They ended up getting so much worse with in the next 24 hrs. he was soooo done

Mark thinking he is "sexy" or something!!! :)

Aunt Hillarie and Bosten, the boys feel in LOVE with her.

The first weekend in October we got to go to Phoenix for a week. We were so excited. We planned the trip in July and had something planned every day. I did lots and lots of research and found alot of fun things to do. BUT all HECK broke loose on the plane ride over when Daigen began to fever. This is VERY unusual for him. he NEVER fevers. So that night when we get in and settled I took his temp 102.3. "What the heck!" So all night we worked at trying to get it down. He woke up with 100*. But was his good ole self, so we went boating all day and he was really good and enjoying himself until about 2:30 and he was done, his eyes started getting really red and he was really tired and HOT. We got home around 4 and his temp was back up again. He kept going up then down a little. Finally Thursday morning (after a really LONG night) we took him to the doctors...... a postive H1N1!!!!!! ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME. I am on vacation!!!! So unfortunately EVERYTHING got put to a stop and we were home bound for most of the trip. The doctor said once he had no fever for 24 hrs we could go out. Well that didn't happen until 2 days before we were suppose to leave. We had a great time with Brownings and Aunt Natalie, but we wish it could have been better. Stay tuned for a few more pics of our trip......

1st Day of Preschool (Sept 15, 2009)

Daigen 1st day of school, he was so excited...

showing off his Thomas "pack pack"

Daigen and his teacher Miss Susan, he loves her...

Miss Susan mada a "Survival Kit" for all the Moms.... it was MUCH needed

Daigen's special gifts from Miss Susan

daigen's first project, a little "School is beary fun" necklace.

I can't believe this day has already come. It feels like yesterday that I was holding him in my arms as a newborn. Tears were shed both joy and sadness that time has seemed to "fly" bye for us. He is seventh heaven and loves it VERY much. Jordan and CJ (his cousins) are in the same class with him. I worry a little about him cause his bday is so late and he is the youngest, but Miss Susan said he is doing great so far for how young he is.... we shall see how long that lasts....

SUMMER RANDOMNESS

Bosten has discovered "Thomas the Train" for the first time..... YIKES!!

Daddy playing "squeeshy face" with Daigen

Strolling Bosten... he was not a fan of that one!!

starting to walk a little.... wouldn't let go for months...

playing in the toy room....

daigen got into the eggs, cream cheese and I'm sure more things as well, while Daddy was "watching" the... TV...... I mean kids

"Am I not the cutest thing you have ever seen?"

swimming with cousin Jenna

being crazy together

getting into the cupboard... AGAIN!!! I thought he 'outgrew' this stage

Hang In....

I am having some MAJOR difficulties downloading pics onto blogger. So as soon as I can get this problem fixed I shall have plenty of entries for our VERY eventful September and October. Stay tuned....

Grimes Creek Camping (Labor Day Weekend)

AT LAST!!! i DID IT!!!!! MY PHOTOS UPLOADED... ONE AT A TIME...

We went camping up in Grimes Creek for labor day weekend, we had a blast. This is the creek that the kids got to play in. I LOVED it up there, it was sooo pretty.

Here are some of the kids playing, they found a water snake in there and weren't so sure about getting back in for a while. I was DONE as soon as I saw it!!

daigen LOVED the creek, it was FREEZING but that didnt even faze any of the kids

The start of our first hike, we got about 5 minutes into it and decided that going straight up was not a good idea for these little kids or me!! :)

Family photo after our hike

My bro and his little family (minus the wife)

dirty "dawg" Daigen he loves camping so much!!

shooting a BB gun for his first time (gotta love his facial expression!)

Bosten on his little "nature" hike. It's amazing how different things are with your 2nd child. 3 yrs ago i would have NEVER allowed this with Daigen :)

Kids playing in the creek as the sun went down. the boys LOVED it! It was absolutely FREEZING.

We had such a fantastic time and we can't wait for many more next year. Thanks Kynaston's for letting us camp with you! I think we have found a new family passion! Thought I would NEVER say that! :)

Camping ( Lake Cascade)

Daigen riding his bike. it was too cute to watch cuz Daigen would ride his bike while CJ ran after him. They got EXTREMELY dirty, if you click on the pic you can see there "dirty dawg" faces!

"Man i L.O.V.E. this place Aunt Cala!!" Payten was such a happy baby and did soooo good!

Daigen cookin smores with Aunt Tashie.

our first night chillin out eating smores around the fire

Enjoying their smores... I swear I think they had 3 each... they were in "little boy heaven"

next day... the boys playing in the sand on the beach... they were having a blast

catchin a few rays... my bro and his family went camping on the other side of the lake about 40 min away so they packed up early and came and hung out with us for the afternoon it was alot of fun

Dan taking Bosten out for a "dip"

sunset view... it was soooo pretty, we were suppose to have "lake access" from our spot. well we did, however it's been a few years since they have seen much water that far up, but the boys loved all the little frogs we found. there was hundreds of them

Bosten having fun on Daddy's shoulders. he has become such a little Daddy's boy!!

our last evening right before a big thunderstorm

the men cookin us breakfast... I love camping... i didn't have to cook for 2 days!!!!

our camp site

Ashley, Bosten, tash and payten trying to stay warm while we were waiting for breakfast. I think Dave was down fishing.

We had quite a fun time. We spent two nights camping and the boys loved it. It really wasn't as bad as i thought it might be. Uncle dave and Aunt Ashley came with us and we told Coltrin's about us coming so last minute they decided to come with us as well. It was sooo much fun. We just went up to Cascade on the lake. The bee's were HORRID! I have NEVER in my life seen so many. Poor little Payten was the only one to get stung, but she was a little trooper. Thanks everyone we had fun... can't wait for next summer so we can pack our weekends full of camping!!

Fair Time!!

Daigen's first ride

riding the train with CJ & Uncle Cade

Daigen played a "fishin" game AND he WON!!! he was soooo excited and won a little stuffed animal

This was Daigen's FAVORITE ride. It was the "Bee Roller Coaster"he LOVEDit and rode it alot click on the pic to actually see his face.... it is priceless he was screaming the whole time and was in LOVE... I was laughing so hard. Daddy even went and took Bosten, who believe it or not loved it as well.

Dan kissing the Billy goats

"Wait Daddy, let me try too!!" .... Bosten giving Billy and kiss

No kisses from this one, but he did give loves...

Riding with Mom

bosten hangin out while waiting for us to finish our ride

Bosten's turn.... he loved the rides as well and did really good.

We had a blast this year at the fair. We went on family day and we were there for over 6 hrs. The boys did great and loved the rides and animals. It was so fun year to see how excited they get for these things. It makes me so thankful for my cute little family and the fun we have together. We even got to run into our dear friends the Hibbert's while we were there and we all rode the train together. We have had a fantastic summer and have plenty more posts to come as we took advantage of the last few weekends left of summer....stay tuned for more advntures from us...