Dressing himself

Ethan really likes to wake up at the butt crack of dawn, but Cam and I don't. It may make us bad parents, but we turn the TV to PBS before we go to bed with the hopes that Ethan will watch cartoons, giving us an additional 30 minutes of sleep instead of waking us up.

This morning, Cam told Ethan to "go watch cartoons". A few minutes later, he heard Ethan whining and walked out to find Ethan "dressing himself".

He was stuck like that. Even more, those clothes he is "wearing" are what Ethan found in his dirty clothes hamper. What a goofball. Well, at least he's trying...

Cake Decorating

A few weeks ago, I decided I was turning into an old ninny because I never do anything but hang out in my house. I don't know how cake decorating is a remedy for that, but so far I feel much less ninny-ish. I just made my first cake... I know, don't laugh, I've seen better too, but it was a lot of fun to make. And no, the pretty rainbow wasn't my idea. Next week we're making a creepy clown cake. It should be fun. I'll keep you posted. Hopefully, next weeks cake will be better.

Zachary is 5 months already

I'm freaking out, I don't know how it happened... Zac is just growing too fast. The poor guy just got his 2nd tooth, and he's had a rough time getting this one in.


He's so different than his brother was. I like to look through the pictures of Ethan at the same age, so I included one. I love this picture of Ethan .

Fun Pictures

Something new!

It's been a while since I have added anything to our blog. So here it is:


Things are going well for our family. Cam just started his final session of classes. Woohoo! Come November it's "Adios Las Vegas!" We had a lot of fun during Cam's session break.


Cam spoiled me rotten for my birthday. He took me to Lawry's Prime Rib Steakhouse (really awesome by the way ) and The Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian. I had never seen Phantom before so I was a little nervous about staying awake through it, but it was so good I definitely didn't fall asleep.


Two days later my favorite holiday, other than my birthday, the Fourth of July. We spent part of the day at the new splash park in St. George with Deja and her boys. Cam went crazy on fireworks. We had so many they actually put a bunch of fireworks in a bucket with gasoline and lit them on fire. They tried to blow up an SUV with a $25 firework. It was great.


Then we went camping on top of Thousand Lake Mountain, with my family. I caught a fish... well... Blake caught a fish and handed me the pole, but hey, I'll take it. Here's a picture from the top of the mountain, overlooking Capitol Reef National Park.

It was so nice to be together as a family. I loved my brothers being together. The kids all had so much fun together.


Ethan set new records for filthy. We camped 3 nights so we were all pretty dirty, but then Ethan got car sick on the way home, and threw up all over himself.
It was bad, but not the end of the gross.
About a hour later he said he needed to pee so we stopped on the side of the road to let him take care of business. Everything was coming out fine until our confused little boy tried to poop standing up; for those of you who haven't tried it... DON'T! It's messy. Needless to say, the rest of the trip was a little smellier. Oh and we can't forget Zack who also exploded on the way home, but all poop aside, it was a great camping trip.

Pretty Boy

This is what happens to cute little boys when left unattended with aunt Deja.

Sunny San Diego

We have been busy here the last month. My sister-in-law, Jennifer, and I went on a road trip to San diego, before I had surgery. My mom got stuck with the kids for 3 days. She still swears she likes them though. We stayed in a bungalow on the beach. It was kind of a odd little place, but fun. We ended up La Jolla, it was beautiful. It's a preserve of sorts. There were seals, and tons of creatures in the tide pools. We spent hours looking at all the different animals and kidnapping hermit crabs for Jens salt water tank (Although I don't think they made it home alive). After we left San Diego we drove up the coast to Redondo beach. All the pictures are from La Jolla. I can't wait to go back