Coming July 2010......

That's right! In July we will welcome a new member to our family. We are very excited, but currently living in survival mode. I have been sick, so we take care of the essentials everyday (eating, bathing, dressing, school, and sometimes we get to a load of laundry). Obviously, blogging has not been one of those essentials. The kids are a little indifferent about the news so far, but get a little more excited and ask a little more questions every day. When we first told them, Britton thought we were lying. I am not sure why because we don't often lie to our children, but he did not believe us. He now does and is excited that the baby will come shortly after his 7th birthday. Chase told me he will hold the baby and will not drop it! That is good to know. Brady is convinced it is a girl because I have been so sick,(I keep reminding him that I was sick with both the others too, it has just been harder this time because we have more going on in our lives). I am not even going there, because I am usually wrong and while I would LOVE a little girl, I also think there might be another boy waiting to join our family. We will just have to wait and see.

School, Soccer, and Bike riding!

Well, it is official, we are now ALL back in school, except for Brady who is back to work. With all this happening, life has been a bit crazy. But when is it not, right? Britton started Kindergarten this year and it was especially hard for me to send him. I really just want to keep him at home. It has been two weeks now and I still keep telling myself it is only temporary. What ever gets me through, right. Britton technically had two first days of school, so here is pictures of both......

I don't know about him, but this is how I felt about sending him to school.

Chase, Britton, and car pool buddy Ethan.

This is Chase's first day of preschool! He is in mommy's class this year and he has already voiced quite loudly that he wants to be in Brittney's class and play with Skyler. Poor kid, I mean he hardly ever gets to play with Skyler :)

Peace! This is what we are praying for with him in my class!

Besides school, Britton has been playing soccer!

And Chase anounced today that he was going to ride his bike without training wheels. Brady tried to help him for a few minutes, but Chase just got mad at him and told him he wanted to do it by himself. Brady came in and a few minutes later I looked out the window and guess what I saw?

My wild child 3 year old taught himself to ride his bike. Yay and Aaaaahhhhh!

By the way, we did put a shirt and helmet on him after this!

Not my little boy anymore!

Britton turned 6 years old on July 9th. Six is just so big; he is not a preschooler anymore. I have tried to keep him little for as long as possible, but he just keeps growing on me. If I could keep him little and home with me forever, trust me I would. Britton is my little buddy; we love hanging out together. You can tell how old he is getting because he is so smart and acts like a such a big boy. We had a fun-filled day of activities for his birthday. We went to see Ice Age 3, had swimming lessons, and then it was off to the zoo!

We play a game at our house where Britton is Crocodile Man and Chase in Rhino Boy. Here they are in character.

All he wanted was a nerf gun!

The Saturday after his birthday, we had a little party!

Blowing out candles!

We wrapped up the night with our own little firework show!

Britton is sweet, caring, a good helper, brother, and friend, talented, fun, and the best giggler in the world!

Free Car Wash!

We were at my parents house today and we decided there were a few things that needed washed!

This side of the car got washed and rinsed about 10 times and that was it! The rest of the car is still dirty, but we had fun!

Britton said that his bike was going to be so shiny that the girls were going to think he was awesome! He then chuckled and said "just kidding". :)

Who wouldn't want these cute faces washing their car or bike?

My Sweet Boys!

I have the cutest boys ever, have a look at some of our new pictures!

In other news, Preschool Graduation!

Preschool Graduation! Preschool is over for the year and now it is time for summer planning.

Here is Britton with his Preschool teacher and me with my most favorite student! I loved having Britton in my class and I can't believe the year is already over. I am going to miss him so much, he made going to teach all the more worth it. I will never forget this experience with him. Next year it is Chase!

Singing songs!

Britton as Jack in "Jack and Jill"

Great Job Britton!

Crazy Lake Powell Vacation

Day 1

After a long night of travel, locking the keys in the car, and a broken window on the car (yes another one), we finally made it to Lake Powell! Sometimes I forget to rotate my photos, but look how cute Chase is in his new swim goggles.
A little swimmin the first day!
A storm blew in and it got a little cool, so we had to bundle up.
Chase keeping warm. Notice the bandaid? He scratched his nose.
Once the storm blew in, we had to find ways to entertain outselve inside the houseboat. And when I say storm, I mean 2 1/2 days of non-stop down pour with no breaks and cold weather.
So..........we played games, slept, and watched the sky for hopes of blue sky. There were none.
Ocasionally, the kids got tired of sitting in the houseboat and braved the rain to throw rocks into the water!
These were our neighbors, and we kept up out good spirts by being glad that we were not in tents =)

Playing in the rain!
Then warming up!
The boys played in the shower since it was to cold to get in the Lake. But the shower is lake water after all, so it was kind of like swimming!
Finally, it cleared up enough on the last two nights to build a camp fire!

Yay! on Day 4 we got sun and time for a little fun!
Until..........the boat broke down. Then Grandpa Trace had to pull us back to the houseboat.
And Shay and Brady.

I had to stay in the boat obviously and make sure that they were doing a good job=)

Once the boat was fixed we hurried as fast as we could to get some sking in before the next storm came in. Jamie Sking!

Brady wakeboarding!

Chase pretending to ski!

Britton getting ready to ski!

And my favorite part: Britton sking! He did so great! I was so proud of him. This was his second time sking because he did it for the first time in September. He was really nervous this time but he tried it just for his mom.

While we were there, we did get to celebrate Aunt Shay's Birthday! Happy Birthday Shalynn!

Day 5- Time to go home. As you can see another storm is blowing in.

Here it comes and it was crazy! Wind, HUGE waves, dead battery, flooded boat, falling children, wet adults, near drownings. You get the picture!

Scared Jamie

Frustrated Brady trying to fix the boat again!

All said and done, it was a crazy trip, but we really did have a lot of fun and relaxed a lot. However, all things considered we were happy we we arrived home without a hitch!