Monday, July 30, 2007

My brother-in-law took me and my boys to the Hogle Zoo last week. This is the white Alligator they have. It looked pretty cool. They have to keep it in a shaded area so it doesn't get sunburned.
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Brayden saw this rooster and immidiately had to climb up to get closer. The rooster didn't even move. I don't think he was scared of Brayden at all.
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Here is my nest of Herron's.
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Yes, those are what they look like. We just found out a week ago that we are expecting #4. It was quite the surprise. We had only been trying for 2 months and it usually takes a little bit longer for us. With Conner it took 2 years and with Brayden and Porter they both took 10 months. We are very excited. We are going to be having another March baby. I don't know what it is about my pregnancies. I have 2 boys both born in May 12 days apart, now we'll have 2 kids both born in March and if everything goes according to plan their birthdays will be about 5 to 10 days apart. We are all very excited. The only thing Conner has to say about it is that he does NOT want a girl. He says the cry and scream too much. I guess we'll have to wait and find out.
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My parents had a ward campout a couple of weekends ago and they invited us to go with them. I enjoy camping, so of course it was a lot of fun. Here are Lance and Brayden getting to roast our dinner...hotdogs.
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Here is Conner and Serena. Serena is a girl that I babysit 4 nights a week. Her mom is a single mom and works graveyards so she spends the night on those nights, so she came camping with us.
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Roasting 1 marshmellow at a time wasn't good enough for Conner. He went and found his own roasting stick. If you look close it has enough points to roast 5 marshmellows at once. That's my boy!
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The campsite had these cute handcarts. When we first pulled up I thought they were for decoration, with the campground being owned by the church, but as more people who had been there before starting coming I saw what they were really used for. Besides being great entertainment for the kids they are actually used to load your stuff onto so that you can take it to your campsite.
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I thought I would give it a try, but I couldn't go without my S'more!
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It's amazing what happens when you find a stage out in the middle of the forest (It is actually used for girls camps). People just get up and dance.
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Conner doing a very good headstand.
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Me dancing with Porter.
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There was this cold stream right by where we camped that we all enjoyed cooling off in. Conner and Brayden went up to their wastes. I don't know how they did it. The water was really cold, like your feet go numb standing in it cold.
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Just a cute shot of Brayden.
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All of us but my dad (someone had to take the picture) on this great bridge.
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Our little drummer boy. He drums on anything. The floor, table, books, my face...anything he can get to.
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We went to the Layton Park for the 4th of July fireworks this year. They were great! Here are all of my boys enjoying their licorice waiting for it to get dark.
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Porter was having too much fun to have time to pose for this picture. He was not happy at all.
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Monday, July 02, 2007

We went over to my friend Lisa's house tonight to light off some fireworks. Conner loved this huge sparkler. I almost couldn't get him to stand still long enough to take the picture.
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My friend Lisa and Porter with a big sparkler. He loved the fireworks. Everytime the firework was done he would stand there and clap for them. It was just too cute.
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All of the kids watching the fireworks.
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The other day my cousin came over and we were talking out in the front yard. The landlord had turned the sprinklers on so the boys wanted to run through the sprinklers. Well after my cousin left I went to check on the boys in the back yard and found this. They had made the mud and decided to rub it all over themselves. Hey, I hear you can pay a lot of money for a mud treatment. Anybody want one?
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Here mom, you want some?
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This is just a great shot of Conner.
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The only way I could get the mud off of them was to hose them off. Conner didn't mind it too much, but Brayden kept running away from the water. I guess I can't really blame them since the water was probably colder then comfortable.
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