swimming with cousins

We went to my aunts house up in west Jordan to go swimming in her neighborhood pool. My cousin was here from New york actually she is moving to Colorado now and my other cousin Lori. We really don't see each other more than once a year but, I'm thinking we should. It was fun to get our kids together and Miranda came too.

hugging my kids a little tighter

Three years ago I met a darling little girl with curly hair at Mariah's play group. Sayler has Autism and her and Mariah have been in preschool together. The teacher told me that Mariah is always making sure that Sayler is ok. I have become good friends with Sayler and her mom. Yesterday, Sayler was hit by a boy on a dirt bike.  Around here you can ride Atvs and dirtbikes on the road. He was going way to fast and didn't see her. She was taken by ambulance to the hospital in Nephi and later life flighted to PCMC. She broke her femur in three different spots. She had surgery and is now in a cast from her toes to her belly button. She has some other injuries too, but she is doing ok. My heart breaks for her family. Praying that she recovers quickly and they get a break from tragedy's they have had many lately.

July happenings.

i finally got a second to update my blog. We have been busy this month. We celebrated Chandler's birthday on the 7th. he is 15! Chandler has been going since the day he was born. He walked at 9 months and hasn't stop yet. He loves to tease but, he is so kind when I asked him what he wanted to to for his birthday he said he wanted to take his great grandparents out to lunch. Happy birthday! soon I will have two kids driving!   We also celebrated my mom's birthday it was fun to go down to Tori. I love pictures they tell a story better than words sometimes. I can't believe July is almost over!

miss summer days contest and the 4th of july

I love living in a little town for a lot of reasons they have a cute little 4th of july celebration at the park put on by the church. the kids love it. I think they used all their tickets on the slide. But, sometimes living in a little town can have its negatives, for example, every year they have the little miss summer days contest. this is for ages 2-12 I have done it for the last three years just because it was a way for me to advocate for kids with Down syndrome. And , this year I put Cianna in it because she really wanted to do. I wasn't going to do it this year at all because every year the same girls win. there are a lot of other cute little girls too. But every year it is the same well known families that win and the girl that puts on the pageant, her little girl wins every year. I am not saying that my girls should win I am just saying Pick someone else and give them a chance!!! I am way done I won't be doing it next year. so, the pictures are from that and from the 4th of july. after the carnival we went to our friends house for a barbeque. Happy 4th of july!

camping in our own back yard

Mariah has been asking to go camping since mmm last september. So yesterday morning Mariah woke up saying "Daddy get up, lets eat breakfast and go camping! come on daddy we have to get ready." She really knows how to melt her daddy's heart, so he told her that they were gonna go camping. She got her back pack and in it were some clothes and a flashlight you have to have a flashlight when you are camping. Some how she got her blankie to fit through the straps on the back pack and she was ready to go. Travis hooked up the power to the trailer and the ate spagettios for dinner and ice cream and smores for desert. She was so excited she was singing a camping song all. Then night came she grab her pillow and blanket and off they went. they didn't last all night actually at 9:30 Mariah said that it was time for breakfast!

Shopping with Savannah

Today I got to go shopping with Savannah. We have so much fun. she is such a beautiful girl she is friendly to everyone! she will do anything to help people out. And she is a great big sister the little girls love her. thanks for a fun day savannah I love you.

summer time fun

sometimes I sit and ask myself where have I been all my life. like the George strait song, I seriously sit and wonder where my life went and what have I been doing while my first born was growing up now she is sixteen and my son now 15 savannah now a teenager Mariah going into kindergarten and my baby is three? please stop! I want time to stop or even just slow down. As I get older Ithink time goes faster. And that is another problem when did I get so old? I look at pictures from the past and it is as if I am watching a movie about someone elses life. before I know it my kids will all be gone that is a horrible thought I don't ever want my house to be without children. I want more children. I want so badly to adopt a child with down syndrome from eastern europe. I have wanted to adopt kids with special needs since high school. But my husband doesn't see it the way I do. We don't have enough room and we already have enough kids. I dont' see that way  these children are like mariah stuck in an orphanege it makes me sickthere is always room to help a child. I pray that my husband will have a change of heart. but, until then I will share with you some of the things we have been doing this summer I can't figure out how to write under the picture but any way we got to go to the princesses festival with the united angels foundation it was really fun the girls loved all the princesses. and they have been swimming who knew that an eleven dollar pool could be so much fun. Cianna put on her own sun screen. i don't think she will get burnt at least on her cheeks.