Friday, August 28, 2009

Camp Rock!!!

This summer Camryn and a friend participated in a musical theater group put on by Jenny Wright. She does this every summer with a different theme and this year it was the "School of Rock" They learned about 5 different numbers with words and dancing and then at the end of the camp they put on a really cute show.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

WARD CAMPOUT

We can't get far without those electronic devices. A bunch of the boys brought their nintendo ds games and hung out and played.
This is Jackson who is going through a "no clothes" phase right now. He starts out fully dressed and then becomes nature boy within a few minutes. Going to church with him has become quite a challenge because I have to bring his church clothes in the car and then stay out there convincing him that he needs to wear clothes to nursery.

Back in the day there use to be this song on Sesame Street that said "One of these things is not like the others." For some reason this picture reminds me of that song.

The Girl Gang.


Jackson finally got tired and slept in this same position the rest of the night.

We shared a cabin with 8 mice, 2 bats, 35 beetles , 72 giant spiders and The Gonzales Family.
This was at the West Camp of Camp Lomia that I never knew even existed.
Between the two families I think we ended up with 12 kids (give or take) and 4 adults.


I think by now it was around 2:00 am and we were trying to get these little ones to sleep.
I guess it didn't help that we supplied strobe lights and plenty of dance tunes to keep the youth hanging around all night. Around 5:00am I finally heard them decide they would go to bed.
I enjoyed pretending to be asleep and eaves dropping on their teenage "talkie-talk".

A rope swing provided something for the kids to fight about. Who was in line first, who swung 10 times instead of 5 times, blah, blah, blah.....


Here is our "Home sweet Home"

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Back to School

Chase is a senior this year and Austin is a Sophomore. Chase drives them to school every morning about 6:15am. They have O hour together. Austin is the teacher's assistant in Chase's class, we think it is pretty funny. I'm not sure who bugs who the most.

Austin and Chase love waking up every morning at 5:30. Especially when they go to bed around 1:ooam. They still haven't switched their clocks yet.

Camryn just started kindergarten this year. She is more prepared and ready than the others have been yet we are really struggling with being away everyday. She only goes half day but she thinks it is too long. She asked me what she needs to do to get the nurse to send her home.


Brayden is in the 4th grade. He likes his teacher and loves his class. He has always enjoyed school. I have been told that he is the class comedian.


Hayden is a cool 6th grader this year. He knows a lot of the kids in his class and also gets to have his cousin Maddison in there with him. This is the last year that Hayden and Brayden will be in school together until the eleventh grade. Brayden really loves to be with Hayden and thinks he is so cool.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

AMERICAN IDOL!!!


The only TV show I have really watched in the last ten years consistently is American Idol. I guess it's because I have no singing talent and so it's easy for me to judge people based on my lack of ability to make myself feel better momentarily. Anyhow I loved to watch ADAM LAMBERT each week so as soon as I could I purchased tickets to go and then dragged Jay and Austin along with me. They both felt really out of place as you can tell by the mug shot.

DO NOT MESS WITH MY "NIGHT NIGHT"!!!!


Jackson has a favorite thing and can you guess what it is? Out of six children I have never had a "BINKIE" baby but I'v had 3 "BLANKIE" babies. He loves this blanket from Wally World and I have a back up just in case. He likes to stick his finger through the silk tag and rub it on his nose and gets really mad if he can't find the tag.

Field Day at the School



Every year on the last day of school the kids get to have a water day.
The kids always look forward to the chance they can get to soak their teachers.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

DANCE RECITAL TIME!!



In May Camryn had her first Dance recital which was Disney themed. She of course thought the rest of the class were her back-up dancers.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

We're Back!!!
I am finally updating my blog after several months of procrastinating. Enjoy the MJ Tribute while I update my photos.