Family Vacation!!!

WARNING!!!

This is really long and lots and lots of pictures so beware!!!

We took off Monday and went to Vernal Ut. We drove forever! Not really but with 3 kids it felt like forever. We decided to go to the new Ice age movie dawn of the Dinosaurs movie. The older kids loved it. Jace was horrible and I missed the first half of the movie and Dusty missed the last half.

The next morning we got up and went to the Dinosaur museum. That was the main reason we went all the way to Vernal.

Jace was kind of scared and we had to hold him the whole time.

Brance loves dino's. He was so excited. He says he wants to be a dino hunter when he gets bigger.


They had lots of little kid stuff. There was digging for bones also that they really liked.


This was probably there favorite. Not even a dino, but it was in the movie they went to and it was huge so the loved it.


Like I said Brance loved all the great big Dino's.

After the Museum we took off to Flaming George.

It was about an hour away. We took a picnic and the kids loved playing in the water. In fact they well all tell you it was there favorite part of vacation.

They got into a water fight with water bottles. They also played Frisbee with there dad for a while.

Jace thinks he is so big! He had to try and get his dad.

I liked this action shot of Brance throwing the frisbee and Morgan getting ready to catch it.

We stopped at the Damn and took a quick picture on the way back to Vernal. We spent one more night in Vernal and then took off for home.

We made it to Park City and found a room for one more night. We had drove long enough. We were having to much fun to go home.

I know this pregnant lady was sick of the drive, and not ready to go back to cleaning and chasing kids alone again just yet.

Jace sits on my stomach all the time. I think he is going to miss his seat when it is gone. I know I won't miss it.

Brance loves staying in hotel's.

Morgan got this mammoth the the museum so she asked me to take a picture of her with it. She loves it.

We went to a place with some blow up toys. Jace hated it. What a waste of 5 dollars! This was as far as he would get on it.

Morgan and Brance had a BLAST!!

Morgan is so Brave. Sometimes I wish she would hold still and be a little more of a girl.

Look at her... she was going so fast she face planted it.

The worst part of the whole trip... we were all sick. Jace had an ear infection last we and gave it to all of us. When I say all of us I mean Dad, Mom and every kid. We all had nasty coughs and yucky noses the whole vacation. Well Jace didn't, he was done by the time we all got it.

There are a lot of pics here and I have so so many more. We had a really good time. We don't get out much so we try to do fun things for our kids that we can afford and that we can enjoy as a family. I'm glad to be home and back to normal. I just wish the laundry fairy would make a visit at my house.

Swim Lessons!!!

We just finished swim lesson and had a great time. I'm kind of sad it is over. I love having something to do each day. It's pretty much the only swimming we do all summer. The kids are not real comfortable in the water and I can not watch them all at the same time...so we don't go swimming with out help.

Morgan Jace Brance
The little fish!

I actually swam with Jace everyday! It was fun to be with Jace one on one. During class we just did what ever we wanted there was no teacher. So we played, went on the kiddie slides, jumped off the side, whatever we wanted. It was fun!

(Reminder...I am pregnant not fat)

Is he not the cutest thing you ever seen. He is so sweet! What a STUD!!! During class he would beg me to go down the big slide. He got really comfortable in the water by the end.


Morgan loved the slide! During free time she would go over and over!!!

I think Morgan really got use to the water this year. She loved jumping in from the side...not going all the way under. She still doesn't like to getting her ears wet...but hopefully she well get over that as she gets older.



Brance is practicing his kicks! He tried really hard this year to be brave. He too does not like to go all the way under. By the end he was doing much better. I just need to get it through his head that he will not drown if he goes under the water.

I guess I should take them more often so they don't forget what they have learned. I'll have to grow a few more arms I guess. Or may be convince my husband that swimming is not so bad!!!

T-Ball!

Brance played T-ball this year. He absolutely loved it. He is sad that it is over.

They gave each kid a trophy last night after his last game. He thinks he is pretty awesome!

Here he is in action!


Sometimes he gets a little distracted.

His coach pitched to him a few times and if he didn't hit then he would hit off the tee. He did a pretty good job. He loves to practice with his dad. He told me he can't wait till next year to play again.

Happy Birthday Jace!!!

My baby turned 2 yesterday! I tried to make it fun, even though I don't think he knew what was going on. Me and the kids started the day with putting balloons in his bed and blowing blowers.

I think Brance and Morgan had more fun than Jace!

I was doing dishes and trying to decided what to make for lunch and looked over and there he was fast asleep on the floor. He has been sick all week and yesterday was the first day he felt good. He is so sweet!

Jace loves tractors! Hopefully you could tell what it was. Brance says it looks like a car! Sometimes kids are to honest! It was fun to make. It turned out better than I thought it would.

It took him a while to get his candles out but it was so cute!

We had Grandma's and Grandpa's from both sides over for cake and ice cream. Some of his aunts and uncles came too. The Bingham's gave him the trike. He loved it! He wouldn't get off. He opened half his present while sitting on it.

He got lots of fun boy stuff! In this picture Dusty is trying to give him his last present and he just wants his new tractor.
He is a really good kid. I can't believe he is 2 already. At the same time he seems so much older. He is a good kid. He makes us all laugh and he is so cute. He is so much fun right know. I hope he doesn't hit the terrible two's for a while. (may be he can skip them...yea right)
I think he had a really good day. He is so stinkin cute.

Schools out!!!

Brance and Morgan are done with School for the summer! They had a program last night. They did a great job singing!

This was there teacher Mrs. Munns! We loved her. This is her last year, I'm so sad. I was hoping she would teach all my kids!

Brance is my tender heart! He was sad to see the school year end. He loves to see his friends and do the monkey bars at school. He will be in kindergarten next year... Crazy!!! He has grown up so fast.

Now, Morgan loves school, but could care less that it is over! She only went one day this year and did a great job. She knew all the songs at the program and has learned a lot!

These two are so cute together. They get along most of the time. (of course they have there moments.) It was fun for them to go to the same preschool. They had different class times but they sang the same songs and learned the same stuff! I hope when they get older and are only a grade apart, they can be good friends!

Pre-School Field Trip!

Today Brance and Morgan's pre-school had a field trip at the Peak in Brigham city. They were so excited.

They loved running on the bouncy floor and tramp.

They have a huge play land just like in Mac Donald's. They had a blast!

This was a huge twister balloon. They had so much fun jumping on it with there friends.

The whole way home they kept asking me when they can go back. They had so much fun.

Madalyn Bell

We had a sad week at our house. My little sister Terra's Baby Madalyn passed away last Tuesday April 28 09. She was born Nov 12 08 she was a little over 5 months old. She was a sweet little thing. When ever you were around her you could very a spacial spirit.

She had seizures since birth and the doctors could never find a reason for them. She come home from the hospital at the first of January. Terra was told she would probably die with in a week and she made this far. That was such a blessing. Terra is such a good mom. Madalyn needed lots of extra attention since she was on oxygen and a feeding tube. My parents have also helped so much. They are all so special for the things they did for Maddie. Madalyn was so blessed to be living with Grandma and Grandpa.

She looked so beautiful. She looked like a baby doll. This was at the viewing Friday morning. Just sitting here looking at her makes me cry. When Terra called and asked if I wanted to go watch her dress Madalyn I was so nervous. I didn't know if I could handle it. I was so happy that I went. It was so neat to be there with her. Terra just held the whole time. I don't know if I could ever do that. It really was special to me. Madalyn's spirit was so close. I'll never forget it.

Terra is so strong. She has amazed me though all of this. Right here she is talking to Brance about Maddie. I was shaking so bad, and crying so hard. My kids were so sweet, they all wanted to keep looking at there baby cousin and they even held her hand. So, so sweet!

Brother Rudd the mortician told all the little kids about how her sprite went back to Heavenly Father. That was by far the hardest thing for me to watch. Terra holding her baby for the last time and all the kids right at her feet. She has always been like a second mom to all of them. I love Terra so much. I hate that she has to go through all of this. Here I go again... crying just thinking about her.

Of course I didn't charge my camera battery so I didn't get any more shots. After the family prayer there was a grave side service. It was wonderful and the weather was so nice.
I am so thankful that our Heavenly Father has made it possible that we can all be together again someday. Maddie is by far in a better place than any of us. My brother Kyle spoke at the service and gave a quote about how, babies that come to the earth and get a body and die are choice spirits that were not meant to live in this world of scary bad things. (it was something like that) I totally agree. I hate to see what my kids are going to have to go though and see. She was so sweet. Like I said she always had a spacial spirit about her.

We love you Maddie and will miss you everyday!