DALLAS DUSTY

was born

Friday Aug 14th @ 10:25 am

7 lbs 12 oz

19 1/2 in long

We went to the hospital at 4:00 am. It was all planned. I didn't actually get on the pit, until 6:15. I got an epidural around 9:00 and he was born at 10:25. I only pushed twice. It was really easy and relaxing. He was crying at first, but for the most part he was really calm.

He looks so relaxed and sweet!

He is so sweet. I forget how little they are. I can't believe I have 4 kids. Life is crazy at my house right know. I think the scariest thing for me is going to get grocery's. I might have to start going at midnight.

The kids are so excited. They can't get enough of him.

Brance loves holding Dallas. He will hold him for over an hour at a time. He is such a good big brother.

Morgan also loves to hold the baby. She was so excited to see the baby. She missed her mom a lot and was very happy to have us home.

Jace could care less about the baby. He holds him for about 10 sec and he is done. He dose like to kiss him on the back of the head. When he came in the room his eyes were huge. He came over to me and gave me a hug and the he wanted grandma. It took him a while the get use to the hospital room.

We are so excited to have him here and healthy. He is so sweet and a really good boy.

Summer Fun!

I didn't realize how behind I was! I was looking at pic's in my camera and realized I needed to do an update.

We love to go ride horseback riding. Jace usually rides with Dusty, but he rode all by his self that day.

That same day Morgan learned how to lead the horse all alone in stead of her dad doing it. She was so proud of herself. Brance wasn't feeling good that day so he didn't ride very long. so I didn't get any pics of him.

Jace was in the Baby show on the 24th of July. He didn't win. I'm not sure why he is so dang cute.
Morgan and cousin Ivee. Hang in out at the park.

The races on the 24th are always fun for the kids. Brance loves it. He tries so hard.

Morgan ran so fast I didn't get any pics. She won 2nd place. Her prize was a free POP!! She was so excited.

We went to a Salt Lake BEES game. We meet Dusty's family there. This was us on the way in. I was carring Morgan and Dusty got mad and took her from me.

The kids loved the game. They had slushes and pop corn and lots of other stuff. Talk about an expensive game. That little slushie was 4 bucks! Rip off. They loved it though.

Jace loved watching the Bee walk around. There were fireworks after the game. On the 4th he was pretty scared so we didn't know what to expect. He did pretty good. At least he didn't scream. He still held his hand over his eyes...with his fingers open.

Dusty's sister Laura had her baby 2 weeks early. His name is Jack and Brance Morgan sure loved holding him. He is so tiny. I forget how little they are.

Here I am wishing I could be done with being fat and have my baby here. Yes I am a little jealous. I am getting pretty sick of being pregnant. Hopefully I any have a couple weeks to go.

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.