Busy, Busy, Busy!

Okay, here is a recap of the last month that has been a total blur! Addi, our sweet angel... broke her arm again! But I was not smart enough to take a picture! The only one I have I took with my phone. We had a Retirement Party for my dear old Daddy on July 18th and we spent the day at my brother-in-law's cabin. Addi decided that she wanted to help push the kids in the tire swing. What she didn't realize was that she needed to let go a little sooner than she did. The swing pulled her down the hill and she tumbled after. Poor girl, she got a buckle fracture in her wrist. Same arm even! This one did require a cast though. If you know Addi at all, it was hot pink! She loved it.
My birthday was a couple weeks later. Actually the same day I took Addi to get her cast off. We came home from Salt Lake to find that Jim had gotten a babysiter and was going to take me on a much needed date! He was so cute! He had packed a lunch and we headed up Middle Canyon. We actually decided to go up to the Kennecot Overlook. IT WAS INCREDIBLE! I remember going there for a field trip in elementary school but Jim had never seen it before. We got there an hour or so before sunset. It was great! You can see all the way down to Utah county and up to Lagoon(you could see it with binoculars). I highly recommend eveyone take a trip up there! Not very kid friendly though.
We had to take our puppy Chunk to live with Grandma and Papa Burton a month and a half ago. He was a little to friendly with the neighbors and needed more room outside to play. Ever since then Meg has been really depressed and unhappy. My sister's miniture shih-tzu had puppies and she was nice enough to let us have one! One Monday the 15th, we got a new puppy! Meg has been so much happier since then. It'a a girl and we named her Tinker Bell, but the kids call her Tink. She has fit in right at home with our crazy family! Addi loves her and Payt is happy to have another puppy again. He had a hard time leaving Chunk at Grandma's but we told him that Chunk had to stay because he was barking at the neighbors too much. He understood but he was really sad because Chunk was 'His Puppy'. He has done a lot better since we got Tink and I think he is now okay with Chunk living at Papa's house. I haven't taken any pictures of her yet, so I will add those later.
Then, this past Friday, August 20th, was our PakMan's third bday! We actually celebrated yesterday(Sat.) because Daddy had to work till 3 and then leave for their first football game Friday night. (They won! 7 to 6) I have pictures of his bday but I will do a seperate post for him!
Now, school starts on Tuesday and maybe life wont be so crazy! Haha!
We had a great summer but I am ready to get back to a normal(kinda) routine! School, preschool, football, wrestling, craft fairs, babysitting...

Already a month!

Wow, I am not so good at this! I let to many fun things go by and add up then I have to doing a super long post. So be prepared, this will take a while:)
Jim had a week long football camp at SUU. We decided we would still have fun while he was gone. On Monday we went to Lagoon. It was a blast! I picked up my neice Jennie so she could help me with the kids and we had so much fun! My mother-in-law's work day at Lagoon so we had some in-laws and cousins there too. It took a few rides to brake them in, but then we didn't sit down the rest of the day. We didn't even leave until 9:30 and that was only because they were closing the kid rides. Here are a few pics for you to enjoy.
All of the cousins

Riding some rides


Riding on the train

This one is my favorite!

This is a very distressed look! It doesn't get any better at the end either!

This is my niece Brookelynn and I sitting in the front waiting for The Bat to begin



The next day (Tuesday) we took Jennie back to her house in Salem and when spent the night. The next day the kids played in the water outside at Aunt Carries house.
This is my only picture with all three in it and Parker is bent over shivering! Poor kid! 90 degrees outside and the little skinny stink is cold!

I have so many more to share! These are actually a week later. We bounced back this time with Jim. This is Jim riding with Dustee(you can't see her) and Brookelynn and Payt. Doesn't he look so small on this kiddie ride ;) ;)

Addi Bug

This one cracks me up! These are their terrified faces as we are getting on the Farris Wheel. By the end they were crying because we had to get off!

My turn to ride with Payt! He was a roller coaster fool by the time we left! He was begging to go on rides but was so upset that he wasn't tall enough. Maybe next year!

It was a great day! The kids ask all the time when we are going back.


Jim had to work on the 3rd and 4th of July so on the 5th we went to the Zoo with the Millers. It was a fun-filled day! We got there at about 1:00pm which was great because everyone else was leaving to go to lunch. So the crowds weren't bad at all.

This elephant is SOOOOO heavy!

The baby elephant walked right over by us and started playing in the water. She is so cute!

Yours Truely!

Big hands daddy!


It has a great couple weeks! We also had our wonderful 'Aunt Sammy' take some fun pics for us. But you only get one preview:) I will post the rest when I get them all touched up.


And last but not least..... My Pak-Man! This was today! I asked him to eat a few more bites of dinner and when I checked on him next he was sound asleep across two chairs! He must have been dead tired! Poor kid! The great part is I took him to bed and he has been asleep since! With any luck he will sleep till 8 tomorrow morning! Hopefully!

What a week!

Wow, we have had quite the week! I will share and just so you know there will be picture overload!
First we started by heading to Cedar City on Thursday to go to the Summer Games and watch wrestling. Jim's assistant coach and two of the club team kids were wrestling in the games. We went in to Salt Lake to visit Grandma Selman for a little while.(She was having surgery and is now doing much better!) Then we headed to my parents house in Payson to drop our dogs off. We then headed on our 'Road Trip'. We told the kids we were going swimming at the hotel when we got there and I think they asked about it at least 50 times in the 3 and a half hours we were in the truck! But they actually did great! They are good when we go in the car, Addi just talks ALOT! We played the game "What am I?" It was a crack up! Jim decided he would go first. He said "I have a long beak and I have long colorful tail feathers, what am I?" Not missing a beat Addi yeld "Your a snipe!" For those of you who have seen the movie 'UP' that is where it came from. Of course Jim was describing a peacock, but that is not what Addi thought! We were laughing so hard! She kills me sometimes with the things she comes up with!
We finally got there and took the kids swimming. They had a great time but it did help me realize that ALL of them need swimming lessons!
We went to a really cool place on Friday called Park Discovery and here are a few pictures. The little blonde girl is our cousin Lily. Jim's sister and brother-in-law live in Parawon and came to visit with us while we were there.




Then we went back to watch some more wrestling at SUU. This is a picture of the kids watching a movie on Jim's laptop to kill some time. Wrestling tournaments lead to long days for little kids!

Also, some fun that Jim and I had while there. We have become good friends with the Phillips family. Jake is an assistant coach and their son Brady wrestles with Payt. So anyway, we got up Friday morning and went to the truck and they had messed with the windshield wipers. So that sent my mind thinking, if we do something, I am going to make it worth it. Let me tell you, IT WAS! Our room was right next to their truck and the reaction we heard made it all worth it! They were laughing histerically! We (Jim and I) waited till about 11:30pm and went out and decorated it like they had just gotten married! Here are a few pics:


It was great! We thought they would go to the carwash that morning, but when we got to the school, there was their car in the parking lot still decorated! I know, I'm a dork, but it was a great laugh! I am just a little worried about the retaliation!
Saturday after wrestling finished( our 4 wrestlers took home 1 gold, 2 silver, and 3 bronze, i think) we headed for Payson to pick up the dogs. Once bedtime came we loaded in the car again to head to Grandma Burtons house. On our way out of town we saw these and Payt freaked out!

OPTIMUS PRIME

AND RATCHET!
Payt was so excited! He asked "Is he going to Transform mom? I want to see him!" He is an all time transformer freak and this was so cool for him!
We finally got to Howell at 11:00 and fell quickly asleep! We woke up and Parker sat up, looked around and said, "Now we're at this house mom?!" It was super cute. We had yummy waffles and then went outside to play on the swingset.
Then we had a very scary moment a little while later. Grandma has a canal that runs down the back of their property but my kids have never known its there because they don't play back there. Well, today they found it. Their cousin Tyler (who is older) jumped acrossed it and went on the other side of the fence. So doing what kids do, my kids followed. They got to the canal and we are not sure how, but Parker fell in head first. None of us realized what had happened because we were busy chatting in the shade. I stood up and turned around and saw Addi and Payt, but no Parker. I took off running and then the kids were telling me Parker was all wet and yucky when I got closer. By the time I got to him he was trying to come up the hill to us and he was covered in gross, disgusting mud and yuck. It was caked everywhere, his hair, ears, mouth. I grabbed him and took off toward the house. I just keep thanking Heavenly Father everytime I think about it! That could have ended so much worse! The scariest thing about it is that there were 4 adults out there (including me!) and no one noticed what happend! But I am not thinking of the what-ifs because he is okay! I am worried though that he will get sick. That water is very, very dirty and I am for sure he swallowed some. He also had alot in his ears, so it might lead to an infection because he has tubes, but yet again, he is SAFE and OKAY! He also is pretty traumatized. It worries me. He fell asleep on the way home to Tooele and woke up saying "I fell in the big water! It was scary mom!" and a few times since he has told me again. Hopefully he will be okay with it soon. If you do have any ideas of what I might do to help him, please let me know! I could use some input:)
So other than ending on a somewhat scary note, our weekend was a fun vaction with the kids! They thought staying in the hotel was the coolest thing ever!
Now we are home (except for Payt and Chunk. They stayed at Grandma Burton's to go camping for the Burton Reunion) so that Jim can help with the High School football camp this coming week. Payt wanted to go camping until it was time for us to leave. He had a very hard time and was crying. We told him Chunk was staying too and he had to help take care of him. So we will see if he makes it the whole week. He has never stayed with them by himself before. He has always had Addi and Parker with him. Hopefully he will get up to the campground and forget about it because he is having fun playing and fishing! I will keep you posted! He really needs this, he is really attatched to me and this will be good for him (but I will be the first to say, it is already hard on me and it hasn't even been a day! It is much easier when they are not crying when you leave them!)
There ya go! Our week in a nutshell!

Happy Birthday Addilyn!

This past Saturday was Addilyn's bday. We actually celebrated on Friday because daddy had to work Saturday, but she didn't know the difference! She had a great day! I can't believe she is four! I keep thinking she is two because the 'terrible two's' never ended:) Hehe! Just Kidding! She is such a wonderful little GIRL!!! She is full of energy, attitude, emotion, and I can go on, and on, and on... and loves anything to do with 'girly' things. So different from my boys!
Here are a few pics of my not-so-little girl:
This one reminds me of a pic I posted not to long ago with Parker. I was saying it is so funny that kids can fall asleep anywhere! Even while sitting in a box in the middle of the floor!

This is about the time that her hair was long and full enough to actually do it!

It's great to know that their cute little smile will stay the same! No matter how old they get!

I actually really enjoyed this birthday! I put together a Princess Party for her and some little girlfriends. They loved it! Here are a few pictures:



Then later that night we had a party and had a few family friends over. We gave her our presents at this party. We gave her a bike and I think she was too shocked to give the reaction I was hoping for, but I know she loves it because all she ever wants to do is go outside and ride it!

Grandma and Papa Kaletta gave her some clothes and she gave them(the clothes) a huge hug! She is such a girl!

Okay, so I guess I have shared enough pictures with ya, but you can tell that she really had a great day! We love you Addi and we are so blessed to have you in our family! Love ya baby girl!!
I do need to share one more picture with you, my attempt at a princess bday cake:

Bees Game

So, I am just sitting here waiting for a cake to bake and thought I would share our fun Monday evening this week!
We took the kids to the Bees Game! It was so much fun! It did rain(more like sprinkles) off and on all night but the temperature was perfect! They ended up wining in the 8th inning with a guy hitting a 3 run homerun. It was a blast and my kids are already begging to go again! Here are som fun pictures for you all to enjoy:)
We went with some friends and this picture is of Parker and Roper. They are so funny to watch! Whenever we are hanging out with the Miller family these two don't leave each other's side!


Our seats were by the Bee's bullpen down the first base line. We even had a couple foul balls come our way, but not close enough to catch one.

Here is a picture Grandma and Papa Kaletta. They came to join the fun!

These next couple pics are the kids after their blue snow cones and blue cotton candy. The sugar crash was great! They were all asleep by the time we got home!



Before this next picture I have to tell you the 'Bumble' Story. We ended up sitting next to two birthday groups, so when Bumble the Bee finally came to our section, lets just say these pictures were so not worth the wait! We waited for probably 30min just to get this close to him! I was standing down a few rows so I could get a picture and right when Payt got up to him, mit in hand wanting him to sign it, he turned around to walk away! Lets just say "MOMZILLA" emerged(as my husband refered to me)! I was so upset that Payt and the other kids finally got to him and he was going to leave. I ran up to him and turned him around and told him to sign my kids things! Everyone probably thought I was a freak, but I wasn't standing there with 6 kids waiting and having him walk away. So they did get autographs, but we didn't get any good pictures.

It was a great night!

I am not sure what has gotten into Addi! She used to smile her cheesy smile every time she thought she saw a camera! Now she refuses to smile and even makes silly faces. Hopefully she will actually smile tomorrow for her birthday pictures. I guess if she doesn't people will realize what a stinker she is most of the time:) Hehe!

A few weekend moments

Our weekend was pretty uneventfully to say the least. My husband had a 'procedure' done that involved lounging on the couch with loritab and a couple bags of peas(I will leave the assumtions up to you;) so we couldn't go anywhere or do anything. But these are a couple pictures that brighten our mood!


This is the boys attempt at making fishy faces:)

This next picture still amazes me! This is Parker mid-conversation with his Dad. Sitting up with socks on his hands(these were part of his IronMan roleplay with Payt) Kids can fall asleep anywhere! There are moments that I wish I could still do that!

The great thing about Parker is this was at 4:30pm and he slept for over an hour and still went to bed at 9 with the other kids! He has no problem sleeping! If this was Addi she would have been up till midnight.