Maximus

First day of 1st grade Brigham, Max and Jax

What a stud!

6 years ago today, was one of the best days of my life! I became a MOM! Max was born about 3 in the afternoon and was the most beautiful baby I had ever seen. He weighed 8lbs 7 oz and was 21 1/2 inches. He kind of looked like a monkey because he was so dark and had hair in places I never knew babies had! He had dark hair on his ears, ankles, his eyebrows and hairline connected, and my favorite was that he had a hairy bumm crack! I am so glad he choose to come to our family, and that he was the first. He is the best brother to his little buddies. I love him more than words can even express. He has such a fun personality. He loves people and to be the center of attention. (I don't know where that came from, certainly not from John and I!) He makes friends every where we go and has the sweetest heart. He is very smart and loves to learn. When he was just barely two, I walked in to find him on the computer in my e-mail inbox. I asked him what he was doing and he said, "just checkin my email!" Also, he has owned me in Mario Kart since he was three years old! On the day he turned two he knew all of his ABC's, shapes colors and numbers. He also knew every make of every car, all he had to see was the symbol and he knew if it was Chevy, Ford, Lincoln, Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan, and all the rest. He cracks me up! He catches onto things easily. These last 6 years have been a blast, I just wish he could stay small forever! He has recently grown three inches!

I took him in for his 6 year check up(the last time he was at the doc was for his 5 year) I guess he didn't ever remember peeing in a cup because when I told him what he had to do he busted out laughing. He is so funny. He weighs 5o lbs and is 4 feet tall.

He started 1st grade a few weeks ago and has Mrs. Melton. She is an awesome teacher he really loves her. This is his first year of full day and he is doing great. He has never complained about school being to long, he said on the first day of school that he wanted everyday to be like that. He was a little nervous the night before his first day, he just couldn't sleep. He was afraid he wasn't going to know anybody in his class. I could tell he was super nervous because that ext morning he couldn't decide what to wear. He never cares about this. I usually hand him his clothes and I don't even think he looks at what he puts on. But that day he was getting frustrated over what shoes to wear. I reminded him that his dad gave him a blessing the night before to comfort him and protect him. He remembered and his mood changed!

We sure love this kid!

I love being followed by my ever so sweet one year old, with his arms stretched as far as he can get them, waiting for me to turn around and give that hug he is wanting.

oops! That was a sneak peak!

So around here I can't sit for long periods of time. I start a post, save it as a draft come back later, do some more, etc. You get the point. I guess I clicked on publish instead of save. We had such a fun weekend and that was just the first day!

We met up with the rest of the Crew and then took off to the cabin. This was seriously the nicest cabin I had ever stayed in. Amber's family had just built it with all the upgrades and everything. That night as a camping tradish, we made tin foil dinners! They were so good. The boys made a campfire and we made smores and sat around the fire. I tried to put Bos in his pack n play to sleep because he was so tired but he refused to sleep in there. Both him and Eden just wanted to sleep in their own crib. I could hear Eden crying and saying Tai-Tai. She is so cute. That is her new word and she follows me around and says it. I love it. After a few hours of sleep we all got up the next morning made some breakfast, cleaned up (Amber mostly cleaned) and went to the lake. We caught some crawdads, got dirty and Trey took the boys on a canoe ride. We stayed a few hours then headed home. It was a quick trip but fun nonetheless! We will definitely be doing it again. On they way home I wrote down some words we all thought reminded us of this trip.

fun

family

crying

dirt

campfire

hiking

crying

crawdads

cabin

chips n salsa

smores

laughing

lake

raft

boys

tin foil dinner

showers!!

Annie

Fun

boulders

did I say crying?

laughing

jammin to music

naps

Walmart x3

driving

sunburn

dippy-do-way

Taco Bell x2

The Weekend

We decided we NEEDED to get outta this heat. We were just planning a day trip up to Woods Canyon lake when Trey and Amber called and wanted to go camping that same weekend. We ended up staying in Amber's parents cabin in Heber, that's my kind of camping anyway! Bethany, Craig, Trey and Amber couldn't leave until later in the day but we decided we wanted to leave earlier. We packed up the car, picked up my sis Annie, stopped at QT and grabbed a few donuts and drinks and we were out!

Yay for portable DVD players!

Once we got to Payson we decided to go the the Natural Bridge to kill some time before everyone else got up there. I realized I forgot Bostons shoes, so we made a quick stop to Walmart and got some new ones.

My grandparents use to live in Strawberry so Is had been to the natural Bridge a few times when I was about 13 or so. I remember it being an easy trail, about a mile, on a dirt path the whole way. And I thought if my 70 year old great-grandma could do it, then it would be easy enough to take Bos. Once we got there there were a few different trails you could take. I couldn't remember which one so I just picked the pine trail. As we started out the sign said something like boulders on the trail, but whatever I knew what I was doing! Ha ha. We didn't have a backpack to carry Bos in, I thought he could walk some and then I would carry him some. Also, me being so smart only brought flip flops for myself. The trail started out as a nice dirt pathway, then walking in the bed of a dried up creek and quickly turned into a rocky path that you had to climb over rocks downhill. John carried Boston for a while but then we decided I would carry him so John could help jaxson. He needed a hand the whole way (he was a little wobbly on the rocks) Annie and Max did great and were ahead of us most of the time. Annie even carried her purse. It was only about a half mile until you got to the bridge but it took us a little over an hour. It was so beautiful when we finally arrived! Then we realized we had to climb back out!! Next time I will wear better shoes for sure!!

the start of the trail

almost there...sweaty boys!

We made it