California Vacation Day 1: NEWPORT BEACH

We left Friday morning and drove straight into Newport Beach. We had a fun filled afternoon. The kids love the beach. They played and played in the sand and water. Both kids swam in the cold water. I however refrained from swimming and stayed behind with Camden.

Dallin says he looks like "The Sandman" from Spiderman.

They loved trying to build a sand castle. More just like mounds really, its a good thing kids have good imaginations.

Camden's Baby Blessing

Camden's baby blessing was over Labor Day weekend. We had such a good time. A lot of our family came down from Salt Lake. It was so great to have them there. It was such a special day. When I was pregnant with Camden, I got an overwhelming feeling that Camden was a special person and that was reitterated in his blessing from Garrett. I am so thankful for such supportive family and friends that were this us that day whether in person or in thought.

Uncle Stevie and Dallin

Grandma Linda and Aunt Tiffany

Francois (a friend of ours), Dawson, Gar, and Tim

Nana Mare and Gar

I made a cake and we sang Happy Birthday to the September birthdays in the family. Lisa's is the 25th, Tim's was the 7th and Dani's is the 20th.

The kids were so good the whole day. They entertained themselves while the adults talked by dressing up in Dallin's pirate costume.

The weekends events wore some people out.

On Saturday we had a BBQ and swimming!

1st Day of School

Dallin started Kindergarten this year. I knew it would be an emotional day for me and it was. I am so happy for him though, because he needs school. He gets so bored if he is not constantly entertained and then he will start bugging Kennedy. I was sad to let him go. He is my buddy always there wherever I go, and my helper when I need him. He loves school!! He loves his teacher and everything about school. He does not even want to go to California next week because he does not want to miss school.

I had tears flowing taking pictures through the fence. He said good bye and did not even look back.

In a way it is the beginning of the end. It just seems that time will go by faster and life will get crazier with kids in school.

This is Kennedy's second day of "Class" (as she calls it) There is a few friends of mine with kids all about the same age that talked me into doing a preschool for the kids one day a week. I originally thought Kennedy was too young, but she absolutely loves it and talks about it all the time. She can't wait to go to Class.

She loves using "Lawmy's or Dallin's" pack-pack. It is bigger than she is.

Camden Smith

CAMDEN MICHAEL SMITH

7 lbs. 9 oz.

20 inches

Camden was born 2 weeks early on June 15th (same day as Kennedy's birthday, I know crazy). He looks a lot like our other 2 kids, but with his own look and tons of dark brown hair. Our other kids had no hair so I was excited. He was early and I am thankful as he was already a pound bigger than my other kids. He is very sweet and we are glad to have him here and healthy.

Savings at Walgreens

Total Price $146.63

Total Spent $47.94

Saved $98.69

Percentage Saved 67%

I just had to share how excited I am with Walgreens this week. I got 3 packs of Huggies for $17. 6 bottles of Johnson & Johnson, toothpaste, gum, Ziploc bags, mouthwash, Glade time released air freshners, and other needed essentials for only $47.94.

We're Having a BOY!!!!

For those of you who did not know we are pregnant. I am about 17 weeks along and we found out this weekend we are having a boy. We are really excited. I am due June 30th. Kennedy and our new little one will be exactly two years apart. We cannot wait. So if you are wondering why I have not updated in a very long while it is because I have been EXHAUSTED!!! Like double of my other pregnancies. Some days I can barely make it until Garrett gets home. I am lucky that he comes home and takes over for me. But that is why I have not blogged, hopefully I will feel more energy soon. A little by little it is coming back. But I still feel like I am running on half tank all the time. So I will blog when I can. But I wanted to share the news with all my friends and family :)

SNOW IN LAS VEGAS?????????

We could not believe it when it started snowing in Las Vegas. The kids wanted to hurry and go outside before it stopped. Little did we know that it would snow all afternoon and night. We had so much fun playing in it. I was shocked when it started to stick and now we have at least a few inches and it is supposed to snow all night. Garrett's work shut down early and I laughed at first and then he remined me that there is no snow plows and salt in Las Vegas and no one even owns shovels. So it made a lot more sense to me. But coming from Utah it seemed silly. It was a fun novelty at first, now we are worried about all our palm trees freezing and dying.

This is when it first started to stick. He started out in a sweatshirt because I did not think it would get much more than this.

Even Zoey liked the snow.

Kennedy of course had to get in on the action. It was so cute to see the kids in the snow. Nothing like my childhood, where snow is a novelty.