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You're buggin' Me!

The other day at dinner, Rachel was climbing on the table, getting into things in front of me and I said "You are buggin' me!" She looked at me and said "You buggin' me!"  It was so cute. I tried to capture it again and it's not nearly as funny, but it is cute. - Now I just need to figure out how to post a video!

Blue Eyes!

So, after telling everyone Aaron and I would never have a blue-eyed child, it appears that AJ proved us wrong. I hope this doesn't become a pattern of his! :)

Tacy's Prayer

My 4 yr old, Tacy, gave a sweet little prayer before we ate a few days ago and in it she said "wish we could live in a haunted house. But we can't..." I really don't know where she got that from. I had her watch Monsters Inc. to hopefully get her to not think monsters in her room are scary and she's watched it several times recently, so maybe..... Anyway, I thought it was so funny I needed to share.

9 Year Anniversary!

It's official, Aaron and I have been married for 9 years as of Monday (the 7th). I must say it has been a wonderful thing and I still love Aaron very much and I don't know what I would do without him. Needless to say, we didn't have a very exciting Anniversary, or Labor Day for that matter. Chris had complained about a sore throat Saturday night, but I gave him a losenger and he said it went away. AJ has had a stuffy nose, too. Sunday, Rachel and Bryce stayed home from church because Rachel's runny-nose and cough got really deep in her chest and Bryce had a congested cough. For Labor Day/Anniversary we didn't really do much because Rachel. We went to the Air Show over by the Cache Airport for a while. They have radio-controlled airplanes and do some cool things. Garth and Gayle came down and Aaron cooked Fried Chicken which was REALLY good. I really didn't want to spend my whole Anniversary preparing dinner, but it ended up fine. Garth and Gayle stayed with our kids while we went out. We were going to go get dessert, but dinner was so good we were full. We needed milk, so we ended up going to Macey's and getting groceries! It was nice to have some time alone with Aaron and it was kind of fun. Maybe next year for our TEN YEAR.....
To make things more fun, Bryce was throwing up all day yesterday and in a lot of pain (always happens the day they go back to school!) and today he is home again because he didn't feel really good this morning. During the night Rachel threw up all over her bed, so I put a load in the washing machine and then she did it again, so I put the rest of her bedding in the wash and gave her a bath since she got some in her hair! This was from about 2:30-3:30 and wouldn't you know, Aaron, Chris, Bryce and Tacy slept right through all of it! I guess that's a good thing, not all of us should be sleep-deprived! AJ slept through it as well, and luckily waited until the dust had settled to wake up to eat. Aaron is actually getting sick as well. Today is his day off and he is trying to get things done, but I know he doesn't feel really good. We'll see who else gets sick, hopefully no one else!

It's been a LONG month!

It seemed like we packed in a year's worth of activities into the month of July, but it hasn't slowed down, yet, and it's already the middle of August! The best thing that happened was Christopher getting baptized. After much stress about when and where he would be baptized (Aaron couldn't get the scheduled day off work). He was baptized on the 25th, in Preston. It was a very nice baptism, with Grandpa Garth (Aaron's dad) able to preside, and many family members able to participate. In Christopher's letter to my parents (on a mission in Hawaii), he said he felt really really happy and did the right thing by being baptized and following Jesus Christ. I am really proud of his decision.

The week of his baptism was packed with events. On Monday, the 20th, we went to South Jordan to the Ocquirr Mountain Temple Openhouse. It was neat for the kids to be able to go and I think they all enjoyed it. Christopher has been wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese's for a long time and I happened to get an e-mail to join their club a month or so ago, so I thought I might as well, even though it's far away. It was perfect timing because I got some really good coupons, plus free tokens for Tacy's birthday and they kids were able to play as much as they wanted.

Wednesday, the 22nd, was Tacy's 4th birthday and she had a 'Princess Pajama Party'. It was really cute with 7 of her friends able to come. Aaron did an amazing job of decorating and setting up the 'tea party' with cupcakes, Kool-Aid, and candy. That night, Aaron had a work bbq/meeting and the kids played at the park for a long time. Tacy was finally able to open her presents from her family members later at night.

Thursday, the 23rd, was Christopher's 8th birthday. It started making me feel old when I had to look in the 'older boy' section to find clothes his size! We have only let our kid's have a friend birthday party every 2 years, so he didn't get one this year. We were doing fireworks for his birthday and since we had to wait until it was dark, he didn't get to open his presents until after 9PM, when Grandma and Grandpa Porter came.

Friday, the 24th, I was exhausted. Despite this fact, we went to the Logan Parade, which was pretty un-exciting. That night we were able to go swimming, and then to my brother Craig's for pizza, with all of my brothers and sisters and their spouses and children, except one niece and I don't think my brother, Craig, went swimming. It was really fun to get together with all of them.

Saturday, the 25th, was the baptism and then we went to Grandma Gayle's, in Preston, to eat and celebrate birthdays. Aaron's brother, Evan, and his family were there from California and it was really fun. That night we had the Chamber's Family Reunion in Smithfield. That is my mother's, mother's parents. For several years we have had it at Adam's Park in Logan and it was fun to go back and see my kids climbing up the trails like I used to do when I was little.

Tuesday, the 28th, we celebrated Aaron's parent's 40th Wedding Anniversary (it was in May) at Maddox, in Brigham City. All of Aaron's siblings and their spouses and children were there and it was really neat. Each family wore a different color so we could match kids in the picture, and our color was Navy. I took these cute pictures at home, right before we left.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday was Rodeo Weekend in Preston. Thursday we went to the carnival and Friday and Saturday we went to the Parade. Aaron had to work all of those days, so we just went up each night.

To keep things going, Chris, Bryce and Tacy had swimming lessons the first two weeks in August. I let Rachel play in the kid's pool during the lessons, but had my neighbor watch her the last day so I could see the other's swim. It was so neat to see how they'd progressed and to see Bryce swim half the width of the pool, back and forth, on his front and back! They all passed their levels and want to take lessons again. I want to get Chris and Bryce in again, soon, but we'll have to see.

Yesterday, we had a garage sale and although it had a really slow start crammed in our garage because of the rain, it ended up being a good success - even though we didn't even set out some of the big items. If I'm crazy enough, I will do it again this Saturday. Tomorrow Aaron, Chris and Bryce are going with our neighbor Scott Cooley and his son Kenton, Aaron's brother Val and his two boys, Anthony and Cameron, are going backpacking until Wednesday. I love to go camping, but with a new baby I'm happy to stay home! Hope it goes well, there was snow in the mountains where they are going!