Introducing.....

Our newest addition to the family.

Dalton Samuel
Born at 1:38 AM on August 29, 2008
Weighing in at 9lbs. 8.7 oz. 20 1/2 " long

Here is the link to his pictures from the hospital:
http://www.our365.com/NewbornPortraits/BabyDetail.aspx?birthid=ec38e28c-a49c-4a77-9dfc-869dfff11bb2&babyid=f89c091a-6c10-429e-8695-6c578a202440

Almost the end!

Okay so I am finally updating again. First off, we still don’t have a baby. Any day, we are just waiting. I hope within the next week I will be posting pictures of our new little one, making his debut. So I decided to call this one almost the end because first of all we are almost at the end of this pregnancy, and second because we are almost at the end of summer. We can't believe how fast it has gone. Here are some fun pictures of what we have done this last month.

We spent some time at Coeur d’ alene Lake swimming with a group of friends.

The girls had a ton of fun.

I also had a couple of nights out with some girlfriends. I had a blast!! I am lucky to have so many friends that are so much fun!! This is a group of us at Deer Lake....

and then here I am with some friends at Olive Garden.
This is the whole group.

The is the line of pregnant people from soonest due date (August) to latest due date (February).


I also wanted to give a big thank you to Elly,

who put together a baby shower for me. It was great and I had a ton of fun and was able to get a lot of clothes

and things for our new little guy. Here is the cute desserts that she made.

Here are some pictures from one night when we took a walk around the temple.

The sunset that night was beautiful.

Here is a recent picture of our garden.

It is growing great and giving us lots of good produce to enjoy and share with others.

Here is the kids in their pool riding their pet goose, which they often times call a swan!! And here is a little blip on a couple of cute things the girls have said recently. The other day Sam was mowing the lawn and Hailey said, "Dad needs his pluggers on." It took me a minute but she was referring to his earplugs, which he always wears when using loud equipment. And then a couple of weeks ago we were watching "So You Think You Can Dance" and it was getting to commercial time so we told Ashtyn she needed to go to the bathroom so we could brush her teeth for bedtime and then the host of the show said, "Don't go anywhere" just before the commercial came on. So then Ashtyn said to us, "but they said don't go anywhere." It was a pretty good laugh for Sam and I. The host had convinced Ashtyn that she couldn't go anywhere but right where she was.

We were also able to go to kids free day downtown. Of course since we were there we had to ride the carousel which is the girls favorite thing to do downtown.

The girls had lots of fun getting all the free stuff, and they enjoyed the sesame street concert where we saw Gordon and Elmo and Cookie Monster. They got their faces painted too. It is kind of hard to see but you can tell a little bit. Hailey has a white unicorn on one cheek. And Ashytn has a kitty on one cheek and a dog on the other. Their choice of course.

Sesame Street is getting ready to celebrate it’s 40^th season. Gordon has been doing this for 34 years. Wow!

I will leave you with another spectacular sunset that we had here less then a week ago.

We went to Dairy Queen and then for a drive and were able to catch some of this beauty!

July Update!

For our July update, we have been enjoying several different activities. We celebrated little Summer’s first birthday. She is ADORABLE!!

Then the girls and I have been enjoying some of the free summer stuff going on. We are all signed up for the summer reading program with our local library. Plus we have been enjoying free lunches either at the park close to us or the middle school by us. And we even made it to one of the free movies they had, “The Bee Movie.” On the fourth we all went fishing in the little fishing boat at Liberty Lake. We caught a ton of little fish. The girls caught so many they lost track. They loved getting them out long enough to see and touch once and then we sent them back to get lots bigger.

Then, that night we had a yummy BBQ with watermelon, yum, and finally we headed to the fireworks.

The girls loved them. Our favorite part was the finale!!


This month the girls took swimming lessons. They loved every minute of their lessons and are now asking me when they get to take them again. We are glad that they learned a few basics.

(The first picture is one of their favorite things they did....called "chop, chop, timber" the other two are them holding on during lessons.)

We also celebrated Sam’s birthday on the 11th. It is a big one for him. He is the BIG 30!!!

We had a family party for him and a little party with some friends from our ward.Both parties turned out really great, thanks to all who came and made it so fun.

These two pictures are from our friend party. We played water balloon volleyball. It was lots of fun!! We are so glad that we have our Sambo. He is so good to us. He truly works so hard at being the best husband and father that he could possibly be. And HE IS the best in the world!! We love you Daddy, hope you had a great birthday!

This last weekend we went on a little family camping trip with Sam’s family. We went to Central Ferry State Park. Yes I went camping at 7 ½ months pregnant.

And it was actually pretty good. The first night was actually one of the worst nights we have had with our kids...ever. I think that was the night that we got the least amount of sleep, one because Hailey had an atrocious cough that kept her and the rest of us awake for about 5 hours and two when we weren’t worrying about her we felt like we were in a wind tunnel because there was so much wind and our tent was like a kite flapping around in the breeze. Thankfully the next night was much better. Hardly any wind and a lot less coughing which aloud us to get more sleep. During the day we had fun even with all the wind that continued on. We spent time by the water beach combing and swimming,

there was the Polar Bear Dip which was the girls favorite part (the polar bear dip consisted of jumping in the River first thing in the morning),

and there was the obstacle course,

earning their boondoggles for the Polar Bear Dip and the obstacle course,
and just having quality time together with cousies.

This is Hailey with her rainbow stick, which she found down at the river.

Overall there was a lot of fun had by all. Thanks to all the family for some more wonderful camping memories.

On Sunday we celebrated Grandma Kathie's. We love her and are so glad she lives close enough to us to spoil.

Happy Birthday Grammy!!