Friday, August 7, 2009

My Birthday


I flew home from Utah alone with the kids on my birthday. It was a little crazy, to say the least! David soaked his pants as soon as we got to the gate so he was half naked from the get go. He was so crazy at the airport. He kept running around and throwing Lightning McQueen at everyone that walked past us. The girls were extremely grumpy and kept complaining and crying over every little thing. Then as you can see I had the stroller loaded down with all the toys and junk that we couldn't fit in our suitcases. The flight itself only got better. The kids kept fighting over who got to sit by mom because two of them had to sit across the aisle from me. We had lots of nasty, cramped potty trips. David dumped out every bag of food we had on the floor and continued to throw Lightning McQueen at every poor passenger that passed by us. The good thing for us was that there were several other single moms with kids on the plane to take a little bit of the attention off of us. Also there was a a super nice, understanding flight attendant who helped out.
This is what I came home too at the end of the day! I have the sweetest husband in the world. It's never felt so good to be home. It was the perfect end to a not so perfect day. I'm glad for the crazy day, because it made me truly appreciate the end even more. A big thank you to all of you who thought about me and called or texted me on my birthday. You have no idea how much better you made my day!
I marathon blogged our trip so if you're that interested in our lives you may need to look at the next page to see all the updates! ;)

Our Sweet, Beautiful Children?

Giving brother kisses
Britannia, David, & Mishayla
My guess is they're thinking, "You're crazy for trying to take our pictures mom!"
sisters
My sweet little guy
Britannia, BrinLee, & Mishayla
Telling secrets
Easton, Braxton, & David
Sweet little boys!
Britannia, BrinLee, Mishayla, Braxton, David, & Easton
I'm not joking when I say I think this is the best picture of the six of them. They may not be smiling or even looking at us, but you at least see all of them and they're sitting still.
I love so many things about this picture: Mishayla unknowingly making Braxton cry, BrinLee picking grass, David wishing he were on the tracktor mowing the lawn with his dad, Britannia throwing grass, and best of all Easton with his hand raised. I should move back and we could home school these kids together, I think it would turn out great! At least one of them already knows how to raise their hand.
Britannia doing tricks
Mishayla skipping around in her own little world
David running away to get his dad

My mom bought the kids these cute matching outfits so my sister and I tried to take some cute pictures of them together...what a joke! They kept running away, crying, and screaming, needless to say it didn't turn out the way we hoped. I guess that's life though, right? At least we have pictures to remind us of what this chapter in our lives was really like! ;)

Rodeo

Bridi, Jason, & ice cream face David
David & Mishayla loved the pixie sticks so much they started dumping them out on the bleachers and licking it off...gross!
Britannia & Uncle Bry
Mishayla, Aunt Heidi, & cousin BrinLee
Britannia & Uncle Tyson
David & Mishalya enjoying the Rodeo

24th of July

Britannia, cousin BrinLee, & Mishayla
The runway girls!
Strike a pose!
All American Boy!
David
watching fireworks
gathering parade candy
We had a great pioneer day in Emery County. My sister had a BBQ and we watched fireworks from her house. We went to a parade the morning of the 25th. Where my cousins helped the kids gather candy. We went to the Orangeville park after for lunch and games.

Fun in Salt Lake

We went to Liberty park and had a great, relaxing afternoon
Grandpa & Grandma Waite with the kids

David, Jason, and Mishayla
Britannia and her daddy
Jason and David
Sisters
Mishayla, David, Britannia
David helping himself to the rootbeer
Jason's mom and dad brought the kids to Jungle Jim's
George Strait concert with my brother Bryson and his girlfriend Candice
Grandma Hinkins, cousin Eastin, Aunt Heidi, cousin Braxton, Britannia, cousin BrinLee, and Mishayla trying to get up the nerve to touch the sting ray!
Mishayla
BrinLee and Britannia in model pose
Sweet Sisters
David and cousin Easton-Two cute boys in the tub!
David and cousin Easton riding in the helicopter
Little Bird David
Shayla picking flowers
Cousin BrinLee, and Britannia keeping house
Girls out shopping
David, Mishayla, and cousin Easton
The girls eating dinner with Uncle Bry. They were all fighting over who got to sit with him!

We spent a good part of the month in Salt Lake where Jason was doing an externship. We had lots of visitors and a really good time!My mom and sister came up with her kids. My mom took the kids to the kids to the gateway discovery museum and the to the aquarium. The kids loved it!