And This Little Pig Went To The Dr.

So I have been down and out since Wednesday night. With all my symptoms and how crappy I felt/feel. I am pretty darn sure that I had/have the S____ FLU! I am sorry to everyone I had any contact with before or during this event. I hope that none of you have to go threw this. It has not been the funniest week. I am finally starting to feel little better today, but to make things worse my sweet boys are starting to show the same signs. It looks like the fun is just beginning at our house. I am glad that I decided to keep them all home from school today just in case & it looks like they will not be going this week. Thank goodness they will only be missing a few days because of the up coming break. So today I took Preston into the Doctor today and he has double ear infection and it is taking all my energy to just take care of him. He is for sure my most high maintenance child. Good thing he is so dang cute:) The others are just having to deal with being lazy and watching a lot TV. So wish us all luck that this will go away very fast and that we will be up to are fun filled times again!!! I pray for a healthy winter to all of you!

Scera Park Carnival

Scera Park had thier annual Fall Carnival about a week ago. While there Preston & Ryan got face paintings & I just had to post how cool they looked with it done. I think I am done doing the school carnival I have done it for the past 4 years and it takes a lot of time and is a lot of hard work. McKay is trying to guilt me into doing it again, since next year is his last year at Scera Park. So far it is not working! But I am sure by the time it comes around next year I will cave and do it again. How can I say no when it is so fun to see how much fun all the kids are having.

Preston
I love Ryan's Tiger mask!

# 22

My little brothers (half brother) wife just had a baby. Including my boys that makes her Grandchild #22. Wow I cannot believe that I have that many Nieces & Nephews. Another crazy little fact my Niece Aurora has a baby older than my new Niece. So that right there tells you how far spaced out me and my siblings are. But I just wanted to give a shout out of CONGRATS to Stratton & Anna on there new little bundle of joy. She is so cute! I cannot wait to come over and hold her. Here are her stats:

Adeline Shay Allen

Born October 1st

At 6:19 p.m.

7 lbs. 2 oz.

19.5 inches long

Utah State Fair

I am a dork, but I have to admit I love going to the Fair. I love to see how excited the boys get about the animals. I love seeing all the weird people that come out to these things. I love to see what new things they let people put in and consider it a talent and judge them on it. I really think the sculpture made out of butter is really cool. I like looking at as many booths as my husband and kids will let me. I guess I just like the fair. So of course this year we went & it was a lot of fun. We tried to go after school one day and it was raining like crazy. So later that week we checked McKay out early and did not send the other two boys to school. We stopped and grabbed lunch on the way, and when we got there it was empty. It was so nice not to fight crowds and to actually be able to see the things we wanted to see. It is crazy how excited my kids get about seeing a goat, or a cow. Are they really that much of "city boys" that they think it is a novelty to see a cow. Ryan went as far as to ask some man sitting by the cows if he could pet his cow. It was very cute! They loved seeing the animals.






The boys like the fishing pond they have set up ever year too. It always amazes me how fast you can get a fish on your hook at this thing. McKay this year even caught a catfish. The boys thought it was way cool looking. Parker's fish got off the hook and was flapping around on the ground & he wanted to pick it up and pet it.







This year at the fair they had some fun shows to watch. They had a shark show, a bear show, and a gator show. The only complaint is that they were not very long. But the boys enjoyed watching the people interact with the animals. I only took pictures of the gator show because it had to have been the best one.




We told the boy at the beginning of the summer that if they did not ask to go on rides at the summer fest, strawberry days, or the fair that we would take them to lagoon. So we had no plans of doing rides while at the fair. But Grandma Kathy give the boys some money to do this jumping thing and Preston and McKay thought it was way fun and got way high. Preston even did some flips while in the air. The little boys took there money and decided to do a pony ride instead. Ryan thought he was so cool that he could do it with no hands. While Parker just kept saying "look Momma I am a cowboy!" It was a great way to end the carnival.

1st Day of Preschool

So a few weeks ago Ryan started preschool. Lets just say he LOVES it. He is going with his cousin Macy to the BYU preschool. Everyday he wakes up and asks if it is preschool day. Days that he does not have it he is so sad. It makes me happy that he is so happy. It makes it worth how much it cost just to see him loving it. It is also wonderful because he goes 4 days a week and is in the afternoon just like Preston with Kindergarten. So on the way home Parker falls asleep and I have about 2 hours before they start coming home from school. You would think that this time would be used for actually doing something productive, but yet most days it is used to take a nap and I so do not feel guilty about it.

Boating

About a week ago my brother got a hold of a boat and invited the boys and I out on the lake. So we jumped at the chance. Sadly Korey could not get out of work and I had to take the boys by myself. I was a little nervous but I am so glad we went. The boys had a blast. At first Ryan was a little nervous and just wanted to go back to the shore to feed the ducks. But not my McKay & Preston, they are rock stars and went out on the tube with no fear. They first went out together and then they each wanted to try it alone. It was a small tube and defiantly worked better alone. When Preston was out there he is so little and was just holding on and flying every where it was so funny to watch, he would just keep doing thumbs up to go faster and faster. We were laughing so hard because he is such a nut and a dare devil. McKay was a little more on the safer side at first but once he got a hang of it he was a champ too. I tried to take Parker on it and the dang thing is just not meant for two people and we kept almost tipping so are ride lasted about 10 seconds, then he was done. Ryan did not want to even touch the tube. But after awhile he did warm up and started jumping into the "big pool" as he would like to call it. We had a great time the only thing that could have made it better was if Korey was there. Thanks Jason for taking us out the boys loved it!
The boys enjoying a ride!





Jason and his girls! Not sure if Alice is loving it or not?




Taking our turns on the tube!






Swimming in the crystal clear waters of Utah Lake:)




Parker gave in and let the rocking boat put him to sleep!

Movie at the Park

The other night we took the boys to see Iron Man at the Scera Shell. McKay invited his buddy Evan, then we packed the van with blankets and pillows and made a big bag a popcorn and headed to the show. We thought that with the movie not starting until 9pm that the little boys would just fall asleep shortly after it started. That was not the case. They were way to into the movie to fall asleep. It is sad that my little boys will sit more still for an action movie than a cartoon movie. What have I done to these sweet little boys? It was a good night and surprisingly they were not even that grumpy the next day at church.

Swimming

This year has been so much fun at the pool. We got some punches for the Scera Pool & then got season passes to 7 Peaks. It is amazing how these things are so much easier now that Parker is two. The boys all love the water and we would go a couple times a week between the two places. But I always would take the camera and then we would get bust playing and I would forget to take pictures. But I got some the other day of McKay, Preston, & Korey jumping off the diving board. We are hoping the weather will be good Monday and that we can go to 7 Peaks one last time before they close so I will have to try and get some more pictures of the boys then.




Look at the skill of my 5 year old!!!



These are Ryan showing me how brave he is by going under the water!

1st Day of Kindergarten

So I now have 2 out of my 4 boys in school. Preston started Kindergarten about a week ago & he is loving every minute of it. He thinks it is so cool that he gets to go to the same school that his big brother goes too. He thinks it is even greater that he gets to walk home with all the big boys. He is learning so much and loves to come home and tell me all about it. He has already made some great friends and is so glad that he knows some of the kids in his class from our old ward. I cannot believe how fast time goes. I swear he should still be this little boy. I hope he is this excited about school for the next 12 years.

1st Day of 5th Grade

I cannot believe that I am old enough to have a kid in 5th grade it is a crazy thought. He is such a good kid and was excited for school to start. I thought I was going to kill myself when we went back to school shopping, I was thinking the whole time if it is this bad I could never imagine how it would be if he were a girl. GOSH I never knew the kid had such an opinion about things. But we made it through it and he was set for school. He has an awesome teacher & tons of friends in his class. It should be a great year for him.