As Promised...

The Orange Monsters!

1 win, 9 losses, but lots of juice, granola bars, and a trophy so no one really minded that much.

Kaden opted to warm the bench for all but the last game; which happened to be the one they won. I'm not deluding myself though, thus far it looks like Kaden's athletic abilities came mostly from me (sorry buddy), but he's young maybe Kimball's genes are just lying dormant in there...waiting.

We'll see. It was great to watch him play that last game though, much nicer than chasing him when he would run away from us like in every other game.

All these pictures came from that last game by the way.

County Fair

Last week my mom and I went to the county fair. My dad had entered a photo in one of the competitions so we went to see how he did. 4th place! Way to go Dad!

It was a lot of fun taking the kids despite the heat. They loved all the animals. Kaden was running from one stall to the next looking at all the cows, sheep, and pigs. In my opinion one cow was pretty much like they next, but Kaden was ridiculously excited to see every one. Jo was also mooing like crazy which was pretty funny. We also got to watch the pigs getting their baths.

They also had a little petting zoo complete with a very feisty camel. Loads of fun!

Round 2

Well Kimball left for OCS, actually he left a week ago. All together he should be gone 8 weeks total which is 3 weeks shorter than basic training was. I'm hoping not having those 3 weeks will make the time fly by, but I don't know. So far I just miss him. It didn't help that the first night he was gone I had food poisoning and threw-up the whole night. Luckily my parents rescued me in the morning and took the kids while I recovered.

We stayed pretty busy while he was here though. Here's a bunch of pictures of the fun things we did:

Kimball turned 28! For his birthday we went to the movies and then to a sushi bar. I was so embarrassed because they only gave us chopsticks and I had to ask for a fork. So the waiter brought me back these pretend chopsticks they use to teach little kids. At least I was able to eat my food.


Happy 4th of July! We spent the 4th with Alvin and Amber and watched the Stadium of Fire fireworks from the grass across from the MTC. Kaden turned out to be afraid of them and hid under a blanket the whole time, but for some reason he was still sad when they were over. Go figure.





Trip to the Zoo. They had a special military day so that our whole family got in free. Every time we go it gets more fun. Kaden was so excited to see the animals. He was trying to find all the animals from the Madigascar movie, but they didn't have a lion or hippo so we had to tread carefully around that subject. But we had a great time.



I know I look really annoyed in this picture, but it was really fun taking Kaden to all the same things I did as a kid, including drinking water out of the lions mouth.