Wow! It has been awhile! It's time to get back into sharing about our life and enjoying the memories. Since I last posted, we have had a lot of changes. First we had another kiddo. Not just one, but 3! Yup that is right we now have 4 kids. We also moved to Idaho, bought a house, another car (we were a one car family for years) and even got a dog! My oldest finally convinced me. We have had lots of adventures and amazing memories. I am hoping to share some of our favorite things on her as well as some bucket list items we do throughout the year. I hope you follow along as we continue our journey of life. 

July Adventure

4th of July Breakfast

July was a blast! It went by so fast though. I guess that is just how summer goes. For the 4th of July we started our day with a church breakfast. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and we had an amazing breakfast with a flag ceremony. It was a great way to start of this great holiday. Afterwards, we went to the parade. It was a bit interesting, but we had a good time. After, we walked the river front and looked at some of the booths that were there. Kyle just loves people and anytime he gets to people watch, he is all over it!

Waiting for the parade to Start.

Kyle's favorite part! 

Around July 19th Kyle and I got the opportunity to fly home to visit family. Sadly, Scott could not come because he had just started his job so he has no time off. So we left Scott here at home while we flew to Utah. It was an interest/long flight. Kyle did pretty good, but being 30 weeks pregnant, it was really uncomfortable with a lap child. Near the end of the flight, it got really bad. Kyle started to freak out! I heard that terrible cry he does when he is about to get sick. So of course I tried to find a throw up bag, but there was none! So I did the next best thing. I grabbed his blanket and put it on this lap and up his shirt and away he went. However, in the midst of it all, the blanket slipped off me and sure enough, throw up down my shirt... I had tried to get the flight attendants attention, but they had already buckled in since it was the landing. People started handing me napkins and someone handed me a throw up bag. I used it to put all the napkins and wipes in. Poor kid! Everyone got off the plane while I stayed and cleaned it up. It was quite a bit of a panic, but at least it was at the end of the flight. When we finally got down to luggage, my sister Mikayla and my mom were waiting for me. It was so wonderful to see family! We got our luggage and met my dad outside a the loading lane. On the way up the canyon though, I heard that cry again... Sure enough Kyle threw up two more times up Parley's canyon. By the time we got to Park City though, he was so exhausted he slept the rest of the way.
The rest of the 2 weeks weren't to bad though. My parents have horses and Kyle just loved them! Every morning he would yell out the window, "Hi Horsey, Hi Chickens, Hi rooster, Hi doggies!" I think this kid was meant to grow up on a farm. We were able to spend lots of time with my parents as well as see Kyle's cousins. We got to sent the 24th with them which is always a fun celebration in Kamas. We then went to the zoo with all the cousins. Kyle loves animals! He would just run from one to the other. It was so fun to see Kyle with his cousins and have that time with them.

Riding Royal

And Aunt Jennie Time

Loving some cousin time

Grandpa's our Favorite

At the Zoo! Grandma with all the grandkids

Watching the bird show

Kyle kept running away so I had to bend down next to him. All of us girls with the kids! 

On the way home, I was of course nervous for the flight. We had to leave early that morning and I was hoping Kyle would sleep the whole way down... nope! Instead he threw up on the way down the canyon. Go figure! I then gave him some motion sickness medicine that he had used before. It usually makes him sleep. Not today though, he was hyper! He was running everywhere. When we got on the plane, I just knew it would be a long one. Luckily I met a nice girl that had a little boy. We strategized how we could sit by each other. The plane wasn't full so she sat by the window and I sat at the end. Then we put our stuff in the middle seat. It was great! Kyle was able to play with this little boy and roam around. However, on the landing he fell asleep. It turned into a power nap since we had to get off the plane. On the way home, he started to get sick again so we stopped in Salem and saw a friend. He played there for awhile which I think helped tire him out. Then when we left again he slept the rest of the way. Motion sickness with this kid is rough! I'm glad we got through it though. It really was a great July.

June 2014

June was all about camping, adventure, and family. We were able to have some great times!
First of June we went camping with our friends the Weeks. We went up to Smith Rock where Scott and Shaun went rock climbing.

Shaun and Scott off to do some Rock Climbing

Yes I was about 22 weeks pregnant. Got to love the pouch! 

Driving Home and taking many breaks so we can avoid Kyle getting sick.

It is a huge rock climbing place in Oregon. We camped at a KOA which was the first time ever camping at a KOA and it was awesome. They had a pool, showers, pretty much everything. However, we did experience some hard times.... This is when we learned that Kyle gets really bad motion sickness. The drive up to Smith Rock was really curvy. Half way up the mountain Kyle started crying and got this terrified look on his face. I could totally see it coming, but there was no where to pull over. Sure enough he threw up. We finally found a place to pull off and cleaned him up. We figured he was done due to how much he let out, but we were wrong. About 20 to 30 minutes later we heard that cry again. Sure enough it came again and this time there was even more! We filled a whole garbage bag full of clothes, blankets, stuffed animals, shoes, socks, practically anything that touched his throw up. We were wanting to turn back, but we had some of our friends things and since we got separated, we had to keep going. Plus, Kyle kept saying, "camping? camping?" Thankfully, after going through all of that Kyle was so tired that he slept the rest of the way. We did get some great news though. As you can see it was an eventful drive. We had just got pass a town called Sisters when Scott got a call. He had interviewed for a position at Oregon State University as the Assistant Director of Operations and Communications. We were lucky that we had service at the time and quickly pulled over so he could take the call. He got the job! We were so excited! It really is such a blessing. We camped for two nights and had a great time with our friends. Besides the driving part, it really was a great trip.

In the middle of the June we then decided to go camp at Crater Lake. Luckily the drive wasn't very windy and we made it all the way without having to do a clothing change for Kyle.

At the visitors center

24 Weeks Pregnant

Hiking down the the lake 

Crater Lake is absolutely stunning. However, word of advise, go in September. There was still lots of snow and the mosquitos were terrible! We arrived in the afternoon and got camp all set up. We then went on a little hike around the camp ground where we found that the mosquitos were really bad. When we made dinner that night, I went in the tent to change Kyle and Scott was doing dishes. I could hear Scott slapping at the mosquitos. Sure enough he had about 10 bites on each arm from just cleaning a few dishes. Needless to say, we ended up hanging out in the tent from around 7p.m. until morning because they were so bad. The next day though we went and hiked down to the lake. Because crater lake only gets water from rain and snow, the water is so clear. You can see all the way to the bottom of the lake. It is quite amazing.

The following week, Scott's family came to visit. They were able to stay with us for about 5 days. We loved it! Kyle had a blast with his cousins and Grammy and Papa. We were able to take them to OSU and show them around campus. We then went out to Newport and played on the beach, explored downtown Newport and hit up the aquarium. Through the week we were able to show them some of the fun parks in Corvallis as well as hike Silver Falls. Another gorgeous place in Oregon. We had such a blast and had a hard time seeing them go.

OSU Football Stadium

Day at the Beach

Newport Aquarium 

Silver Falls State Park

Pizza! Pizza! 

It rained on us... Go figure! 

25 weeks Pregnant (A little over 6 months)

Grammy, Papa, Kylie, Kolton, and Kyle

Overall, June was a blast. We played really hard and had a great time. Scott started his job July 1st so we were really glad we got to go camping and see some new places in Oregon.

May 2014

Kyle crying due to not feeling well.

May was a busy month for us. I was over the ward carnival at the beginning of May and although the stress of putting it on almost got to me the event was a big success.  We had a chili and pie contest, multiple carnival games, popcorn and cotton candy, and an egg throwing competition.  The chili and pie contest were a hit and the kids loved the games. We had a lot of non-members come which was really fun to have. Scott thought it would be funny to throw some cans of chili in a crockpot and enter it into the chili competition.  He added some hotdogs (gross) and bacon and called it good. Out of the 18 chilies entered into the competition Scott’s won the Most Creative Chili award.  Now he claims he is an award-winning cook.  

Poor Kyle and Scott didn’t get to enjoy much of the carnival though.  Kyle was running a fever of 103 and as you can imagine wasn’t in the best of moods.  Although I was worried about the little guy, I selfishly enjoy when he isn’t feeling well because he just wants to cuddle.  However, I would trade cuddle time for a healthy-happy boy anytime.    

Memorial Weekend we were going to go camping, but decided against it since we are going first of June. Instead we went to Newport and walked the historic bay front. We then found a great beach where we hung out and enjoyed the ocean.  Kyle didn’t like the water much.  Scott will claim that he was born that way but I still make the claim that it had a lot to do with Kyle’s daddy thinking it would be fun to act like the ocean surge was acid by running from it while screaming “don’t let it touch you, don’t let it touch you!”  Ha, from now on we will leave that game until our kids actually understand what is going on.  Later that night Scott showed off his amazing-husband skills and his manly-handy-man skills by building me shelves for our storage shed.  We spent Memorial Day buying bins and organizing our other closets.

Did I mention we are having another boy!  Scott is pretty excited.  Apparently his worst fear was having all girls and his second worst fear was having one boy and the rest girls.

Love you ALL!

Kalli