18 month old KJ

Trying to take off his shirt

My sister and her husband are here for the summer and she asked me to take her little boys pictures. We went over to the water park on Main Street and the historic homes across the street. But first, KJ had to ride the carousel that they recently put in. I don't think he liked it as much as he thought. I have never taken pictures of an 18 month old, or really someone who could walk, and it is definitely a lot harder to do than a small child who either just sits there or sleeps. Kj didn't really sit in one position, always on the move and I don't know if its me or the camera, but it was hard to get him to look my way, straight into the camera. It was a very hot day, and once Kj saw the water, that's all he wanted to do. He was so excited to play in it. He wanted his shirt off, his pants, every thing. The water fountain was not running constantly, it would come on every couple of minutes or so and as soon as they did, he would bolt out of there. There were a couple of times when he was standing right in the middle and we just wanted it to off, it took a while until it finally did and it was the saddest yet funniest thing. He didn't know how to get out of there and the water was just coming down. He was fine as soon as he got out, but it was really funny.

Fourth Of July

Kenzie is one of the funniest little girls 

This last week was a great week filled with lots of fun. Melinda came down with her 2 girls for the baby blessing of Emmie May and stayed all week. I really enjoyed spending time with her and waking up in the morning and going on some runs, scrapbooking, and just hanging out. That Melinda is a party animal and is always having fun doing something. For the 4th, Kurt and I went and bought fireworks that his Dad hadn't bought and we set them off a little bit earlier so that Kenzie was able to experience them before she went to bed. Her and Mikell loved the pops that we bought for them and the sparklers as well. Later that night, we shot off the good ones his dad bought, all the little kids loved them, Kurt included.

Good, Bad, Worse

Let's just say this last weekend didn't turn out so happy. It started out really good in fact. Kurt and I were able to go on a double date with my sister and her husband, without any kids, and enjoy ourselves. After we had some delicious mexican food, we watched Just Go With It. Oh it is such a funny movie, one of the best investments we've made, or one of them. Then on Saturday, JK and Kelsee invited us to go to Sand Hollow and adventure on their wave runners. We found a play ball and the boys had fun trying to pass it between each other, most of the times however, it didn't reach them, and they would end up in the water from trying to catch it. We got some good sun rays and just had a blast. Thanks JK and Kelsee for inviting us! Here is where it goes down hill. Before we went to the lake, Kurt's eye was getting a little red, however it was effecting him at the time. But his eye was just producing tons and tons of goobers. So when we came home we went and got some pink eye drops thinking it was pink eye. But I just felt that as soon as we put the drops in, it made his eye even more red and worse. During the night, Kurt had to wake up a few times because his eye was sealed shut. Not a pleasant feeling he tells me. I figure he is not going to church, and so I just ended up going to Sunday School to teach our class and come home to his needs. By late afternoon his eye is burning him and leaking uncontrollably. We ended up going to the instacare to see if they could help. They gave us a perscription to see if it helps and the doctor tells us it is either pink eye or a virus, which can often times infect both eyes, and both are pretty contagious. By this time we are also applying an ice pack to see if it helps, which it does a little, however it doesn't stop for long and feels as if its getting worse. We run back to the instacare and ask if there is something else, and without further questions they give us some other type of eye drops and send us on our way, praying that these drops do the trick. I felt so helpless, what could I do to make the pain go away? Nothing really but sit at his side. Which for me was really painful. We have been lucky enough in our time together that nothing has really happened to us to where it made the other in so much pain until now. I hope never to have something like this happen again, however I know that it will sometime. Going off to work was even worse, because I could not be near him. But I was able to look up some things on the internet that could help soothe the pain, a warm wash clothe. My grandma is really big into homeopathics and so I asked her what ones will get rid of the pain. I was so relieved when it was time to go home, so I got him the homeos and ran home. I had noticed a big decline in the redness in his eye from the warm wash clothe, so that was comforting to know that he looks to be getting better. Popped in the homeos and prayed that they would work. He is still in a some pain here and there, but not as much as he was yesterday. I can finally breathe knowing that he is getting better. I have never experienced such pain before as I sat back wanting so bad to be able to help, and having no control over the situation. All I could was hold his hand and try and comfort him. Kind of opens your eyes of how maybe the Savior feels or our Father when we are struggling down here up earth. I love you Kurt and wish you would return back to your happy old self again.

Love, Death, Real Life, and Action

I've never been much of a reader, I've always loved reading, it was just hard for me to get into it. In the past months or so, I have been reading a ton! I guess that means I have been really bored or something. It all started out with wanting to read P.S. I Love You. I like the movie and so I thought I would read the book. Bad idea. Especially since I am married now. It is 10x worse being married and reading something like this. It just made my mind go in all sorts of directions and it wasn't good. But I kept reading because the book was obviously different than the movie, I felt like it was a completely different story. It was interesting, however I would never read it again, nor would I recommend it to anyone who is married. Watching the movie is fine, but when you read, the author explains all the emotions, in a movie it doesn't really say that, it just shows.

Charlie St. Cloud was my next book. I had always wanted to see the movie, but never got around to it. Everyone said it was kind of weird. I still haven't seen it, but I didn't mind the book that much. It had a different story line to it than most things I've read or seen. I still want to see the movie, partly because it has Zac Efron in it. It was a good book, but wouldn't read it again.

I am currently reading Soul Surfer. Kurt and I went and saw the movie back when it came out and I loved it. I wanted to just rent the book from the library, however, they only had one and I was on waiting list with 8 other people in front of me. That means I wouldn't have been able to have read it till like October. So Kurt bought it for me for my birthday. I am only a few pages in, but I am excited to see how it is. I always love reading true stories.

During the middle of all of these books that I read, Kurt and I are also reading a book together. One weekend when we went up north, we borrowed The Hunger Games. I had heard of them, but wasn't so interested in it from what I heard. My sister loved them. And so I decided to bring it home with us. We had 4 hours in the car and so I started there. Kurt didn't think he would be into them either, for one because its about a girl and he doesn't really like girl books. But we got really far into the book in 4 hours. And I think that he loves the book more than I do. We blasted through the first book within a week. Thank goodness my sister was coming down like the day after, because I didn't think we would read it so fast and didn't get the other 2 books. So my sister brought them down for us. We didn't read the second book as fast as the first one, now it's a little hard with school starting and all, but we try and read a few chapters a night.

Memorial Weekend

My flowers Kurt bought for my Birthday

Cake and Ice Cream night

On top of the world

This weekend was such a great weekend, a good end to the beginning of the summer school semester. I went and saw Kung Fu Panda 2 with my brother, and then again at midnight on Friday when my mom and sister and brother came and surprised me. I can't believe my little brother who is 6 stayed awake for the whole thing! It was even hard for me too. But I love that movie, it is so funny.  We all had a nice bike ride on saturday morning around St George then to finish it off with Orange Peel, my favorite place. While Kurt was at work, I just hung out with my family and we laid out at the pool and went shopping. My mom took us out to eat at one of my favorite mexican places, Paula's. On Sunday, I made dinner for my family and just hung out at our place. It was a nice weekend to hang out with them.
Monday, we went to Angels Landing at Zions with Tanya, Kacen, Kylee, and John. It was my first time going there and it turned out to be a really nice day. I am very afraid of heights and this hike is pretty scary if you ask me. It is way cool and awesome, just a little high for my likings. Even more scarier when you know there have been casualties on this strenuous adventure.

Cirque Du Soleil

For my birthday, Kurt bought tickets to KA cirque du soleil at the MGM Grand. He had work that morning, :( but we were still able to get out of town by three o clock. Just before we were about to leave, Kurt told me I had one more surprise. So we were just chilling at the Texaco waiting for my surprise. 10 minutes later, my brother pulled up. Yep, that was my surprise! My brother came down to see me and to spend the weekend with us. It was a great surprise, but I felt bad because we were just leaving for Vegas. But he already knew that, so he wished us a lot of fun and we'd find him here when we got back. That sure made my day even more.

We did a lot of looking, didn't find really anything that I liked or wanted. We had a delightful dinner at CheeseCake Factory, it was a good thing we still had a long walk ahead of us to get back to the MGM because I was so stuffed. By the time our dinner came, I hardly touched it. We had a spinach and artichoke dip which was so so delicious and of course, the yummy bread.

The show is was so amazing! It was so crazy to see the things that they can do and even just the stage was pretty awesome! I would love to go back and see the other ones at the other casinos. It was such a great birthday and loved spending it with my hubby!

Niece # 5

Emmie Mae Gardner was born this beautiful day. I was a little upset that she wasn't born on her due date, which was my birthday, we could've been twinners. But that all faded as soon as I saw her. She is so stinking cute and is so calm. She just plays with her tongue all day and smiles here and there. Kurt had work at 2, so he only got to see her for a little bit. But I stayed there after he left and just hung out with them and held little Emmie. I am so glad there are so many babies in this family to keep me sane.