We have a new baby!

Our third grandbaby in four months time has been born! Below is my beautiful daughter, about ten minutes after the baby was born. How did she look so good??

The new little family.

Gage loves his new baby brother.

A pucker the day after he was born

Precious boys!

Photoshoot with some of my grandchildren...

I did a photoshoot with some of my grand babies. Look at how beautiful they are!

My sister had a barbeque at her house for the 4th of July. Dennis was in town so he helped cook... (well, HE barbequed) My Mom and Dad came, as well as Tyler and his kids, Thane and two of his kids, Chatt and Nate and me and Dennis. Zach was there for a while and Jesse is who did the firework show for us.

Such sweet kids! Cameron and Aspen have always gotten along SO well! They loved playing together.

Bubb and Sam are both so photogenic!

My brother holding Luke! I have pictures of him holding Chatt at about that same age!

My sister is newly engaged! Sammi is checking out the ring...

Mom sat still for a second so I could take her picture. :)

The happy couple.

My newest grandson on his first 4th of July!

Nana and Aspen. Aspen kept turning Nana's face towards whatever she wanted her to look at! She drug her all over the yard talking her ear off.

My cute nephew...
His shirt says "You read my t-shirt. That's enough social interaction for one day"

My happy sister

And sparklers started the show...

Chattni's family and Cort and Alyssa and I went to the Murray parade the morning of the 4th of July. It was a lot of fun. I used to take my kids to that parade every year. When they got older we would sometimes go to the parade up in Park City if we were vacationing up there, if not, we would go to the Murray parade. It is a lot crazier now. Tons of people. It wasn't so crowded when my kids were young!

The kids got to where they would yell "candy, candy, candy" at every float that went by. They would stand and wave... Cort had a bunch of friends there that sat with us. There were a TON of kids. It was pretty cute all of them knowing each other so well and playing together. They would all help each other get candy if one kid missed out. It was really sweet. There were some girls that came by dressed in dance costumes and passed out fliers about their upcoming performance. One girl handed a flyer to Alyssa and asked her if she wanted to come watch her dance. Alyssa just took the flyer and nodded yes. Then she kept saying she wanted to go watch that girl dance. She was ready to leave the parade and go watch that girl! It was cute.

Later a car came through from Fast cash or some odd place. They weren't throwing candy and there were pictures of dollars all over the car. The kids were yelling "candy, candy, candy" so I said "No! dollars, dollars, dollars!" The grown ups chuckled about that and we watched the parade. Pretty soon Aspen was crying. I asked her what was wrong and she was upset because she "didn't get any dollars!" Nate finally folded up a flyer and handed to her and told her it was a dollar and she was fine. :)

Grandma's visit.

We have been busy in the past few weeks. My grandma was here visiting from Arizona. She isn't who she used to be, but it was still nice seeing her. She knows who I am, and sometimes she recognizes my kids, but she usually thinks that their kids are mine. When I hold little Lucas in front of Grandma she tells me that she bets I didn't get much sleep last night with that little one, did I? She will repeatedly ask how old he is and be surprised each time, even though it has only been ten minutes since she last asked. She did enjoy holding him too. I loved getting the pictures of my grandma with my grandchildren.

Mother's day

The Wednesday night before Mother's Day all the kids came over for a BBQ. Britt and Cody were going to be out of town Mother's Day weekend (with me babysitting) so everyone decided to celebrate the Wednesday before with me. It worked out well for Kate too, that way she was able to stay at home on the real Mother's Day and be pampered herself all day! Smart girl.
All I asked for was a day where I could take pictures of the kids. I love taking pictures of the kids. Aspen was great and even posed for me. Usually she runs from the camera, unless I am going to take pictures of someone else, then she is happy to have me take her picture. :) So, first the pictures are the posed ones....

Amidst all the posing, there was a lot of playing. With bubbles. The kids love bubbles. I'm not sure if the younger kids enjoy them more, or the older kids!

Below is a bubble gun that Gage has... he is getting his mom!

And handstand contests. My kids still have handstand contests at every family get together. They may never grow out of them! Even pregnant Brittni was going the contests, though she was a little off balance with her belly! She only has two more months to go before she is due!

Looking through the pictures from that night (I took about 300) it sure makes me realize how lucky I am to have most of our kids close by. I love it when they all come over and they laugh and visit and their kids play and it is total chaos at my house. I love the sound. I really love the sound of it. Sometimes I have to fight back tears when I am just watching and listening. It really is great.