Not much to report...

Here I am last week at 28 weeks along.....Love this baby!

The next two pictures are of Jaden's birthday last month. He got his puppy!


These last two pictures are of Maddie and Jaden. They are always good to pose for me. Love to see what kind of pics I can take and what I can do with them on the Mac...

Excelsior Academy

Well the first day of school has come and gone. My kids are loving the new charter school they started this school year. They actually get a lot of guff from friends who don't attend there but I'm really happy to say that they stay positive and LOVE their new school! They are being challenged quite a bit already and are learning rapidly. Can't say enough good about this!

IT'S TRUE!!!!

Here is my announcement to the family this past weekend. After holding in my GREAT news for four months....I can finally let the world know that I'M GONNA HAVE ME A BABY!

 My cute neice, Mindy (Tracy's daughter) made me this shirt to wear for when I was going to make my announcement.

Here's little Rendon waving to all of us letting us know he's in there!

What a special time in my life this is for me. Those of you close to me know how hard and long I have struggled to have another baby. This is truly a miracle child and although he's due at Christmas-time, December 27th...how could we ever complain? Just get here safe and sound, little one...

Campbell Family Reunion at Bear Lake

Ok since this will be a long post because of all the pictures I added, I will only write a few words to go with each! Below: My brothers! Joel, Keith, Ben Shooting off the candy cannon on the beach. It shoots really high in the air and makes a huge BOOM! After all the candy falls back to earth, the kids go running for it.

Guppy with Tiff's baby Blake.

Karmen and Tracy cooling off.

Brenda's husband, Travis and two of his kids (Abby and Zack) helping him make a 'nose'...right next to the 'foot' Mike George (Tiff's hubby) made. Funny dudes!

Joel (Holy cow, dude...you look good!) with one of his boys, Kalven.

Tracy almost catching a football....but not quite!

Andrew playing some cool tunes for us!

Ben, Nadja and Tyler Campbell.

Kaycee (Karmen's daughter) and Kenna (Guppy's daughter).

Seth (Tracy's), Bridger (Guppy's), and Jaden on the jet ski.

Kelsie (Karmen's), Laynie (Ben's), and Alyssa (Brenda's).

The pink ladies! Kynzie (Keith's), Eliah (Tawnja's) and Brielle (Guppy's).

Tran, Keith's wife.

Maddie playing frisbee.

Tayzia (Brenda's) and Mindy (Tracy's) splashin' around.

Jaden, Bridger and Seth in their homemade pool.

Brenda and her cool umbrella!

 

I love Independence Day!

Hooray!!! It's my very favorite holiday. What an awesome time of year this is. We get to celebrate our freedoms and honor our military and spend the day eating BBQ, watching parades and lighting fireworks. All in the dead of summer which too, is my favorite time of year. How can one NOT know we live in the very best Country? God Bless the USA!
My kids are such good sports because I have them go with me to the flag raising ceremony at the fire station here in town. We have an outdoor breakfast by GHS. Dance company at 7:30, then the ceremony at 8am. Then it's off to save our spots for the parade! Tiff and her family came to watch the parade with us and ended up staying the rest of the day, too! I felt badly that I didn't see her too much because I had other plans for the day. At least Tracy lives here too and was able to spend more time than I did with Tiff and her family! Here is the cutest picture of her and her 2 1/2 month old baby. She's a kangaroo!

Here we all are waiting for the parade to start. Left to right: Nathan (drinking), Allie, Tiff and baby Blake, Seth, Braiden, Mike....Mindy and Andrew in back, Jaden in front, Tracy, Matt and John.

Maddie was a part of the parade with the Grantsville Dance Company. She ran behind the float handing out flyers. You can see her running with her white sunglasses in this pic.

After the parade, we took off to the park for the festivities all afternoon. This is a picture of Maddie, Jaden and Lindsey with their fishies they caught. Dang it....I have to go buy a fishbowl now!

Me, Trisha and Shereen feeding our faces..... It was a great day, as always!!!!

Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House

For youth conference this year, we got to take the Young Men and Young Women to the open house of the newest temple. We are on the wrong side of the temple for this picture but about a week or so earlier, Moroni was struck by lightning and had a black trumpet! It was fun to be able to get to walk through this with Maddie and answer a few questions. She is always amazed at how beautiful the inside of the Temple's are. If you look up at the picture above once more, you will see a cloudless sky. You must keep in mind here that every single day for weeks, it's been pouring rain here. But it stopped long enough to enjoy our visit to the temple!

Mormon Grasshoppers???

I try not to be a complainer about Grantsville. Truly, I do. I live here now and have come a long way in adjusting to small town life, and raising my family. Well, these past few weeks have REALLY tested my outlook on this little town. Just look! Out of nowhere, baby grasshoppers have been hatching and INVADING my home, garden, and our ten acres that we live on. It's happening all over Grantsville and my skin is crawling! I can't even go outside to weed my garden (what the grasshoppers aren't eating, anyway) and the kids don't go outside to play. When I say my home is invaded, I truly mean it. They have infiltrated my entire place and are even getting in the house! I'm go glad my sweet children aren't wussy like me because I'm always screeching and yelling for them to come rescue me from a grasshopper that has gotten in the house somehow.

So... bring on the seagulls! And yes, they have come. Swarms of them, actually have been flying over my field and taking mouthfuls of them. The only problem is that there are so many billions of grasshoppers that the seagulls aren't making a dent in the problem. Tooele County has even come out to spray with planes to help with the problem.  We have sprayed THREE different times in the last two weeks just to try to get rid of some of them. Yuck. Below is a picture of Maddie's window well. They just cover the screen. I couldn't even go out to take the picture because when you walk across the lawn, the grass is just moving with them and it freaks me out. Like I said, I have good kids that aren't as afraid like me so I had them do the dirty work and get this shot for me. I am truly a prisoner in my own home!