August 2018

Hot Air Balloons

We used to live right by this park and we made it tradition to come watch the balloons take off while eating breakfast, muffins and juice.  This year we got to bring my cousin Kristi's kids.  They had a blast!

Neighborhood BBQ

Every year there is a neighborhood BBQ with bounce houses, face paint, lots of kid games and yummy food!  The kids always have a blast meeting up with their friends and the parents get to socialize.

Drive-In Movie

We had a great time at the drive-in movie with our neighbors!  We got to see Translyvania 3, it was pretty cute.

Tracey Aviary

We met up with Jamie and Sandee and the kids to go see all the birds at the Aviary.  It was a beautiful day and it was fun to see all the different kinds of birds.  Some of them were super noisy!

Paxton's first day of 3rd Grade

Paxton was super excited for school to start because he is in the 3rd/4th grade split and two of his best friends that are in 4th grade are in his class!  I'm glad this kid still loves to go to school! 

Graham's Fall Soccer

Graham sure loves to play soccer mostly because he loves to run fast!  But he is getting better at getting down the field and around to block the ball.  He is definitely better at defense!

Graham's first day of Kindergarten

Graham is so excited to be going to the big school with his brother!  He is in afternoon kindergarten which means that he gets out at the same as Paxton so they get to ride their bikes home together.  I can't believe my baby is at the big school, but I know he is going to be great!

Happy Birthday Grandpa!

For my Dad's birthday we all dressed up in our U of U gear because it's his favorite!  Then my sister took all these adorable photos of them.  She also took individuals and later we had them made into canvas' to hang on the wall.  He loved it so much!

Dinosaur Museum

We met up with Jamie and her kids at the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum.  We have been here plenty of times, but it's been a while.  For me I get bored, but I love watching the kids make it fun and use their imaginations pretending the dinosaurs are real and hiding from them and pretending to shoot at them.  

UTV ride with Grandpa

These boys sure are lucky to have a Grandpa that loves to take them to do fun things!  They took the UTV out for a ride and stopped a small restaurant for grilled cheese sandwiches and ice cream!

Go T-Wolves!

We usually go to one or two games a season to go support Uncle Dan, head coach of the Timpanogos Highschool Football Team.  The kids more have fun socializing with their cousins.  It's always a good time being with family and enjoying a football game!

July 2018

It worked! We are pregnant, due March 8! I am still on progesterone shots until my 10th week of pregnancy, but every one is worth it. We are so excited to grow our family! The kids are excited too and they both say they want a brother, dad wants his little girl and I’m happy either way! 

4th of July 

We first went swimming at the Murray pool. I always love watching Graham swim because he is such a little fish and I think his head is more under the water than out.  We had fun playing with our new water toys called Wubbles. 

 There was a lot of things going on at Murray park that day, but we just did swimming and looked at the chalk art. 

Next we were invited to a bbq at my brothers house and afterwards they all went on a utv ride. 

A day at the cabin

One day we decided to go to the cabin and enjoy being in the mountains and going on some rides. Paxton also wanted to drive his own four wheeler. 

Love getting together with the Sorenson side and see all these boys hang out!

Free slurpee day on 7/11 at 7-Eleven! We invited the neighbor kids to join us and we walked down the street to get our free slurpees!

Apricots!

My parents have apricot trees so we went and picked a bunch. Graham loved them and was eating them straight off the tree. We took them home and had some just to eat and the rest I made into fruit leather. It was yummy!!

Yuba Lake 

We went camping one long weekend with my family at Yuba Lake. It was so fun to be with everyone!  We relaxed in the hammocks, ate yummy food, played at the lake and more. It was a good weekend!

I guess a bonus of being pregnant is you have to pee all the time and so I was up super early one morning and got to see this beautiful sunset!  Well the bonus was the sunset ;)

My kids loved spending time at the lake, floating around in tubes, going on the kayak and Paxton spent most of his time with his snorkel. I’m not sure why he loved that so much because the water was pretty murky. 

These cute cousins at Chuck-A-Rama, I can't believe how big Paxton is getting!  He seems so old next to his little cousins.  He is such a good cousin and will include everyone and he even looks out for the little ones.  I'm excited to see him as big big brother!

Zoo

My cute neighbor watched my kids for me one day and took them to the zoo. They sure were lucky to get to feed the giraffes! 

24th of July Rodeo

My dad had some extra tickets to the rodeo so Paxton got to invite a friend and Sandee and Jake came. We all had a great time and of course the bull riding was the favorite!

These boys and their cotton candy made a big sticky mess ;)

Our neighbors put on a fun bbq and firework show on the 24th. The kids more ran around playing than they did watching fireworks. 

The Dinosaur Museum

We went to the dinosaur museum with cousins Lucy and Lincoln.  The kids had fun pretending the dinosaurs were alive and they were ducking behind rocks or walls and pretending to shoot at them. I love watching them make believe. 

June 2018

End of the school year party at our new neighbors house.  Graham hung out near me most of the time because there were a TON of kids there. Paxton on the other hand, I barely saw him. He is such a social kid and had blast going from trampoline to water slide to the hot tub. It was hard to get him to leave. 

We went to the library to see the balloon dragon and start the summer reading program. 

Rem and I have finally decided to start the IVF process again after our failed cycle 3 years ago.  I'm all ready to begin my shots!  I will start out with 3 shots a day and then after a few days I add a fourth one.  I have already been on birth control, Metformin and some other vitamins and supplements.  The past month I've been pretty sick from taking Metformin.  It's normally a med for diabetics so it lowers your blood sugar, but it helps with IVF to not over stimulate.  It has made me so sick this time to the point of feeling nauseous every day and a few of the days curled up in bed and needing to be near a bathroom all day.  It was not fun.  My body eventually got used to the Metformin and I wasn't so sick anymore.  After the shots were over after going to the doctor 3 days in a row for ultrasounds and blood draws, I was finally ready for my egg retrieval.

I was so ready to get those eggs out of me!  My ovaries felt so enlarged.  One of the days was so bad that I felt third trimester pregnant in my ovary, I was waddling around at church.  The day of retrieval was pretty rough and I was pretty much in bed all day feeling sore.  But they retrieved 20 eggs!  We were excited about that!  A few days later we found out that 18 were mature and 15 fertilized.

IVF Transfer Day
June 20th was finally our transfer day.  We went in to find out that we had 1 awesome B2+ embryo and 2 B2 embryos, the rest were still dividing.  The doctor said the highest quality is a B1, so ours was just below that and they actually have more success with the B2+.  So we just put the one in that day and froze the other 2 along with any others that made it. (The next day we found out that only 1 other made it to freeze, so we have 3 on ice).

The transfer was pretty quick and went smoothly.  They don't do bed rest anymore after the transfers, but I still wanted to take it easy for a few days.  I still was up and around the house and went on a few walks, but I did lots of relaxing too.  Now we just had to wait 2 weeks to find out if it worked.  Longest 2 weeks ever!!

Our kids and families all know we are going through this and have been a great support.  Today the kids spent the day at Grandma's house, they actually slept over night and then we picked them up later that day.  It was nice to come home to peace and quiet for a while. 

The kids were waiting for the dentist to come check their teeth and were both watching the movie on the ceiling.  The dentist was awesome and let them both stay in the chair.  No cavities for these boys!!

Paxton went to a basketball camp with his buddies Ender and Colin.  He really has taken to a liking to basketball recently!

Classic Fun Center

We went to Classic Fun Center with some friends and spent 5 plus house there!  We bought the full pass so the kids could do everything including the outdoor water slides.  They had a blast!   Pax was such an awesome brother and helped Graham with his first time doing laser tag.  I think Graham's favorite spot though was jumping off the bounce house wall into the pit.  He did it over and over and over again.  It was a good day, but I was exhausted!

Natural History Museum

Jamie, Sandee and I took the kids to the museum where they saw lots of different things.  Graham drew this Pterodactyl with out looking at anything, I was quite impressed!  They had a fun time playing with their cousins.

Graham's Upstart Graduation

Graham did the Upstart preschool program this year.  It really helped him how to sound out words and put them together.  Even though it was hard at times getting Graham to do his Upstart (20 minutes a day on the computer) it was well worth it!  I am so proud of him and all he has learned.  He will definitely be ready for Kindergarten.

His cute friend Elly Goodman graduated the same day as him.

Happy Father's Day

These boys sure are lucky to have this guy as their dad!  They sure do adore him and love hanging out with him.  I love watching them spend time together.  

Usually for Father's Day we are having dinner with the extended family, but this year my dad had to work and Rem's dad was in St. George.  So we did our own thing for dinner, Rem's favorite, chicken cord on bleu.  Then later we went to my parents house for dessert.

We sure are lucky to have this guy in our lives!  He is the most selfless, giving  and loving man I know!  I sure love my dad!

Fun at Grandpa and Grandma's House

My dad is always doing something for his kids, helping us out with whatever we ask of him.  So all of my siblings decided we wanted to serve him.  So we all went over one day and the men all helped do yard work and help put in the flower beds while the women watched all the kids play and made lunch.  

The kids and all 3 dogs had a blast playing in the water!  I think Lilo especially loved it the most.  She was constantly in the water and waiting for all the kids to spray her.  It was pretty funny to watch!

Clark Planetarium and Gateway Splash Pad
We went to the Planetarium with Jamie, Lucy and Lincoln and explored all the space and weather stuff they had.  We also saw one of the 3D IMAX shows about birds, it was pretty cool.  

Afterwards we walked over to the splash pad and let the kids play in the water on a hot day.
The day didn't end super great as it ended in Graham pooping his pants!

Happy Birthday Rem!
It's fun to celebrate daddy.  He had already bought himself a new chop saw, so we got a few other presents like a new shirt, lego's and oreo's.  We both had to work that day, but got off a little early.  We took my cousin and Kyle and his wife Miranda to Desert Star Playhouse for dinner and show.  It was a lot of fun and Rem even got pulled up on stage to dance with "Richard Simmons".  He was such a good sport and got right into it!  It was pretty funny!

Scout Day Camp
Paxton was so excited to go to his first scout camp!  It was 2 days, just during the day.  He came home loving it the first day.  The second day I got to go help, it was fun to watch him learn and interact with his friends.  He loved the knife carving, sword fighting and archery the best!  I had fun hanging out with him all day.