Some of the animals

Amusment Rides

Here's a few more pics of the amusement park rides. You can see in the kids faces, they were having a blast.

Yellowstone Bear World

A few weeks ago, Beth and I decided to load up our kids and our trusty babysitter, Jenna, and head to Driggs, Idaho for a wedding. Adding an extra kid in the mix may sound crazy, but we couldn't have done it without Jenna. We borrowed Mom's Envoy and put Campbell and Brayli in the back with our new portable DVD players and Jenna in the middle seat with Broxon. I meant to take pics the whole trip, but never got around to it...

We left bright and early on Saturday morning and drove past Idaho Falls to Yellowstone Bear World. The kids loved seeing all the bears running free, but I think us adults enjoyed it even more! After we drove through the bears, we went into the petting zoo and mini amusement park. Brayli and Campbell were able to go on almost every ride and had a blast doing it.

Riding in the spinning bears... before Campbell got sick :(

We didn't go very fast when Broxon was with us... we waited until he stayed with Beth.

Campbell loved riding the choo... choo. He would love it even more now. Trains have become his biggest fasination. Then he barely new what they were.

Checking out the big bears through the fence.

A lady was nice enough to take this picture. Too bad Jenna was telling Campbell to look at the camera. Look closely in the background, you can see a bear climbing the tree!

Campbell trying to escape through the picture. I think this is one of my favorites. Of course, he wouldn't stay in the picture with everyone else. He has a mind of his own.

Behind us are new baby cubs.

Beth and her kids with the new baby cubs.

Our babysitter, Jenna, doing what she does best... taking charge of both kids :)

After all the fun of Bear World, we went to a motel, cleaned up and headed to the wedding reception. On our way around the winding roads from Idaho Falls to Driggs, Campbell got sick. I figured he was choking on the fruit snacks we gave him, or he was just sick from spinning on the rides. He threw up all over his clean clothes. He was fine the rest of the night.

The next day was a different story. Campbell woke up sick and remained that way ALL the way home. We stopped at Wal-Mart and bought new blankies and clothes. Jenna learned to clean throw up of the face of a baby while driving down the freeway at 75 mph. I know she didn't enjoy any second of it, but again, we couldn't have done it without her. Campbell was tired that night, but hasn't gotten car sick again. Hopefully it was all just a bad spinning ride.

Post Overload!

Chris is at work and Campbell is in bed... so I have finally updated my blog for the last few months. Sorry for the overload, but be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom to see what has been going on in our busy lives!

Campbell's World

Campbell has become quite a little talker. He also thinks he needs to be on a cell phone all the time. He has a play phone that we charge and he carries on long conversations with himself. Today he even put his hand up to his ear and talked into it like a cell phone. He is starting to get a decent vocabulary. He says: Thank you, please, all done, mommy, love you, more, Suzy, Poppy, Meema, blankie

It is so much fun watching him grow. He climbs everything and gets into everything if he isn't watched constantly. He jabbers with me constantly and wants to interact with me all day. I love that he catches on so quickly, although he doesn't always act like he does. He goes to time out and waits for me to count to ten, then he says, "no, no, no" before he goes and does whatever he wasn't supposed to do! I love this time in his life :)

OUCH!

When we went camping over Chris's birthday, Campbell took a terrible crash. He was walking around the campground with a rock in one hand and a stick in another. Somehow, he fell and gashed his lip. His mouth was full of blood and he learned to spit really quick. I rinsed it with Hydrogen Peroxide and again he spit really well. I was so worried he would get an infection. For the first couple days it looked so bad, but it has healed real quick and you can hardly even tell it happened now. I guess that is the least I should expect with my little monkey.

Family

For Brayli's 2nd birthday, she really wanted Granny Black to come. I went to pick her up and brought her to Grandma Patty's house. She sat outside the pool area and watched the kids swim and play. Campbell climbed up on Meema's lap and posed for this cute pic!

Brayli got a Tangled table for her birthday. She and Sophia were minding there own business and eating there food when Campbell decided to join them. As you can tell, he wasn't really welcome!

Great Salt Lake

After camping at Pa John's lot, we headed to Salt Lake for Keaton's homecoming. We had Christian and Stefen with us, so we went to a couple new places. We spent our first day playing at Lagoon. I didn't get any pics because I was too busy having fun on the rides!

On the way from Lagoon to Sandy, we went to the Great Salt Lake. In all my years going to Utah, I have never actually been to the lake. It was so gross. There were dead birds everywhere and the smell was awful. It was an okay once in a lifetime experience. Now I can at least say I have been there!

Tag-a-long

Campbell has become quite a tag-a-long and wants to follow wherever anyone goes. He frequently followed the boys when they would walk to the lake. He so much wants to be a big boy!

Campbell found a new friend in Pa John. He went on two 30 mile 4-wheeler rides and fell asleep in Pa John's arms. He also helped him around the lot by moving rocks and driving the tractor.

Anytime Campbell wasn't being watched, he would end up on a 4-wheeler and wait for someone to give him a ride. He wore quite a path on Pa John's lot.

Swimming

We wanted to take Campbell down to Lake Cascade to swim. Even though it was warm outside, the water was too chilly for Campbell's liking. He didn't mind too much when he was just touching it, but as soon as I got his life jacket on and tried to get him to swim, he hated it. Needless to say, we didn't stay in water long.

He had much more fun when we went to the hot springs. I tell you, he so much prefers to be in warm water. Hopefully next year he will be able to enjoy being in Grandma Patty's pool.

Camping at Pa John's

Lots of our summer camp trips involve going to Pa John's lot in Donnely. We have learned the importance of having a baby gate in front of the trailer for Campbell to be contained in. He is good as long as he doesn't see the rest of the family running around. He plays with his toys just like he was at home.

Beth and Matthew showed up unexpectedly and didn't have warm clothes for Brayli. Unfortunately, she is just enough bigger than Campbell that his clothes didn't quite fit, but she was warm! Love this beautiful smile!

Waiting patiently for a ride!

Roaring Springs

So, as I said in a previous post, Campbell only really likes playing in warm water. I didn't know how he would react to the water at Roaring Springs. It took a little getting used to, but he warmed up. He enjoyed playing in the kiddie pool and even went on the slide with me! There is a teeter-toter in the water he really wanted to play on. At one point, a bigger than him little girl wanted to play on it too. She knew she was too big for him, so she just pushed it up and down. He had so much fun and she was such a sweet kid!