Happy 2nd Birthday Aaron!

Dear Aaron,
In the scriptures it tells us our words and actions are recorded by the angels in Heaven. I hope whomever may be recording my words and actions today will pass them along to you. Happy Birthday sweet boy! I imagine today would be a fun filled day, no brothers at home with us, just you and me celebrating the day away. We would probably buy you a trike so you could ride bikes with the boys. You would practice in the basement with Preston, it seems in our family during the winter the empty basement becomes the play land for bikes and anything with wheels. All though Dad has helped your brothers discover remote control cars, so maybe we would be getting you one of those to keep up with the boys. I wonder what we would make for your family dinner? I am sure something easy like Mac n cheese or chicken nuggets isn't that what all 2 year olds love? Of course cake and ice cream would be served and family would come and what a day it would be.....who are we kidding around here it is a week celebration at least, if not longer.

Of course you are not here, so instead we hang a Happy Birthday banner (made by Aunt Tessa) and ever so silently mourn the day we celebrate you. We will visit you at your grave with candles (your brother wanted strobe lights, but I am not sure how I feel about that @ the cemetery). We love you and miss you everyday, and we want you to know that we feel you, we know you are close.

Love you so much,
From all of us but especially Mom

P.S in case you didn't know......but I am sure you knew before us-YOU ARE GOING TO BE A BIG BROTHER!

Football

Stockton loved playing football for the first time ever this year. He has been wanting to play football for the longest time, but you know life was a little crazy. He worked so hard at it. He stopped eating sugar and soda. He ran until he threw up. Football is a definitely a man's sport. Not only did he manage to pull about 3 hours of practice a night, but also a straight A first quarter report card in middle school. Way to go Stockton! We are so SO Proud of you!

Preston to is sad for football season to be over too. He loved playing endlessly at the park.

Summer Review

This summer we decided not to have surgery to just fix a few things on Stockton's face, instead he decided to enjoy summer, and we did...

We played hard with the dog. My boys love this thing so much, I on the other hand...well I am thankful for the entertainment he provides for everyone.

We sent Stock off to a week long Boy Scout Camp, just weeks after all the 12 year old sad Boy Scout stories hit the news. I was seriously okay with him not going, but he thought he could handle it! He loved it, but asked to get a ride home from a leader who was coming home early in the morning on the last day. He walked in and yelled, "Mom, Mom, Mom....Is everyone okay?" I love him!

We found that Preston truly loves anything with a heartbeat.

We went to the Conference Center for Music and The Spoken Word. Thanks Grandma for the awesome field trip, we loved it!

We wheelbarrow raced at the 24th of July Party.

Parades, we hit the parades. The best is always the Draper Parade lots and lots of candy.

At one point this summer Preston had over 32 mosquito bites on his body from working at the Stake Farm. He looked like this for a good week.

Keeping up with tradition, we had our awesome Nault Family water-fight!

I Fly Utah

Quite sometime ago Grandma Vickie took the boys to IFLY. Which is an indoor skydiving shop in Ogden Utah. A vertical wind tunnel moves air up in a vertical column, creating the indoor skydiving experience. They had a blast!

First they had a short meeting explaining hand signals and rules, and then off to get outfitted for the adventure.

Sam, he loves this kind of stuff.


Preston, I love his cheeks.


Stockton, I am not sure what he was thinking, but my nephew standing next to him was nervous.



Preston stepped out,



Got up,




and off he went.





Stockton, well he is just a lot bigger than Preston, the guy could not just throw Stock over the wind tunnel to get him to go, but he tried.





On the second time around Stockton got it and with the help of the instructor was whipped all the way up inside the tunnel. He thought it was very cool!



And then Sam, well I already told you, He LOVES this stuff!

Remember this-

This is how much Stockton has grown from Christmas- Here I still had at least a half of a head on him.

To just before we went to New York in May-


You should see how much my grocery bill has increased too.

Halloween revisted

Remember this post about 'Halloween'. Well Preston was just not sold on the costume without the weapon idea. One night before Halloween I walked in on the discussion that Preston and his Dad were having. It went something like we could make your hair look like the Avatar.

Later that night Sam explained his idea to me and I heard we can just color his hair blue with an arrow in it. I remember I said sure that would be okay.

Fast forward to Tuesday night before Halloween. I left the house. I left my son with his trusting Father. To return to this!!




Oh LOTS and LOTS of tears were shed. Lots of what were you thinking, how are you going to explain this to my Parents!! After a day of silence on my part, and a day of a little boy believing he IS the Avatar, I learned to deal with it, and let Preston enjoy it.

He was a hit for Halloween, but it had to be gone by Monday morning per the Principal of the school's request.

Tonsillectomy + "Mom come lay by me" = Blogging time.

Preston is recovering from a tonsillectomy, so I am laying by him and updating the blog...finally.

I wanted to start by updating from Halloween, but that post will have to wait. I brought the wrong SD card from my camera downstairs, and there is no way I am moving or the little boy who hasn't slept in a while will awake and it will be bad.

We will start with early summer this year:
We graduated from kindergarten and from the 6th grade. The last time the boys will ever be in the same school at the same time again.

We left the day after school got out on separate vacations. Sam and Preston on the west coast to visit his brother in Southern California. While Stockton and I headed to the east coast to visit Washington DC and New York City.

Preston and Sam headed to Sea World. I now have a boy who is all about sea life. In fact in the past 5 days I have watched about seven documentaries on marine biology, and all he talks about is going back to the ocean and being a dolphin trainer.


He also sent me a text message and told me "I am tall enough to ride California Screamin' should I ride it?" Followed by this picture:




Off he went and ended up riding it a few times.






He loved the crab sandwich and getting in the hot tub at his Uncle's house.





Stockton and I had a blast in Washington D.C, although we did experience the rare record breaking heat wave and humidity that almost killed us. In fact we found t-shirts to just describe our vacation:

That should just about describe it!

We did go to D.C Cupcakes or also known as Georgetown Cupcakes, and to Carlos Bakery or also known as the Cake Boss. If you look really close you can see Buddy waving out the window. Loved all the goodies we tried.

This trip I noticed this!!

Stockton is officially taller than his Mom.

When we came back from our trips the next weekend I ran the Wasatch Back. It was a lot of fun and loved every minute of it! I was very glad to have an awesome team and can't wait to do it next year.
(okay Ryan and Tessa, I blogged!)

We Are Doing Great!!

I got a phone call this morning, asking if we were okay? I got an email a few weeks ago asking if we were okay, and then a comment on a 2 month old post asking if we were good. We are great, just enjoying life, and loving it!! Hope you are too.