Summer 2015

Our summer has been pretty uneventful, we spent most of it just relaxing at home.

 Adam took the kids fishing a couple times and on a couple hikes and swimming.

He also took them to lava hot springs for his family reunion and to visit with family.

The kids enjoyed swimming like they always do. Adahleigh even jumped off the lowest platform, and the older three enjoyed the slides.

He also took them on our yearly outing to kah-nee-tah to swim and sleep in tepees with there cousins, grandma p, and most of there aunts and uncles. While I got to stay home with two day old malia and grandma w and catch up on some sleep!

Adam decided it was finally time to put in a sprinkler system which lasted most of the summer with early mornings and late nights. Our grass is beginning to be green and not so patchy, so next year the kids may have some grass to run around on. 

We ended our summer with a trip to the valley over Labor Day weekend. It was Adams long weekend and he had plans to go to the temple Saturday with the youth in our ward so we decided to make a weekend of it at his moms. The kids enjoyed spending time with there cousins. Miles and Erin were planning a day trip to the coast so we tagged along. We stopped by a casino on the way for lunch at their buffet. Adahleigh  was ecstatic to be going, her favorite restraunt is chuck a Rama, and to hear this is just like it but bigger and better she couldn't wait. All the kids ate their weight in jello and pizza and topped it off with ice cream. 

We finally made it to the beach where the kids played for the rest of the day, Malia enjoyed her first beach trip tucked away in the moby. 

The weather at the coast that day was very nice. 

Jer enjoying both ends of his cones at lunch.

The kids all trying to build a dam to stop the water. We didn't get many pictures for Adam dropped his phone the ocean when we first got there and I spent part of the time taking care of Malia and going shopping for some rice for Adams phone. 

This little man loved the beach and getting dirty and just getting to run!!! We all enjoyed are end up summer trip to the beach.

We spent the rest of the time celebrating birthdays, having an outdoor movie party, the kids thinking they wanted to swim but  realizing it was just too cold. 

We headed for home the day before school started to get things ready and to get the kids ready for bed at a decent hour.

We enjoyed our lazy summer and for all the family we were able to visit with throughout it. 

We are slowly adjusting to getting back into school mode, but the kids are all enjoying school and doing well.  

Malia Rhys

We left for the hospital just after 11 on the night of the 14th, after what I thought was my water breaking. After a few tests and waiting around they finally admitted us. She was finally on her way! 

Malia was born August 15 at 6:57 am. She weighed 8 lbs & 21 1/4 in long. She was very content most of the day, when she wasn't sleeping or eating she was wide awake. Adam left mid afternoon to go home and get the kids and grandma w to come meet "baby sister" ( this was her name at the moment because we had yet to decide on a name for her). They each had a turn to hold there new sister! 

After only a few minutes of being there, Jerrick was sitting on the bed with me when he turned to me and told me to get my shoes on it was time to go home. When I asked him if baby sister could come home with us, he said no she has to stay here. Needless to say they have become best buds and he is a great big brother to her.  

The rest of the time was pretty uneventful, Malia slept the rest of the afternoon, and Adam took kids home and spent sometime with all his brothers and there families who were visiting for the weekend. Her first night was a little rough with constant crying and little sleep, once we finally got her to sleep it wasn't much later the nurse came in to wake her up to take her vitals and prick her heal to get some blood. She couldn't get enough blood so she had to prick both her heals. Eventually later that day putting a line in her arm for a blood draw because the blood kept clotting so they couldn't use it for what they needed to test it for. She slept most of the day. And of course we had to wait around most of the day before being released to go home. That night she cried most of the night with little sleep. I think she got it out of her system, she's a pretty good sleeper now. 

She is now 5 weeks old.

 She loves to eat and enjoys her bathtime. She sleeps well at night only waking 2 or 3 times to eat. 

We have managed to survive the last few weeks of church, she enjoys being  wrapped in the moby so my hands are  free to wrangle the other four so we're not to disruptful during sacrament meeting. 

Reptile Zone -Bend, OR

This is an old draft that never was posted after we started it.

This is our all time favorite pet store ever. We really enjoyed Mckee's in Pocatello, because of the petting zoo that it had out back, but the Reptile Zone is like your own reptile collection. The owner lets and encourages you to get the animal out and handle them.

The kids love going and seeing all kinds of reptiles. 

These photos are from our first year back to Oregon, as is obvious by how young the kids look and the absence of Jerrick.

The Reptile Zone has actually moved to a different location since these pictures were taken.

Here's a more recent picture from the Reptile Zone. We still enjoy going as often as possible to see and handle all the reptiles there.