Aquatics center

Last summer we lived at our local pool but this summer it's been too hard with Brett to take all the kids. Bryan took my older two boys swimming once then our dentist did his annual swim party there and with my mom's help we were able to go. 

 Blake is so proud of himself that he can dip his head under the water!

 Tyson is so my little fish! He loves to swim.  We start swimming lessons here in a week or so and they ask me everyday if today is the day they are going.

 Brett didn't enjoy the water but he did enjoy a nap. 

 Stockton was nervous about the water but go in anyway.  He was walking in the water with me and fell forward enough to get his face wet.  I stood him back up and acted like it was no big thing but it made me nervous.  We didn't dare let him be more then a couple feet from us at all times.  My older boys went off in the pool with our little neighbor boy Dallin and it made me nervous that I couldn't always see them. The pool is pretty shallow though and it wasn't too busy.

 It took Bryan, my mom and I to watch all these kids!  Bryan would have one, someone would try to watch Ty and Blake and the last one would be with Brett.

 Stockton went down the slide for the first time ever.  Bryan said his little heart was beating pretty fast but he didn't cry or anything.  Tyson will go down alone but Blake still likes to go down with Bryan.

I hope we can take the older boys at least one more time this summer!

4 Palmer boys

Back in like March my mom helped me find these cute outfits at Kohls for Easter so I had her get one for Brett so when he was born I could get a picture like this: 

So I LOVE photoshop!  There is really no other way to get a decent picture of all of my boys.  I still wish I knew more but after a lot of putting other faces on their face to get one where they are all looking pretty good I got one.  I can't wait to get a print of it for my  house!

While I was at my mom's house in June I knew they could help me get some pictures of my kids then my brother stopped by with my niece Kiya so she joined in the fun too!

I feel bad we didn't get a better grandkid picture then this.  

The cousins

I am SO sad that the picture of Stockton is a little blurry.  I was taking too many pictures too fast it was blurry!  But he still looks so stinking cute.  Then Kiya's picture i took out Sierra's arm with photoshop and fixed it up a little bit.

Poor little Brett was having a really bad skin day!  He still is SO cute! 

Brothers

Mount Timpanogos temple

My dad got a new job as the scout executive for the national parks council (Utah county and the whole southern part of Utah) last winter and officially moved that way in June.  My boys and I went down to stay for a couple of days.  We went to my dads new scout office in Orem:

You can see the Mt. Timpanogos temple from their upstairs window- what it's a beautiful temple!

Love my boys!

My parents and my boys

Stockton

It's so hard to get a good picture of the boys! I love how they are laughing though.

It was a Monday night when we went up to the temple so it was closed.  It made it easy to walk up to the doors with out people coming in and out.

Tyson

Blake

I loved the flower beds!  I wished mine looked that good!

Brett was too tired to care.

I love to snuggle my baby!

Bean Museum

We went to visit my parents at their new home in Utah county and decided to head over to BYU to the Bean museum.  It is full of animals and my boys LOVED IT!  Best of all- it's free!  Pain to find parking but we managed.  I forgot my stroller though so we pulled out my old baby stroller my mom had and it worked enough for Stockton to sit in it.  

 Ty said this is the face he would pull if a tiger was about to eat him.  

 Stockton loved this place!  He kept pointing and babbling something about the animals.  I have no idea who the red head in the picture is.  You would think his mom would pay attention enough to notice her kid was not only bothering Stockton but in my picture...

 This butterfly was made up of thousands of little butterflies.  It was beautiful! We had to hold Brett like this though the whole place.  He does look really cute though. =)

 Ty wanted me to take a picture of him pretending to shot the bear- I'm glad no tree hugger saw him.

Thank goodness for my mom going with us!  The 4 kids were a lot of work and it took both of us go make it though this place!  If you are down by BYU- the kids loved it here.  Totally worth it especially because it's free.

Grandma Jenkins house!

We had a fun day with my mom and Grandma a couple of weeks ago:

 This is what Stockton looks like when he is trying to throw a croquet ball at me... yeah.  But then later on he looked like this:

 So it's hard to not just love him to pieces all the time anyway.  He is really into the tantrum faze though.  If I give him a chip instead of him being able to pull it out of the bag himself it's all over.  But then other times he will let me help him do things.  You just never know!

 My mom gained a new appreciation for me in June. She helped me a TON!  She came to visit us for a few days then a few days after that we headed for her house and she came back with us to my house. It was a much needed help for me who some days feels like I'm going crazy.

 My grandma Jenkins was trying to teach Blake how to play croquet.  He now wants his own set.  He doesn't like to play the way you are supposed to though.

 Blake pulling the Grandpa Jenkins face! We all did this face as kids. 

I love my Grandpa.  He had a stroke two weeks before Stockton was born.  Stock's middle name is Lowell after him and it broke my heart when it looked like he wasn't going to be able to see Stockton born.  It's a miracle that he is doing this well.  I'm so grateful he is still around!

 My sweet Grandma is such a big help to me.  She has helped me babysit my kids a lot over the years. When I was in college she let me do my laundry at her house and always sent me back to my apartment with a bag full of food. She has always taken such good care of me!  She is always trying to help anyone she can.  I hope I can be like her.

2 month old Brett!

I can't believe how fast time is flying with his little guy.  Part of me is so glad he is growing up fast but then the other part of me is so sad because he may be my last baby. Brett is the sweetest thing ever!  He is so mellow.  He usually goes to sleep around 11 and wakes up at three then again at 5 or 6.  I have never had a baby that slept that good!  He just started to kind of smile at me in the last week or so.  It's still a lot of work to get him to smile sometimes but so worth it.  At his last appointment he weighed  

13 lb 13 oz and was 23 1/4 in! He is in the 90 percentile for weight and 60th for height. What a chunk huh? He has a very overactive tear duct in his right eye and so his gooey a lot.  The poor little guy has reflux pretty bad but lucky for us it doesn't seem to hurt him too bad. I can hear him gulping all night because he swallow's it instead of spitting up a lot. Then along with his horrible, horrible cradle cap he's got somedays he looks like he has been though a war zone.  Even with all of that he is such a content little guy.  As long as he isn't hungry, tired or needs a diaper change he is a happy little guy!

 A little sleepy smile =) 

 I love his little cheeks! 

Like my other boys Brett isn't a fan of tummy time.  I'm really bad to remember to do it with him too.