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Fourth of July at Bear Lake

A new family member!

So Megan made me sad that I won't be having a cute little baby ever again so Chad, against his better judgement, gave into London and me and let us get a new baby of our own. If you know anything about me you know this is a HUGE step for me because a am NOT a dog person. They are kinda stinky, they shed hair, and puppies chew everything up. So why in the world did we get a puppy well it all started a couple months ago when Chad's mom got a new puppy- Zoe. She is a Cavalier St. King Charles too and she is the sweetest little dog. She has a cute personality, good with the kids, a lap dog, doesn't bark. London fell in love and tried to convince grandma to give her up and let us take her home. Well, of course grandma wasn't gonna give her up so we have had to make many trips to see Zoe over the past couple of months which kinda made me want a dog like Zoe- not just any dog. Anyway we decided to tend Zoe for a couple days and see if we were up to the challange and I found out puppies are a lot of work and I decided I wasn't ready for a puppy. Well not 2 weeks later Jane calls us early one morning and says there is a puppy on KSL and they weren't asking too much. I told her no at first and then I started thinking well MAYBE... and this is what happened next....

her name is Rainey. Isn't she cute?

Family Fun in the Wilderness-

The weather has been pretty bad here in Utah through the month of June but we decided to brave the wind and rain and go camping. We wanted to try somewhere new so we went out to dugway by Toole- there were wild horses and tons of antelope.

Summer Camp Fun!

So to keep the kids busy we signed them up for some fun camps. Braden did the Fremont Football camp and loved every minute! I can't believe my little sensitive Braden can love hitting other kids. Chad says it is little brother syndrome. Austin chose to go to Utah States Robotics camp. They built robots out of legos but they had a program that you use with a computer. He made his able to pick up other legos and also made a scanner thing that could detect what color the legos were. So he could tell the robot to pick up only blue legos. It was pretty cool- now he is saving his money to buy his own robot kit and computer program. I kept telling Chad that Austin is to old to play with legos but now I think maybe he'll make us lots of money one day.

My neighbor was in charge of bible camp at St. Mary's this year and she invited all my kids to join in. Of course Austin didn't want to do it but London and Braden said sure why not. By wed. Braden was doing the cross and telling everyone fear not. By thursday he was telling everyone he was switching to beong catholic. I told him he has to go more than a week to a church before he converted. When you sing and do crafts of course you think you want to join thta church! They both loved it and think God is great so overall I think it was pretty great for them.

Fun Night in the Emergency Room

SO last night was pretty exciting. Austin went to play night games at his friends and an hour later I get a phone call that I need to come get him because his eyes are swollen. When I got there I found him with his eyes almost swollen shut and the whites were all jelly like and he had welts up his arms and face. Apparently they decided to play in a wheat field and I am assuming my son is allergic to wheat. I gave him an anti-histamine and made him shower but he just kept swelling so we took him to the after hours clinic where they took one look at him and sent us to the emergency room. They were worried about his throat possibly swelling. Thank goodness that never happened but the dr said the next time the reaction could be worse. They hooked him up to an IV and pumped him full of steroids and benadryl and something else. You can't tell how bad it was from these pictures but the one with him in the hospital bed- he can't open his much more than that and the pictures this morning are his eyes fully open. I took these picture after the welts started going down and the meds had Austin all groggy. Chad thinks I am mean but I always carry a camera in my purse and I was alone in a er room- what else am I suppose to do. This morning his eyes are still really swollen and he has to take steroids and benadryl for the next 5 days. Very exciting! We will be visiting an allergist and seeing about getting an epi pen. Good times!