Where do I start?

waiting for our flat tire to be fixed. We were parked in the parking lot of the tire store to see about getting our tire fixed and were rear ended in the parking lot :)-you can tell I was thrilled! The kids were excited because they were able to go in and watch TV. Bryson couldn't even look away for the picture.




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greg swimming with the kids. Bryson, brielle and trey jumping off a rock diving board at Toby and Josie's condo. Trey is out of control. cousins on splash pad and golfing. Kade in his swimming suit. The finish line Cam did for out 24th of July Ward 5 K. I walked it with Kade (he was only 2 weeks then).




below: san diego sea port village balloon making, padre game

the guy didn't know what he was asking for when he started

playing swords with Trey and Bryson
Trey attacked and popped his sword.
legoland and padre game


Long version of our trip:





OK so every year we try and take the kids to San Diego to see a Padre game, visit the beach and go to Legoland. Well I figured since the kids only had a few weeks before school and Cam is always up for a trip (especially the Padres), i mentioned to Cam that we should take a quick trip and see a game or two. I have learned that unless I am ready and serious I should never mention anything to cam even just-let's go shopping, or get a movie or a treat because he makes anything happen (which is a great thing). I am the opposite everything has to be thought through. A quick, inexpensive trip turned into several unexpected costs and tues.-sat because the padres played on wed. and fri and when Cam saw that I had things packed and ready tuesday he decided he wanted to go tues. night. I usually shoot down most of cam's spontaneous ideas so I decided I would go with it. The adventure started with a $200 speeding ticket on the way to vegas and then cam told me he got a room at a casino. I had to remind him that we had 4 kids and a casino probably wasn't the best idea but we couldn't cancel so we took all 4 kids through the casino at 10 o'clock at night and I just wanted to cover their eyes but we were already getting enough looks. My blood was boiling by now. Cam was sweating by now and was just lucky that Kade didn't wake up because he would have started screaming and I probably would have lost it, but we made it to our room after waiting in line for a good 20 min to check in. We didn't get to sleep til about midnight and the kids were awake at 6 so we gathered our stuff and took off (not sure if cutting off 2 hrs of our trip was worth it-actually I am-it wasn't). We stopped in barstow and went to a few shops then made it to san diego an hour before check in time so we had to kill an hour with 4 kids-we basically just drove around. we did find a metor and went into a souvenir store and got bryson a new padre hat. Cam was excited about his hotel find that was supposedly within walking distance of the stadium that had free cook to order breakfast. We drove up to the hotel and found out it was valet parking only and $30 a day to park. I hated having to unpack everything that we wanted all at once-just another stress to add with 4 kids which increases our bag number quite a bit. It was very apparent that we were out of Utah with everyone staring at two young kids with 4 of their own kids. It is so sad that what is one of the most important things in the gospel (the family) is such a strange and crazy thing to the world. We had about an hour before the game. I failed to mention that Kade has decided to be cholicy (sp). so at this point if he is not sleeping, or eating he is fussy with stomach issues. i have never had a baby with his strong lungs it is a little scary when he screams. We started walking a little after 6 the game started at 7 but the hotel being within walking distance turned out to be about a mile. We brought a chair that sits low to the ground which took up most of the stroller and when we got there they told us no chairs so cam had to walk it all the way to the other side of the stadium. We looked at each other and thought what else could go wrong. I felt like I was in a movie with a live audience. Kade actually cooperated through the game. I just held him the whole time and nursed him with my back against the stroller. The great thing about it all was that it was beautiful weather! We had to wear jeans and jackets. such a nice little break from the heat. The next morning we took our time getting ready for legoland, had breakfast-poor cam was juggling 4 trays of food. I had Kade in a front pack. We went to the lobby to get our car. There was a huge line for the valet. We waited in the lobby for about 20 min. before we asked how much longer and they told us that our tire was flat in the parking lot. so we took the kids back up the room and Cam went and put the donught (sp) on and we went to a tire store and spent $150 on a new tire. Again Cam and I said could anything else go wrong when a man in a 1950 cadillac rear ended us while we were parked waiting for our tire. I had to take a deep breath. the kids were watching a movie and felt a little jerk but were fine. the man was taken to the hospital because all he knew was his first name. He really shouldn't have been driving. We made it to legoland at about 2pm. we would have dropped legoland but we already paid for the tickets. Legoland was torture for trey because he couldn't ride any of the rides and he wanted to ride the big ones. Cam also had to go on most rides twice because Bryson and Brielle weren't tall enough to go by themselves. I didn't take a cooler of food with us because I didn't want them to turn us away at the gate but they didn't even check our stroller so we ended up paying $60 for lunch and because the kids couldn't ride a lot of the rides by themselves and we didn't want to wait 30-60min twice we played a lot of their carnival like games and the kids won stuffed animals. I think we ended up staying maybe 5 hrs. another waste of money. the kids would have had just as much fun at the hotel-oh well. We were going to go to the beach on fri. but after seeing our luck decided not to and walked across to sea port village and shopped their cute shops. Kade slept the whole time :) We were fortunate because the times he was most fussy was in the hotel. he was actually pretty good at legoland and slept a lot. We then came home and Cam swam with the kids and then we stayed in and rented Maid of Honor and the kids speed Racer from our room. The kids napped and then we went to the game. Fri. was pretty smooth. We had our free breakfast one last time on sat. and headed home. Right before we went down to our car we checked our bathroom for stuff and the toilet had over flowed and the floor was covered with soap bubbles. We just left. Kade slept the whole way home!! He was way fussy that night at home and fussed all morning sunday but fell asleep right before church and slept through church and a little more when we got home. Cam gave the spiritual thought in ward council on patience. Our patience was defininetly tried. I had people in san diego tell me I was brave (I know they were thinking CRAZY). i started telling people he was a month because I felt stupid saying 3 weeks. I have stopped eating any dairy and he seems to be doing better. We have been giving him gripe water and gas drops and some pill that the doctor gave us for acid. He isn't spitting up a lot but the pill seems to help too. Monday and Tuesday he was quite pleasant so I hope we have figured it out. We swam all day yesterday at Toby and Josie's condo and amie's house and then all the cousins came over and played in the splash pad. Payton and marcus slept over.