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This post is jumbled!  It's Saturday, Isaac is at the school, Emry is asleep -actually I just heard her jabbering, but I've got 3 more minutes to finish this- Kason and Asher are pullling out all their robots, transformers, planes, and pillows from the whole house and putting them into some sort of game in the middle of the room, the BYU game is on and I want to get some pictures up here.  Some of these are pretty old and from Isaac's phone, but I love them and so I wanted to have them on here.  

We do the pledge of allegiance every morning and I was so surprised how quickly the boys learned it for themselves.

Sunday morning activities

This picture is pretty old - sometime last year- but it makes my heart happy

Isaac and Kason at an Oregon game this summer.  Apparently, Kason yelled "O" the entire game and Isaac was shocked he didn't lose his voice.  Yes, we have become total Duck fans.

This is at Mckay and Katie's on one of our trips this summer.  Asher loves this dog stuffed animal, appropriately called "doggie",  you can see it curled up under him.  He sleeps with it every night. 

Kason rode his bike with Isaac to one of Isaac's soccer games and took some self portraits to keep occupied.

Last Saturday I took the boys to the Duck Drop.  I have wanted to go every year we've lived here, but haven't for one reason or another.  It's a fundraiser they do every year.  People buy a rubber duck and get their number written on the bottom of it.  Then, all the ducks are dropped into the river, I heard someone say there were 70,000 this year and they race down the river to the finish.  First place gets a prize, I don't even know what it is.  We didn't buy a duck, but it was still exciting.

Waiting for the ducks

Here they come...

There was also a local zoo there and I was shocked at how little kids were just grabbing the snakes and picking them up and carrying them around.  I didn't see many "zoo keepers" around.

Some guy just handed Kason this snake when he was done holding it.  Kason was delighted, but after a minute I got nervous that I was going to have to pull it out as it started to go up his shirt sleeve so I told him to put it back for someone else to grab.

On the walk back  home.  I am getting all sentimental about Oregon since it looks like we'll probably be leaving next year.  It's so pretty - all this green everywhere!

Another sentimental day - the changing leaves are so pretty! 

Some friends - whom Asher affectionately calls "Brandon and Joey" raked some leaves into a pile and the boys thought it was the best thing ever.

Waking up from nap.  I just want to squeeze her, she's such a happy and chill baby!

A baby that has been eating a ton lately!

I think she has us all wrapped around her little finger

Fire Ninja's

Who couldn't be excited for soccer with a team name like Fire Ninja's?!  Kason thinks it's the best thing ever, plus he drew lucky number 1 for his jersey.  They play 3 on 3 games with practice twice a week.  Kason is loving it. 

 

I actually caught Kason's goal on camera!

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The cheering squad.  Poor Asher, sometimes I feel like he really is a victim of the middle child curse. But, he's so supportive and excited for Kason.  Luckily, he's signed up for a hip hop class that starts in a couple weeks. 

Emry girl is 10 months old!  She's crawling all around and has pulled up on our legs a couple times.  She's still our happy, smiley, saying hi, Gerber baby!  She recently had a check up, right after a nasty bout of Roseola or some other virus that involved a 4 hr doctor visit and getting some blood drawn - only they tried to find a vein 3 times and never could because of her chunk, before I said enough.  All is well now though.  She lost a little weight from that and from all her moving.  Her stats:

Height: 28"

Weight: 17 lbs 11 oz

Love her

and love these jeggings I found for her!

Wedding Trip

We went on a quick trip last week.  Isaac's sister, Maren, got married and so Isaac packed up all his papers and computer and planned to work on the road.  It was a quick trip that involved lots of driving, but was well worth it.  I didn't think it was going to go so smoothly because within the first hour Kason got carsick and puked (in a bag, luckily), the "Are we there yet's" had started and Emry was crying.  I think that was probably the hardest hour of the trip though.  Then we all became resigned to the drive and everyone did great.  We stayed the first night at Mckay and Katie's, saw my cousin at BSU the next day and then drove to Rexburg for the wedding. 

First, we had to be sentimental and get a picture of Kason by the same sign we took a picture of him by shortly after he was born.

5 1/2 years ago

Maren and Wade

It was so sunny with lots of white around that made it difficult to see.  We tried not to squint for pictures, but mostly just ended up with watering eyes.

Payton and Kason

The wedding was during nap time, but Emry made it through.  I think the 3rd child just gets to learn to go with the flow and gets their naps when they can. 

Isaac's family minus Levi who is on an LDS mission

I love this picture

Emry and cousin Brielle with Grandpa

The cousins that were there, we missed 3 from Bret and Megan

Kason, Asher, Brielle and a favorite uncle Oliver

Then we headed to Montana for the reception.  The kids just played and played and thoroughly wore themselves out.

Eating pistachio's on a golf cart

Trash bag batman capes

There was also a fair amount of wrestling that went on.

At the reception...

Then we headed home.  We usually split the 15ish hour drive up into two days, but we did it all in one shot this time.  All things considered, I am pretty impressed with the kids.  They did awesome and there was hardly any crying, especially since they don't sleep much at all in the car.

Emry was pretty pleased I gave her a carrot to munch on

I absolutely hate this picture of me (really, it had been probably 8 hours in the car at this point), but I love it of the boys.

Sooo tired...but in her happy place - sucking her left thumb and pulling her hair with her other hand

We watched the sun set as we were driving along the Columbia River

And, to boot, the kids all fell asleep when it got dark for the last 3 hours.  

It was a great trip. 

Bonus picture: Emry crawls down the hallway to go play and make a mess with her brothers in their room.  I just have to keep the pennies, chalk and all the other little toys she finds out of her mouth.  She loves it and I think they do too.

And just to make this post even longer, I'll add the family photos we had a friend take a few months ago.  I'm afraid if I don't get them on here now it won't happen.  She took some and then I played around taking some of my own. Here are our favorites: