Stay at home Saturday

This past Saturday we stayed home. We started out day off with going to the new Rock Springs Rec center pool. My boys loved it. After 3 hours of water Dayton was hungry and ready to go. We came home and cleaned up a little, and then we went to lunch at Applebees. After that we went to a car dealership to see if we could win a car for free. We came home and relaxed and tried to nap but had not luck. We took it easy till around 7 or so and then we headed out for a good ride on the Ranger. We went to the top of White Mtn. We were back home about 2 hours later and we sat down as a family, watched a movie and ate some ice cream together. It was soo nice to stay home and have nothing to do and just be with my family. I think we all enjoyed ourselves.

Observant

Little Dayton is starting to catch on to more and more things every day.
Story 1. Yesterday for breakfast Heavenly father and Jesus were brought up after the prayer. Dayton looked at me and said "Why does Jesus love me?" The question caught me off guard, I looked around and told him the first thing that came to my head. "Because he is your brother" I wish I would have said something more, I wish I would have had warning of the question so I had some time to think of a great answer. But you do what you do when you are on the spot. Not moment later Dayton asks "Who is Heavenly Father?" I replied "Well he is your Father in Heaven" Dayton was confused he pointed to Jason and said, "no that is my dad". I then tried to explain about the pre-earth life and heaven....it was no use. Dayton's attention span was gone. While eating breakfast I was consumed in Dayton's question. I knew I needed to find better answers that what I had given him. When breakfast was almost finished I tried to bring it up and it was no use again. By this point Dayton was hyper, wiggling, and Jace was screaming. All of this is a good reminder that Dayton understands the lessons in church as well as the lessons in family home evening and I need to be doing my best to teach him all that he needs to know about the church and the gospel.
Story 2. Yesterday at Church I had Jason's truck keys when I was in nursery. I set them down and they were gone. Its a scary thought because there were like 18 kids ages 3 and younger down to 18 months. I didn't notice the keys were gone until we were walking out to the truck and Jason asked me where they were. We looked frantically, had the bishop re-open the nursery closet and everything. After a half hour or so we gave up. On our way out of the nursery room I told Jason we were just going to have to walk home (I was not looking forward to walking at all. I was wearing almost 4 inch heals and the church is a little over a mile away from my house.) Jason freaked out calling me stupid and stomped off with Jace in his arms leaving me Dayton. I felt way bad. I knew I needed to find the keys, but I was overwhelmed with where to start. I had to carry Dayton in my arms almost the entire walk home because he said his side hurt. When I arrived home I instantly got into the car and headed back to church to look some more. I walked into the Library first thinking maybe there was a lost and found...and there they were just sitting on the counter. I was so excited. I came home and gave Jason the keys. We were civil with each other throughout the day. He and I kept our space. I told him sorry and told him he should apologize as well but he refused. Long story short. Every morning Jason always kisses me good bye and says "I love you sweetie" This morning Jason and I weren't speaking and Jason kissed the boys good bye and went to walk out the door, right then Dayton yelled out "Dad, say I love you sweetie!" Jason came in and did as Dayton had said. It made me so emotional. Wow Dayton does pay attention to how me and Jason treat each other. It was a great reminder that my kids are observant. They know when things are different between Jason and I.
Moral of the story. Kids notice the smallest of things. They understand more than parents can ever comprehend. I need to make sure that I go about everything in my day knowing full well that my kids are watching everything and they will question me on it if something doesn't make sense or if something seems out of place. I love you Dayton. Thanks for always keeping me on my toes. I also love you Jason. I am so sorry about loosing your keys. I will try to be better at not loosing things.

Memorial Park

Me and the Kids went to Memorial park for a few hours the other day. It was fun for all of us. Dayton is starting to get more adventurous every day. He is a great climber and is very strong. Jace enjoyed holding onto things and walking along them. He also tried out a few slides.

Water Fascination

Dayton and Jaylee watching other kids run through the water

Dayton running under a water bridge at the Green River splash park.

Dayton loved watching these buckets fill up with water and then the buckets would dump it all out once they were full. He mainly just watches this, but I am sure next year he will be under the dumping water.

Dayton and Jace this year have had a lot of water in their summer. They have a water fascination that is soo cute. Jace this summer is into splashing and feeling the water. He cannot get enough of our little blow up swimming pool or just playing with the hose. He loves to just lift up the hose and put his hand in the water and wiggle his fingers up and down in it.

Dayton has came a long way when it comes to being in the water. He will actually play in the water at the splash parks. He loves to run through it and step on the water spouts that come out of the ground. Last year he was mostly just an observer who sometimes would touch the water. Dayton also loves playing in our blow up pool in the back yard as well as with the simple hose, and with his Buzz light year splash water spaceship. We love the summer here at the Stott house and we try to take in as much of it as we can. Summer is always too short.

Rock Springs Sled Pull

This year a sled pull was held in Rock Springs. I have been soo excited about this pull all season long. It was our chance to really promote Addicted Performance Diesel. Jason had a pull in Delta Utah the night before and ran about 150 feet before his truck went out of gear. He loaded up the truck and headed back here arriving in Rock Springs at 3:30 AM. He got a little sleep and he was up and going the next morning to get ready for the pulls here that started at noon. NADM put on the Diesel show and then directly after was the United Modified show (that was the show Jason was in) The pulls were random with wind and sun, to no wind and clouds, to clouds, wind and rain. The Weather couldn't make up its mind. Typical Rock Springs weather I guess. Jason's time had come to pull and ... TAA DAA it didn't run. The injection pump went out and the truck wasn't getting any fuel to power up. I was upset. Injection pumps can go out at any time. It was just pure bad luck that it decided to do it here in Rock Springs.

My family did come up to Rock Springs to spend the weekend with us though. Megan, Lee, Stacee, Digger, Macade, Dad and Shaelynn were all here. It was soo nice to have everyone under the same roof for the weekend.

After the sled pull ended and we were all ready to go, we came home got ready and we went to dinner at Bonsai. We had some yummy food. Poor Megan didn't find it so yummy. All of the raw sashimi that was going on had totally made her sick to her stomach.

On Sunday we went to the sand dunes. It was fun. It took everyone a half hour or so to come out of their shells but eventually they all came around and it turned out to be a good time. I am so thankful for my family and their support for me and my little family. Especially for their support on Sled Pulling. I don't know how I would do it without them. Thanks soo much!

Parties in Utah

all of my sisters and mom at the wedding dinner

mom at her dinner

Dad and Jace at Macades party
Dayton and Macade playing in the pool

Dayton on the slipping slide

mom doing an awesome belly flop! (I am cracking up in the background)

me testing my skill on the slipping slide

Me and mom and Shae all helping out to get Stacee drenched in the pool

Me and the boys spent 5 days in Utah. We went down to go to my Mom and Mark's wedding BBQ and we stayed a few days so we could make it to Macades Birthday Party. The Wedding was on Saturday night July 31st. Dinner was okay. There was some drama but I guess that is to be expected with such a big family. I wish it would have been smaller and more of a getting to know you type of a thing but o well.

Sunday we (Mom, Mark, Stacee, Macade, Megan, Me, Dayton, Jace, Shaelynn, and then Marks kids Bryce, Liz and Emma. hung out, went to Sizzler (I know I know it was a Sunday) went to the mall and then we went to Despicable me.

Monday was spent just hanging out at grandmas. Megan stayed home from work that day to spend time with me and to help me out with the boys. In the afternoon we went to Patty's Ceramics and bought a few crafts and then we headed to Lehi to go to Costco and brought home some pizza to eat at Stacee's house.

On Tuesday I spent the morning cleaning Grandma Shepherds house and then got me and the boys ready for the day and headed to Stacee's house to help out with the preparations for Macades Birthday party. The Party was fun. Stacee had a water slide and a water pool. It was nice and simple with just a cake and ice cream bar. There was no drama and it was wonderful. I tried out my skills on the water slide. As did Dayton, Macade, Shae, Mom and Stacee. Mom belly flopped it and it was hilarious!! After the present opening we headed back to Grandma Shepherds house to put the kids down for bed. We came back home Wednesday morning.