Summertime Fun

Since I've taken such a hiatus from my blogging, I'm just gonna upload all the pictures I have from our summer events and title them. So have fun looking through the past 5 months of our lives.

Michael opening his birthday presents. He turned 2 on September 20th.

Michael eating his birthday cupcakes

Checking out his cool dump truck cake

Michael sitting in his new buzz lightyear chair

Jacob, Kera, and Michael playing with his new dump truck

Kera at the church history museum where they had an "I am a Child of God" exhibit

Kera and cousin Maya riding cars at Lagoon

Jacob and Kera riding the rockets at Lagoon

Michael and Jacob riding rides at Lagoon. Michael was my first kid that would ride the rides and not be scared at age 2. Maybe someday I'll have someone to ride "Wicked" with since Jacob and Kera won't go near it.

Dave and the kids riding the carousel at Lagoon

Kera and her cousins Morgan and Grace playing pioneer toys at This is the Place park.

Uncle Jeff attempting to walk on stilts at This is the Place park.

This is probably the only time I'll see Jacob hanging clothes out to dry (T.I.T.P. park).

Grandpa with all the grandkids at the S.L. visitors center Christus statue.

Dad and Michael hanging out at T.I.T.P. heritage park.

Having lunch at Mirror Lake with all the Adams family.

Dad and Kera at great g&g Andrus 24th of July BBQ

Cousins playing games at Andrus BBQ

All of the Adams grandkids at g&g's temporary home in Park City.

All of the Adams extended family in front of an Andrus ancestor's building at T.I.T.P. heritage park.

Dave and I hiked with Dave's bro in law to Adams Canyon waterfall in Kaysville.

Jacob and Kera with our friends the Oswald's kids at Tony Grove, near Logan utah.

Kaysville city Parade on July 4th

Watching the parade go by.

Jacob and Michael at the Kaysville parade.

Sleeping in the Oswalds trailer on our campout to Tony Grove. (Michael borrowed the pink jacket from his friend Brianna).

Jacob and dad (his wolf cub leader) at Jacob's first pack meeting.

Jacob and his cousin Spencer at summer cub scout day camp.

Mom hugging Jacob after receiving his bobcat award.

Mom, Jacob and Kera at the pack meeting.

One more little Goar...

I must first apologize for my huge break from posting on my blog. I think the last post was in June! That is unbelievable! I am going to be better at keeping up to date here.
So for the exciting news....yes, I am pregnant for those who have not heard yet. My due date is April 22nd which makes me about 4 months along. We went to the doctor yesterday for my 16 week appointment, and we saw the pictures on the ultrasound that confirm it...it's a BOY!!! One more boy to add to our family. We won't be evening up the teams, but we are excited to have a another boy. I guess this is God's way of telling me he wants me to have more children, because honestly if I were having a girl, I would be very content and probably wouldn't want to go for #5. One child at a time. ;)
More posts with pictures will be coming, so keep checking my blog!

This is what happens when your kid takes video clips with your camera

Jacob's Baptism Day

I took a bunch of pictures of Jacob to put on his invitations and program, and this is my fav

Jacob posing in his new "dad" suit


Our family on the baptism day

The whole extended family

Jacob blowing out his candles on the cakes his aunt Carrie made him

Jacob's baptism was on June 5, 2010. What a wonderful day it was. I have been to several baptisms over the past four years since I've been serving in our ward primary presidency and as a primary teacher. I thought I'd be prepared for what to expect, but it's just not the same when it's your own child being baptized. It was a powerful and spiritual experience to have Dave baptism our first born child and confirm upon him the gift of the Holy Ghost. Dave was moved during the baptism prayer and got a little choked up, which in turn got my tears flowing. Then when Jacob came up out of the water he was grinning from ear to ear. While they were changing out of their wet clothes Jacob told Dave that he felt really warm. Dave said you mean it's warm in here? And Jacob said no, he felt really warm inside. That's such a special moment when your child feels the spirit and can recognize what it feels like.

The program for his baptism was chosen by Jacob and he wanted his two cousins, Spencer Yates and Gracie Adams, to give talks. They both did a great job, Gracie talked about the ordinance of baptism and Spencer talked about the Holy Ghost. We also had some cousins, including Kera, sing "When I am Baptized". After the baptism we had everyone over for a BBQ and to celebrate Jacob turning 8. It was a great day. We had most of our families here for the baptism. All of Dave's family flew in from Texas the day before, and all of my family that lives here in Utah were there, including my grandparents.

The Big Birthday Bash

I thought I'd be nice and get a new post on here quick so you don't have to see the title "Stomach Bugs" and get that image in your head of me being sick every time you see my blog update come up.

So here are pictures of Jacob's 8th birthday party with some of his friends from primary and school. He had a great time. I'm glad the party only lasted an hour and a half. Jacob and his friends had a good time playing the games that Jacob found on the internet. He's been really into Club Penguin (the online computer game on disney.com). So he had a club penguin themed party and they played a game called "Ninja Nowhere" (similar to hide and seek), and "Hot Puffle", and an ice fishing game. He also had a penguin pinata. I never seem to get pictures of the pinata though. I'm always too busy making sure the boys don't kill each other when they're swinging at the pinata.

This is the best cake idea I could come up with the day after being sick

Blowing out the candles

Random dancing before blowing out the candles

Ready to serve them up

One of the presents he got, some kind of legos. He also received several club penguin playing cards.

These boys were hyped up after all the cupcakes, ice cream and candy from the pinata!!

Stomach Bugs and Holidays
Warning: May contain graphic content-not for those with weak stomachs!

I don't know what it is, but there's just something about our family getting the stomach virus during holidays. I remember about 2 years ago, the stomach flu went around our family over the 4th of July weekend. And we've been plagued with the stomach flu over Christmas twice. Two years ago Dave's parents flew in from Texas and his poor mom came down with a stomach virus two days before Christmas, then it cycled through our family. I don't think anyone was throwing up Christmas morning, but all the days around Christmas someone was sick. Now we came down with the dreaded stomach bug the weekend of Jacob's 8th birthday. It all started with Michael. He threw up Thursday night in his bed, this just happened to be the same night as my bunco group were all gathered at my house to play. Dave tended to Michael and got him cleaned up. I didn't even know he'd thrown up until everyone left. Then later after the bunco game was over, my stomach really started to hurt. Then I started to throw up and it didn't stop all night until about 4 a.m. It was horrible. It was probably one of the worst nights of my life. Some of you know I have a weird tendency to pass out when I am sick and starting to vomit. So I sit there over the toilet, trying really hard to take deep breaths and not pass out, and sometimes it doesn't work and I feel myself starting to lose consciousness, I'll wake up on the ground, sometimes covered in my own puke. I know, not too pretty a picture. Takes me back to my most embarrassing moment in college when I was with some guy friends at a Jazz game and was sick and ran to the bathroom, barely making it to the stall where I ended up passing out and a bathroom attendant was standing over me asking me if I was okay. I come to and realize I've vomited all over myself and then I have to come out of the bathroom like this and face my good friend Jeremy and his two roommates. Nice. Not only am I covered in vomit, but the security people insist that they get me a wheelchair and wheel me out to the car. Just what I need, more attention drawn to myself.
Anyway, back to the story at hand. So I'm in the bathroom and I've realized that I've passed out and I start to clean up the vomit on the floor and myself. Then I go upstairs to my room to clean up and try to get some sleep. To no avail. I run to the bathroom to throw up again. This time I succeed in remaining consciuos. So I go back to the bed just to get up 10 minutes later and throw up again. It was bad. It's one of those kinds of stomach viruses where you don't really feel better after throwing up. I just felt bad the whole time. I went back 30 minutes later to throw up again and this continued a few times. Sometime around midnight it started coming out both ends, and this is when I really wanted to die. I didn't know if I should sit or lean over the toilet! Anyone been in this position before? Then I started to vomit again, and this time I do pass out again and "wake up" only to hurry onto the toilet. "How can this be happening" and "What have I done to deserve this?" are just some of the thoughts running through my head. I think I passed out one more time after this and I really hurt my foot somehow. After this, and while sitting on the toilet, I start to yell for Dave. I've been in the bathroom this whole time, and while I was in there Dave went down to the basement to sleep. Probably very fearful that he might catch this nasty illness. So I'm sitting there calling for him, then I start yelling help as loud as I can and am crying. I realize Dave isn't in the room and I am on my own, so I clean myself up and go downstairs to find him. I get to the basement and wake him up somewhat hysterical and delirious and start crying. I can't take the pain anymore. I asked him to give me a blessing. We go upstairs and he gave me one. He also found some nausea medicine that we had in the medicine cabinet. It expired in 2009, but I figured it couldn't hurt. So I took that, and I think that the medicine combined with the blessing he gave me really helped. I slept the rest of the night. The next morning Kera had her preschool graduation and I was supposed to bring treats to Jacob's class for his birthday. So Dave stepped in, took the mornig off, and went with Kera to her graduation and videotaped it. He then took Jacob's treats to his class and brought some things to tell about Jacob. He went in to work about 1 pm and by that time I was well rested and felt a little better. I kept Michael in my room with me. He hadn't thrown up again, but he had been having diarrea and you could tell he didn't feel good either. So we were quarintined in my bedroom with the laptop watching Disney movies and eating popsicles. Dave came home later and we started talking about what we'd do about Jacob's birthday the next day. He was having a birthday party at our house with 7 of his friends the next day. Jacob started to complain about his stomach hurting around 6 pm and he threw up once in his room and then again around 10 pm. The next morning Jacob woke up and said his stomach didn't hurt anymore and he felt much better. Kera wasn't sick and I was feeling a lot better after resting all day friday. Dave felt well and Michael seemed cheerful. So we debated about postponing the birthday party, but eventually decided to still have the party since everyone seemed on the mend. We kept it outside in the backyard and sprayed Lysol throughout the house and on all the doorknobs.
It's one of the calls you make as a parent where you hope you made the right decision. I think we did okay. Jacob was so excited to have his big party on his birthday. We were excited to get the friend party over with! We still have his baptism and family party next Saturday.
Jacob's big birthday present from us was a new trampoline. Dave spent the whole morning and after the party setting it up. We finally got it all put together tonight around 6 pm with the net enclosure on and everything. The kids have been having a blast jumping on it. Jacob was so excited to see his big birthday gift, and Kera was just as excited as he was. We finally have something fun to play on in our backyard!!
So that's been our crazy weekend. I will post pictures of the party and the new trampoline soon. I just wanted to get this whole crazy story told while it's still fresh in my brain. Hopefully this virus stops here and nobody else in our family gets sick...we shall see.

And hopefully none of the ladies from my bunco group or the kids from the party get sick. If you do I'm very, very sorry. :(

Look mom, no training wheels!

Kera riding a bike, no training wheels!

When Dave and I got back from our cruise Kera was very excited to show me her new skill. My dad took her training wheels off her small bike and helped her learn to ride. She also has been spending a lot of time with her friend Samantha who can now ride without training wheels, and she helped "coach" Kera and gave her encouragement when they were riding bikes together. So I said in the clip that she did it all by herself, but she did have help from grandpa and friends.

Way to go Kera!