It is hard to keep up with the blogging lately. I feel terrible but just can't get myself to do it while I am at home. I have a new shift at work as well and haven't had a minute to do it there either.
To be totally honest, I feel pregnant. Which means I can't get enough sleep. I can't complain though because I have NOT been sick even a little bit!!
I try really hard to be productive but Ryan ends up keeping up all of the slack. I am almost out of my first trimester so hopefully things will pick up. I just start feeling so guilty when I am too tired to do anything. I couldn't imagine life being like this all of the time, it would be terrible! One good thing for me is that I am no longer working graves for the time being. For the first time in over a year I have a swing shift. Its been really nice being up in the mornings and sometimes even catching a sunrise and the coolness from the night air. Wow, you don't realize how much you miss stuff like that until you get a chance to feel it again. I get home at 1am and get to wake up with the boys.
Ryan is on the opposite schedule, he works every day that I don't and he is gone all morning. We are trying to get used to the opposite schedule again, I think it will come.
Ryan is back to work at Salt Lake Valley Slingers. He has been there for two weeks now. Those guys are really awesome! They totally accommodate him. They let him work around my hours and let him keep coming back even though he is heading back to school in only a few more weeks.
I have a lot of pictures to post. Ryan and some of his teammates on the formula team took the car out last Saturday and got to race it around just for fun. I promise to post those later. He took Paxton and Gauge with him and they got to hang out in the car a little bit too.
Paxton is my big helper and is also known as Batman. The kid follows Gauge around the house making sure he doesn't do something that will make a mess or hurt himself. He helps me wherever he can and he cannot wait to have a new baby in the family. He asks me things all of the time "Mom, let me tell you a question" when I tell him to go ahead he says a really long "welllll" then continues with some sort of cute comment.
He loves to exercise. I try to get some sort of exercise done everyday and when I do my video he is right there next to me punching and kicking his heart out. Every once in awhile he will start running circles around me until he is too tired to continue. He also loves doing the games on Noggin, Disney and PBS. When I do take a nap with Gauge he gets on the computer all by himself, finds the games and plays them all. He is getting pretty good! He can't wait to go back to school. He doesn't know when it is but he knows its coming and he is already asking for back to school things. He loves to jump on the trampoline with Gauge, mostly to knock him over. He tells me all of the time that he loves to be a good boy and he really does. He can't stand doing something that upsets us. I don't know how we got so lucky to have such special kids!
Gauge keeps me tired, and makes me more tired. He still keeps me smiling though. He runs around the house 100mph from the minute he gets out of bed until we put him back to bed. Seriously, when you hold him, its like holding a windup toy because the second you put him down, he takes off in whatever direction you pointed him in. He is pretty good at getting away too. What I mean is that lately I will go into the kitchen or somewhere that he is getting into something and usually making a mess. The second he hears me, he doesn't even look, he just takes off in the other direction as fast as he can go. I don't even get a chance to scold him, that's how fast he is!
He is also a climber. He climbs up on everything there is to climb. He has mastered the kitchen counter, he almost has the trampoline by himself and he climbs the tree out back. He has no fear. I watched him this morning decide he was ready to get out of his high chair so he stood up and dove off the chair into the couch it was next too. He is too tough for his own good. Had he missed the couch and gotten hurt, guaranteed the kid wouldn't have cried even a little. I can't tell you how many scrapes and bruises we find on him, not ever one peep.
His best pal is his Woody doll from Toy Story. He takes that guy everywhere. Toy story is his favorite movie too. He loves to give us kisses these days, he makes the mmwa sound and almost every time he does a lap around the house he will come find me and give me a hug. He is such a sweetheart!
I will try to do better with the blogging. I have some pictures to post, so I'll get those up to. I hope your all doing well! We love you!
Ryan called me from work today and said, "It's Ilene's birthday!"
We love you so much Ilene! We think of you often! We hope you have a GREAT day! See you in October!!
This could just be my favorite picture ever!
a hike around campus
We staged the picture with Gauge too, he took off by the time I got the shot snapped.
My beautiful Mom
Paxton's new best friend and cousin Katie!
We had such a blast! I took so many more pictures but they didn't turn out with the setting sun. I even got a funny one with my sister in law Karli but it didn't turn out either.
"I'm Batman"
Nightly Walks
Look at this kid!
Aaron and Doug came out to see the car which I thought was cool! 
When we got to Park City we ate, got situated at the hotel and let the boys play around. After it started to get close to dark we headed to the Canyons where they take you up on the tram for live music and the fireworks show.
The picture above is a view of the Canyon's at dusk while we were on the tram
Here we are on the tram. That thing goes fast, it was Awesome! Paxton kept yelling that he was flying.
Here is a picture to show you how many people were up there, it was packed. Tons of people camped out on blankets for the show 
We quickly found a spot up at the top and hunkered down. We must have taken 40-50 pictures of fireworks and none of them turned out very well but the show was pretty cool. I just love watching fireworks while listening to patriotic music!!
By the time we got back down on the tram and out of the completely packed parking lot it was pretty late. By the time we got back to the hotel and Gauge finally went to sleep because he was so pumped up from being there, it was 1 am. Needless to say they were pretty tired for the parade the next morning.
Exhibit B
Some cool and weird stuff at the parade:
Some funny differences between Park City and Provo that are pretty obvious...
They also had little Hockey players instead of cheerleaders which I thought was pretty cool.
At the end of the parade we were tuckered out! The boys scored some kazoos last minute and we headed home 
Even though we didn't really get to celebrate on the 4th, we had a great time. There is just nothing better than this Holiday. My friend Lindsay was saying that this holiday ties with Christmas and I have to agree. I love this Country so much and I appreciate all those who have sacrificed so that we can have the freedoms and luxuries that we enjoy.