Her only 'relief' is a bowl of ice cream (usually cookie dough or rocky road), a soft bed, and a Tivo from 9-10 pm each night after the kids are asleep. Here's a rare picture of her in her element! Somehow she gets up the next day and does it all over again. I love you honey! (And yes, I'll go downstairs and get you another snack.)
We are so happy to have all of our kids home ALL DAY for the summer. We are keeping busy! Abby, Braiden, and Caleb are on swim team. Even though it is a big commitment to get up and practice each morning, they are loving it and they are doing very well. Abby just finished up Volleyball camp over at Gilbert HS. She loved it so much! If everything goes as planned she will be a much better vball player than her mother. Braiden and Caleb will be attending basketball camp at Coronado soon. Braiden, however, doesnt think he needs to go because, "Mom, I already know how to play basketball!".
Dayson and Emma are busy tring to figure out which of them is the boss of mom, the baby boy of the house or the baby girl of the house. So far Emma is winning. Spencer is keeping extremely busy with work, both at Intel and with our side business Agis Consulting. His calling in Young Mens is also keeping him busy. I am also trying to slide in some fun of my own this summer. I just got back from Girls Camp! It was 3 days of goodness and ZERO sleep. Yes, I did miss my snack and bed at 8:30pm. BUT I feel so lucky to have been around such an amazing group of Young Women. Keep checking back with this post, I will have more pics coming soon....................
We had a blast staying at Las Palomas this summer. The pool was great, not to mention the beach and warm ocean water. Our crazy Braiden again proved to be just like his daddy and went flailing about in the ocean regardless of the stingray warnings that we repeatedly gave him. We had one great day of strong winds and big waves so Spencer and the kids took the boogie boards out into the ocean. Abby and Caleb were awesome boogie boarders. 
On our last day there we stopped by the aquarium and met Arthur the Sea Lion. The kids loved that however some of the kids loved him better from a distance!!
Our ride home was a little less fun however! We were about 2-3 minutes behind a horrible car accident on the I-8. It unfortuantely took a life. We were stuck on the highway for about 5 hours. The kids were SO good and patient. We were so PROUD. To top it all off, Abby got stung by a nasty bee on her hand and in the coming days we found out that she is horribly allergic as our friend and great doctor Derek DeTemple explained to us....when the hand doubles in size that is not a good thing! 
