THE PEARCE FAMILY: A 4TH OF JULY TO REMEMBER!

A 4TH OF JULY TO REMEMBER!

Our 4th of July this year was quite memorable. As tradition we go camping on the 4th usually with the boat. This year however Grin ended up having to work so we had to opt out of the Hone family camping. However a week before the 4th My Uncle passed away and so we headed to Sigurd Utah (my mom's home town) for the funeral on July 1st Grin did have that day off just not the weekend. So we decided to spend one night camping with the family. I am not sure about the one night camping idea it seems you pretty much do as much work for one night as for a week but the kids had a ball.

We quickly put Grin to work pitching the tent. I knew we had him around for a reason.

Gavin was quick to get into the camping mood so excited in fact that by the time I got to him his church pants were no longer tan but a nice dark color of dirt.

A walk down to the stream and the kids had a ball climbing on the fence.

We were also quick to put the kids to work. Ella was only too eager to carry her "new" camping chair.

More stream watching Ella and her cousin Edyn had a ball picking wild flowers!

Like I said before Ella was all to eager to try out the new camping chair she spent several minutes moving it around trying to find the perfect spot. She is getting too big!!

Jaxon wasted no time finding something to climb on we weren't out of the truck for 2 minutes before he had scaled this big rock near by. At least he listened and got his church clothes off first although a lot of good it did me he did his damage at the luncheon using his pants as a chocolate cake napkin, kids!!

The next day we headed home by the way of UBA Reservoir. Thinking we would take the afternoon and boat a little. Well it was pretty rainy and not that warm so the skiing was minimal the big success was Jaxon got out and "tried" to ski he actually did really well got up and went for a minute but I was just glad he tried. So after grin skied in the rain for a while and we ate lunch the kids played on the shore it really started to pour and we decided to call it a day and headed home so Grin could be to work early the next morning.

The rain comes and Jaxon starts a running

the best part of playing by the water is the rock collecting Gavin got himself quite the collection.

Little Ella hides from her brothers and cousins in a game of hide and seek. She was so darling counting and everything just like one of the big kids well almost 1, 2, 3, 18, 7, etc.

July 4th

On the 4th I ran a 10k in the Kayville 4th of July celebration. Grin didn't have to be to work until 10:00am so he brought the kids down and they cheered me across the finish line. I was really hoping there wouldn't be very many people and I might do good on time. I ended with a 9 minute mile which was good for me but placed 14th in my age group which tells us that I am far from in the ideal 30 year old in "good" shape.

Grin then Headed to work and the kids and I ventured the parade. I hate going to places like that on my own but I figured we shouldn't just stay home and stare at each other on the 4th and Jaxon wanted to go to the "water" portion of the parade. So we headed to a spot where are good friends the Murdock's were sitting and the kids had a ball running after candy, Frisbees, water bottles and other goodies. Jax caught a water bottle and we all got necklaces which most were broken before we made it home but whatever. As the water came me and the little ones back up but Jax went right into the street and a girl on one of the cars said "hi little kid" he looked up and she dumped a whole bucket of water on his head. He was in heaven.

This is an attempt for a "Pearce Kids photo" why do I try?

After the parade we headed home and both babies took naps. Yeah!! I almost got Jax to take one too you just can't run them around like we did the last few days and not have it wear on there little personalities they turn into monsters am I right? Anyway they slept and we got ready for dinner. Aunt Debbie and Uncle Mark (they too got ousted on the camping trip due to work) came down and we had dinner and went to the fireworks. We had never been to Kaysville's fireworks but they were great fun and we had a blast.

So a crazy 4th of July long weekend but with all the craziness we still managed to have a pretty good time. Happy Birthday America!

2 comments:

Jamie said...: What cuties! And your right, Ella is getting to big! Make her stop.; July 15, 2009 at 7:53:00 PM PDT
Amanda said...: Way to go, Kris! You are such a fab runner!! I am just laughing at all of your comments about things; but it looks like you had a lot of fun- I love the 4th!!; July 19, 2009 at 9:20:00 AM PDT

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Half way through the year Grin changed Jobs. He still works for Ken Garff but is now the Used car manager at the Ken Garff Nissan dealership in Riverdale. He is loving the change and has started going to Auction to buy used cars. He is really enjoying this new aspect of the job and has had the opportunity to travel to Pennsylvania a few times to an exclusive Nissan Auction. He is now the 1st counselor in the Elders Corm and loves spending time playing with the kids and teaching them sports and watching as much sports as he can football, Basketball, Baseball, Golf, Hockey, Tennis, Poker, Soccer, (did I miss any) pingpong? if it is on Espn it is worth watching am I right?

As for me. It is pretty much same old same old. Clean house house the house by 10 am the next morning it is dirty again. I have Jaxon in joy school with the neighborhood kids and will be the teacher next month. We "remodeled" the storage room it started out putting some shelves in then I decided that we should put floor in, then we put in a water softener and a new water heater. My quick small project ended up a huge major project and cost way to much money but in the end my glasses come out of the dish washer clean for the first time and I am a little more organized which makes me happy. I got a new calling a few weeks ago and am now the primary chorister yikes never complain about your calling because it could always be worse. Teaching relief society was torture but at least it was only once a month now it is every week. The kids are a true joy though.

Jaxon started the 4th grade this fall and is doing amazing . He is crazy smart and can read at a 6-8th grade reading level. I gave him my old alarm clock after Grinner won me an Ihome and wakes himself up every morning. He gets up, gets dressed, makes his bed, unloads the dishwasher, reads and sometimes gets his piano done. This of course doesn't always happen smoothly but he does pretty good. We went to his SEP conference however and learned that he doesn't turn in his work that he does. He read probably 4 books that quarter at home and he had turned 1 in and it was the one I had read to him. My little brother was like that and almost didn't graduate because of it, what a nightmare we are working hard to rectify that situation as quickly as possible. He is playing on a competetion basketball team (The Davis Starts) and a comp baseball team (The Sox) and has practice or games almost everynight year round but he loves it and is always happy to go and willing to get his other jobs done to do it most of the time it makes for great leverage. He is getting so tall and before I turn around he will be taller than me. I bought size 10 pants for him for school last spring and we got them out for school and they are too short so he has been flooding around for months new pants "Merry Christmas Jaxon". It is so fun to watch him grow and develop into who he is going to be.

Gavin is now 6 years old! He is in Kindergarten and having a September birthday the oldest in his class. He is not "in love" with school but I don't have to convince him to go everyday either. He has discovered video games and I have had to spend a lot of my time monitoring how much time he has spent playing them. He still has middle child syndrome and you would think that I being a middle child myself would do better at making sure that doesn't happen but he still seems to be the kids that doesn't get his homework done and isn't reading as well as he should at no fault to his own but because mom seems to be running around after everything else. His sweet little personality I am afraid is reflecting this and he spends his life looking at the world with "the glass half EMPTY" I actually put a glass in front of him and asked him "Gavin, when you look at this glass what do you see, is it half full or half empty." his response, "half empty". I am praying that it is a 6 year old phase some of his friends moms say the same thing that the girls will cry in a drop of a hat etc. Gavin doesn't cry that quick but he lashes out yelling not nice things at us like "I hate you's" and "your the worste mom in the world" or this is the worst day ever" "stupid idiot" well you get the idea. I don't want this to be negative but want to write how he actually is so that someday we can read back and laugh at this funny faze our sweet Gavin went through right? On the switch side (it is kind of like living with Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde) he is the cutest big brother to Kennedi and to Ella most days to. But he will spend hours playing with Kennedi from the day she was born giving her kisses, and talking to her in baby talk. Now that she is 10 months he pushes her around the house on her push toy and sits around playing with her for hours kissing and loving her. He is truly the best baby sitter and my heart just leaps out of my chest when ever I watch him. He is going to be the best sweatest dad. My sisters little girl has been his favorite for ever now and I kept wondering if we would be as cute with his own sister as he has been with her but he is just as sweet and loving. How so much love and tenderness and hate and rage can come out of the same child in a matter of hours is beyond me but I am learning quickly that he just "feels" more than the rest of us and we will all adjust accordingly and search for ways for him to utilize that gift.

Ella is now 4 years old!! I was so excited when we found out that Ella was going to join our family I really needed a little more estrogen in this house full of boys and boy did we get it. There is no "tom boy" in our little Ella she is Girly Girl to the core. We have a trunk full of dress-ups in her room (however rarely are they "in the trunk") and a Mirror above it were she spends hours admiring herself and "possing" in front of it. Then she keeps asking things like. "Do I look beautiful in this mommy" or "am I more beautiful in this mommy", or "do I look cute or no?" of course the answer is alway "Yes Ella you look beauiful in everything". but she just keeps asking. We are constantly in a state of imaginary play, princesses and mommies, dances, and tea parties. She loves to dress up in moms shoes and wear princess dresses. She is constantly wanting a friend to play with and they will play house and pretend all day. I LOVE IT!!! it is such a great balance from the "lets wrestle, fight, shoot each other etc." we just eat her up. She is in preschool and loves it. she can write her name so well and knows every letter and its sound ( and has known them for over a year) and recognizes them all the time when we read. She loves to pier over my shoulder when Gavin and I read and she hurries and repeats the words after him like she is reading right along and truthfully she does about as good as he does. That's a girl for you right!

Kennedi Rose Pearce came into our family on February 11th 2011. She became the 3rd Hone Grandchild to be born on that day (strange). She has grown so fast and becoming such a fun and integral part of our little family. She has such a sweet demeanor and is always smiling at people. She is really quite the flirt and we spend most of our outings with people standing around talking about how cute she is and telling everyone around them things like. "Have you seen this baby", "come look at this baby", "She is the cutest thing, you have to see this baby", "look at those big blue eyes" While she just smiles and smiles like she is telling them "I know I am cute and you should all notice". It is really quite fun for me and Grin because we reallyh get a say in how they look or act right! She is crawling all over and getting into every thing she is a typical 10m old baby and we wouldn't trade her for the world.