Addyson's Blessing Day

On July 18th, 2010, JJ and my 13th anniversary, we blessed our little Addyson Rebecca. She was so good and quiet, in fact she slept through the whole thing. She was perfect. I just love having a girl.

Here is a picture of her whole dress. My mom and mother-in-law purchased this dress for her and I absolutely love it. I wish she had more occasions to wear it. Hopefully she will like it enough to keep for her daughter. Also the blanket she is on was made by her great-grandma Dollie Hawkins.

And here is our attempt at a family picture. Axel fell asleep and Addyson woke up and only wanted to eat so there was no cooperation from her.

Happy 8th Birthday Gunnar

Gunnar turned 8 this year. He was so excited!

Here he is with dad on his baptism day. He couldn't wait to be baptized. We are so proud of him.

4th of July

For the 4th we decided that even though it was Sunday we were still going to go and see the fireworks. I honestly love the spirit that you feel when you are with thousands of people that you don't know but are coming together for the same purpose. I love this country that I was bless to be born in and am forever grateful for the men and women that continue to fight for my freedoms every day. Here is Uncle Arnie with his captive audience. I am not sure what story he is telling them this time.

These are all but two of my parents grandkids. I love when we get them all together.

Here is my family with one week old Addyson. Even she was decked out too but it was too cold to show off her outfit.

This is my grandparents, now great-grandparents to 16.

Her is my mom keeping Addy warm.

Its a Girl!

New addition to the family:
Addyson Rebecca Campbell
June 25. 7 lbs 5 ounces 18 inches long
I can now be referred to as Addy's Daddy! My boys all dote over her, I feel sorry for the unfortunate young man who will attempt to date her in 16 years with these older brothers to protect her (Hopefully some of my boys will put some meat on their bones by then). Becky did great and pushed her out a la natural without any drugs. I am so proud of her because she did awesome. Her advice to anyone thinking about not having an epidural is "Take the drugs!" Mom and baby doing great. So here she is:

A new blog

Okay so due to a call to action from our Stake Presidency here in our area, and then the fact that I can't keep my mouth shut in front of my dad (Who happens to be in the Stake Presidency). I received a new calling, aka assignment, in our stake. Long story short, I am helping to add positive information about the church onto the internet. Because I already blog they thought I would be great at it. YEAH RIGHT!! But I am supposed to take the topic of the Book of Mormon and from a mom's perspective, journal about it. So I thought I would link it up onto my blog now so maybe you might check it out and tell me what you think about it. There are also other links to other sites that our stake is involved in. So if you are interested go to escondidomormons.com and then click on the Book of Mormon link, or click on the link to the right on my blog. I think it is pretty cool though. I originally got started with another blog site, but I am not ready to post that one yet. It has become more of my own personal journal. But maybe soon I will share that too.

The boys

I just had to add in a picture of my four boys. Aren't they adorable. This was post hair cuts for the older boys and pre-hair cut for Axel. they are so cute!!

And these two pictures are my sons just being themselves. What more can I say?!!

What I have been doing lately

So I realize it has been a month since I have blogged, so I wanted to share a few of the things I have been doing. On top of running my kids from school to sports practices and games and cooking up this little baby girl, I spend at the very least 1 and 1/2 days a week doing laundry. Yep, it really takes that long. My children seem to throw everything into the laundry even if it is clean.

I also spend a lot of time in the kitchen. If I am not doing the dishes, putting dishes away or just cleaning up from some meal, I am cooking another one only to start all over again.

And lastly I have been bow making. After all I do have my first and only girl on the way and I am loving it. This is a butterfly. I had so much fun picking out the ribbon and making it. Can you even believe it, me making hair accessories!!! Axel is my model as I don't have another little girl to try them on. And he actually loves it. Isn't that the cutest face he is making!!

Preschool Graduation

Here is Jorden at preschool graduation. He went to the San Pasqual High School Child Development Preschool. Basically it is the child development class at the high school. Each student is assigned a child and they play with and teach that student for the semester. Jorden loved going to school he can't wait for kindergarten to start in August.

Here is the big moment of receiving his certificate. Oh what a proud day!!!!

Superman

I just love this set of PJ's. It was first worn by Michael and has lasted through each of the boys. Axel loves to show off his muscles here to show how strong he is.

Here he is flying across the room.

And here he is tackling the bad guy. Yep, he is one cool, strong dude, that superman.

Was it made in the 1900's or something?

I have to record this moment before it is forgotten. A few nights ago I was sitting at the table with Michael and Gunnar. I am the cub scout leader so scouts is always a topic at our table in some form or another. The boys started telling me about this other young boy that they met who is working on getting his Eagle and wanted to know if you needed to be able to survive like Bear Grylls on Man VS Wild to get your Eagle. I explained what it meant to get your Eagle and what you had to do. Then I told them what their Uncle and Papa did to get theirs. Well my dad (Papa) made the flag pole that stands in front of one of our church buildings here. Michael proceeded to say this.. "Wow that flag pole is really old then. Was it made in the 1900's or something?" I couldn't help but laugh and told him that yes it was. So dad you are apparently old. However so am I as most of my life was and has been spent now in the 1900's. Kids are great!!!!

He did it!!

Lots of boys, lots of noise, then quiet. Why do I not go check out the situation? I am enjoying the piece and quiet of course!! Well I shouldn't have been. I walked into the kitchen to find a chair up against the fridge with a sit-n-spin on top of that. Someone really wanted something from on top of the fridge. On the ground was the egg carton which held the last six eggs we had, (which while at Costco today I didn't buy more because I didn't really need them, I had six after all) laying upside down on the floor with no more eggs in it. Where were they you asked? Well at this point I can only account for 3. Two on the floor and one in the fridge. Did I mention they were just egg shells, just the empty egg shells? Yep, however, who ever the culprit was he attempted to clean up. I also found amongst the egg shells two egg filled kitchen towels. What a good child I have! Now I asked one of my children who will remain nameless who might has done this. He told me it was Axel. So my 2 year old constructed a tower of doom, then proceeded to get out the eggs and even clean them up. YEAH RIGHT!!!!! So I ask the 2 year old, who got into the eggs? He proceeds to tell me it is Michael. I am afraid to ask Michael as he will probably tell me it was someone else, who will blame it on someone else and then we will be back to the 2 year old. I have decided that I really don't care, I am grateful they attempted to clean it up. And will now hopefully have learned my lesson once again that when it is quiet go check it out. Because unless they are all asleep, quiet is never a good thing.

Easter

We spent Easter morning with my family. Here are the youngest ones heading out for the egg hunt. It is so fun when they get to this age and are really excited about the holidays.

Grandma put 2 dollar bills in eggs for all the older kids and 1 dollar bills for the younger ones. She even put a golf day for the dads and a pedicure/lunch day for the moms. Yeah for Grandma.

Checking out the loot.

The best picture taken of the cousins. From left to right, AJ, Jorden, Aiden, Elliot, Riley, Gunnar, Michael, and Axel. Aren't they all so cute?

We had a great morning at Grandma and Papa's house. The food was excellent and the company even better. We finished off the morning watching General Conference and then headed up to JJ's family for yet another yummy meal and egg hunt. We are truly blessed to live by our families. And are even more blessed that we all get along so well and love to be together. I couldn't ask for anything more.

Goofing off

Axel and JJ showing their true colors. Just had to add this picture in.

Kalke's came to visit

For our first week of Spring Break the Kalke's, our good friends from Ohio, came to visit. Here are all our kids. I can't believe how much everyone has grown since we saw them last July. Unfortunately I only have this one picture of the bunch. (This happened last time they were here too.) We had lots of fun though. We went to the beach one day, the Mormon Battalion visitors center and toured Old Town San Diego, Wild Animal Park, swam at my parents house, and just hung out and watched the kids get filthy. It was a great week. We were sad to have them go. We keep hoping that they will choose to move out this way. But only time will tell.

Remembering a past post

So if you keep up with my blog you will remember my post about my boys jumping the skateboard ramps. Well my son here decided that jumping it on his scooter would be even cooler. Well after many successful jumps he made a calculation error and well it ended in a broken arm. Do I think this will stop the jumping? Heavens no but it will definitely postpone it for a bit. He wasn't very happy to get this picture taken but we needed it for posterity's sake.

This year in Sports

Michael again chose soccer. He loves it and has gotten really good this year. His team has gone undefeated with one tie. Hopefully we will play them again and settle that crazy game. They are the Jaguars and had Dad for the coach. It has been fun though watching my son take a liking to something and excelling at it. I love watching him play.

Gunnar broke the mold this year and branched out to a new sport for our family. He chose basketball. His team was the Sharks. He was the smallest player on the team but the fastest. He played hard, made a few shots, but overall had a really fun time.

Jorden was our only baseball player this season, which honestly I am grateful for. We didn't have to spend every day of the week at the baseball fields. He loves it and loves it the best when he gets to field all the balls. He loves playing catcher, pitcher, and first base because they get the ball the most. He playes on the Mariners this year and it was sponsored by yours truly, Marler Campbell Dental.

Pinewood Derby

Michael placed third this year at the Pinewood Derby. He decided that his car this year should be a 1965 Cobra. So dad and him were very busy sawing, sanding, and painting this fabulous car.

Gunnar brought Michael's car from last year, the yellow and black one aka bumblebee, and raced with the scouts. Pretty cool picture huh?

Here it is in all its glory. The 1965 cobra. Dad and Michael did a great job.

I think we have a Job change in our future

For JJ's birthday this year I got him trapeze lessons. Yep you read right, trapeze lessons. He absolutely loved it. He was so good that the instructors thought for sure he had been doing this for a while. Of course I knew he would be good at it. He was totally surprised and now wants to do it with our boys. So we will see which boy decides he can hack it like dad.

On being mom of 4 Boys!!!

Yesterday my boys came in to the house asking for a tape measure. I politely asked what it was they needed it for and they explained that they were seeing how far they could jump. Seeming as though that was harmless, I directed them to the cabinet that housed the tape measurer. Upon further thought however, I decided that checking on them to see exactly what they were doing would be a great idea. I went outside only to see one of my boys at one end of the driveway yelling to the others if they were ready. I looked down to the other end to see that they had taken their skateboard ramp apart, put the two ramp parts together and were running up one side and jumping to the other. Each time they were successful they would move the ramps farther apart. Now my boys have done some crazy things in their lives but this took the cake for the “moment”. You see my driveway is not the smooth concrete, it is the pebbly black top. You know the kind that when you fall you pretty much scrape the soup out of yourself. Not to mention every time they landed on the opposite ramp it would slide too. Well of course being the great mom I am, I got out the video camera and recorded this momentous feet. Well actually I wanted to record the last moments of their lives that I would be sharing with them. I will say though they all did a great job and they all lived to tell the tale and then watch the amazing video over, and over again. Oh yeah and I failed to mention that the boys while awaiting their turns would lay in between the ramps to be jumped over. I love having boys!!!!

Well it has been awhile since my last update and I don't know when I will get the next one in. But I had to drop a little line to let any one who reads this blog know that we are having...........

A Girl!!!

Yep it is true. My boys are warming up to the idea, and I am loving it.