Sunday, June 9, 2013

Cuteness, Girls Night & Father and Son's

Babies are coming left in right in the Cambra family. Danny and Jacie have Olivia who was born April 4th. Jared and Ashley have Hinckley who was born June 2nd.
Baby Olivia. She is such a doll. I can't wait to meet her.
Typical behavior around our home is lots of lazy days in jammies, playing on the i-pad, watching tv, cleaning, and Mckinley bugging her siblings. 
She just wants some attention. It's too bad she wants it at inconvenient times. 
Our ward had a father and sons campout on a Friday night. So while the fathers and sons were gone we had a mothers and daughters night. Krista, Melanie and Mapuana came over to our house and we had a girls night. 
Our sleeping areas for the night. We stayed up way too late, but it was fun!
Saturday morning we woke up and checked out some garage sales. Mckinley got to ride in a big girl carseat and she loved it.
The fathers came home and the boys were crashed in the car.
Typical sleeping position for Payton. They all had such a blast and Payton talked about it for a few days.
Baby Hinckley hes such a stud and chubby I love it!
Mckinley is changing and growing so much. She is always on the going and getting into everything. These are a couple pictures of her I found on my phone. Sleeping outside while mom is gardening. Helping daddy load the dishwasher.
Hinckley and Olivia meeting for the first time.  I just love all these new baby's and can't wait to meet them soon.

Friday, June 7, 2013

Camping at Pinecrest

The day Payton graduated from kindergarten we packed up and headed to Pinecrest to camp for the weekend. Since it was Memorial Day weekend Josh had Monday off so we got to camp for 3 days. We drove up Friday night and met up with friends. (Drinkwater Family, Toutai Family, and Burk Family)
We had 3 sites for out 4 families all right next to each other. 
We had 1 central eating area which was in the middle of the campsites. I was really bad and didn't take very many pictures until the end. There is proof that we went though. 
Mckinley and Josh enjoying a afternoon nap together.
Scarlett is just gorgeous I think even with a super dirty face.
Scarlett and Mapuana the two big girls in the group of boys. 
Hanging out around the camp fire pit during the day just talking.
Mckinley loved this bike! It was very handing because we could sit her in this and she would just sit and we would have the kids push her around when she would start whining. 
Boys will be boys! How can jumping off rocks be that much fun?!
Ryan, Payton, Austin, Scarlett and Mckinley playing on the rock. 
It wasn't the warmest weather by any means, but some of us got ice cream anyways. Viliami enjoying his giant ice cream cone. 
Everyone went off hiking to the damp so Me, Krista, Scarlett, and Mckinley stayed back. I wasn't thrilled about the idea of hiking with these girls. So we went and played down at the water. It was sunny and beautiful, but chilly. The cold didn't stop Scarlett from getting in. 
We dug around in the sand/dirt for quite a while. The little girls enjoyed that.
Every so often we would drag the porta crib out of the tent so we could have Mckinley play in it. Viliami would want in with her some of the times. It was handy having the two youngest in there then we didn't have to worry so much about where they were. 
The dads and Ryan went of shooting for a few hours and these kids were left to play around the camp 
They each get along pretty good together. It was a fun trip.
 Love family pictures while camping, dirt and all!
 Burk's, Toutai's, Drinkwater's, and Us
All our cute and crazy kids!
While we were camping Mckinley decided she was done breastfeeding. It was very frustrating because she wanted nothing to do with me. I would try and she would just scream more. At this point she still wasn't really drinking out of a sippy cause and she totally refused bottles. We had one sippy cup that a friend had brought so we were trying to use that. She would drink it only once in a while. To say the least it was a little rough and she was hard at nights if she woke up. Plus it was freezing cold at nights! When we got home I tried feeding her again but she still wanted nothing to do with me. So I was done. Just like that, cold turkey. Man my kids have strong opinions. Its a good thing I love them and they are super cute.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Kindergarten Promotion

Not much goes on at our house. Mckinley is constantly growing and changing. Payton finished school, and Scarlett is beginning to learn her letters.
Mckinley loves to stand and hear us each cheer and clap for her. She knows she is tricky!
Scarlett still falls asleep anywhere and everywhere. She has full lips just like her mom. This particular day she was falling asleep as Josh was leaving for scouts so he went over and gave her a kiss. She obviously kissed him back and her lips stayed just like that. It was cute and funny. Mckinley loves water and loves using my cups with a straw. 
Babies bring so much joy to everyone I love it. I see why though every time I look at Mckinley and other pictures of babies I just get a big smile on my face. Its such a miracle having children.
The last week of school Payton's class had a field day. I was able to go and help that day and it was a lot of fun. The teacher had the groups all assigned out. Payton ended up in a group with a 3 girls and no boys. Payton is not a ladies man. He will tell you he doesn't play with girls. He was a trooper though and did great with the girls in his group at each station. 
 First day of Kindergarten to the last day of Kindergarten. I can't believe it's all over!
Payton being recognized for promoting to the 1st grade by his amazing teacher Ms. Petyo.
This Kindergarten class!
My Stud!
Very proud day! My baby is growing up and I can't believe it!
Josh had to work so he didn't make it, but the girls and I were there to cheer him on and congratulate him.
Love this boy to pieces!!!
Friends from class that he played with. Ashniel and Issai.
Ms. Petyo was an amazing teacher. I just loved her and am so glad Payton got to have her as his first teacher in school ever. She truly cared about each of the kids. Payton was able to survive a classroom filled with 33 kids. He learned a ton and grew leaps and bounds. I can't believe all the things he learned in 1 school year. He can now read, write, count to 100, do addition and subtraction, and knows a ton more things. I'm amazed how much these kids have to learn.
(right picture is by his classroom with his friend John)
Each of the kids received this picture frame with their picture in it. I love it! 
It was a fun day celebrating Payton's promotion! He is such a joy to be in our family and we love him so much!!!