Kalen is our 4 yr old. He is frequently referred to as our tonka truck. He's so full of life and passion. He has surprised with how he has reacted to a little sister. He is so loving and attentive to her needs. There have been times when he was the one who could calm her down and she would fall asleep on him.
He is anxious for school to start next fall when he gets to go to kindergarten. He is starting to read and knows all his letters and their sounds. He loves trucks, trains, and airplanes. He also loves superman and dinosaurs. Kalen is great about helping around the house and loves, I mean.. LOVES to cook. He is wonderful and definitely helps us to all learn and grow in unexpected ways.

Logyn is getting ready for a triathlon on Sept. 6th up by Heber. He is so excited!! The kids have started school in a brand new school just up the street. Perri loves going all day and the thrill of eating lunch at school. Logyn is ecstatic that he finally has a boy teacher. Kalen and Royce are learning how to get along by themselves while I get back into the swing of things. I enjoy a lot of reading lately. Russell started a new job about a month ago in an architectural firm. He loves it, except for being away from home so much. But like everyone else he is doing the 4 day/ 10 hr. thing so I get him for 3 day weekends. Life is fabulous. I will try to be more up to date in the future.

We have our new little princess Darma! She arrived just as planned on 08/08/08. We are so excited she is here. She is perfect and very easy. The kids love her and enjoy helping out.
We went to Russell's parent's house on Thurs. 7th after making some stops to get Logyn things for his triathlon. My contractions were pretty regular but not hard enough to go to the hospital yet. We had to drive by the hospital to get to mom and papa's. I started having contractions 4 min. apart but I could still talk through them. As soon as we got to mom's, we got the kids settled and left for the hospital to see if I was far enough along that they would admit me. This was at 10:30pm on Thurs. I wasn't, but they let me stay for an hour to see if I would progress. I changed just enough that they said I could walk for a while and if I was progressing at that point I would stay, if I wasn't they would be sending me home. By now it was 1am. I walked for an hour. The first 40min were the same. then all the sudden my contractions were hard enough that I couldn't walk during one. I made it slowly back to my room and they admitted me at 2am. I received my IV and epidural (which was an ordeal.) After 3 tries with the epidural I finally started to have some relief. Then it started wearing off in my midsection but the midwife and anesthetics team were in an emergency C-sec. So I got to wait. Russell was luckily able to sleep through most of this so that he could be coherent when I really needed him. They checked me at 6:30 and I was at a 6. They checked me at 7:10 I was complete. So she was born at 7:41 am my shortest delivery of 4 pushes. She was perfect and nurses very well. We are so happy she is here and that the angels worked overtime to orchestrate her coming Friday morning the 8th of Aug, 2008.