A BOO-tiful Halloween!

The Waldron Halloween Family Photo! No we didn't add another member to our family, but the little neighbor girl insisted in joining in our pictures. As you can see Gary and I didn't really get into the spirit of Halloween and dress up this year...Kinda boring, but that's us!

BOO-tiful Snow White, a little Kitty Kat and the Itsy Bitsy Spider

Snow White in her best pose for a picture.

The Itsy Bitsy SpiderKitty Kat Kallie

Pumpkin Carving

Again posing for the camera..I swear I don't know where she gets it ;)

The girls were each in charge of their own pumpkin this year. They picked out their own, cleaned their own and made their own face...Shantel even carved her own. It is amazing to see my little ones, not to little anymore, and doing things on their own. Shantel had a great time cleaning the pumpkin out and came up with every pose that included her eating or touching the pumpkin guts. Kallie and Keegan weren't that into it.

School Parades

The Annual Halloween Preschool Parade. Kallie was so excited for her parade this year at school. Refreshing that she was not one of the many princesses, or pretty fairies! They walk up the street playing instruments and showing off their wonderful costumes!

This year we also went to Shantel's school parade. There were so many great costumes that kids (and parents) came up with. We saw the traditional princesses, witches, babies, Star Wars Figures, zombies, faceless men, as well as some really creative ones like a boy in a hot air balloon, a Wii remote, and an Ipod. Bit our little princess was of course the best!

The Fair

I know this post is a little late, but I just found the pictures of the Utah State Fair. We love going to the fair. There is something about looking at all the animals, browsing through the vendors, riding the rides, and of course the delicious food!

This year we went to the little hands farm. Somehow we missed it last year. The kids thought it was a blast. Everything was their size and they were able to see how a real farm works, from planting the crops, feeding the cows, getting their milk and selling it. They felt like they were really doing it.

Kallie driving the tractor Keegan gathering eggs.
Shantel milking the cow

THE BIG YELLOW SLIDE!!

Who goes to the fair without taking a ride down the big yellow slide?

Here is me and Kallie going down the slide.

Daddy and Keegan...is Keegan having fun?

Shantel and Gary loving every second!

Lagoon - It's where fun is!

We got free passes to Lagoon this year and just now got a chance to use them. Can I tell you this was the best time to go. The weather was perfect and the lines were short. They are doing there Frighmares for Halloween, and because most of that stuff starts in the afternoon and goes til dark, we got there when it opened and beat the crowd. I went with Shantel a few years ago with her dance group and we haven't been back, so this was Kallies first trip! She didn't know what to expect and was a little scared to go on the rides at first. So Shantel got on a ride and Kallie watched watched at her sister having fun, so we decided to do a little bit of a slower ride to start Kallie off. The cars below were just perfect to let her get a taste of what fun she could be having.

If you are able to click on these 2 pictures (above and below) to enlarge them..do it! You can see the pure JOY in the girls faces. Just the look on their faces makes the trip worth it!

I know there is alot of pictures, but I wanted to share how much fun we had.

All Stitched Up!

Here is an updated picture of Keegan. We have had the stitches out about a week and it looks great. I tried to get a better picture, but the goofball insisted on sticking out his tongue...esp. since he new I was trying to get his lip. He is such a trooper and hasn't let this slow him down. He is good at helping us apply vitamin E to the site (as he is Mr. Independent). You can barely see the scar of the actual stitches, what you can see is the abrasion above it where a layer of skin peeled off.

Back to School

Shantel is the Big 1st grader this year. She is sooo excited to eat lunch at school and have 2 recesses! Her teacher is Mrs. Buchanan and she is lucky enough to have two of her little friends in her class too. I am excited for the school year to see how much Shantel will grow.

Walking Shantel up to the 1 st grade doors!

Shantel in line waiting to go in.

Kallie started her second year of preschool with Miss Chris. She wass excited to see Miss Chris and her friends again (only, they are not going this year ;( ) We are not carpooling this year, which takes a little pressure off me. Kallie has grown over the summer and can spell her name and write it... well, as well as a 4 year old can. I can't wait to see what she learns this year.

Kallie waiting for school, with curlers in her hair!


Hi Ho Hi Ho it's off to school she goes!

Here is a picture of Keegan after Kallie got out of the car and headed into school. He was upset because he wanted to go to school with Kallie. What will he do for 2 hours alone with just me and Gar? I am excited to spend some one on one time with my little guy.

Keegan in Stitches..and I Don't mean Laughing!

We spent our Sunday night at the ER with Keegan. What happened? He was running away from the neighbors front door and Shantel was riding her bike down the sidewalk and BAM! They ran right into each other. He fell to the ground, Shantel fell to the ground and the bike flipped and landed on Keegan.

Gary ran over and threw the bike off Keeg and ran him home yelling we needed to go to the hospital for stitches. I saw the blood, ran into the house and grabbed a rag with ice and held it to Keegans mouth. We left the girls with our neighbor and sped to the ER.

Here is a picture of the battle wound before stitches!

The MD in the ER decided it would be best due to the location and nature of the injury that we should have a plastic surgeon stitch out little guy up, and there may be a possibility of having to do touch up work later in life. Because it is right in the middle of the face we opted for the plastic surgeon, so they called the on-call MD to come evaluate.

1 hour after being admitted to the ER, he shows up to fix our little man! We had the ER tech hold his head, I held his arms and Gary held his legs. Both my guys were so brave and did well.

Here is our little guy after the MD stitched him up. He was crying so hard he put himself to sleep. The wound itself was an amazing 3.4 cm on the outside and about 2cm on the inside. Because it split in a T shape, the surgeon had to trim off the lower part of the wound to make it a clean cut to heal better. The final count of stitches....unknown. They had to stitch in layers. From the outside what I could count is approx. 20.

8 on the outer lip

7 inside and about 5 in his gums.

Keegan and Daddy waiting for the plastic surgeon to come! He got a new friend from the hospital.."Green Bear". How lucky that Green is his favorite color. He held on to him all night.

Keegan wasn't sure what really happened to him and why everyone kept looking at him. Finally he got curious and started feeling around. So I gave him a mirror to see it all. He looked and stared open mouthed at the amazing stitches. Touching them softly at first them after about an hour he was ready to have them taken out and started pulling at them...it is going to be a long week, trying to keep him from pulling those. All night he kept looking in the mirror at them. He is so swollen and last night we was so numb that he could quite swallow and would, as he calls it, slobber down his chin.

Here is our little trooper this morning. Still swollen and looks like he has been through the ringer, but all in all doing well.

We go back to the plastic surgeon later this week to take the stitches out and make sure everything is healing and no followup is needed!

All Girls Soccer

We decided to try soccer again this year with Shantel. Cousin Ella asked if we wanted to join the team. After our last experience with it and Shantel NOT being impressed, I thought I would ask her if she wanted to play again leaving out the fact that Ella was going to play. (I didn't want to sway her decision). She shrugged her shoulders and told me "sure, I'll give it a try again". What a mature response, I can't believe how old she is getting.

Shantel ready to play. She is on the yellow team as you can see and Gary couldn't be happier that her colors are black and yellow!

A few action shots from her first game. After the game she told me she loves it, esp. being an all girls league! Shantel is a natural athlete. She dribbled (is that the right term in soccer?) the ball all the way up the field and then another girl scored a point for the team. Shantel thought that was the coolest ever!

Kallie also informed me that she wants to play soccer, but all the pre-K teams were full...next year.

If you want to check out a game, they play Saturday mornings

Flat Iron Park located 1700 East 8600 south.

Sep 12 10:15

Sep 19 9:00

Sep 26 10:15

Oct 3 9:00
Oct 10 10:00

Oct 17 9:00

Bring a blanket or some chairs and snacks and enjoy a great soccer game!