Broken Pot...

Yesterday, I was playing the piano after lunch and Riley showed me that my frog tea pot was broken. It was missing the handle and some frog legs. She told me that the missing pieces were at the dump. I was so, so, so sad because she had thrown all of the broken pieces away, and now I can't fix it. I don't know when she broke it because she doesn't understand time, whether it was yesterday or last week. When I asked her why she didn't tell me what she had done she told me that she cleaned it up by herself so I would be happy. She did a very good job cleaning it up. Dax didn't even know it was broken, and they are always together even when I am not around. Today I understand that she knew she had done something wrong, and didn't want me to get mad at her, so she tried taking care of the mess herself. I will have to work on teaching her what to do in situations like this in the future. I know this won't be the last time something special gets broken in this house.

The Time Has Come, The Time Is Now

Dr Seuss says it best in his book Marvin K. Moony Will You Please Go Now! "The time had come, so... Marvin went."
Dax is now a little boy getting ready to go to Kindergarten. I, unlike in the book, am not ready to to send Dax off to kindergarten. I think Dax is like Marvin. At the end of the book when it was time for Marvin to go, he happily went.
Yesterday I took Dax to South Elementary, home of the Eagles, to register for Kindergarten. We got all of the paperwork filled out, Dax's eyes and ears tested, and turned in. He is ready to go. On the way back to the car Dax told me that he didn't want to go to kindergarten yet because he is just a little scared. I told him that I wasn't ready to let him go yet either. We will wait and see how we feel come the end of Summer. Maybe I will be asking him to "go in an old blue shoe" or to "get a Ga-zoom" and "go with a....BOOM!". Maybe by then he, and I will be more than ready for the time to come.
I love my Dax Man, and have a hard time seeing him grow up so fast. That goes for my other children as well.

Sleepless Little Logann

Logann has been sick with a head cold for the past little while, but I'm sure she is over the worst of it. Now she won't fall asleep at night. For the past three nights she has been up crying. (Last night untile 1 am). We think she falls asleep, just to hear her start to cry again. We get her out and she still cries. Maybe it is the time change, new teeth coming in, her cold is still lingering, or that I left her little night time seahorse at Papa's house. Whatever the problem is, I hope it gets resolved soon. Jeremy and I can't handle many more sleepless nights.

Figured it out!

I have a great phone that my cousin Sher gave to me, and I have taken some pictures on it, but I have not been able to get them off of the micro disc onto my computer. Everyone told me to use the cord that came with it, but for some reason I couldn't get that to work. Then people told me to email them to myself, but I knew that I shouldn't do that because I don't want to rack up my cellphone bill. So I got online and found out that there is such a thing as a micro SD adapter. So I called all of my friends close by until I found one to borrow. Now after a week of trying to get the pictures off of my phone I was able to do it. Here are some of the pictures that have been hiding for so long.

New Pictures of the Kids

Here are the new pictures of the kids.

Halloween 2010

We had a fun Halloween. Dax was a dragon, Riley was a Princess, and Logann was a skeleton. After my Grandma Zollinger's funeral in Logann we drove back to South Jordan and got ready to go trick-or-treating. Logann was tired, so it was just Dax and Riley with the adult support of Ani, Steph, Bree, Alex, Jeremy and I. After a while McCall and Ryan joined us. Ani and her "friend" Eric took Dax and I around for a bonus round of trick-or-treating to some really awesome homes up by the Draper temple. That was a lot of fun to go and do that extra bit with Dax. We are all still on a sugar buzz, and I can't seem to get rid of this little headache that I have had for the last few days. Maybe I should lay off of the candy, or get rid of it.

Dax's Birthday Season

Dax just turned 5 yrs old yesterday, although we have been celebrating now for two weeks. We first had a party at Papa Mark's house, where he got a lot of wonderful and thoughtful gifts, including a gift of 100 kisses from his crazy Aunt McCall.
Then I decided that I would allow him to invite some of his friends over for a party. That was a lot of fun. We were all in our costumes, ate pizza, played games, opened presents, and had cake and ice cream, and played some more. He has some pretty fun little friends.
Yesterday we had Rene and Teresa come over for a birthday dinner and party. We had to remind Riley that it wasn't her birthday, and that hers was coming up in just a few months, so she would understand why Dax got to open all of the gifts, and not her. She was okay after that. Logann just had a fun time in the wrapping. That might be all we do for her for Christmas. Since I know that she would like that more than any other gift we would give her. I think when all said and done Dax had a pretty awesome birthday season.

Little Blue-Eyes

This is our cute little blue-eyed baby, Logann. She is getting so big. These pictures were actually taken last month, but I am just getting them on the blog. She has a new trick that her siblings love. When she is happy she shakes her head back and forth and smiles. It is pretty funny.
It makes me sad that my Grandma Zollinger may never get to meet her in person because her health is declining very quickly. My prayers are for my Grandma these days.

Summer Fun

This summer has been a lot of fun. Dax had a lot of fun doing swimming lessons. He is definitely not afraid of the water. Which is a good thing as well as a bad thing. I think he was under the water more than he was above.

White Lightning! That is Dax's soccer team name. For a group of 4 year old boys they are pretty talented. There are 3 boys from each team out on the field, and they all want the ball. After the first game they learned that they have to be more cautious running after the ball. They would all run as fast as they could to get the ball and none of them would slow down, so there would be at least one collision with someone walking off of the field crying. On a good note, Dax made the first goal of the first game.





Riley and Dax loved swimming in the new reservoir by our home. I think it is called "The Lake at the Hills," or something like that. It is nice to have that so close to where we live. We also went fishing there a few times, and every time Dax lost his hook by getting it stuck in the rocks. On a different fishing adventure we went up Cedar Canyon to the kids pond, and within the first five minutes Dax fell into the pond. Then a minute later he fell in again, and a minute after that he fell in again. The funny thing about that is that he didn't care.


This summer we went to Lake Powell twice. That place is heaven on earth. Both trips were so much fun. We did a lot of skiing, boarding, surfing, and swimming. Riley even went off of the slide this year with me. I wish I had a picture of that, but I think it is on my Mom's camera.

The latest in June and July

Thanks to my sister McCall, we have the cutest pictures of Logann. She is three months old and getting stronger every day. She is always trying to sit up all by herself. She has also learned to laugh. It is so much fun when she interacts with us.

They came over before they moved to SLC for one last photo shoot. Riley and Ryan were her cute little test subjects. I hope that they can stay good friends with all of the distance between the two of them.
For the 4th of July, we all went to my parents home and swam in their neighbor's pool. Dax and Riley are fearless. They loved jumping off of the diving board. Dax kept trying to dive, but was only able to do belly flops. It was so cute because he was so persistent. I have a feeling, with a little practice at Powell, he will get it right really quick. Riley loves to try to keep up with her big brother, which most of the time she does, and do everything he does. Logann even had a fun time in the water kicking around and getting splashed on by her siblings.
Jeremy ran in a 10k race here in Cedar a few weeks ago and took first place. Not only in his age division, but overall. He is unbelievable. Now his next race to win is going to be the Olympic Kokopelli race in September. I believe he can do it if he keeps working as hard as he is.

Mother's Day Photo Shoot

My sister, McCall, has been practicing with her new camera, and using our kids as models. We went out last week and got some cute pictures for Mother's Day. Riley was so happy to be in her pink dress so she could spin around for us.
Dax loves the camera. For all of these pictures, Dax posed himself with no adult influence. We all thought it was pretty funny. As his Uncle Dave put it, "Stud alert!"

Six Months Later....

Well, it has been six months since my last post. I think I have ignored my blog long enough. Thank you to my friend Lisa for giving me a call to get this thing updated. I have a minute to post a little about what has been going on since then.
Riley turned two back in February. She is our little tom-boy/princess. She loves to wear dresses, but I didn't have any besides her nice Sunday ones, and I was sick of mending and washing the mud out of those ones. I had to get her some play dresses that she could still twirl around in and also go play out in the mud in.
On March 22, Logann Z was born. She weighed 6 lb. 9 oz. and she was 18 in. long. She came very quickly, and a little early.


That day was a big day. I started feeling some contractions that morning, but I thought that they were nothing to worry about. My visiting teachers came over for their visit, but this month they brought their cleaning brushes and buckets. They cleaned my bathrooms and my kitchen. I told them that they couldn't have come on a better day. At the time I didn't realize how right I was. That morning I was also in the middle of doing laundry.
Then at about 3:30 pm I started timing my contractions. They were getting a little more painful, so I thought that I might be going to the hospital to have the baby that night.
I got Dax and Riley and took them to the grocery store and bumped into my R.S. president. She asked how I was doing that day, and I told her that I was not doing too well, and that I wasn't feeling too great. On the way home from the store I called Jeremy and gave him the heads-up that we were probably going to go to the hospital that night because my contractions were getting stronger and closer together.
At 5:00 pm I called Labor and Delivery, and told them what was going on and asked if I should come in. They told me to relax, wait an hour, get in the tub and see if the contractions go away. Well, I got in the tub, and that was definitely not a good idea. Never get into the tub to see if contractions will go away! Bad Idea! My contractions snapped to five minutes apart, and super painful. I had Jeremy stop making dinner, get the kids in the car, and take me to the hospital. There was no way that I was waiting until 6:00 pm.
To make a long story a little shorter; I walked into the hospital at 6:00 pm, and Logann was born at 7:37 pm.

Our new addition

We went to the doctors office yesterday for our ultrasound. We are having another girl. From what the ultrasound tech saw, everything looks good. Now just about five more months of getting bigger and bigger, and we have got to get Riley to understand the concept of potty training. I really don't want to be changing more diapers than I have to.

Catching up... April

We had a lot of fun last month. Riley really mastered walking.


We had a fun Easter in Salt Lake, and here in Cedar.


Dax LOVES finger painting.


Another wound from playing outside. This time he ate it out in the road. I saw him fall. It was like his mind was in one place and his feet couldn't get there fast enough, and down he went.




We still love to go hiking. This time we went to Zions and did a 2 mi hike called Hidden Canyon. It was a lot of fun for us and for the kids. Jeremy had Riley in the pack, and Dax hiked the entire way all by himself, with the exception of about 5 minuts the way down. He said his legs were hurting so I gave him a little piggy back. We were so impressed with him. This trail was not an easy walk either. There were steep ledges, chains, and drop offs. I thought it was like a minature Angel's Landing. After the hike, Dax and Riley were pooped. Both of them fell asleep on the shuttle getting back to our car.