End of Summer Fun

Well the summer ended badly for the Bragg family, first my burn: and I hesitate to even post this ugly pic, but some people really didn't beleive me. The day before school started I took the kids to Bear Lake for the day with some of my friends and their kids. I am 35 and just never seem to learn that the sun just isn't my friend. I sprayed my hands and the kids good with sunscreen, set up the rest of our "camp" and just forgot to spray the rest of me. For those of you who don't know I have a condition known as vitiligo where I loose more and more skin pigment every year and we think that because I'm pregenant, it spread a lot more this summer and hit my feet for the first time. Well it caused a 2nd degree sunburn and my feet swelled beyond unbeleif. The burn actually caused some nerve damage in my feet that we're still not sure will go away. I was unable to walk or put any pressure on my feet for about 5 days, and was bed ridden. Thankfully the burn has healed now, we have cleaned up the house from the kids taking advantage of my perdiciment. I hopefully have truly learned my lesson and do not plan on spending anymore time in the sun w/o sunscreen. This pic was taken on day 5, after most of the swelling had gone down, but it's still UGLY, so sorry.
Well just as I was recovering from this burn we all 4 got terribly sick and in the doctor's office to find out we all had broncitis (sorry, I don't know how to spell it). Aaron's, because of his Ashma, has now turned into phenominia, and we just found out that Skyler has Strep throat. Jackson has seemed fine through it all and we hope to get everyone better soon, but what a way to end summer and start out the school year!

Jackson helping Grandpa with our garden. This was a great year for our garden, we had a lot of yellow and green zuchinni, tons and tons of cucumbers, our herb garden, 3 types of tomatoes, and corn for the first time. So far I have talked grandpa into canning pickles with me (this was a first for me), and we plan to make more salsa this year. We had frozen peaches from Brigham City last year and I picked up some raspberries from Bear Lake so I also made a bunch of peach, raspberry, and rasppeach jam this year also. The kids love the garden, I just wish we could get them to eat the food!

Aaron has a new hobby: GeoCaching! He takes the kids out quite a bit to look for "treasures" they love it. We're the Braggsters for all you other geocachers out there. Here we are the Hyrum State park after finding a few caches, we let the kids play. It's the end of summer, and wow, are my kids blonde.

In August, we took a day trip to Bear Lake with some friends. We set up a volleyball net, ate lunch, and had a good time at the lake. We could take the red tube out pretty far and it was still pretty shallow, but Jackson always the careful bug, wouldn't let me get too far before he'd come running after me and pull me back to shore. It's amazing to me how different my kids are. We've always had to keep a real careful eye on Skyler not to stray too far from home. She is just full of adventure, spice, and a real curiosity for life. Jackson had never strayed too far past mom. He is much more careful with a sweet demeanor. However, we used to think he a bit on the shy side. That is not the case anymore. Thanks to the infulence of his big sister whom he adores, he has become more outgoing with other people and has become quite the chatterbox just like Skyler. Here's some pics of our day at Bear Lake.

Have I mentioned that Jackson can sleep just about anywhere?! And here he is with my missing diet sunkist that he loves so much.

Skyler's Birthday party! Skyler turned 7 in July, and we decided to do a "girls" late night party, with pizza, an ice cream bar, games and then watched the movie Tinker Bell. It was a lot of fun. Skyler was sad to not have all her boy friends there(she has promised to marry 4 boys in the neighborhood), but this way by far the simpelest, easiest, and way fun party that she wants to do again next year.