Summer of fun

So it has been a month or so since I have written anything or posted any new pictures of the family. It has been a very busy summer. I forgot just how much time little babies take and most of my day is spent taking care of little Carter. This summer has been great, with the addition of our new little son and Karalee coming to live with us...our house is very full now:)

We have done a lot of traveling this summer. Carter has already been on two hikes...one about 8 km (@6 miles) 5 weeks after he was born and another one a few weeks later, but not so long. We spent a few different weeks/weekends in Waterton, my favorite place in Canada. It is so beautiful and peaceful and I can just truly relax when I am there with family and friends. Susan, my best friends from San Diego came up with her 3 children for 10 days and enjoyed some of the sights in Calgary and then we all went to Waterton. Everyone just had so much fun.

We also blessed our little baby and it was nice having so many family and friends able to be there to celebrate the blessing of Carter. Everyone knows just how badly we wanted one more little Palmer in our family and it was just such a happy time to be blessing him.

Jared's mom lives on a ranch with horses, cows, and so much land...the boys and especially Michael just love it out there. I always wanted to have little surfer boys, but I think Michael is having a mind of his own and he wants to be a farmer (hence the picture). I think now that we live in Canada on a prairie it might be hard to have a surfer boy:) He loves to feed the horses, help grandpa Mark with all the chores and will stay out side from sun up to sun down.

Some of the other pictures are from a local petting farm that we went to in the beginning of the summer. Just love the ones of my 3 boys with there heads on pig bodies. We are such cruel parents putting our new born baby in that picture, but is was just too cute to pass up. Carter just recently started smiling at us all the time, so I had to include one of those pictures as well!!

I am very sad to see the summer go..other than the fact that I might get a little more rest with both Michael and Logan in school all day and no more traveling each weekend. I love the warm weather and it does not last long in Calgary. The fall weather is already here:(

So, that was our summer in a nut shell. I loved spending time with family and friends and I am very thankful for my 3 little boys and my wonderful husband. Even though having 3 kids is harder than I anticipated, I am grateful to have another son. My mother keeps reminding me that I need to take one day at a time and when I do listen to her great advice, it really does help me be a better wife and mother that day!!

Love to all and hope you all had wonderful summer's as well!!

Dentists in training. (Just what we needed)

(Jared) I had to go to the office to help my dad clean out a room. The boys came with me and entertained themselves. When It was time to go, I went to find them and this is what I found. Both boys had on gloves, they had gotten the demonstration dolls down from the cupboard and they were pretending that they had patients and they were brushing their teeth with huge toothbrushes.