One of Jeremy's Favorite Pastimes

Over the years Jeremy and his brothers have gone on numerous tubing and kayaking trips down the salt river. Generally not spending much time in their kayaks, but in the water treasure hunting (Jeremy doesn't really like that term). They have found all sorts of crazy things including a wallet with a KKK membership card, boom boxes, CDs, crack pipes, necklaces, rings, money, knives, watches, cameras but mostly keys and sunglasses (I still wear my $100 pair some goofball dropped from their tube a few years ago.) Its just a fun time for the Bingham boys to get together in the hot summer.
Jeremy has even converted some of his fellow residents, who have caught the bug kayaking down the river, but really just diving and searching for river crap. The fun is the presentation of coming up out of the water with open umbrellas or wearing crazy thick glasses from someone who must have been nearly blind. We love talking about the poor saps who lose their goods on the river.
Most recently Jeremy was on a sports medicine rotation "wilderness survival outing" with a fellow resident, preceptor, and his brother Ryan when he pulled up his best find ever.

Olympus waterproof /shockproof 10mpix camera. Thanks Olympus for inventing a waterproof digital camera. Who knew it could survive three weeks underwater. Keep floating down the river drinking and taking pictures tubers.

Last picture taken by original owner (by the way if you recognise yourself in the picture, Jeremy says finders keepers losers weepers).
Three weeks later Jeremy at the river after Jon Manwaring realized the camera still worked. Wish I'd taken a picture of how corroded it looked before Jeremy cleaned it up so well.

Making good use of new camera.
Taylor thought his dad was trying to drown him after he came up sputtering.
Ella looks especially cute underwater.

Caden turns Six

Caden's sixth birthday was August 2oth. It's so fun with little kids because there is such tremendous buildup for the countdown to their birthday. It's just so exciting for them (unlike us old adults). Everyday, starting about a month before his birthday he would ask how many days until his birthday. The day finally came.
Caden's cake was camo frosting with a tank on top. He thought that was pretty cool.
One of the highlights of their birthday cake is they love to light their candles, the one time they are allowed to touch the lighter and ignite it.


Taylor starts blowing out the candles as soon as he hears the last note. As you can see Caden had plenty of help blowing out his candles.

This trunk is his prize gift this year. He shows it to everyone that comes over. He had been asking for a treasure chest, I had no luck at Ross, thankfully Jeremy found this one for Caden and he LOVES it.
Nana and Papa came over to wish him a happy birthday. Caden is holding a remote control tarantula. He tried scaring Jeremy when he got home from work.

I can't believe how quickly he has grown. He is such a funny little boy and is easily impressed with little things. Taylor reminds me so much of Caden. Love my little boys.

First Day of School was Aug. 11

After a very busy summer and being out of town and family in town all the way up to the weekend before school, the kids could finally get back to normal and school starts. They were excited/nervous for the first day of school. Caden started kindergarten; and Ella started 2nd grade this year. They are both getting so big. Of course Caden is one of the biggest kids in kindergarten, being naturally a big kid and almost a year older than some of the kids hopefully he likes being taller than everyone. They both like their teachers, which I am very grateful for it makes such a difference. Caden's only complaint is that school takes up the whole day. I have to admit I wish it started a half hour earlier or ended a half hour earlier. They don't get home until about 3:45 and we do homework then there is very little time before dinner. I see where Ella and Caden are coming from about not having enough play time.

I do enjoy my time with Taylor during the day. Taylor is still asking to go to school, and where is his backpack, or if its time to go get Ella and Caden at 11:oo am. He was funny on the first day of school. He and I are walking back to the van and very concerned he asks where Caden is, he was used to having his big brother home while Ella was at school. It was pretty cute.

Vacation in San Diego

I was so glad we were able to make it to San Diego this year Espeically after just being there for my girls weekend in July. It's so fun to see the kids playing on the beach and chasing seagulls. We went over the first week of August with as many of the Bingham Clan that could make it. It was such a fun time hanging out on the beach everyday. The kids loved playing with their cousins.

At night we would come back and play foosball or pool. Or there were four of us who brought over "Breaking Dawn" to read. Wish i would have gotten a picture of us four girls with our books. Caden thought I had his aunt Holly's book half the time. Nothing like a good book on vacation.

On our way out of town we stopped and walked around a little in downtown San Diego. It was fun but not the beach. After we had lunch Taylor said " I wan go beach dad." We love coming to San Diego as a family.

Caden loved boogie boarding with his cousins as well as body surfing.

I had to add these two. we went to Disneyland in April and stopped at the beach before we went home. It was freezing water but Ella and Caden still played in the waves, Taylor got caught in a wave and was soaking wet. He didn't like that at all but I didn't' want to walk back and get him dry clothes so he wore Ella's pink jacket with no diaper and sat on my lap the rest of the time.


Taylor wouldn't get in the water at all the first day but once he did he couldn't get enough. Jordan took him out in some bigger waves and he loved it.

I Can't Believe It's Already Been Ten Years

Today Jeremy and I have been married for ten years. It doesn't seem like it has even been close to that long and sometimes it seems like we've always been together. I absolutely love being married to my best friend. I can't wait to see what unfolds in the next ten years of our life together.

Ten things I love about being married to Jeremy:
1. Family is always first we love having him here and home is where he loves to be.
2. He is hilarious, he is always making us laugh and taking advantage of funny situations so we all laugh even harder.
3. He loves me so much, he knows I need a little girls only time, so he encouraged me to go on my girls trip last weekend and he took tremendous care of the kids while I was gone. They love a little daddy time too.
4.He is such a good Daddy and wants the best for our kids, while still wanting them to be well rounded ,hard workers and respectful, which has kind of become our motto.
5. He supports what I do at home as a stay at home mom. He comes home and helps me with cleaning and even cooking sometimes but most especially time with the kids.
6. I especially love that he takes time out for just us. Spring and summer before our first anniversary Jeremy took on a second job delivering pizza,on top of school and our cleaning gig. The money from that job was specifically set aside for a trip to Hawaii celebrating our first anniversary. It was so fun being able to look forward to that trip and plan for it. Since then we take advantage of opportunities to go on vacation and do things for just us whenever we can.
7. He has always been a good example, to me, our kids, and siblings. He is so strong spiritually, smart economically and so many other qualities.

8. I love that we both have common goals for short term and long term. We ultimately want to live good lives as well as those who we love so we can always be together.
9. I love that after he graduated with a degree in a education, he realized he wanted more and wasn't afraid to go back to school and do medicine. Last night he pointed out that five of our married years have been in medical school and then internship. It can only get better from there.
10. I love that Jeremy makes me feel good about what I do and He makes me want to do and be better and continue to grow and learn.
I love this wonderful man that I married ten years ago. I love being with you and knowing you are always there for us Jeremy.





I am so grateful for these last ten years and feel we have definitely made the best of it and enjoyed life as our beautiful family continues to grow. Love you Jeremy, Happy Anniversary!!

Summer Update

Performance day for Ella's little dance class all these girls were so fun and cute to have over everyday the last couple of weeks.

Deer Valley girls up at Camp Lo Mia and us cabin moms

This summer has seemed to fly. There was only a couple of days at the beginning before summer classes started that kind of dragged on. Once June hit we have been busy. Jeremy started out June with a week off we just stayed home and tried to do something fun each day. It was just nice having a little down time with Daddy at home with us. His schedule has been pretty good since vacation week so we are just enjoying it while it lasts.
I went up to girls camp mid June. Jeremy and my sister Valerie and my brother Morgan all watched the kids while I was away. Thankyou so much you guys. I had a lot of fun with the girls and other leaders up there.

During the week I was gone Ella took a Broadway musical dance class out in Mesa. She stayed with her Aunt and unlce Ryan and Julie. Julie took such good care of her while she was out there and Ella had a fun time staying with her cousins, even if she did get a little homesick in the end. Also while in Mesa a little girl down the street from Ryan and Julie was teaching a gymnastics class to little girls. Ella realized she could do the same thing and teach her own class with something that she knew how to do. She finally talked me into a class after I thought about it and realized it could be a really good experience for her. Of course she was excited at the propect of earning money. Ella handed out fliers to kids in Caden's preschool and girls at church. Today was the last day of her two week class and the girls performed for an audience, parents and some grandparents, today. It was so cute they did such a good job. I am going to try to upload some video sometime next week from both Ella's performance and Ella's class. They all seemed to have a lot of fun.

Hopefully I can get video and more pictures up soon. We have had lots of fun this summer so far and more to come.

Baby News

I believe most everyone knows that Jeremy and I are expecting our fourth baby. Last week I had the ultrasound appointment to find out what the baby was. There was a lot of anticipation leading up to the appt. I brought Ella with me so she could see the ultrasound. She was standing next to me most of the time so she could see the screen better, until we found out what the baby is. She was very disappointed to find out that she is going to have another brother. We are still excited for a baby no matter what, although I was getting a little excited about the prospect of buying little girl clothes again. Maybe next time.