Cam's Pictures

I had some pictures taken of Cam.  Here is the web site http://www.barnwoodphotography.com and the password is CamSargent (casesensitive).  

Emily did an amazing job.  Cam was not quite so cooperative, he kept gritting his teeth and kind of scowling.  

Little Helper

Since I had a ball game tonight I decided to look for my uniform to see if it needed washed.  Of course, it did, so I threw it in the washer and later made the comment to Alyssa that I needed to put it in the dryer so it wasn't wet for the game.  A while later I remembered to go change the laundry, when to my surprise, the dryer was going with just my jersey inside.  She emptied the dryer and dug my shirt out of the washer and started the dryer all by herself and without saying anything to me.  How thoughtful of a 4 year old!  

Another one bites the dust

So to go along with the 16 chickens we HAD to have this spring Tasia and Jer brought the kids home one day with 3 ducks.  Cam has loved them and will spend literally hours playing with them and holding them.  Well a few weeks ago we came home to find the dog had gotten ahold of one of the black ducks.  Cam was devastated and cried hysterically for an hour.  -- no joke.  

Well, last night Tasia's dog came for a little stroll and snatched the yellow duck.  So now we are down to 1 duck left.  

So all day Cam has spent every second that he has been home outside holding the single, remaining duck and all the chickens.  I know it's sad, but it is funny to see him so attached and caring for these little critters.  

** On a side note- the older chickens started laying eggs, so this is taking off some of the sorrow about the ducks.  

Here is the latest-- While Paul and Jay were coming home from work on the yucky dirt logging roads they managed to do what we all fear when driving on those roads.... rolling the truck.  Here are a couple pictures, they posted backward the first is after we rolled it over on it's wheels.

After Paul called and let me know they had wrecked he told me he already had someone on their way to pick them up, but in case I was wondering he had already called and canceled the tires he had just ordered.  What!  That would be the last thing on my mind right after this.  Oh well, I'm just glad he let me know :) and that everything was fine.  Jay ended up with a cut on his hand and they are both sore.  

I know it's been a while since I've posted anything, so here are a few random pictures.  

This was Cam and Lys's way of helping do yard work.

Picture from Powell.
Uncle Shawn put a lizard on Cam while taking a break from fishing. 
Cam taking Emma on a ride on his 'boat'. 

Sargent Updates

So Tanya and I decided we needed to High-Jack Ruby's blog and add some pictures and updates for everyone. They stay very busy at their house. Ruby graduated from school with her Bachelor's degree in Education. However, she decided to continue on and is currently taking more classes which takes up the majority of her time when she is not working and trying to raise her two kids along with the random niece and nephews that always like to visit.
Paul is staying as busy as he always is. Not sure what he would do without 20 projects to keep him busy.
Cameron is enjoying first grade. He started playing a junior league basketball team and he has great fun doing that especially when playing against his cousin Jayce. Some of he's favorite things to do according to him:

Play xbox with Sweetie
Fishing & Hunting
SKIING!!!
Play Soccer & Football

Alyssa is going to preschool two times a week and is always so busy we aren't sure how her mom keeps up. Alyssa's favorite things to do according to her:

Play with Emma
Build snowmans
play on moms computer
to dance
play dolls

Now for the pictures I had of them at my house.
Cameron was able to bring home baby chicks that they hatched in school.

He could not believe he trained them so fast to stand on his arm like this :)

The poor baby chicks!!

It has been almost two weeks since Emma was sick and we are hoping she is no longer contagious Emma had been asking for Lys to come play for a very long time and she finally came over today, so of course we played doctor and Emma got to show Lys everything she learned while in the hospital.
Alyssa listening to Em's heartbeat.

Emma looking in Lys's ears.

Sporting the masks we stole from the hospital. Emma still gets a little freaked when she sees someone put these on. Lys however refused to take hers off which didn't make Emma too happy. :)

Cam has become quite the little skier. He has an amazing natural ability to pick up on things and he is so impressive when it comes to skiing. We sent him on one lesson and the instructor said that there was nothing she could teach him, she just kept taking him down hard runs to keep him from going too fast. She says by next year he will being skiing any Black Diamond run he wants. Way To Go CAM!!

Summer's End

There are many things that lead up to the end of summer, but I still try to deny them all until fall officially arrives. We had a summer that flew by, and now September is coming to an end. Today is Cameron's birthday. I cannot believe that he is 7. It seems like only yesterday when I was anticipating the day he would be born, even though he was 10 days early. He was born on Paul's mom's birthday. She had told me all during my pregnancy he was going to be born on her birthday, I just said how nice that would be, but this being my first I was sure he was going to be overdue. Cam has always taken pride in sharing a birthday with his grammy Barb. Then two years ago he got another surprise. Tasia had Emma on his birthday as well. Cam thinks this is fabulous and has a special connection with Barb and Emma. The problem comes when Alyssa feels sad that no one shares a birthday with her. (mind you she was born a day before Tanya). You don't realize how quickly kids grow up! I can see Cam's interests change to more grown up interests. He won't miss an outing with his dad, even if he has to wake up at 4:30 a.m. and hike all day to look for wildlife, then turn around and do it again the next day. I read a quote that says, "The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart." I hope that Cam will follow in his father's footsteps and always be a child at heart.
Happy Birthday Cam!
Hopefully I will post pictures soon.