Blessing Day

On Sunday we blessed Parker and he looked like such a little gentlemen in his little white outfit! Cameron gave him such a wonderful blessing. He was awake the whole time of the blessing, but didn't make a peep! We had a lunch afterwards at our house with several of our family and friends. It was so much fun to have everyone together to celebrate such a special day for Baby Parks.

Our new, big family of 5!

I'm such a proud Mama!

All tuckered out after a long day of being held and cuddled by everyone!

Labor Day

We were so sad that summer is almost over and we haven't even taken advantage of being so close to the cabin, so we headed up to Bear Lake over Labor Day weekend. We took up the Smith Family and the McMurdie Family and I don't think we saw Taggart all weekend. He is obsessed with Jaxton and calls him his 'cupcake friend' (since they own a cupcake bakery). Tag spent most of his time with Jaxton while Maddie spent her's with Kennadi. It was so nice for the kids to all play together while the adults had some fun of their own! We played games, talked A LOT, and ate a lot of really great food!
We spent Saturday on the Lake and Beach, until we got blown off the Lake. My parents came up to spend the day at the beach and it was really nice to have a babysitter for Parks while we headed out on the boat. Poppy had fun snuggling up to Parks on the beach.


We had a fun day playing in the sand and cruising around in the boat. How cute is my little flag girl?


Parks was great on the boat and the beach, even though it was very windy and he was covered in sand at times!

We all had a really fun time while we enjoyed the last few days of summer! I am soo sad to see it go...

6 Weeks Old...

I can't believe that little Mister Parker is already 6 weeks old! He has really started to fill out and has gotten a lot bigger; I already feel like he isn't a little tiny newborn anymore..sniff sniff! Since he started to get those big chubby cheeks, I think he is starting to look more like Taggart now. He is still being a good baby, but not as good as he used to be. He is awake a little more now and we have acutally heard him cry a little, but he is still just as sweet as he could be and we love him! Taggart and Maddie don't really pay too much attention to him. Every so often when he cries or spits up, they tell me about it. Maddie was very excited the other day when we gave Parker his first bottle. She was soo excited to feed him and held the bottle for awhile. I am sure as he starts to do more, the will pay more attention to him, but for right now he is just pretty quiet.




Life with 3 kids has just started to get crazy for me! At first I was thinking it wasn't too hard, but then the kids started School, Preschool, Dance, and Tumbling and now we actually have to be somewhere at a specific time and this has made things harder. Driving the kids all around, feeding Parker in the car sometimes, getting the kids in and out of the car and Parker in and out of his car seat... it really is a lot of work! I am sure once we get into a routine it will be a little easier.


Maddie did start Preschool today and I think she is really going to like it! She was very excited that they had a playground. I am VERY sad that she isn't going to Preschool in St. George with all of her friends at Mrs. Lori's, but I guess this will just have to do. I am sure she will have a lot of fun this year!
We had a pretty busy last month of Summer. Here are a couple of the highlights:

~Spent a lot of time snuggling with Parks
~Cam and I went to Lion King in Salt Lake
~Went to Belmont Springs with my Family
~Went up to a cabin in Idaho for the weekend with the Smith's
~Ate lots of ice cream and cupcakes
~The Kids played outside all day with the neighbors
~Went to the Box Elder County Fair and Parade
~Spent lots of time at the park and pool
~Celebrated 4 birthdays (Marion, Carst, Claudia, Jocelyn)
~Got to bed late and slept in (crazy for my kids!)

Some Firsts...

Taggart had his first day at Kindergarten on Wed. He has been very excited for this day and so have I! I can't believe he is big enough to go to school! I was kinda sad for a bit, but it has been very nice the last couple of days to have some time with just Maddie and Parks.

Look at how cute he is hanging up his backpack. Yes, I was the Mom snapping pictures of everything!

Then he picked where to sit and he chose the back of the class. I was thinking he must be a rebel, because I never used to pick the back of the class!

10 minutes into class and he leans over to me and asks, "Mom, when are we going to play on the playground?" It was so funny and I was wondering how he was actually going to get through the next day when he had to be there until 11:30! He did great the last couple of days and is so far loving it. Everyday I pick him up, he just runs out and gives me a big hug and he is so happy to see me! It is sweet!

Maddie also had her first day of dance. We went the other day and got her some tap and ballet shoes, a dance bag, and some dance outfits. She woke up the next morning and said, "Mom, I dreamed about my dance." She asked for two days straight when she was going to go to dance. She was so excited when it finally came. She loved her first class so much! I watched her for a bit when she was doing her tap dance and she was concentrating sooo hard and watching the teacher..it was hilarious! She was very excited that she got a cupcake too. Doesn't she look super cute with her dance bag?

Anyway, it was an exciting week of firsts for us!

Parker Cameron McCullough Has Arrived!

This picture was taken a couple days before I went into labor. I had wanted to capture a picture of how huge I was getting and we had just gotten home from church and the kids were playing with the stuffed animals that were in the baby's room. I am 37 weeks in this picture and this was the longest I had ever carried a baby. I made it to Tuesday and went to the doctor where I was dialted to a 4 and 60% effaced, so I was wondering how long it would be until he finally came. The doctor stripped my membranes and I went home and just kept wondering when it would happen. Well, at 5am the next morning I woke up with a contraction. Then 5 minutes later had another one, then 5 minutes later another one and I was thinking...this is it..I think? I woke Cam up and said that we should probably go to the hospital and it was so weird this time to just be able to go and not worry that it was too early. We even had enough time to stop outside of the hospital and snap a pic. I have never been able to do that before!

We got to the hospital around 6:00 and I had my epidural by 7, so I really didn't even have to be in much pain, which was very nice! Cam and I just hung around and napped and watched tv and then by about 10 I was ready to push. Only a few pushes later and little Parker came into the world!

He weighed 7 pounds and was 20 inches long. He has hair that is much lighter than my other two kids and we still can't quite figure out who he looks like? His light hair kept throwing me off in the hospital and I kept thinking he wasn't mine. He has big hands and long arms and is just about the sweetest baby in the whole world! How cute is this when he found his fingers?

The kids weren't very interested in him at first, but they warmed up quickly. Taggart asked, "Why is our baby so red?" and "What is his name?" When we told him it was Parker, he said that he didn't like that name. I told him he could call him Parks for short and he LOVED that, so now that is what Tag calls him all the time.

Daddy is in love and already wanting #4! Can you believe my husband, who I had to talk into having a third child, now wants more? Crazy, I think, but I guess we will just have to see... Not much cuter than Daddy and his sweet new baby boy.


After we brought him home, his bilirubun levels kept going up, so we had to put him on the lights a few times. He was so good and I guess enjoyed his little tanning bed! After about a week of going to the hospital daily to get his blood drawn and worrying about him getting enough food and pooping all that jaundice out.. and it finally went down and we were free and clear! Yeah!


Taggart and Maddie have been pretty cute with him. Maddie is being a little Mother and they both like to hold him, but not for very long. I think they get inpatient when he doesn't really do much. He hardly even cries, so I think that they forget about him at times!

Today he is 3 weeks old and he is the best baby in the world! I usually have to wake him up during the day to eat and he only wakes up once in the middle of the night. I guess I forgot how much newborns sleep because basically that is all he does: sleep and eat. He did have a little episode the other day and we had to rush him to the doctor because he was crying, choking, and not really breathing, but it was reflux (just like Taggart had) and we got some meds for him and he hasn't had another episode since. Weird, I know, but I will take it. It is just so sad to see him in pain and I hope this medicine continues to work. I am sooo in love with him and I want him to stay at this age forever. I am so much more relaxed with this 3rd baby and am enjoying every minute of it, minus the 25 extra pounds that I'm carrying around! But I feel really good; I'm not tired and it is so nice to be able to bend over again, and not have sore feet!


We just want to welcome our sweet little Parks into our family and let him know that we all love him very much! It is amazing having a newborn in our home again and just realizing how incredible it is that we can create this beautiful new life. I can't believe that 3 weeks have already flown by and I kinda want to push pause on life and not let him grow any bigger! There is nothing better in the world than snuggling with him! Hopefully he will continue to be our little Angel baby! We love you Parks!!

Ayotte Family Vacation 2010

We had our annual Ayotte family vacation over the 4th of July this year. We spent some time here in Logan, at my parent's house, and camping at Bear Lake. We started out by all going to the fireworks in Logan. The kids were all so excited for them that they asked all day long when we were going to the fireworks. Of course by the time we got there, Mr. Sensitive Ears (Taggart) wanted his ear plugs. It was a great show and it was so fun to all be together this year to watch them.


Maddie was so excited to have her cousin Ada over to her house and broke her in quickly by playing dress up. They played so cute together!

The next day we went to the Logan Aquatic Center to have to fun in the sun! Both Taggart and Maddie just got done with swimming lessons and we know Tag is already a fish, but Maddie learned so much and now she is loving the water more than ever! She spent most of her time in the water and only took a few short breaks for Cheetos...! Go figure!




After the pool we were all able to go to Baby Emma's Blessing. Isn't she the cutest!



It was great to have our entire family there for the Blessing.

My sister, who is 2 months behind me pregnant wise, and I are showing that we are pretty much handicap! Look at how huge my belly looks!!

The next day was the 4th of July and after church we headed over to my Mom's to hang out with everyone.

We had dinner and then we tie dyed T-shirts. They all turned out awesome too!


That night we had some fun with fireworks to celebrate the Holiday. We got good at making AYOTTE out of sparklers. Cam lit off some firecrackers and it scared Taggart so bad he yelled at him and screamed, "You scared my crap out of me!" It was hilarious! Once again, Mr. Sensitive Ears.

The next morning we met at Jamba Juice for a quick breakfast before heading to Bear Lake. Of course we all had to sport our new tie dyed shirts. Don't we look awesome!


We spent some time at the lake at the beach. Uncle Jason built these little pools and the kids had a ball playing in them.

Don't you just love how Patriotic my husband is? This is the way we rolled in Bear Lake (talk about W.T. huh?)

We had a lot of fun camping and we ate a ton of Smores!


We spent a lot of time around camp playing games and having fun. Here are the kids playing with Poppy and Maddie and Ada coloring in the trailer. Nana also got the kids squirt guns, so here they are playing Army with Uncle Jason.



And, what is a trip to Bear Lake with out a stop at La Beaus for some dinner and a milkshake?


Even though I came home with swollen ankles, we had a great time! The kids loved sleeping in the tent and trailer and I enjoyed escaping to a nice, comfy bed down the street at Frank and Marion's cabin. It was nice not to have to stumble to the bathroom in the dark 3 times a night! It was especially fun to have Jason and Claudia and their kids here from California. Maddie and Taggart had so much fun with their cousins and we wish we could see them more often. We had a great time, but then again, we ALWAYS do!