Gambles Kidz

2010-07-26T10:28:00.000-07:00

Wow it's been a long time. I have just been waiting for pictures of us in Las Vegas, but I just could'nt wait any longer. We have had a very busy summer. This month we have gone to Derkis Lake a lot, going to a family reunion in Ashton, going to a nother faimily reunion in Island Park , and just swimming. Nykell is on a White Water Rafting trip this week. Jaydon is just being his weird self. I have been helping my mom set up her classroom. My mom has been busy with her classroom and organizing it. My dad has been busy with football and is finaly done with summer school.

posted by, Katie

Nykell is 13!

2010-03-12T14:19:00.000-08:00

Nykell is 13! Her birthday was on March 8.

YAY JAYDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-02-26T13:40:00.000-08:00

JAYDON IS POTTY TRAINED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE HAS BEEN POTTY TRAINED FOR ABOUT A WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE GETS $00.40 EVERY TIME HE GOES POOP ON THE POTTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT IN THE HAYSTACK WAS THAT!!!!!!!!!!???????????

2010-02-19T14:35:00.000-08:00

WHAT WAS THAT? A FLYING CAT!!!!

(that was a weird poetry.) lol on me.im weird soooooooooooooooooooo hi my name is katie. im in 3rd grade and im evil. mohaha.. im trying to make a spell that makes me fly. its not working well.

WERE ROUDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-02-19T06:40:00.000-08:00

WERE ROUDY WERE ROUGH WERE BIG AND MEAN AND TOUGH. WERE ROUDY ROUGH AND MEAN AND TOUGH WERE ROUDY ROUGH AND TOUGH UGH

WERE ROUDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-02-19T06:37:00.000-08:00

Why I love American Idol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-02-16T15:28:00.000-08:00

Ok,so here is why I love American Idol. (1) Some of the auditions are really funny.
(2) Some of them are really good.(3) It's awsome. There.Three good reasons I love American Idol.

posted by,

Katie

GO FIGHT WIN!

2010-02-13T07:23:00.000-08:00

TIGERS GO! TIGERS FIGHT! TIGERS WIN! JEROME TIGERS GO FIGHT WIN!
(THAT WAS ONE OF THE CHEERS THAT I LEARNED)

ORANGE BLACK AND WHITE J-TOWN LETS FIGHT!
(THAT WAS ANOTHER)

POSTED BY

KATIE

P.S. PLEASE POST A COMENT.

I'M GOING TO CHEER!

2010-02-02T19:21:00.000-08:00

I will be cheerleading with the cheerleaders at the next basketball game. My best friends who I always play with, will be too.(We always play like were real cheerleaders.) Their names are Kaitlyn and Karlee.So thats pretty much all I wanted to say.

posted by,

Katie

Long Time!

2010-01-25T19:20:00.000-08:00

WOW! It's been a very long time since we have posted something new! Hopefully you guys haven't forgot about us! :) Umm... things that have happened since we have posted last: I started 7th grade, Katie has started 3rd grade, Jaydon is trying to get potty trained, my mom has graduated college, and dad has been busy with school of course. We had a really good Christmas and did a lot of fun stuff with my dads side of the family! We rocked out to Band Hero, played games, and just visited. It was pretty fun! It was fun to see Lyla for the first time! :) She is a cutie!
We are jsut ending a four day break from school. It's being fun, lazy, and full of Rock Hero! Ha Ha! That game is really fun! :) We are ending our day with chewy, yummy Rice Crispies! MMM. :P
Posted by: Nykell

My New Camera

2009-07-13T21:49:00.001-07:00

I got a new camera with the $100 that i got from my grandparents. It is a pretty nice red, KodakEasyShare, 10.2 megapixel, digital camera. I am pretty proud of myself for taking these pictures with my camera.

(Oh ya, did I mention that i want to be a photographer when i grow up?)

Posted by:Nykell

Trek

2009-06-20T12:58:00.000-07:00

On June 9th-12th I got to go on Trek. It was so much fun. My ma was Heather Burnham and my pa was Byron Burnham. We had 12 kids in my "family" including me. 3 of my friends were in my "family" so it was fun and good. On Tuesday, we walked 7 miles, on Wednesday we walked 3 miles, on Thursday we walked 6 miles, and on Friday we walked 1 mile! That was 18 miles all together! The meals were really good and we had to cook it on the fire so that was a good experience learning how to cook our meals. I could feel the spirit there and it was so comforting to know that our Heavenly Father was watching over and protecting us. There was a really bad rain and storm cloud that was heading our way and then we prayed. A while later we saw that the cloud totally just moved around us. Right then and there you could feel the spirit with us. It rained really hard on Wednesday and Thursday so it was really muddy. Wherever we camped there was Stinging Nettle so we had to watch out for that. The only tent we had was for changing, other than that we had made a girls tent with tarp and a boys tent with tarp. On Wednesday we did a lot of activities that included milking a fake cow, stilts, sack races, Indian leg wreslting, stick wars, egg toss, bobbing for apples, sling shots, marbles, hatchet throws, cats cradle, and this game where you had to push a wheel with a stick. Later on that night we had a hoedown with Sister Tadyoka(Jerome Stakes president's wife) teaching us the dances. It was fun. Then on Thursday, after pushing and pulling the carts of course, we had some activities too. They was a game where you had to follow a string through a forest blindfolded, one where you had to lift each other through a maze to get to the other side, one where you had to get a a piece of wood for each person in your family and on extra piece for the entire family and you couldn't step on the grass only the wood and work together to get to the other side, and the last one was you to be blind folded and you hold on to the person in front of you shoulders and the pa was the only one who wasn't blindfolded and had to lead us through a little forest. That was fun until it started POURING!!!

Other than the rain I had an absolute blast! I am definitely doing this again in 4 years, and Katie will be able to go in 4 years, too! Here are some pics of me and my "family" on Trek. Top left: Pa, Shaun, James, Ma, and Kristen

Middle Left: Kassidy, Ben, Me, Tanisha, Kenya, Kara, Josh(he is hidding behind Kara)

Bottom Left: Tanner and Alycia

The back of us and our cart!!!

Can ya see us at the top waving our flag?

Brother and Sister Tadyoka (and my head :D)

PULL!!!

TUG-OF-WAR!!!

Kenya, Me, Tanisha, Pa

Pa Burnham, Me, Ma Burnham

Fun At The Park

2009-06-04T08:15:00.000-07:00

On Friday we went to my grandma's house to go shoe shopping for my aunts wedding.

We all found the shoes we liked. On Saturday we went to the park for lunch with my cousins Dylan, Rylee, and Brooke. Here a few pictures of us playing.

Dylan hitting the bump in the slide

Kell hitting the pump
Jaydon and Brooke going down the slide

me going down the slide
Rylee going down the slide
Jaydon inside the tube
me and Rylee swinging
Kelly swinging
Grandpa playing on the spider web
Brooke looking at something?

Here are me and my sister and cousins at the cemetery in Swan Lake at Kamryn's grave.

Posted by: Katie

State Track

2009-05-17T17:08:00.000-07:00

This year State Track was in Boise, Idaho. Me, Katie, Mom, and Jaydon decided to go and planned a few fun things to do while we were there because we knew Jaydon couldn't sit and watch kids run for 2 whole days. So, on Thursday we went to the Boise Zoo and Chuck E. Cheese's on Friday. (FYI if you ever go to the zoo in Boise, go on Thursday bc its half off.) It is not as big as the Hogal Zoo, but is was pretty cool. It was raining the first 20 min. but we just got wet. :) We saw lions, tigers, bears, (oh my!), girrafes, monkeys, birds, etc. Here are are pictures from the zoo.

That night, after track, we went to our hotel. Our room was so big and it had a jaccuzi! Here is a pic of us in the jaccuzi. On Friday, we went to Chuck E. Cheese. That was pretty fun. The pizza was good. Jay loved to ride the rides and play the Skee Ball. We had a lot of fun and got a lot of tickets to get prizes at the end. Here are some pics.

Then, when we were done with Chuck E. Cheese, we went to watch the track finals. That was cool because they had a parade of athletes and it was fun to watch kids we know run. They all did a great job. Here are some pics of the parade of athletes.

Posted by: Nykell

Mother's Day

2009-05-13T16:06:00.000-07:00

For Mother's Day we went to Shoshone Falls. It was so pretty! We had a picnic for lunch and took short hikes along the trails. Jaydon LOVED it! He liked the waterfall and the lizard he saw along the trail. It was also a really nice day. You could hear the falls a ways away! It was pretty loud and you could feel the mist. Here are some pics.

Posted by: Nykell

Christmas Fun!

2009-01-11T16:29:00.000-08:00

For Christmas, as a surprise, we got to go to Disneyland and Sea World, both in sunny California. We woke up on Christmas morning and opened our presents and my mom made us wait to open one big present last. When we opened it there was a note that said that our family, on my mom's side, (including my grandparents, both of my aunts, my uncle, my aunt's boyfriend, Pat, my four cousins, and our little family) were going on a very lond trip to? We had to go on a scavenger hunt to find out.

As soon as we got to the end of the scavenger hunt, there was a box full of stuff that we could do on our way to that secret place. There was also another box that had a chicken on it, by the way Katelyn asked if we were going to a farm! When we opened the box Katelyn screamed because inside were passes to Disneylad and Sea World. We were soo exctied!

That was a LONG trip to California, it took 2 days!!

When we got to California we checked into our condos. They were REALLY nice. They were pretty big too, and we had a big balcony. We had a lot of fun using the condos. That night we went to the beach, oh my GOSH that was B-E-A-U-TIFUL! Here are some pictures.

The next day we went to Disneyland, it was so much bigger than I excpected. Some of my favorite rides in Disneyland are #1: Splash Mt. #2: Big Thunder Railroad #3: Matterhorn #4: Pirates of the Carribean and #5: Space Mt. Every night there was a Fantasmic, which was a water show and a firework show. That was pretty awesome too. Here are some pictures of us on all of our days at Disneyland.

This is Splash Mt.

Disney Castle

Katie got to go dance in the High School Musical Parade

The day after our first day at Disneyland, we went to a place right next to Disneyland, California Adventure. That was totally fun. My favorite rides in Califoria Adventure are #1: California Screamin', DUH! #2: Soarin' Over California #3: GrizzlyBear River Run, I got SOAKED! #4: Tower of Terror, it wasn't as scary as i thought. #5: The Rocket. Here is a picture of our day in California Adventure.

After three days at Disneyland, we checked out of our condo and went to the beach again. Here are some more pictures.

After the beach, we checked into another condo closer to Sea World. We had three condos checked out, one for our little family, one for my cousin's little family, and one for our grandparents and my aunt, Kara, and Pat to share. So we had a party at my grandparents condo on New Years Eve.

On New Year's Day, we went to Sea World for the first time. That was SOO much fun seeing Shamu the Killer Whale, The dolphin Show, and the Clyde and Semmor show. Here are some pics of our first day at Sea World.

Shamu Show

Dolphin Show

A bat stingray

we are petting the bat rays!

Clyde and Semmor Show

We went to Sea World for two days and I had an absolute BLAST at both Sea World and Disneyland.

We were all sooo sad to leave. It was soo sad! :( We all had so much fun though.

Thanks mom and dad. We will never forget this trip!

Posted by: Nykell

2008-07-22T14:01:00.000-07:00

this is me picking seashells at bear lake.

This is jaydon having fun in the sand at Bear Lake.

This is nykell taking a picture with our sandcastle.

A picture of nykell's, nathen's and my sand castle

This is our family at the cabin on the deck at Bear lake.

This is Lily (our cousin) at bear lake. Look at the sand around her eyes.

This is Jaydon,Lily,and Angie.

Our cousins in the Lake.

This is me going into bear lake.

This is me and nykell and jaydon with our sand castle. Jaydon wasn't having fun.

This is us at the Temple.

This is jaydon picking the flowers at the temple.

This is Jaydon and me.

Nykell at the water fountain.

Katie wrote the captions for the previous pictures. She is pretty descriptive.

We went to Bear Lake for a family reunion a few weeks ago. We rented a cabin that overlooked Bear Lake (as you can see from the family pic). It was a lot of fun staying in one cabin with the whole fam dam. Food was good, view was spectacular and the hot tub was nice even though I think a few family members had ideas to rename it Bare Lake...but I'm not mentioning any names...(Braydon).

We went swimming in Bear Lake a couple of times and had a good time. As you can see, the girls built sandcastles (with help from their cousins). The water was nice and only about chest deep for a couple of hundred yards out. Lily, the little cousin with sand across her eyes in the above pic, would take a piece of licorice and dip it in the sand then take a bite. Yum. Good news though, she was pooping pearls for the next 10 days. I didn't put any pictures of me in my swimming suit because that would be a violation of my contract with Hot Jerome-ites.com.

Last week we went to the open house for the new Twin Falls temple. It was nice. There are some interesting details in and around it. I think the girls enjoyed it but not Jaydon. He just wanted to swim in the baptismal font and be loud in the quiet rooms. Not to mention he was picking flowers like a mad man all around the temple.

Dad's Turn

2008-06-29T22:34:00.000-07:00

Alright all you little blog reading slappies. It's my turn to write on the blog. The girls said they have already written something so it's up to me now to get it updated. Yikes.

Well, I just came back from ISU football camp. It was groovy. We took 45 kids down there and looked pretty good (at times). Minico scored a TD on their 1st play against us. Crap. We have a little ways to go. We held our own against the big dawgs. The weather was perfect and it was football all day and all night long. Yes, heaven on earth does exist.

I'm not sure how much the kids missed me while I was gone because they did a little bit of everything and had fun doing it. They went swimming (day and night), had sleepovers and ate enough Otter Pops to kill a small elephant. Tracy looked relieved when I came home because little Jaydie is so freakin' high maintenence. She was looking for to a little repreive from the rug rats. Pause and send the love to Tracy because she doesn't get much rest from us 4 kids. At least 3 of us can use the bathroom on our own (sometimes).

I'm gonna put a slew (sp) of pictures on here for your viewing pleasure. Please don't pass this URL to pedophiles or telemarketers (one in the same). The first picture is of Jaydon playing in the dirty water in the middle of the street. Nice parenting skills on my part.

This is another picture of the street monkey. As mentioned in other posts, Jaydon loves to go outside. He stands by the door until someone takes him outside. Now if we can just train him to poop outside we'll have a full blown pet.

This is Jaydie dominating an ice cream cone...

This is Katie after losing her 1st teeth...

Jaydon absolutely loves music. He starts doing a little jig anytime he hears some. He also loves listening to the headphones to get his groove on. One morning he was being a little grouch so I put the headphones on and he listened until he fell asleep. I never knew Metallica could be so soothing...

This last one is of Nykell being a dork on her track and field day.

If you're looking for pictures of me...sorry. None posted here. However, if you want to see my lastest photo shoot just go to bodybuilder.com. Click on the link that says "Hot For Teacher"...

June 24,2008

2008-06-24T08:34:00.000-07:00

Today I get to go on a picnic at the park and night swimming with my friend Kaitlyn. Then she gets to sleepover. I got a new swimming suit. Jaydon is saying a lot of new words like more and baba and baby. Nykell is finally playing with me and she turns music and dances with me.We both love camp rock.

Posted by Katelyn

It's finally getting warmer!

2008-06-18T17:19:00.000-07:00

Since it's getting warmer, we've been able to go swimming a couple of times this week. I went swimming with my friend Tiffany while Katelyn has been playing with her friends. It has been a fun week.

One thing I have been doing this week is 4-H. For 4-H we are sewing pj bottoms, a pillow case, and a bag. I like it so far! My 4-H leader has 7 yorkies! Four of them are adults and three of them are puppies. They are so cute!

Another thing that I did is I went to my moms art class with her. We made wire sculptures and tissue paper collages. For the wire sculpture we made a dragonfly. For the tissue paper collages I made a flower and my mom made an ocean with a sailboat and a kite. I had soo much fun!

Jaydon was sick last week but is feeling better this week. He still LOVES going outside and has eaten 100 Otter Pops. He is starting to say more words like, book, more, puppy, and u-oh.

Katelyn has been just playing with her friends. She has been swimming a couple of times, too. She has read a lot of books and is excited to go to summer reading on Thursday mornings.

Posted by,
Nykell

Summer Has Just Begun

2008-06-07T19:54:00.000-07:00

After asking the kids several times what they wanted to do this summer, creating a blog was on the list every time. So, here we go. We will do our best to keep family and friends updated on what is going in the Gambles family. I told the kids that I would set it up and show them how to do it but that they are the ones who will be adding the new postings. It should be interesting to see what they want to share with you(truthfully I am a little worried).

Nykell has started her first babysitting job for a lady in our ward and really enjoys it. She has a two year old boy named Taylor (he is very cute). She likes earning her own money and thinks that she is saving up to buy herself a Wii or a laptop. We'll see how that goes. Nykell had a great fifth grade year. One of the last days of school they had a field day where she and her partner Kacie won first place in the three-legged race and her 4x4 team got second. Next year she will be going to Jerome middle school (scary). She is growing up sooo fast.

Katie has been playing with friends and reading a lot. I think she misses school already. She had a great first grade year (after we got rid of the ulcers and gave many needed pep talks). Everyday she plays school and makes out an agenda for her students. She will make a great teacher some day. I think that her favorite thing about being home is asking if we can go to McDonalds for lunch. They have been out of school for a week and she has asked to eat there about seven times (no lie). She is quite the girl.

Jaydon is finally walking and enjoys going from room to room as well as in circles (we don't know why). He is loving having the girls home during the day. He loves to play with them and can get them to do just about anything for him. Right now he is obsessed with going outside. He will stand at the door and cry until someone takes him out. A few of his favorite things are playing with the dog, eat dog food, walking into the street, and digging up flowers. He is such a boy.