Caleb's Ouchie

Caleb decided he would help out with another trip to the Urgent Care by slicing his thumb open on a chili can. I ran him to Urgent Care around 5:30 where we waited about 45 minutes because Monday night is a good time for lots of people to need a doctor. An hour and a half and 3 stitches later we were on our way. He was not a happy camper for a few days and you would have thought he had gotten an amputation by the way he babied that hand. We are sure glad that the doctor's office is now open until 8pm. Funny side note-2 days before we came in they had another kid come in who had cut his hand on a chili can that needed stitches too. The nurse thought she was being funny when she asked "So did you cut it on a chili can?" Haha "Yes as a matter of fact he did!"

Ghiradelli Goodness

After Don got back from Alaska and being gone 7 days he was leaving again a few days later and I needed a datenight. We left the kids with grandma and went in to Outback in Las Vegas and then to Costco. At the gas station on the way home I found this lovely bar of Ghiradelli and promptly purchased it to help me get through the next 3 days. Who knew you could buy Ghriadelli at the Petro gas station!

Supporting Spencer

I recently got put into Primary as the secretary. There is a child in our Primary who was just recently diagnosed with cancer and we as the presidency wanted to do something for him. We decided that we would heart attack his house while he was away. WE have a lady in our ward who makes vinyl things so she printed out about 80 hearts and then we took them to Primary and had the kids write messages to Spencer on them. Then after our presidency meeting on July 24 we went over and put them all over the outside of his house. My boys were at home and didn't come and place the hearts but some of the other ladies' boys were with us so they helped out. It went really fast with all those little hands to help! Then since my boys knew that Spencer was going to lose his hair with the Chemo treatments they decided that they would shave their heads in support of him. Don did it late Tuesday night. Cayden's skin is so fair that his was just a little too short but luckily it is hair and it will grow back.

Freezer Full O' Fish

Don went deep sea fishing in Alaska July 19-22. He flew from Denver where he was working to Seattle to Ketchican to Sitka where he met up with some guys from work and some customers. They fished for 10 hours a day and caught about 1600lbs of fish. They processed it and packaged it and sent each guy home with about 100lbs of salmon, rockfish, halibut and cod. It's a good thing we didn't buy a beef like we were going to because our freezers are full! I am not a big fan of fish but Don made halibut on Sunday July 29 and it was actually ok. We have had salmon before and I told him that I would like to try a teriyaki salmon of some sort. I remember that my dad liked halibut and he used to cook it once in a while. Don has been distributing some of the fish to friends and neighbors because there is just so much of it. The boys really like it though so we should be getting plenty of our Omega 3 fatty acids around here!

50 lb boxes of frozen fish.

Fort Kyle

When Kyle started getting mobile we needed to barricade him in so he wasn't going all over the house.  Our first trick was to use the barstools and video rockers in the doorways so he was confined to the family room.  Well then the little stinker just put his head down and mowed his way through those.  We tried to buy some baby gates and Walmart but they didn't fit the doorways because the baseboards are too high.  Caleb had the ingenious idea to make  barricade with the couches as part of if and then use the barstools and video rockers up against each other so he could not push them out of the way.  Brilliant!

Afternoon Entertainment

I was in the kitchen making dinner and got some ice from the freezer. A piece fell on the ground and Kyle found it endlessly entertaining. I thought it was funny to see him trying to get a hold of it and then it slipping out of his hands. It was fun to watch him play with it until he started slipping in the water it left behind. Then he just got mad.

July 18, 2012

Logandale Hail

On Monday, July 16, we got a lovely summer storm that produced nickel sized hail. This was the day I decided to clean my carpets so I should have known that it was going to rain and my kids would muddy up my floors! It only rained for about 15 minutes and 5 of that has big hailstones. The kids couldn't decide if they wanted to be in the front or the back getting hit by the huge pebbles so they ran back and forth. Connor was having a fit because the Rhino was parked out front and it was hailing and raining so bad we couldn't get it and drive it into the garage. After the ran the gutters ran with water and the boys of course had to run around splashing in that for bit. Our neighbors Molly and Connor Waite were over for the afternoon so we had 5 kids running around and screaming about the crazy storm.  Kyle even went out in the rain for a minute or two.