Good Grades and A1C's

Connor had a great report card this time.  The kid won't stand still long enough for me to get a picture of him.  He had 6 A's, 1 B and 1 C.  That really is outstanding for him.

Don took Connor and Cayden to the diabetes doctor today.  Connor's A1C was 7.7 and Cayden's was 7.8.  Considering that they ate like crap at the fair all weekend and it was hard to calculate carbs that was actually pretty darn good.

Way Past Exhausted

This is where we found Cayden Monday night around 6pm.  The fair weekend was over and he had gone to bed late every night.  Sunday night it was almost midnight before he finally went to bed-too many funnel cakes?  Then bright and early Monday morning at 6am he had to get up for tutoring.  He was so crabby that morning and all afternoon.  He took Kyle's baby monitor and put the transmitter by his Ipod and the receiver by his head and fell asleep on his floor around 6pm.  He was listening to Hairspray.  He did wake up around 8 and stumbled out into the family room where we told him to just go back to bed.  He slept until 8am the next morning.

A Few of My Favorite Things

This is NOT one of my favorite things-Kyle throwing his food on the floor.

Epic Fail-Epic Win

A friend of our's who has a catering company gave us a huge box of potatoes.  In my attempt to be domestic, frugal and prepared I tried  making my own hashbrowns.  I baked the potatoes first and then tried to grate them and put them on a sheet pan to freeze.  They were too gummy and sticky and froze into yucky dried out clumps.  So we won't be making our own hashbrowns I guess.

In other news I did make 22 jars of strawberry freezer jam.  I bought a flat of strawberries from Bountiful Baskets Easter weekend and made the jam on Monday April 1.  The berries were going bad pretty fast.  I didn't have room in my fridge though for them so that is probably why.  I forgot to take a picture before I put them in the freezer though. I didn't need to make strawberry jam, I needed raspberry jam.  I think I gave away about 6 jars but we still have lots and lots of jam.

Another New Trick

Kyle found out last night that pieces of corn are the perfect size to fit up his nose.  He ever so nicely was cramming up them up his nose.  He was sneezing for 30 minutes afterward and like a slot machine they all came back out.  I even got out the thing to look in his ear so that I could look up his nose and make sure there weren't any more surprises.  

It made me think of this from "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Imogene Herdman: I'm going to be Mary in the Christmas play. And if you try to be, or raise your arm, you'll wish you didn't.

Alice Wendlekin: I'm always Mary in the Christmas play.

Imogene Herdman: Go ahead then. And next spring when the pussy-willows come out, I'm going to stick a pussy-willow so far down your ear where nobody can reach it. And it'll sit there and grow and grow and grow so for the rest of your life, there'll be a pussy-willow bush growing out of your ear.

We will have corn stalks growing out of Kyle's nose.  That will be lovely.

Clark County Fair 2013

On the train.

He finally decided he liked the cart on day 4.

Playing with the stick pony in the Kids Corral.

The classic Connor shot on the cart hauling trash.

Caleb worked about 8 hours a day in the ice cream booth.  

I take this picture of Cody and Jessie Culler/Hardy every year I think.

Putting on a puppet show in the Kid's Corral.

Cayden thinking that there is going to be really loud music.

The returned missionary hauling beer in his Budweiser cap and with a Rockstar.

Riding the train.

Our favorite clown friend PJ!

Pizza!

Ho-hee!

Yum-O!

I was really wanting something yummy for dinner the other night so I was looking at my Pinterest pages trying to find an idea.  I saw this and decided that it was just what I was needing.  I L.O.V.E monte cristo sandwiches and this was a good substitute that didn't involve frying!  They were delicious and didn't cost $17.50-that's how much 1 sandwich costs at New Orleans Cafe at Disneyland.  There used to be a restaurant here called Bennigan's that made them but they closed down years ago.  Total Bummer!