We had our first...

On wednesday the 7th Mason and I were getting ready to ride our bikes over to pike Tyler up from school.  Mason was ridding his bike on the sidewalk and I was getting Elly loaded into the bike trailer, when he crashed.  He fell from the sidewalk into the gutter and when he went to catch himself with his hand his bike hand fell right on the end of his finger.  It looked like this almost instantly.  I took him in the house and put a bandaid on it and decided we would just drive since he was still crying, but he didn't want to.  So we rode bikes and he cried the whole way over and back.  I kept telling him he was okay and that he could stop crying, but that didn't help.  When we got home I could see his finger was really starting to swell so I cut the bandaid off and iced it while I rocked him for fourty minutes.  Sometime during that time he stopped crying. 

I kept telling him "it is just like getting your finger slamed in the door, it hurts for a little while and then its done."  He is definitely going to lose his fingernail in a couple of weeks.  When Jay got home that night and after dinner he wanted to go to the office and x-ray it just to make sure it wasn't broken.  I was sure it wasn't broken.  Mason never did cry about it once he stopped and he never said it hurt or anything.  He just went off and played.  Actually he played baseball that night and he was hitting too, one handed of course, but still running and slidding.

So you can imagine my surprise when the x-ray showed us this.

Broken in two place.  Ooohhhh What a mean mom to tell him it was like getting your finger slamed in a door.  I felt so bad. You can tell right where the handle hit the bone.  Since it was nine at night there wasn't much to do but wait until morning.  When the pharmacy opened we went down and bought him a brace for it.

We had our first broken bones this year.  He has been so good about it.  He has never said it hurts or anything and it hasn't slowed him down one bit.  He has always been on the go since he was born so I guess I am a little surprised that this was how he got his first broken bone.  I am hoping that it will be the last and only one at this house.

Labor Day weekend

We started our Labor Day weekend off with a Bees baseball game, which we have been promising the kids all summer.  We met up with some of our good friends, Brad and Randi and their kids, for the game. We started the night of ridding the train.  The line wasn't very long so it was a good time to go ride.  The kids had a great time.   

The boys love going to the games.  They sit and watch really well.  We watched the Bees get three home runs and there was a broken bat that just about hit the pitcher. 

Mason loved watching the score change and when we got a home run he said, "The bad team deserves that." He was very into the game.

Tyler had Jay's mitt ready to catch a ball in case one came our way, but one never did.

At the end of the game when we were winning by more and more points Mason would do this funny little laugh each time we scored.  It sounded so funny and almost evil.

Elly loved watching the train drive by and seeing the Bee.

  It was really fun to go and get to spend a couple hours with our friends.

The next day we had my sisters wedding in Logan. The kids have been excited to go to the Temple again since they knew we were going.

While we were inside I left my camera with my brother and told him if he saw anything cute to take some pictures for me since they would be watching almost all the grand kids.

Leah, Elly my sister Brooklyn and Ainslie

Logan Temple

Lochlyn, Tyler, Gracie, Ericka, Mason, Reagan and Devin.  The four kids that are the same height are 10 months apart.  They are almost standing in the right order too, but Mason and Reagan needed to switch spots.

Ammon (my brother) holding Ainslie, Lochlyn, Killian, Rylee, Tyler, Gracie, Ericka, Mason, Reagan, Devin, Elly, Leah, and Hudson.  We were missing four grand kids but they got there later.

After the wedding and luncheon in Logan we head to Dad and Mom's for the reception.  The wind blew for most of it but once it stopped it was really nice.  Everyone had a great time decorating the vehicle too.

On Monday we finished taking all the receptions stuff back where it needed to go.  Jay took a load of kids out to watch my brothers help my uncle do some branding. When they got back we had dutch oven for lunch.  It was really good.  We had to head home after lunch since Jay had work and Tyler school the next day, but we had a good weekend.

First day of School

Tyler started his first day of First grade on August 23rd.  He was really excited to go especially after we went and met his teacher a few days before.  She seems like she will be really fun.  I am sad to have him gone all day.  I was pretty lonely while he was gone because Mason went golfing with his friend in the morning and Elly took a nap.  I didn't even know what to do with myself.

When I dropped him off at school I thought about taking him into his class and getting a picture there but I decided outside was good enough. (plus I didn't want to cry) 

When I picked Tyler up from school he said to me, "I thought I was going to have four recesses and I only had three"!  I asked him if three wasn't enough and he said, "I guess it will do."
He says first grade is fun but it is to long.  I think now that he has been going a few days he has gotten use to it.

Look what we found when we got home from camping!

This little guy decided to fly into Tyler's ear while we were up camping. Jay and I tried and tried to get it to come out.  Jay never saw it go in, but Tyler came over and told me about it and when I looked in his ear I could just barely see it.  That was the last we saw of that guy until about a week later.

We decided to see if we could get it to come out with a little hydrogen peroxide.  We let it bubble and bubble.  I was about ready to give up.  I decided to give it one more look and see if I could see anything and I could.  It finally made its way out of his ear, it had died of course. 

When it first went in his ear when we were up camping he told me he could hear it in there buzzing for almost a day before it finally died, pretty sick. 

This isn't the first bug we have gotten out of Tyler's ear. Last summer we found one too, which sounds like I don't keep my kids clean but I hate dirty ears so I know those are kept clean.  I just don't know why bugs like his ears so much.

Teichert Family Campout

We had my side of the family's camp out the first weekend in August.  This year we camped for four days and three nights because we never have enough time to play when we do three days two nights.  The kids still didn't think it was long enough.  There was still so much more to do.  It didn't seem like it was that much longer then before to me either, but we had a great time.  The kids played in the water and most of them dunked a few times.  This year we took with us a niece from Jay's side with us and she was the dunking champion.  I was worried about camping with Elly this year since she could walk, but she turned out to be really easy.  She did do some wondering but not to far away.  She got as dirty as I figured she would, but I don't think there was a clean kid up there, which is one of the things I don't mind about camping.  The kids can get good and dirty.

Mason and Devin became really good buddies while we were camping. They played so well together.

Devin was doing some dancing for me.

Mason getting dried out from playing in the river.

This could be a boy but it is Elly.

Tyler and Autumn playing in the water.  I don't have hardly any pictures of Tyler camping this year because he was off playing the whole time.

Elly and Leah hanging out and eating (one of the things your do while camping.)

The group of us getting ready for our annual shooting competition.

Jay telling everyone the rules for the shoot out.

Elly and Autumn on their way back from picking flowers.

Me taking my turn shooting.  I won the first round and lost in the second round.

Jay shooting.  He made it to the championship where he lost.

Mason and Elly

Mason looking cool in my shades.

Mason dunked all the way with the help of my sister doing it for him.

Some of the kids that we had with us.  We are missing 9 more that were there just not in the picture.

My cute little cowboy.  He loved that Ammon let him wear his hat.

Finally some pictures of Tyler and yes he is goofy.

Tyler playing in Crystal lake.

Tyler and Gracie in the lake.  This water is the coldest water I have ever felt.  These kids feet were freezing.

My other handsome cowboy.

Jay and I  and our kids at Crystal Lake.

My family.  Everyone made it this year but my sister and brother that are serving missions right now.  My brothers wife had to leave for work the day before so she isn't in the picture, but everyone else is there. I believe we had 37 of us up there this year.

Some of the kids catching a ride in the back of the truck back down to camp where we got in our own vehicles and headed back home.  It was a great week.  We played games and had fun just visiting and spending time together.  The kids can't wait until next year when we get to do it again.

The second half of the week

For the second half of the week Camille and her kids and Tiffany and her kids came down to my house.  The kids did so well on the drive.  We stopped part way and let the kids get out and eat and play at a little park, the kids had a good time at that park.  We got to my house in time for the kids to go to bed, but they did play for a little while.

The next day the kids just played at the house.  We were going to take them swimming but it was a little cool.  They made up a dance,

jumped on the tramp and just had fun playing with different toys.

The next day was warmer so we spent the day at the pool.  I think that all the kids had a great time. 

 I had a lot of pictures of all the things that we got to do while we were up visiting and while they were down at our house, but in the process of loading them to the computer they all got lost and I cried and by very late that night this guy was able to save find some of my pictures.  The sad thing is it seems like all the ones I have of Mason he could only save half of it.  Yes I shed tears over this.  I hate to lose pictures.  I am lucky to have the ones I have though.

Tyler and Elly

One night we took the kids and went to the pageant.  We went up a little early so the kids could walk around the village.  They had a good time.  They got to climb up on top of one of the buildings,

they each got to take a turn milking the cow.  The pictures of my kids were lost.

We got to go for a wagon ride.

The kids got to pet a donkey.

Us three girls with our three kids, I am taking the picture. 

The kids did pretty well and I think they all loved the horses and the mud fight the best.  I know my boys favorite part is the mud fight. 

The next day we went to the pool again, but only for the morning and then they headed back home.  It was fun to have them come and spend sometime with us.  They kids did so well together and us girls got some games played and some movies watched.  It is fun to have my sisters living only a few hours away, but it would be nice if we were all living closer still.