Homecoming 2010

This post is a little late, but better late than never.

Every year I try to take my kids up to watch my brothers and sisters play in the homecoming games.  The kids love being there for the night before when they have a dinner and the kids all get to paint their names on the street.  This year we went prepared and took some cans of spray paint for them.  The kids each got to put their names on the street.  I forgot to take my camera so I don't have many pictures.  My sister had some on her camera that she sent to me.

 The kids have a great time playing with their cousins while we are there too.

 They love to get their faces painted that night and also the next day for the football game.

 Another thing that is fun for them is watching them light the "C" and watching them light the big bonfire.  When we go and see this it brings back some high school memories for sure.  The kids love it and start taking about it as soon as football season starts.

 Tyler and his two little cousins that he loves to play with when we go to Grandma's house.

The little boys after all the excitement is over with my little brother.

Christmas presents

My little brother is making these cradles and selling them so he can earn some money.  If anybody would like to get one for their little girls let me know so that he has time to get them made before Christmas.  This is what Elly is getting from Jay and I for Christmas. 

They are thirty dollars.  He can paint them white, stain it or just leave it plain and you can finish it how you want it.  They are very sturdy.

If you want one or know of anyone how would like one please just leave a comment and your email.  Thanks!

Pictures of the Kids

I decided it was about time I took some pictures of my kids since I haven't done it for a long time.  The boys haven't changed much and Elly has only changed a little but I still wanted some knew ones of them.  These are just some we ran out and did one day when we had a couple of minutes.  I still need to take them and do some good ones.  These will work for now though.

You see why it has been awhile since I did the kids pictures.  I can never get all of them to look at me at the same time and all have on a normal smile.  I guess it does capture their personalities this way.  I have better luck trying doing one at a time.  I wasn't in love with the coloring of Mason's so we tried again the next day and of course this is what I got.

This kid is something else, but you have to love him because he is a happy and fun kid.

Loving it!!!

It has been almost two months since I have had to change a diaper and I am loving it.  Elly started to show some real interest in potty training over the summer but I didn't want to try that when we would be camping and traveling.  We waited until Tyler started school and then we started.  She has done so well.  She wears a diaper to bed at night still but I can handle that.  She wears her underwear when she goes down for her naps though and she stays dry for that.

It is so nice not having a diaper to change.  She loves her cute little underwear.  They just don't make underwear small enough for little girls so these ones have worked really good, especially on Sunday when she wears her dress.  They cover her bum pretty good, since we all know how modest little girls and dresses can be.

The longest break I have had in the last 6 1/2 years is two months, that was between Mason and Elly.  With Tyler I had a two week break before Mason was born and I was at it again.  So I am enjoying it. 

Boxing

Mason and his friend have been so funny to watch play the Wii.  This day they were doing boxing.  Watching there faces was better then watching the TV.  They were so hot and sweaty after they finished. 

They got so into it.  Their faces they would make and the sounds was pretty funny.  I wish I could video them and put it on here.  These two are cute guys that have so much fun together. 

A bad week...

Two weeks ago Tyler came home from school with a black eye.  He ran into another kid during P.E.  The other kids didn't get anything and he got this nice black eye which lasted the week.  He had a nice bump on his eye for a couple of days too.

Two days later I picked him up from school and he tells me, "I didn't have a good day at school today."
I ask, "Why not"?
Then he proceeds to tell me that he broke to teeth at school that day.  I was just hoping the weren't his front teeth as soon as he said that.  He must have read my mind because he said, "Don't worry it's not the front ones.  They are in the back." 
So he puts in a piece of gum and tells me that it hurts to chew on those.  So I pull over and look at his teeth, then turn around and head to the dentist office.  He ran in and showed them his teeth and since they didn't need to do any drilling they just hurried and fixed them for him.  Ten minutes later we were on our way home again.
The story of how it happened came out once we got home.  When he was on the monkey bars at school he let go and his friend was standing below him.  Tyler didn't know that.  When he landed Tyler's chin hit his friends head and broke Tyler's teeth and gave him this nice bruise on his chin too.  I can only imagine his friend had a nice headache too.  It was a bad week for him. 

It held!!

Most people don't have a problem with this but I do and now so does my little girl.  When we curl our hair it is straight in a matter of moments.  I have decided not to waste my time with trying to curl mine anymore, but I still try to curls Elly's on Sundays anyway.  This sunday she just looked so cute after I finished it.  I knew it wouldn't last so took a picture of her as soon as I finished getting her ready.

I also put a ton of hair spray on it, which I hate to use and her hair held for most of the three hour block.  I know your thinking of corse it held with hair spray, but it takes so much on us that it isn't worth it most of the time.  She did look pretty cute.

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.