Broken Arm

Well this afternoon as Paige rode her bike to Mrs. Anderson's house for math tutoring she wrecked on her bike hurting her arm. I got a call from Mrs. Anderson telling me what happened. Ryan went and picked her up but she didn't really want to go to the doctor and said it was fun, she was just embarrassed. Totally understandable right.....a couple days later I notice her not using her arm and decide to take her to the doctor. Fractured both bones in her forearm....mother of the year award right here. What the heck my kids has had a broken arm for 2+ days and I am just now taking her to the doctor. What kind of parent am I, oh well hopefully she will forgive me some day. She got a removable cast so she could shower....it looks just like a brace and was gracious enough to pose for a picture for me to blog about. She was super scared at the doctors office of the unknown asking all kinds of questions like is she going to touch my arm, how can they tell if it's broken, what does a cast look like...and here we are all done with a removal cast and all her sweet little questions answered.

Preschool

So my super good friend Shari Goodman...who happens to be an amazing mom is doing a 1 day a week preschool/early school class for 2.5 year old. She will be working on songs, circle time, centers, manners, cleaning up and sharing. Its $35 a month for one day a week for 2 hours. I was so excited for her to go today and she left my arms like no body's business, "see ya mom" she said as she ran away to Mrs. Sharri's door. When I picked her up I asked her what she did at Mrs. Sharri's today and she repeated every phrase Sherri said....it was freckin hysterical. "Be nice. Sit on your carpet. Clean up. Come out of the bathroom. Sit in your chair." It was laughing out loud in the car, she basically repeated everything Shari was telling all the kids to do and she loved every minute of, the next morning she woke up asking if she could go to Mrs. Shari's today.

Play Group

Kelly playing the drums

Snack time

A few girls riding bikes

Happy Molly on the swings

Play Group:

So a couple ladies in my ward/neighborhood put together this amazing play group with 6 little girls all ages 2.5-3 years old. You drop your daughter off at the designated house from 9-11:30 (2.5 hours awesome right) and then you hold playgroup once every 6 weeks....and even better its FREE! I can't think of anything better Sadie gets to play with some super great friends, gets away from me for 2.5 hours and I can run errands guilt free and it doesn't cost me a dime. What a great idea. So we held the first play group....and this was our schedule

9-9:30 backyard time

9:30-10 play-doh

10-10:15 clean up

10:15-10:45 snack time

10:45-11 Handy Manny on Disney Channel

11-11:30 backyard/trampoline time

It was so fun and super easy as with that many girls they totally entertained themselves. I think she may have even found a new BFF. It is hysterical to listen to the conversations that 2.5 year olds have, I love it. I am so glad that we are doing this play group!

1st Day of School for the big kids 2010

I love the first day of school...back to a routine, a clean house for at least a few hours a day, get to go out to lunch! As for the kids well at least 2 out of 3 were happy this morning! pEverybody's backpacks were loaded down with all the school supplies for the year and hapy to waer their new clothes! Paige had a royal melt down about her outfit which then caused the rest of her morning to go down hill and was even more excited when I said you can't leave until I take your picture....after the picture she was gone not to be seen again until 3:00, hopefull she got happier once she got to school. Sadie even snuck into a picture. Riley wanted to part of us walking him to school so he bolted on his bike as quickly as he could but our sweet little Hayley girl let us walk with her to school and even take pictures with her bike.

Riley - 5th grade 10 years old (for a couple months at least)

Paige - 4th grade 9 years old

Hayley - 2nd grade 7 years old

Wow typing that out I feel super old for some reason!

Sadie 1st hair cut

This is always such a sad day, when you have to get your baby their first hair cut. I am not really sure why this is so sad as she seriously had a mullet and it was almost embarrassing it was so crazy looking but once you get them that first haircut they don't look like babies anymore. So sad day for me, for sure but she looks super cute. Thanks Sara! My little baby is growing up. She did so good, she said still and let Sara cut her mullet off with no tears or wiggles...good job Sadie girl!

One last fun summer day!

One last fun summer activity...bowling! Yea baby. I took, Riley, Paige, Hayley and of course baby Sadie with Tanner and Talin by other 2 boys bowling for one last fun activity before school started. The kids had so much fun and I have to admit I am pretty darn amazing at Pop-A-Shot...if there was ever a league for arcade basketball I think I would join. :-) Paige even managed to beat all of us with a broken arm in a cast....way to go Paiger

Lake Powell 2010

Sand Hill cliff jumping...Paige looks a little sketchy!

Kaelie pop, locking and dropping it

Tieing down the houseboat for a storm

Riley helping John get ready to wakeboard

Asleep after our Sunday adventure.

Sand Hill

Swimming after Rainbow Bridge

We took our annual trip to Lake Powell this week. As usual it was amazing. The Wright's are an amazing family and we love spending the week. I am pretty sure there is nothing better Sacramento meeting on the house boat. The spirit is so strong there and it reminds me why I joined the church. All the talks always seem to be exactly what you need at that time! We got there Saturday morning loaded the house boat and headed out...with only a few glitches...(Johnny boat wouldn't start on the launch wrap and then we got a ticket hauling stuff to the house boat). It took almost an entire day to find a spot but we finally found one and set up camp...12 adults inside and all the kids up top it was craziness but so fun. Sunday we had Sacrament meeting and then took our annual trip to Rainbow Bridge and Dangling Rope for ice cream...we hiked up to the bridge (actually Hayley quit about half way so I went back with her) and Ryan took the rest of the kids up. It was so stinking hot...we all pulled out on the boats and swam to get cooled off for a while. We then hit dangling rope for ice, gas and a yummy root beer float (I got a Pepsi from the fountain with ice...it was so good). We wakeboarded, tubed and swam the rest of the day. On Monday we went to Sand Hill where Paige lost 1 flip flop on the way up....how exactly does that happen...just one flip flop? Anyway they all had a great time and did a little jumping off the rocks too. Johnny took a bunch of kids on a long boat ride to the Marine on Tuesday but other than that we just chilled, ate delious food and treats all week long. I think I gained 10 pounds but it was worth it! One of the funniest moments this week was from Paige...as adults it is customary that when every we pull in somewhere on boats we turn up the music super loud and everybody gets up on the sides of the boat and dances....it is hysterical. So as we pulled into Dangling Rope we tried to get our kids to do the same and Paige freaked out...she was so embarrassed of all of us we were dying laughing. Why knew at 9 years old we would already be embarrassing our kids :-) We had a couple good storms that brought the kids down from sleeping on top for a few hours but its to be expected at Lake Powell, all part of the adventure right? We took all of our kids except baby Sadie, sorry Sadie a few more years!

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