A Week in the life of. . .

Our Week has been very full. First of all, (actually the end of last week) My kids love bugs. One of Erin's friends found a praying mantis and let Erin tend it for a night. It was quite big. She loved having it!

Then when we spent the weekend with my family in Delta, We found a leaf shaped bug at the park. We were at the park to celebrate the homecoming of the 145th which was in Iraq until last May. My brother, of course, was part of then 145th, so we went to celebrate, again, that he was home.

I don't have any pictures of this, but when the kids and I were on the way to the hospital for Erin's post op. appointment, we got rear ended. Yes, everyone is absolutely OK. We were not going very fast, but apparently the guy that hit me wasn't paying attention and didn't have time to stop. He felt really bad and his insurance covered everything, but it made us late for our appointment, and took up 2 of my mornings to take the durango to the shop, get the rental, and then return it and pickup my car. Not to mention the stress of the situation. We got a whole new bumper, which was only just scratched. His car was much worse off than ours.

Colin turned 11 months old on the 15th and he's still not crawling! He is definitely getting around though. He does his army crawl and gets all over the house. He's also pulling himself up, and voicing himself alot! We're discovering his funny little sense or humor. Oh Yea, and he just got his first tooth last week. My kids have all been slow to teeth, crawl, and walk. They're sure cute though.

Besides John having to move 30 feet of our sprinkler pipe that was on the neighbor's property, Saturday was great. Erin went to a sweet and Sassy birthday party for a friend. They went in a limo to the salon where they had their hair done, and their nails done, and their make-up done, and made body scrub, and got sparkled up, and . . . she came home with more stuff than she took to the party. Wow! To say the least, she had fun! And, yes, those are hair extentions!

We ended the day with a Ward party. It was a Luau. What a great idea! We had Hawaiian Haystacks for dinner. They had a fishing pond, and did the limbo and other fun games. It was a very creative and fun party.

New events!

We've had a few things happen since I last posted. I had the kids in Swimming lessons for 2 weeks. They both loved it and we will definitely be doing that again. They're both water babies.

While John's mom was here we took a day trip up to Park city. We went around town for a while, then we went up to the slopes and went on the alpine slide! We loved it! So much fun! John also went on the zip line. His first time ever! He loved it! After that, we went to Heber and rode on the Heber Valley Railroad. The kids loved it. Devin loves trains! I think that Colin enjoyed it the most though. We all had a great day.

Erin started School on July 29th. Yes in the middle of the summer. We're on Year round School here. She was so excited to go to 1st Grade! She likes her teacher, and is having a great time. She is in the same class as a neighbor girl and she loves it. They get to ride the bus together, and sit across from each other in class. The adjustment to going all day hasn't been too hard, though she tells me that she gets a little home sick sometimes.

On the 3rd day of school, Erin came home not very happy. She didn't feel very well, so I thought that maybe the lunch didn't agree with her or she had the stomach flu. Well, She was up half the night with stomach cramps and throwing up. Early in the morning she told John that her side hurt. Well, it sounded a little to familiar to John, so I took her to the doctor the next day (even though she seemed to be a bit better). The doctor wanted to rule out appendicitis, so he sent us to the ER for some blood tests. By 4:30, Erin was in surgery getting her appendix removed. It was all very scary and fast, but we're glad that she's OK. 2 days later she was better than new, with no pain and only a little tenderness near her incisions. We had her skip school on Monday, but she was back to school on Tuesday like nothing happened. Thank goodness for modern medicine! She only has one problem now. The anesthesiologist was worried that her wiggly front tooth might fall out and choke her during the surgery, so he pulled it out. When he was pulling that one out, the one next to it cam out too, so she has no front teeth! It's cute, but it's too bad for her that it's corn-on-the-cob season!!

I think I would have written all this earlier, but our computer's been giving us problems. It takes forever to boot up, and then takes a while for all of the programs to load. If anyone has any ideas or suggestion about this let me know!