Dad's home, mini concert and goodbye to my ipod

You may or may not know that Jared was gone all last week, from Monday night until late Saturday night. It is so great to have him home. Its good for us to be apart from time to time, it just makes me appreciate him more and more when he comes back.

Saturday night Kathryn and Sydney and two of their friends put on a mini concert at the church. They planned it all. songs, food, music etc. They shopped for the food, made the desserts, even had decorations on the tables.

The food



The Pledge of Allegiance song



Austin shaking his booty



The Macarana



oh yeah, the IPOD. We had taken my ipod to the church to use it for the macarana song. Once we got home, Kathryn put it on the table, Austin picked it up and was messing with it, so I took it away and put it in my pocket. I forgot about it and put my pants in the laundry, and then put all the laundry in the washer. Kathryn came out and asked to use it, and then I found it in the washer.
I am so bummed. I just downloaded some scriptures on there, so I could listen while I did dishes. bummer.

MPM on Tuesday

I am a little late, but I did plan out all the meals on Monday, just didn't post until Tuesday

Monday

B- cereal
L- Top Ramen
D- Spaghetti and breadsticks

Tuesday

B- yogurt & eggos
L- $1 at walmart
D- Turkey & Ham Melts
icee's for dessert

Wednesday

B- popeye cakes
L- hot dogs
D- dinner out

Thursday

B- cereal
L- lunch out
D- homemade mac & cheese

Friday

B- pancakes
L- sandwiches
D- homemade pizza's and ice cream sundaes

Saturday
B- french toast
L- pick your own
D- at church

check out Laura's site for lots more menus

$ lunch

While Jared is gone this week, I have some things planned to keep me sane and the kids busy. So today we went to Walmart to pick up lunch. We broke up into groups of two. each member of the group had $1 to spend. We had 15 minutes to figure out what to choose that could be shared with everyone for lunch. This is what we came home with...



2 different kinds of Pringles, 1 package of frozen hash browns, 1 small frozen pizza, a box of vanilla wafers, 3 packages of cookies, and one very small peach yogurt.

Not very balanced, but it was fun. and funny to have the kids find me in the store and ask if its okay to pick cookies. one meal down, only 10 to go. and too many hours to count.
We also rented a movie to pass the time this afternoon while I take Gage to therapy.

Let's see what's new....

Gage did get Botox shots in his legs. I think 3 in each leg. He screamed load, i cried softly-I am such a whimp when it comes to my kids being hurt-but we survived. I haven't noticed much difference yet. But we are working on getting him to sit indian style-or would that be criss-cross-applesauce now a days?! and standing, and walking, and basically just using his legs as much as we can. We are adding physical and occupational therapy to make each one day a week. It will make for some busy weeks, but at least he is getting what he needs. He is also going to be casted for new leg braces and will need to wear one leg brace and one knee brace 9the opposite leg) to bed each night. that's the news on him.
otherwise, we had a pretty good weekend. But we got a lot of rain on our heads. We went to see the movie in the park, and it started to rain, and then down pour, so they had to shut down the movie. By the time we got home we could hardly see driving down the road, the rain was so crazy. Saturday we had a ward picnic in Pine Valley. It rained on us there too. Luckily we had the Lion's Lodge to hide out in. Good food, lots of fun.
Monday Jared left for a week long trip to SLC to redo his brothers roof. So i am flying solo for a few days. I am sure it will all be okay. I just hope I can keep them busy enough to keep me sane!
no pictures this week. I should have been taking pictures of the trampoline hole project, but I didn't. Ends up that we spent some time to dig out this hole for several days, and Jared stayed until we got it all put together yesterday. and while we were jumping on it to make sure it was safe :) we broke off 9 springs. so, needless to say, we took it back down, so that we can keep our no injuries streak going. Hopefully I can find a new one, for not too much moola.
hope you're having a great day.

The coming's and going's

So, I have been horrible about updating. Sorry. We have been busy, but I have taken absolutely no pictures of us doing those busy things. I am hoping that mom will share some of the pictures she took, so I can show you what we have been doing.
June 23-27th-Tuesday to Friday, I head up Cedar Mountain for girls camp. Thanks to a great neighbor and a wonderful husband I was able to stay with the girls the whole time. We had lots of fun, and lots of dirt. It was a great experience. The focus was more on spirituality than on a ton of camp skills. don't get me wrong they did learn about that stuff too. I love being in the great outdoors.
The day after I got back from camp we were able to hook up with some great friends, the Springers, from CA for dinner and a temple trip. It was so nice to hang out with them.
Monday, Jared's mom, his two sisters-Heather and Rebekah, and Rebekah's 3 kids came into town. They stayed with us from Monday until Saturday night. It was fun to hang out. We went to the pool a couple times. Played games, and on Friday headed to the front yard to watch the neighbors set off fireworks. Unfortunately, Mom's windshield got hit by a golf ball. and all the family got the flu. So we didn't get to do too much, but at least we got to be together. The kids, (Jared and I, too) had a great water balloon fight. I will ask mom for copies of the pictures that she took, to share. All and all a pretty good couple weeks.
This week has been busy.
Saturday we started cleaning out the hole that used to be the trampoline,so we can put up another trampoline and on Monday we continued digging, then headed to a friends pool, and home for some fireworks that I bought. Tuesday night we had an activity at the church about family history. So I shared some stories about my grandfather and pictures that I had. Last night we had a great activity at the church called a Service Auction. Jared was our Auctioneer. It was some of the ladies from the ward giving different services. I donated homemade rolls and lessons to make them, and a dessert a month for 6 months. I bought a 2 hour housecleaning. It was a lot of fun. Too bad I didn't get any pictures of the decorations that Patty and I put up. Every day this week we have had some sort of Gage's helpers come over or places we needed to go. Tomorrow we are going to an appt with the rehabilitation dr. Gage has been on a medication to help his muscles be looser. It is helping but just not enough. So tomorrow we will do botox injections to help even more. I will let you know how it goes. We are hoping for a few months of help with these injections.
Sorry I rambled for so long. I did find a couple random pictures to share.


Gage with a ton of lincoln logs in his shirt. He had so much fun letting the kids, and the dad putting them in his shirt. Then he would sit up and make them all fall out, then go back and have them fill him up again.



Some friends of ours let us use their pool, so Jared, mom and Rebekah decorated a cake with a jello pool to say thanks!

Austin loves to play with the medicine syringes. He likes to make them like long finger nails.

Happy Father's Day

Since we couldn't be close to you today we took a picture so you could see us, its almost as good as the real thing. We love you. Happy Father's Day!

hair cuts

Thursday I took the kids to the nearby hair college to get hair cut-you can't beat the deal $3.50 for a hair cut is great. So they all got new do's.
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AFTER- these aren't the best pictures, the kids were the photographers and they were in the car. but you get the idea

Girls Hike

Thursday I had the privilege of going hiking with a bunch of the young women. It was a great hike. So good we took the kids on Saturday.


Here's all of the girls and their goofy faces.



Here's the family shots. It was hard work, but so good for us to get out and hike.

Update

Wow. time sure does fly. and now that the kids have been out of school for 2 weeks, I haven't done much updating on the blog. We have done a few fun things since they got out.

First, and probably most importantly to us is that Gage has decided that walking with his walker is okay. He now has a basket on his walker that he puts toys in and takes them for walks. He has walked from the living room, through the kitchen, family room, entry way and back to the living room. Its a great accomplishment. We are so blessed



I took the kids to this really cool water park near the library and they had fun. They got wet and that's the best to do in the heat that we have. Cori wouldn't let me take her picture, so this is as good as I could get. and when I did get some good ones, she erased them. Teenagers!


Austin would just run from place to place, jumping in the water, and off rocks. He loved it





Gage had so much fun. He was soaked, but didn't care. Next time I will get him climbing the stairs. Its such a good work out for him, but all he cares about is playing in the water.


Cori had to return some clothes that she got for her birthday that didn't fit, so we headed to the mall. The girls wanted to look in Claires, so I let the boys pretend play on the toys.
When I put Gage in the school bus he grabs the wheel and says-I driving, I driving, over and over. It was cute.



Austin was calling dad to let him know he was on the bus



Logan was heading to space.