This is the kids "helping" me do the laundry. You can still see Jaker's black eye.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
JAKOB Jakob jakob!!!!
I thought I would put a picture or two in of Jakob's eye as it was healing. It ripened to a very nice shade of purple and faded out through the colors of the rainbow. As you can see from the pictures were he is covered in white, his eye is all better. (Oh and that is chocolate from a choco covered power bar that is drooling out of his mouth.) The white stuff by the way, is diaper rash ointment which he painted our couch and carpet and himself with. That is why we finally bought the leather couch, cuz everything wipes right off. My next "want" is hard wood floor in the living room because all of Jakob's messes DON'T wipe off the berber carpet so easily. It's hard to get to mad at him though when he gives me that big ole' smile! And he does look fairly repentant in one of the pictures.
AUDREY'S NEW BIKE
For her birthday Audrey wanted a new bike. I told her I wasn't going to risk suprising her with a bike that she didn't really like, so she had to come with me and pick it out. This was a very excitng prospect to her, and this is the one she picked. It is orange and silver and she loves it!
AUDREY TURNS 11!!!
So yes, last weekend Audrey Violet turned 11 years old! Mom's always say time flies, and as you all know...it really does! Audrey is such a light in our lives! She is helpful, always sweet with her brother and sister (yes she is human and has occasional spats, but overall...) she is an honor roll and merit list student, teacher's pet, and friend to all. She always has a smile ready for anyone, and everyone tells me how sweet/funny/charming/lovely Audrey is. We adore her! These are pics from her birthday party. She also had one at the Bar J Ranch, but with fewer friends. Her party was awesome. The girls got to rein their own horses and go on a long ride up the dirt road. They ate hotdogs, and cake, and even got to bottle feed a baby calf. The girls said it was the best b-day party they had ever been too. I am grateful that we are able to do these fun things every once in a while. WE LOVE YOU AUDREY!!!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
DUH Duh duh....THE EYE!
Poor baby is a tough little guy. By today, (a day and half after) most of the swelling has gone down and it has ripened to a very dark shade of purple, almost black. Sweet little guy hasn't even complained to much. He doesn't like to look at himself in the mirror though. He just keeps pointing to his eye and saying "Owie". He is a trooper. He has got to stop bangin' his head though!!!!!!!
CAMPING
The two extra little girls in the pic are Savi's buddies Emma and Taylor. The are our friends the Watkins girls.
RAINEY'S FIRST CAMPING TRIP!
So we decided to go on our ward camp out this weekend. We started out having a lot of fun. The kids were happy to be outside, Mark was happy that he was doing something Dad-Like with his kids, mom was happy that everyone else was happy! We roasted hot dogs, and marshmellows, gabbed with our friends. Did all the stuff that you normally have fun doing on a camp out. Then.....tragedy struck! I went to change the baby's diaper and low and behold found 3 ticks crawling on his.....you know....ding a ling! I found like 5 on him. So I made Savi come and strip and found 4 crawling on her. I don't know if you are aware of this or not, but I have a fairly decent tick phobia. I was physically sickened. I had to put my head down between my knees at one point. But all was okay after I got them off. Poor Audrey had to submit to your basic cavity search as well much to her 11 year old humiliation. So then it got dark and we were all having fun sitting around the camp fire. We kind of adopted a little boy in our ward named David and Jakob likes to tease him. So Jake had his hands up like claws and was stalking David as David backed away and Jake tripped...right into the fire wood pile. He let our a cry, then went limp and started making gagging noises. I looked and his eye looked like it was bulging out of the socket. There was a little blood, but baby was not responding very well so we rushed him to the emergency room. They took us right back, and after he threw up in the sink, they were able to assess that he didn't have any broken bones in his face, but that he had a scratched cornea. I saw the scratch. It is about a quarter inch wide all the way across his eye. It was very scary, and I keep thinking how blessed we are that there wasn't a sharp part on the log that he his because it could have been a really bad situation. As it is, his eye was swollen shut for a day, and now he looks like a prize fighter. When the girls saw him the next day, Audrey's eyes welled with tears, and Savanna said "Mom, Jakob looks kind of ugly." Nothing like adding insult to injury! But baby will heal. So our first camping trip as a family ended up with mom finding 15 ticks on her babies overall, and a trip to the ER. Not sure we will be trying it again to soon.
BUDDIES!
Over Easter, Will and Amy came to visit with their two darling girls Olivia and Addison. Savanna got some makeup for her birthday and here she is applying it to Olivia. It was really cute! Then aunt Amy got Savi matching jammies for her b-day and Olivia and her looked so cute modeling them! They are both in dance class so the balerina jams are perfect! Savanna has even wore the tutu to dance class! And there is a pic of Will and cute Addie!
The kids really like to dress up and Jakob is all about layers. He is wearing one of Savanna's black dresses with lady bug wings, a knight cape, and knight helmet. Then he got into his sunday clothes and he is wearing three button up shirts, two button up vests, and 3 or 4 sweater vests. It was pretty cute. I love that he is wearing one like pants. : ) whata boy!
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