I'm special...

So last Monday I thought I signed up to go do Bountiful Baskets. Um...duh Misty. When you click the checkout button, it's supposed to bring up a place for you to pay. Apparently I missed that part. Guess we'll try again next Saturday! Geez. I feel special!
http://www.bountifulbaskets.org

It's all fun and games....

Courtesy of the pending rainstorm and ugly, black clouds on Monday, I took the kids to the Fun Park to play in the soft play. The boys were mildly entertained for a little bit, but mostly wanted to do everything EXCEPT the softplay. Stinkers.











































Sam & Jade were troopers and followed Caleb around the entire time. Thanks girls!

Tuesday our dad came home! YAY! He had been up nearly 24 hrs when he got to us. He didn't want to go to bed though because that would make him stay on the night shift sleep schedule. So, we opted for AJ's park up Blacksmith Fork Canyon.

Sam was not impressed with this toy.

Remember these dangerous suckers? Sam smacked her shin on it within minutes and was howling like she'd been gutted! I'm so sympathetic that my response was, "See, now you know why they took them off all the school playgrounds!"

And here we have the fabulous slide. Picture Caleb about 6 stairs or so up with Jade & Sam behind him to help him make it all the way to the top.

Yeah, so he probably shouldn't have been watching the kids on the merry go round! He lost his footing and fell down those 6 stairs I just told you to imagine him on. The lady sitting right there picked him up & met me half way. By the time she got him to me blood was all over his forhead, running down the side of his face and into his ear and all over his hands.

I asked Trav if he thought I should take him to InstaCare. Stupid question - Trav ALWAYS, ALWAYS says no. So, I told him to at least stop at the store & help me pick stuff out to bandage his battle wound with. By the time we got to the store, Caleb was out cold (napping). I blotted the most recent oozing off and Trav looked at him. Now his response was, "Well, maybe you better take him to InstaCare. I don't want him to have a scar there in the middle of his face for the rest of his life." So, an hour and a half later, here's what he looked like. And, like I told my mother, "The last goose egg & bruise in that exact location just went away no more than 3 days ago!" Oy!

They glued it shut because as the doctor explained, they've done studies on this dermabond glue and compared it to stitches. Apparently they have the same infection and scarring rate. So, rather than traumatize him for 2-4 stitches, they numbed it (that was a painstaking 25 minute wait with a cottonball taped to his head. Try keeping a 23 month old from pulling that sucker off!) and then glued it back together. We'll see if it works I guess. I suppose that having a 3 bandaid day within 20 minutes on Sunday just wasn't quite good enough this time!! Oy! This kid is going to turn my hair gray and/or make it all fall out!

Relay 4 Life!

My Relay for Life team has raised $658 so far! Go Team!

I fought the lawn....

And the lawn lost...Note to self: invent armor for use while weed wacking!












An older woman walked past my house today as I was loading everyone into the expedition. Charlotte got excited & ran out to the road & barked at her. I called Char back and as she was walking back to me the woman made a comment. After the comment Char took off after the woman but stayed on our property. She stood at the edge of our property and barked at the woman. As I was walking over to get Char, the woman looks and me and says, "Dog...On a leash....Now. Or I call the dog catcher." I picked Char up, looked straight at the woman and said, "Go ahead, she's on my property." I'm still furious about this woman. Not one person in 3 years has complained about Char. Whenever Char takes off & chases someone in front of our house, I immediatly chain her up. She's never bite someone and I highly doubt she ever would either. She's a whopping 6 pounds for crying out loud! So, she was confined to her leash all afternoon. When she wasn't on her leash, she was banished to the house.















My goal for today was to get my house cleaned. Not only did it not get done, I didn't even come close. On the other hand, I hit at least a 12 on the 1-10 productivity scale in the yard work department.

I planted 8 ferns I swiped from my mommy.

I planted 5 of these plants.

I dug out a bunch of lawn (see blue tote in picture above) and planted 11 bunches of raspberry plants I got from my mom. Trav called me earlier today (apparently he was just getting up). When I talked to him I asked about the raspberries and if he had a preference about where I planted them. His comment was "put them wherever you want." Well, he called back later and I mentioned that I got all the raspberries planted. He acted suprised and said "What?" Apparently he had no recollection of our prior conversation. I told him he couldn't be mad at me because I had asked him and he said to put them wherever. I could hear the dejection of loss in his voice. Guess we'll see how long the raspberry patch lasts!

And last, but not least, I ended up with this beauty! Caleb's nose and cheeck are a close second.

I also let the kids turn the sprinkler on today, but failed to get any pictures of it! Caleb sure had fun going down the slide and landing in the sprinkler.

Saturday Fun

Today was a beautiful day (it got to 77 degrees inside my house before I turned on the AC). I took the kids and ventured to the American West Heritage Center (I bought a Gold membership when we went to Baby Animal Days). We went on a train ride, saw an all white peacock, watched a wedding (theme this week is 4 weddings & a funeral), saw a snake (by accident), and the kids got to ride the ponies - which Caleb loved, loved, loved! He is big into animals!

After we went to AWHC we took a trip to WalMart & then stopped at Grandpa Scott's, but he wasn't home. So, we ventured to my parent's house where we found grandpa. I asked if he'd be willing to take us 4 wheeling. So a little later, we went back down & we all went for a 4 wheeler ride down to the river bottoms. Charlotte sure loved that!