Crazy Day

I had a crazy day today. It just seemed to be non stop and I had the missionaries coming for dinner so it added one more thing to my list. I finally got to the point in my day where I had picked Liam up from school and I was frantically trying to cook and clean before we ran off for Liam's tennis lessons. So Liam was trying to help me fix the dessert and I realized I was out of milk which was my next ingredient. Well a couple of weeks ago I told Kade that we are going to eat our food storage for a while to try and cycle through it and that means we are also drinking dry milk. I have been hesitant to let the kids in on this information because they are already hard to please but here I was with Liam helping me and I needed milk right away! I thought maybe because I had so many things going at once he wouldn't question what I was doing but not much gets past him. So pretty soon he says"what is that you are making?" I told him that it was milk and he said "Wow! mom you even make HOMEMADE milk?! You really are the greatest cook in the whole world!" says the boy that complains about 90% of the things I fix.

Choices

Everyday when I drive Liam to school, we pass a man who is out spraying off his driveway and I guess that I have commented on it once or twice. One day this last week we drove by and the man was out there spraying off his driveway as usaul and Liam said "man, we sure do see a lot of people making poor choices." I was wondering who else Liam was referring to besides the man that wastes water everyday so he won't get dust on his tires. When I asked him about it he said, "well, we see some people don't recycle (no offense to you non recyclers), some people waste water by spraying off their driveways and we see some people who wear tight jeans!".

(My kids obviously pay more attention to what is happening on the Today show than I realize because that morning they did a hard hitting expose on the hazards of wearing tight pants.)

Just so I don't forget

The other day, McKinna told me that when she grows up she "is going to be on Wipeout". So I said "well maybe you should start training now". She asked why, so I told her to do well on the show she will need to have "really good balance, super strong muscles, and a whole lot of crazy." After a moment of thought she said "well, I have the crazy"!

And that ain't no lie.

A camping we will go a camping we will go....

We went camping this last weekend and true to my life it didn't come off without a hitch. We were headed to Flagstaff and as soon as we hit the sign that read Hoover Dam 4 miles, traffic came to almost a complete stop. I think the sign should have read Hoover Damn! It took us a full hour to go that 4 miles and all along the way, all I heard from the back was "how much longer", "drive faster Mom!" When we finally got to Flagstaff we got lost trying to find the campsite where Kade's family was already waiting. That little off road experience let me try out my 4wd, it was quite a ride. In the midst of it McKinna cried out, "When will the madness end!" Liam was also very concerned that we were lost and I think that he prayed us to our final destination. (Sorry Kade for using the "L" word, I meant to say we were temporarily misplaced).
This is Jack, he was the hit of the party! Sorry to the rest of you, who always want to be the hit of the party but Jack is just too cute, so he wins.
McKinna and Kasha took a spin on the Rhino. Almost a week after the fact and Liam is still talking about how Grandpa let him drive it, (Sorry no pictures of that, I am sure that it is probably not legal).
It's not camping if there aren't s'mores involved, so the kids packed a weeks worth of camping into one night.

camping continued...

Have I ever mentioned that if there is chocolate within a square mile of McKinna, she ends up with a ring of it around her face?
I think that Liam's hot chocolate may have actually been HOT.
What can I say? She is just weird.
This was my kind of camping, we showed up, the whole thing was set up, we ate delicious food (prepared by someone who really knows what he's doing), we spent time with family (sorry that you couldn't be there Josh but you probably would have just kept putting out our fire!) and best of all my kids could not have been happier.
Did I mention how beautiful it was? and the weather could not have been better. It was a short but sweet trip. Thanks to everyone for making it happen!

Wicked

I finally got to see "Wicked"! A friend recently mentioned that it was playing in Phoenix and that maybe we should try and go. I thought that would be great but wasn't really sure if it would happen. Well the next thing I know Kade had found us all tickets. My mother in law generously agreed to come and stay with the kids, so it seemed to be a go, but I should know by now that good things don't come easy for me and this was no exception. The day before we were leaving McKinna wasn't feeling well. She had a bit of a fever and wasn't eating anything. Now the fever didn't worry me much but the fact that McKinna wasn't constantly asking for a snack made me realize that she really didn't feel well. My mother in law got to our house and I ran off to do a few quick errands and when I got home just before 5:00, McKinna was asleep in her bed. I went in to check on her and she was burning up. I took her temperature which registered at 107.5, thinking it had to be a mistake, I took it again and it didn't even say a number it just said HI. So I took my temperature and it was 97.8, I then took Mckinna's again and the next two readings were both 105.5 degrees. I quickly got her some Motrin and called the doctor, the nurse told me to get her in a cool bath and then take her to the ER. She was pretty out of it and when I was trying to get her in the tub, she threw up the Motrin. We finally got her to the ER where we spent the next five hours and who knows how much money for them to tell us that she had a virus. By the time we left, Mckinna was walking on her own and seemed to be doing much better. I, on the other hand had been working on a headache all day and by the time we left the ER, I was the one that nearly had to be carried to the car, and I was now using the bowl that we had taken with us for McKinna to throw up in. It was not a fun night to say the least, and I was not at all sure that the Wicked trip was going to happen. The story goes on but I will spare the rest of the details and skip to the good part. We did end up going on a very quick but FUN trip to see Wicked in Phoenix. I was worried that the show was not going to live up to all the hype but in my book it did and I can't wait for the next time I get to see it. I am just hoping to do away with all the drama beforehand!

P.S. Thank you to good friends who were willing to go at the drop of a hat, the trip would not have been nearly as fun without you! And thank you to Grandparents that take good care of our kids so we can have a break here and there.

We had visitors

These pictures don't completely go along with my story but it happened the same weekend so they reminded me of the story. So my parents came to visit once Liam went on track break and during that same time Kade's sister Kindal and her husband Santino came to visit. They were in town for the finale of the Ultimate Fighter but they stayed with us on the first night. Anyway the kids were pretty excited to have all the visitors and when the doorbell rang McKinna turned to my dad and said "Now Poppy, Santino is a really tough wrestler, so you don't want to get in a fight with him!" You may have to know my Dad and Santino to get the funny but we thought it was hilarious.

Just so you know, no one was harmed in the throwing of these children!

I don't think that I have ever been small enough to be thrown through the air.

Are all kids immune to the pain of a belly flop? Because mine seem to be.