PAIGE WON'T LET SUMMER DIE

Yesterday Paige came and asked me if she could play the splash game. It is a thing you hook up to the hose and the little heads fill with water and you stomp on them and they spray water all over you. Well it is no longer warm outside, it was about fifty degrees out there yesterday. I told her it is too cold for that. Does she listen to me? Of course not. So I said okay, thinking she would get out there in her swimming suit and just come right back in. No no. She played in there and got soaking wet. I was laughing pretty good when she ran over to the sidewalk and layed down on it to get warm (because that is what they did this summer) and it was freezing cold. She is by far the craziest little girl I have ever met. Life truly would be dull without her.

Good to see Med School Friends

I was so excited to hear that my friend Karie was breezing through good old Pocatello en route to drive home back to Minot. Her husband has been gone for like two months and she has been visiting family. She stopped by for just a short time but it was so good to see her and see how her kids have grown. Logan didn't really remember her kids which is sad because they are all getting older and are forgetting all the time we spent together. It is good to know we have made so many lifelong friends through med school.

Family Vacation

Dave had a week off at the beginning of the month and I tried my hardest to talk Dave into going to San Diego. Our friends live there and it is WARM. But we did just dump a whole lot of money into our new basement so I sucked it up and we decided to stay home, well kindof. We did go up to Island Park. Our friends have a cabin up there and they let us go stay there. It was a little colder than I wanted my vacation to be but we still had a lot of fun. My crazy kids decided to get out of the hot tub and make snow angels. It was really funny to watch. The cabin is on the golf course and has access to the club house. We invited our friends and the kids had a blast swimming and playing supernintendo. It was nice to have time together as a family.

The last picture is what we had to come home to. The drive home was scary, we saw a truck flipped off the road. I decided I am moving back to Arizona. Thankfully it did warm up this last week, but it did feel like winter for a while.

Happy Birthday Logan

We had the funnest time at Logan's birthday party yesterday. It was insanely chaotic though. I think we ended up with sixteen kids altogether. Every kid on the street came to the party, even kids I have never seen before. One of the kids caught wind of a party and he and his sister showed up on the door step. One of them knocked on the door and I answered it and it was a little spiderman. Everyone that I had invited was already there so I said "who are you?" She lifted up her mask and I was like"still not helping" One of the little boys (that I had only seen on the street like twice) was like "that is my sister" I was like "come on in and join the party." It was fun. Logan insisted on a costume party which is a good thing his birthday is in October. Everyone got really into it especially my brother Scott. He always livens up the party. We were really glad when it was all over though.

ITS FINALLY DONE!!!!!!

After months of dealing with dusty little footprints and Dave spending every free second he had (which aren't too many), and countless hours neglecting my children on account of painting, our basement it finally done. It is so amazing to have it all done. It feels like a whole new house. The kids have been down there since the carpet got layed. It is so quiet upstairs, it is crazy. We also moved the couch and TV down so now we have a completely empty living room. It looks like we moved out of our house. Well darn looks like I will have to get new furniture upstairs. What do you think of the before and after?

Look At This Big Kid

Ethan is growing way too fast. This is his first time eating rice cereal. I am amazed at what this kid can put away. He is my biggest eater and that is saying a lot because my others eat really well too. He also looks almost as big as Paige here. He is so cute.