Not again!

Well, it looks like the flu bug decided to visit our house again. So far everyone except Stefan and Keslie got it. First, Carson started out with a fever for a couple of days, then he seemed better for about one day and then the next day he started throwing up. He finally seemed better on Thursday. From the time he got the fever until he started feeling better was one week. He lost 5 pounds. He was looking so skinny. Garrett got sick a couple days later and he still isn't over it. He sleeps a lot and just lays around. Riley was sick for a couple of days. He didn't throw up, but he felt like he was going to. Then I was the lucky one to get it, but it hasn't hit me as hard. I think that once we are moms we should be immune from getting sick. Since we have to go through morning sickness and labor, and have to take care of our kids & husband when they are sick and throwing up. Isn't that enough? This has been a bad start to the summer. We haven't been able to do much yet. I was so excited for school to get out so we could start going swimming and going to the library, and other things, but haven't been able to do that yet. Hopefully by Monday we will all be better and will be able to get out of the house!

School is out!!

I am excited (at least for right now) that school is out. I like not having to have a routine all the time and having to get kids out the door on time. We have some fun things planned for the summer. We are going to swim, go to the library, go to the movies, and the mountains a couple of times. I also plan on going to the gym a few times a week and the kids will get to play. I am hoping that they won't have time to get bored.

First day of school


Last day of school

Oh, the many ways to wear a baseball cap!

As I mentioned earlier, Riley played T-ball this spring. It seemed like there were many times that he seemed bored while in the outfield. He seemed to be wearing his hat a different way everytime he was in the outfield. As you can see below he is modeling several different ways of how you can wear a baseball cap.

First of all is the usual way.


Then there is the popular way of wearing it backwards.


Then, did you know that you could fold the hat in half and wear it backwards?


You can keep it folded in half but wear it to where the brim of the cap is pointing up. (It might be a little hard to tell)


You can also wear the cap backwards, but put the adjuster strap under your nose. I guess if the cap doesn't stay on too well wearing it the normal way backwards you can try this way.


If you need to shade your face or keep bugs from flying in your eyes or mouth you can wear it over your face. If the cap is mesh like his then you can still see what you are doing.


He also had fun playing around with the baseball helmet.


There was another time that he turned his hat inside out and wore it, but I don't think I had my camera that day.

I think that about covers it on ways to wear a baseball cap!

Having a little family fun

I was going to wait to post these pictures because we were going to go bowling today and I was going to post these pictures and the bowling pictures all at once, but Carson got sick so we won't be going bowling today. I am hoping we will get to go next week. We have never taken the kids bowling yet.

Anyways, last week we took the kids to Fun Indoor (A.K.A. - Jeepers, or Jungle Jim's). They had never been there either. They had a lot of fun! I will have to admit that I had fun going on some rides too (and Stefan also). :) I didn't realize that the kids had to have socks if they were going to play in the tubes. I had Stefan stop and buy a pack of socks for all the kids to wear. He bought a pack that would fit the older kids. They were really long on Garrett, but it worked.

Let's play ball!

Riley started his 2nd year of T-ball in April. He loves to play baseball. He was glad to be playing on the same team as his best friend. I think he does a good job.

Have your cake and decorate it too

Also in March I took a cake decorating class. I have always wanted to take one and I finally did it. It was pretty fun, but I had to make A LOT of frosting. I was able to learn some new things, even how to make a rose. Please don't look at them too closely. You will see all my flaws. :)

Riley's Birthday

At the end of March, Riley had his 7th birthday. I can't believe how fast my kids are growing. Riley is such a sweet boy. He is a good helper around the house. I love his smile and laugh! He loves to build with K'nex and Legos, so I made him a Lego cake.

A swingin' good time

A couple months ago, Garrett learned how to get on the swing himself. He would get on and walk backwards and then pick his feet up and go. He didn't go very high, but that is how he likes it. Swinging is one of his favorite things now. It is so cute to watch him swing. One day he went out to swing and he looked so cute swinging. I took a ton of pictures of him. Here are just a few. :)

I think I got it figured out

Ok, I think I am back in business now. I was trying to figure out how to do the backgrounds and everything. It took me a while till I was able to sit and figure it out. I had a few spare minutes today so I went back over the instructions and figured it out. I'm sure you wanted to know all that. Now that I am done playing with the template and have something that I think is cute, I can go back to writing about what has been going on.

Blog Under Construction

I am learning how to change the background on my blog. I think it is a cute background, but it is hard to read some of it. I am still playing around with it and trying to find something that will work. Please check back in another day or two and hopefully I will have it figured out. Thanks!

March

In March we went up to Eagar for a few days over spring break to see my brother and sister-in-law and their 2 foster girls. We left on Thursday afternoon and stayed until Saturday. It was a quick trip but we did a lot of things while we were there. The kids had a lot of fun playing with the 2 girls. The weather was nice for the most part. A little windy though.

On Friday morning we went to the park. We always go to the park when we go to Eagar because it is such a fun park! In the afternoon we went to the tubing hill. There was quite a bit of snow. The kids had a blast playing in the snow! I believe that the last time we took the kids to the snow was when Riley was about 18 months, and now he is 7 (well, he was 6 when we went there).




I'm sure you have seen a similar picture like this in earlier posts. :) I just had to include a picture for this time.






Garrett loved eating the snow!!

On Saturday the kids decorated Easter eggs (sorry, no pictures of that), and later we went for a drive. We were going to go to a lookout place and have a picnic, but the road was closed so we just parked along the side of the road and had the picnic there. When we were done we walked around a little bit and the kids found a few patches of snow and had a snow fight. Then we left to go home.




My sister was in Payson over the same weekend that we were in Eagar. She called me as we were heading toward Show Low and told us about the mountain sliding down along the Beeline and that it was closed. I was SO GLAD that she had called and told us because we were thinking of going home that way instead of going through Globe. If we would've gone that way then we would've been detoured along the Roosevelt Lake road, and would've come out close to Globe. It would've been a VERY LONG trip. I couldn't believe that there wasn't a sign in Show Low at the turn off toward Payson telling us that the road was closed. My sister and her family ended up having to go home a different way (they live in Tucson). We passed each other in Globe.

February

I don't remember much of what happened in February, probably not anything exciting. At the end of February I had my 35th birthday. That was a hard age to hit. This kids got out of school early so I decided that I wanted to go hiking. We went to Usery Pass. We found a good trail to hike on for all the kids. Garrett even walked most of the way. It was a nice day and the wild flowers were starting to bloom. It was so pretty!