Hogle Zoo

Last week I took Rachel, Rebecca and Adam to the zoo (Hogle Zoo).  The girls are still off-track from school and Adam was going crazy from the TV (or else I was).  Anyway, we had a great time and it was a beautiful day.  We saw lots of different animals but won't bore you with all the pictures.

Adam didn't want his picture taken, but Rebecca and Rachel smiled for the camera.

Adam consented to be photographed after he got an ice cream cone.

Mother's Day

Sorry I haven't posted for a while.  We've been a little busy with Adam in his cast.  He actually got the cast off a couple of days ago but I will get to that later.  Let's back up to Mother's Day.

Adam actually did get to have sponge baths which helped keep him somewhat clean.  He loved them.  How would it be to just lay there while someone else washed, rinsed, lotioned, rubbed, massaged, etc?  As you can see, he is quite happy and his hair is even combed.

Mother's Day was fabulous.  I didn't have to go into the kitchen at all.  Everyone cooked and cleaned up and it was great.  I even got to sleep in.  AWESOME!!

Adam is so glad to have a stroller to get out of the house in.  

Rachel is our dessert and snack provider.  She is often baking cookies, muffins, cupcakes, etc.

Let's Go Fly A Kite

As you can see in the picture, Adam is getting out and about with the help of a friend's stroller. He loves to go outside and go for walks. The girls are off track for 3 weeks so they are around a lot to entertain him..... thank goodness. So, while they are playing, I spend time in my little garden. I got all the drip system installed this week so now we can finish planting the other 2 boxes next week.

Tulip Festival

I picked David up from work at lunch time and we went to Thanksgiving Point for the Tulip Festival. It was a fun date. We did take Adam with us since he is so bored and we figured we could push him around in the stroller to see everything. It's very hard to capture the beauty of it all with a camera. I wish I was a better photographer but here are a few pictures to just give you an idea.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Birthday, Bike, Baptism, Bunny, Broken Bones

Our busy weekend actually started on Wednesday, April 8th, with breakfast in bed for Rebecca's 8th birthday!!

The next day the kids started spring break so Joshua put Adam's bike together and off he went. We never even put the training wheels on... he just took off.

After riding bikes (I did some gardening too) we went swimming for an hour or so.

The next day, April 10th, we had a big birthday party for Rebecca. We played lots of games, had a pinata, opened presents, and had cake. Lots of fun with lots of kids (I think we had 12 kids here plus my own).


After Rebecca's party, Joshua and I planted raspberries and about 55 strawberry plants. Yes, it was very dark by the time we finished but we had to get them in the ground so we kept going 'til we were done. I pray they grow.

Jared arrived that night for the weekend and we were very glad that Grandma Ginia was also visiting us for Rebecca's birthday and the other festivities of the week.

On Saturday, April 11, Jared baptized Rebecca and David confirmed her. It was a very small but beautiful baptism and Rebecca was so sweet.

We were very happy to have Curtis and his family come to the baptism as well as Crista Hill. They then came over to our house for some brunch and visiting.

As soon as we got that all cleaned up, it was time to color Easter eggs and start preparing the Easter dinner.

Here are all the kids at the top of the stairs Easter morning. Did the Easter bunny come? Yes!! The egg hunt began and ended very quickly. I don't know how they find them all so quickly.



Since we had a little time before everyone had to get ready for church, the kids jumped on the trampoline for a while. Then it was just Rachel and Adam. Then..... Adam was down and crying.






I guess you can tell from the pictures that we had to call 911 and they took Adam to Primary Children's Hospital where we found out he had a broken femur bone and they needed to put him in a "large" cast. Everyone at the hospital was just wonderful and took great care of Adam. He was very brave and did everything he was supposed to even when it hurt. And, before we were done there, Joshua came in with Jared to see if he needed stitches in his finger which he had cut while cutting the ham for dinner. Luckily no stitches were needed but they did glue it closed and bandaged it up for him.

We brought them both home late Easter Sunday night and now we have 6 weeks of Adam in a partial body cast. What are we going to do to keep him entertained? Any good ideas out there?

He's doing well and everyone here has been so nice and helpful. I'll keep you posted on Adam's progress. The doctor said that after about 4 weeks kids his age figure out how to walk around with a cast like that on. Amazing.

Happy Easter everyone!!!

Mom Sleeps and Kids Play

What happens when Mom falls asleep on the couch in the middle of the afternoon?  The kids find lots of interesting things to do.  Such as....

Slide down the stairs on a mattress.  

Maybe set up a huge fort in the basement (did that earlier in the day) and then have a "fort destruction party".   They even took pictures of everything they did so they could confess to having great fun while I slept.  Aren't they sweet?  Ha Ha 

Visitors from San Jose

We were so excited to have some visitors from San Jose. Kirk and Kaija brought Paul and Linda Garcia and Bianca to go to General Conference. We were privileged to have the Garcias stay at our home and we also got to have Bianca, Kaija and Kirk for dinner on Sunday. It was so fun to see everyone, visit, and get caught up on news from San Jose. Yes, Bianca tried the trampoline and even did a flip. And of course, General Conference was fantastic!!!

It snowed all night Friday and so Saturday morning Joshua jumped out into it in his bare feet. Crazy!