Tyler's teeth

On Monday was Presidents day so I got to play with my kids all.We started the day finishing a Monopoly game. We then went to the dog park, Layla had so much fun (sorry forgot to take pictures. After the dog park the kids wanted to go to the skate park, they had a blast, but the first 5 minutes we were there, Tyler was skating on roller skates and fell face forward kissing the cement. He chipped his 2 front teeth. They were sore for a while and he hit his nose too, and it bled for a long time. Took him to the dentist and he said we have to wait a few weeks to see if the nerve was damaged. In a few weeks we go back and he will get crowns on his teeth, until then he gets to go to school with broken front teeth, poor guy, and his birthday is in 2 days, not a very fun Birthday present.

life

The passed few weeks have been crazy. First started with Layla being sick, she is doing so much better, prayers helped, and she finally startd eating and drinking and is now a playful dog. We are so happy to have her back, she is so fun and lovable. Josh is enjoying teaching her to fetch and sit and whatever else he can teach her, sometimes she doesn't want to listen.
The next thing is WE GOT PHONEBOOK ROUTES!! Last year we got a route for Josh so he could earn money for scout camp. We think it is very important for our kids to learn to work and to earn their own money. So Ed took the class and got a route and we all helped, I helped bag and so did Alycia, and then Josh, Aaron, Tyler and dad would go out and deliver. The first route we got was HORRIBLE, it was a rural route so we had to pretty much drive to every house cause the driveways are so long, it wasted so much gas. We were so glad when we got 3 routes close to eachother, and the houses were in a develpment, instead of 10 hours on one route it was less then 10hours for all 3 routes, lol. The boys learned a lot and were really happy to help. Josh earned all $235 for his camp, Aaron doesn't get to go to scout camp this year but he already has a portion of his money for next year. We had a boy from our ward do this with us so he could earn money for camp also. Tyler will have money for his day camp. So a weeks worth of work and the kids have earned all their own money. I am so proud of them and working so hard.
Last week it got SOOOO cold. It all began on Monday. It was a nice 35 degrees. It rapidly dropped to 18 degrees by mid day. It continued to drop. That night Ed had to cut tool boxes for cub scouts. It started to snow and was SO cold out. He pushed his truck out of the garage (truck doesn't start dead battery) and then turned on a heater in there. He cut all the wood and was done about 10:30 pm. He came inside and asked me to help him push his truck back inside the garage. I didn't really think about it so put my coat on and went to help in my slppers, lol. When we opened the garage door we found that the strong winds we were having had pushed his door open on his truck and so his truck was full of snow. Also, there was humps of snow we now had to push the truck over and up into the slanted garage, and by the way it was FREEZING out there. After trying and having no luck he said go wake up the kids. So I went in and got REAL shoes on and got Josh out of bed. The three of us got the truck back into the garage, BURRR!!!
The next two days were so cold so school was cancelled. Tuesday with windchill we hit somewhere in the -50's, not much snow but frigid temperatures. Wed was a little warmer but still didn't hit the positive numbers so school was cancelled again. I guess the busses don't start and you can't have kids waiting for the bus or walking to school in those frigid temperatures. The kids had fun playing at home for 2 days. I got a book read and enjoyed veggin with the kids. I am so thankful for a warm house with a working heater. I didn't leave the house for 2 days and I was ok with that, hot chocolate and apple cider, and homemade soup were my friends, LOL.

this week

This has been a HARD week. Of course adjusting to having a dog again and teaching her things like not to go potty in the house is time consuming. Four out of 5 of my kids this week decided to get sick, and not with a fast flu, but with a 3-5 day flu that had fevers, throwing up, sore throats, red scratchy eyes. It was so miserable. During the same time as I am tending to sick kids my dog shows signs of Kennel cough. They told us they show signs about 3-10 day after you take animal home. On day 5 she stated giving signs, at her checkup with the vet she was fine but 2 days later is so awful and having trouble breathing and is coughing and throwing up on my carpet. I wanted a healthy playful dog, not one I needed to watch and clean up after and force feed and eye dropper water into her mouth, and give antibiotics by force. She is so weak and just wants to sleep, refuses to eat or drink. The kids are sad cause she isn't playful like she was, and has no desire to run and play. We really love Layla and hope she gets better soon, it is hard to start loving her and then see her suffer. We hope she gets better soon and will be her happy self again. This has been a hard week, and glad all the kids are well again, and hopefully I can get Layla well soon.

Layla

We adopted a dog yesterday. The idea was to take the kids to the Humae society and JUST LOOK, HAHAHAHAHA. We saw several cute dogs but we decided on Layla for several reasons. She is 10 months old so still a puppy, she is super cute and active and wants to play. The kids love her. She is a German Shepherd mix. We are not sure what she is mixed with, but she is smaller then a normal german shepherd, which I like since we don't ahve a huge yard. So far she has been a joy.

vacation to Arizona

Christmas morning we left and headed to Spring Valley to Ed's parents house. We had Christmas dinner there and played games with his brothers and family. On Sunday we had dinner with another brother and his family and played games, was so good to see all of them again. Monday We went to Bonnie's parents and while we were there the kids had a silly string fight at the park, we played at the park. Kids loved playing circle ball in grandpas backyard. One day he took them to get Thirfty's ice cream which was my favorite growing up. We also went bowling one day and Bonnie went to lunch with some High School friends one day. We did a lot of things and it was a lot of fun. We also drove by the house I grew up in, we moved there when I was 10 months old and my parents lived there till after I was married. Looks about the same, the yard is a bit overgrown and makes it hard to see. OH the memories.
We went back up to Spring Valley on New Years eve and spent it at Ed's brother Bruce's house playing games. We came home on New Years day, it was a great trip. We are so lucky to have such a great family to belong to.

Christmas

We had a nice Christmas as a family. We acted out the Story of Jesus' birth and then each kid opened a present (slippers this year). We then opened the presents we were giving to eachother since we were getting up early to leave for Arizona and would only ahve time for Santa presents. We had a nice time and was fun to go to Arizona and be with Ed's parents and brothers for Christmas dinner.

new ring

While we were in CA in October Bonnie lost the diamond out of her wedding ring. Later we ended up losing the whole ring,(we think it fell out of her purse while we were on vacation). So after Thanksgiving Ed decided it was time to get her a new ring. We went shopping and found one we liked. Bonnie is happy to have a ring again and grateful for the love they share.