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Here are a few layouts I've done recently.

Our 4th

I hope everyone had a great Independence Day. We had a good one despite Stacia and Chuck being up in SLC at the Farmer's Market. The rest of us went to the parade in Richfield, it was a lot of fun. Then at 4:00 we went to a play called "Field of Stars." It started with the Boston Tea Party and took us through the end of the Revolutionary War. It was a musical and fantastic. At the end the audience joined in singing "God Bless America." Later that night after Chuck and Stacia got home we went to the foothills west of Richfield and claimed our spot for the fireworks. We love going out to the west side of the freeway and watching from there. No city lights to interfere. These first two pictures are our view of the mountains from our spot. The following pictures are of some of the spectacular fireworks.

My poor baby

Last night Joshua was playing outside and he just started screaming. I reached the sliding door about the time he did and he just wouldn't stop screaming and was not wanting to put weight on his foot. I lifted him to a kitchen chair and he was still screaming and I couldn't get him to calm down and tell me what happened, but I could see the top of his foot swelling, so I grabbed an ice pack and got it on it.

After 20 minutes and him still crying I gave him some Tylenol w/codine and we headed for the ER. They had it x-rayed and couldn't see any breaks, thank goodness, and the doctor said he'll just have to deal with it. I was NOT impressed with the doctor, Joshua was barefoot and the doctor took the wheelchair and left, there was NO way I was going to let him try to walk out to the car and I couldn't carry him, so I stopped the doctor and asked for the chair back. He grunted and gave it back and the nurse (who was nice) helped us out to the van. I think he wanted Joshua to walk on his foot, but being without shoes, I didn't think walking across a parking lot was the smartest thing in the world! It had been hot yesterday, and I'm sure that asphalt was still pretty warm. Yeah, lets torment the bottom of BOTH your feet with burns. Duh!

Got him home and put him to bed. I guess sometimes during the night he wanted ice on his foot again cause I heard Makiya up and asked her what was going on.

He is up this morning, but still not wanting to put weight on his foot. I remember when a doctor told me MY foot wasn't broken, but yet it was damaged so bad that even 3 years later it still bothers me. So, despite the dumb doctor, I will baby my baby as long as he needs it. We are using my desk chair (that has wheels) to move him around the house hehe.

Balloon Festival

We had a wonderful morning activity today. We got up about 5:45 am and got dressed and went over to Salina (utah) for their annual Eye to the Sky event. They had a hot air balloon launch this morning with about 20 hot air balloons. We got to watch about 15 or so launch before we had to come home, but it was absolutely wonderful. We were all so glad we made the effor to go.





Here are pictures from the launch. They aren't really in order, because I messed them up loading them here.

This is the first balloon that was being filled.

This is one of my favorite pictures. another balloon was blocking most of the morning sun when this one started to rise up, i thought it was pretty cool to see the sun hitting the side of the balloon.

This next one reminds me of my early days of scrapbooking. . .recognize the flowers fellow scrappers?

we have had rain almost every day this past week and every morning has been cloudy and yucky, but this morning it was beautiful. not a cloud in the sky and very comfortable temperature wise.

This was the last picture i took as we were heading back to the car. there were more balloons in the sky, but i could only get these 6 into the frame of my camera.

Thanks for looking.

Been awhile

It's been awhile since I posted. Lots going on, so here's an update and pictures.

First we'll start with Chuck and his staph infection (again). He got a major staph infection in his finger a couple of weeks ago. He ended up having to go into the hospital 3 nights in a row for an IV antibiotic each evening. It's about better now, just one little scab and red tender skin. It was pretty scary there for a few days.

This is a picture of the Sevier Valley as seen from the west side of the valley overlooking towards the east. Two Sundays ago the girls wanted to go for a drive and play "left, right, straight." It's a fun game where they each take turns telling us which way to turn. We added a little twist that they had to tell us which direction they wanted to go as soon as we made a turn, that way it would be a surprise to all of us rather than a last second "left" or "right." We ended up on a dirt road on the west side of the valley. We've come to the conclusion that we probably shouldn't play this game again on a little over 1/4 tank of gas. We were pretty nervous by the time we found civilization again that we weren't going to make it home. At one point we had to go up this really, really steep hill. It had lose rocks all over it and Chuck had the van gas pedal floored with the hopes we'd make it. We finally wandered out of the mountain and found a paved highway and made our way home. It would have been fun to be "lost" for a little while if we hadn't been so worried about the lack of gas in the van.

This picture was taken the last day of school this year. Shayla's teacher had called us a couple of days earlier to tell us Shayla was getting a special award and could we please come to the award ceremony. We were so pleased with her award. You can read it in the next picture. She had to achieve alot this year to receive this award. She is such a smart girl and we are so proud of how well she has done this past year in school.

Okay a week ago Joshua had a friend come over to play. I think just about every toy he owns ended up on his bedroom floor. I just couldn't bring myself to step foot in there but we are really wanting him to start sleeping in his bed instead of on the recliner in the family room. Shayla and I braved his room this afternoon and cleaned it up. Here are the before and after pictures.

There's my journey down memory lane the past two weeks or so. Thanks for looking/reading.

Another Joshuaism

Last Friday I went with Chuck to the doctors, and of course, Joshua had to come along. I know our doctor thinks he is the weirdest kid rofl. Joshua had to show the doctor his finger that had a scab on it so the doctor could fix it and he usually comes up with the funniest things. Well, we got out of there without anything too weird, but then came Monday.

On Monday I had to take Stacia and Shayla back to the doctor (they couldn't go on Friday). Anyway, Joshua is adamant that something is wrong with him so the doctor needs to check him out. While we were in the waiting room he told me his leg was sore. I asked him what was wrong and he told me it was full of trash from when he helped clean up the yard. That was a new one!

Okay, so fast-forward. We're in the exam room and in comes the doctor. Joshua proceeds to show him the same finger as on Friday, only this time the scab is gone. Then he tells him he has trash in his leg and needs the doctor to get it out. However, the funniest thing he told the doctor:

"I have a bone in my arm, here feel it." As Joshua sticks his fist in the doctors face.

The doctor feels his arm and says, "Yep, you sure do have a bone in there."

Joshua says, "Yep! A dinosaur bone!"

Capitol Reef

Took a trip to Capitol Reef this last week. Here are pictures from our trip (trip meaning we live 1 1/2 hours away).