Primary Halloween Party '09

Hopefully I'll get some pictures to post. I didn't even think of bringing my camera this time. For Halloween this year, Jaida is a ghost, Kayla is a unicorn, Joey is a frog, I am an overweight baseball player, and Monty is an mma fighter.

Kayla was going to be a bat so we were driving around looking for all the stuff to make her costume and at the DI we found the perfect unicorn costume for only $8! Less than we were spending on her bat costume. She was so excited and has worn it everyday since we got it.

Our awesome old navy costume - the frog costume is being used once again by the kids.

Okay, so back to the party. The primary decided to do a Pumpkin theme for all our games. Pumpkin Bowling, Pumpkin Golf, Pumpkin Ring Toss, and a Pumpkin Toss. Of course the Relief Society, Young Women, Young Men, Missionaries and Scouts all had games too. We had a great turn out and everyone seemed to have a great time.

The missionaries were doing a game where everyone would tie a balloon to their ankle and then on the count of three everyone would try popping everyone else's balloon. So I didn't think about it at the time, but maybe that's not the best game where little girls are involved.

I overheard a lady telling her husband that a little girl was running down the sidewalk crying trying to run home and that she was going after her. Of course I thought nothing of it.

Come to find out it was Kayla the Unicorn running down the sidewalk as fast as she could go - she saw the lady coming to get her and sped up.

When I finally got to her, Monty had gotten her back safely and she was in the primary room under a chair crying. I kept asking her all sorts of questions and finally found out what had happened. Sobbing she said, "I was laughing and playing around with my balloon and all of a sudden someone stepped on it and POPPED it!"

I of course said, "Kayla that was the point of the game."

"NO IT WASN'T!"

Who am I to reason with a five year old who's balloon was viciously stepped on and popped? So I went and got her a new balloon and instantly recieved a smile - all was better. Kayla was happy the rest of the night and even the next day told me that "the party last night was the funnest ever!"

The other funny thing was the only games Kayla played were pumpkin bowling and the balloon game. She just ran around the rest of the time watching everyone else. Joey had all the girls in the primary taking turns playing with him and walking him around. Jaida ran around with all her friends playing all the games and having fun. That's one thing I love about our Halloween party - for the most part I can just let my kids run around and I don't have to worry about them.

Happy Birthday Kayla!

Happy 5th Birthday Kayla!

Kayla has been wanting to be 5 for at least two months now. She wanted a Rainbows & Unicorns birthday party. I got lucky and found a pattern for her cake and she LOVED it! She got a bunch of unicorns for her birthday and make-up (which only takes her a couple days to use). After eating we took the kids to Funtime Inflatibles and were there for about two hours. The kids all had a blast! Thanks for coming Nathan, Ethan and Jenna!

Crazy Hair Day 2009

Red Ribbon Week at Jaida's School! They always have fun activities for the kids every day of the week. I think that crazy hair day is my favorite. "Just Say No!" (to drugs - in case you didn't know what red ribbon week was)

Happy Birthday Monty

Wow, whoever thought you would be 37! Yikes - I'll be there in a couple years. We made Monty a caterpiller cake and he got some awesome curtains. Ha ha ha.... He always loves my birthday presents. Hey, I'm just thinking of how much more sleep you'll get on grave yards with a darker room. Love ya!

Fielding No. 4 - It's A Boy

Yep, we're having another baby! Due date is February 17, 2010, and we have no names picked out. This is the first time we were able to get 3d pics with any of our kids and it turned out pretty cool! So now we'll have two girls and two boys. We're all excited!

Joey's First ER Visit

It was a nice cool evening and we were all outside enjoying the refreshing air. Kayla was riding around on her bike, Joey was following Jaida around and I was reading book. Pretty soon Kayla came riding up to her favorite spot where she gets one tire on the grass and one tire on the sidewalk. Her back tire is off the ground so she can pedal and pedal to her hearts content and not go anywhere.

Joey saw her "stuck" and came over to see what was going on. He sat down by the back of the bike and was completely engulfed in curiosity. Monty came out and kept telling Kayla, "Stop pedaling, Joey's going to stick his finger in your bike." Well, if you know Kayla, she likes to do the very opposite of what you say.

A couple drove up and were asking directions so Monty was distracted from Kayla and she began to pedal away. Pretty soon I hear Joey start crying, look up from my book and he's definitely got his finger stuck somewhere in Kayla's bike. Monty and I run over and Monty grabs Kayla off her bike and I grab Joey. He has already started bleeding all over. I take him into the house to wash off his finger and it was just a nasty, nasty cut. I told Monty that we need to take him to the hospital.

I'm getting my purse and Monty takes the girls to Mendenhall's and we head to the ER. We of course had to wait out in the lobby for a bit before someone came to get us while Joey is crying and bleeding all over. The waiting for something to be done is the WORST part. How can you let a little baby cry for so long! The ER doctor was already stitching someone up so we had to wait for him.

They had to take Joey back for x-ray's and since I was pregnant I couldn't go. So Monty took him out and Joey is just reaching for me and crying, "Mom". I couldn't help it then, and had to cry a little.

They had to put him in a straight jacket (literally), gave him some lortab, numbed up his finger, and began to stitch him up. I think he got about seven stitches and the end bone was also broken. After stitching him up they gave him some medicine and told us to wait for 15 minutes before we could go. In about five minutes Joey fell asleep.

We put Joey in the car where he woke up and drove to the pharmacy. Joey started saying, "Whoahhhh." I think it was about the stop lights? He seemed to be in a good mood now, and his finger wasn't bothering him at all. The lortab had kicked in.

We got home where we found that Misty had come and got the girls and had cleaned the WHOLE house. Great surprise! The girls were really happy to see that Joey was okay. So then Joey started getting hyper. He would run down the hall, come back, climb onto the couch, jump off and take off down the hall again. He kept doing this and other crazy things. At one point I had him in the chair with me and we were watching a cartoon. All of a sudden he would bust out in a laugh, or point at the tv and say, "Whoahhh."

It was pretty hilarious and I'm sad we didn't get any video. He did that for a couple of hours and the only way we finally settled him down was to turn out all the lights and lay him down by me.

Joey is doing great now and refuses to keep a band-aid on. We didn't get any good pics of his finger but hopefully he won't stick his finger in any more bikes to give us another chance at it.

Monty's Graduation

Monty was gone each week for about three months while he went through the police academy. He would just come home on weekends and boy was it a LONG week.

We are all glad that he is done and he even got the sharp shooter award (although that's probably wrong and I'll need to come and edit this post)!

Jaida in the 2nd Grade

I forgot to post about Jaida's first day of school! Okay well, I've forgot to post quite a few things.

We had a fight on her first day of school over CLOTHES! She wanted to wear her East Elementary t-shirt - great, no problem. I wanted her to wear some jeans and her new tenny's. She wanted to wear some ugly cutoff cotton brown shorts with some light blue crock shoes that have a fuzzy inside - no way!

So I think she wore her jeans and I have no idea what shoes she wore. As you can see in the picture she luckily went to school happy. She got an over the shoulder bag and a new lunch bag.

She LOVES her teacher, Mrs. Bentley, and is doing GREAT! Mrs. Bentley is very impressed with her reading level (5th grade), and says she has great potential for writing. Jaida get's 100% on almost all of her spelling and math tests. All around she loves school and is a really good student.

(just in case anyone was wondering the shorts are in the trash)