Swimming Lessons

We have started swimming lessons again this year. Conor is able to touch in the 3 feet section of the pool so he gets to be in level 1 with no floaties this year....yeah! Breck is in level 3 again and doing great. At the end of the lessons the kids get to jump off the board and Breck spends most of his time perfecting his flips off the diving board. Tanner is in level 4 again, level 5 is pretty hard and not as much fun, so we decided to try level 4 again. I can't hardly wait until next year when all 4 of my kids can be in swim lessons, that is almost as cool as all 4 kids in school.........well maybe not.

'I don't tare"

I know that the "terrible two's" got it's name for a reason. But I have seriously decided that my 2 year old makes other 2 year olds look like saints. Jace is truly a piece of work. He will not ever tell you that he "loves you too" unless he wants something (like ice cream). So last night I told him that I loved him and he looked right at me and said "I don't tare". I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. If he is this naughty at 2 we don't stand a chance at 16.

Tanner's "Blistard"

Tan went on vacation with my family to St. George Utah and got a horrible sunburn. My mom swears that she put spf 50 sunscreen on him twice, but he still got burned. You could not touch his shoulders for about a week. When he had been home for a couple of days I decided that we needed to change his bandages and get some antibiotic cream on them. When we took off the bandages we found this blister, or "blistard" as Conor would call them. It was truly the size of a golf ball. I have never seen anything like it.


FYI.....I read the directions (who would ever think of that) and it says that sunscreen needs to be reapplied every 80 minutes.

Update on Sid's Finger

Sid goes into the doctor Monday morning to have it x-rayed again to see if that chunk of bone is moving. If it has not moved he does not have to have surgery and if it has he will have to have it pinned. So I am hoping that the dang thing is holding still. I guess we will see.

Junior Rodeo

Well, I survived our first junior rodeo. We (myself, Tan, Breck, Con and Kyla) left Friday night and drove to Grace (about 3 hrs 15 min) and stayed the night in the horse trailer. The rodeo started at 8:00 and I wanted to make sure we would be there and be ready. The older 2 boys did barrels first, Breck got a no time because he broke the pattern and Tan ended up 9th out of 48 kids. I was really proud of him and Chex considering it was both on theirs first rodeo ever and Chex has just learned the barrels. Then Con rode his sheep, he said it was lots of fun and is excited to do it again, which is a much better experience than the last time he rode. Tan then rode his calf and did great. We then did goats. Con's age group just pulled the ribbon off the goats tail and ran back and he was so cute! And the older 2 boys tied their goat. Tan ran out of time. Tying a real goat vs the dummy is totally different, so needless to say this week we are buying a goat. Breck got a time and I was pretty impressed for this being his first time. So, they do all the goat events in the middle of the arena and I have Con going on one side and the other 2 boys on the other side, I am trying to video and hold Roxy and by the time it was over I had lost Kyla. My only excuse is I am not used to looking for kids in pink windbreakers. I found her within 5 minutes, but I felt really bad. Poles were last and Tan got a no time and Breck got 4th (yeah) and Con went up one side of the poles and back down the other. He was really sad! He rides great, he just isn't strong enough to make those horses listen. The day was a great learning experience for us all and we are going to practice hard for the next one which is in Preston in 2 weeks.

Our first baseball game

We had our first game on Thursday. We were supposed to play on Tuesday but the game had to be canceled because of the rain. My team did sooooo good, I was really proud of them all. I have a couple of kids that need work (mostly just with paying attention) but all in all everyone did great! Tanner had one hit that was amazing, he nailed it clear in the outfield and got a home run. Every time he would hit the other coach would tell him his team to back up, I love it! I have no idea how he can hit the ball so well considering he wont wear his glasses, but he does great! We are not supposed to keep score, but in my opinion what is the point of playing a game if you aren't gonna win.......right? But, we creamed them! And no, I am not super competitive.

Sids Finger

My threats must have worked......Sid did go to the doctor today and his finger is broken. It is not broken like a "typical break" (nothing in our medical drama can ever be normal) when you noramlly look at an x-ray there is a horizontal break in the bone, his has a chunk of bone broken off the side (I demonstrated this at McDonald's using a french fry for my kids today). We are waiting to hear back from the bone doctor about doing surgery to fix it and the best way to cast it. So, no roping for Sid for at least 4 weeks. I don't know how his is going to survive the depression:)