Gum

Yuck! Emma swallowed a whole pack of gum. At least 10 pieces! She has about gotten into the gum several times but this week (Tuesday) she found Rhett's scripture bag that had a pack of gum in it. All I found was a pile of wrappers and her smelly breath. I think it has passed - she had diarrhea yesterday and her bum has been really sore. Should I be worried? Anyone had this happen?

Idaho Trip

Few pictures from our trip to Idaho... Thanks for the fun time everyone!!
At the airport waiting for the next plane ride
Cute Emma and Dad waking up gma and gpa Bodily - EARLY in the morning. Darn time zone difference was a killer for a few days!
Attacking Sam!!
Eli giving away silly bandz
Cute Emma playing outside
Grandma Lois holding Clark
Shay and Cate
Talent Show time! (Ug - sorry Kyla about missing the top of the photo! I must have been looking at Sam to make sure I got him.)
Jack and Eli playing before the parade.
Eli's tears over leaving Rupert. That about made me lose it!
Braxton pushing Emma on the bike
Boys playing in the yucky pond!
Rhett holding Peter
Megan and Ashley
Playing on the tramp!
Home again safe at last! Thanks Krista for the cute cut!

Megan

Megan is 10 years old! I can't believe that she is in the double digits now!! How time flies. It was just yesterday that I brought her home from the hospital to our little rental in Rupert. ohhhh

She wanted breakfast in bed and so she got it!! She was very patient with me and let us celebrate her big day later. I guess she gets a long drawn out birthday this year.

This is the outfit she got. She is such a doll.

I let her take a camera to school to take pictures of her classmates. She had a ball. She has the best personality to include everyone around her.

I just can't believe she is 10!

phone pictures

Redge took these with his phone.
The kids made a HUGE fort in the bonus room. They turned the chairs to make rooms and had every one of our blankets out. The fort took up 2/3rds of the room. Then they switched from building with blankets to building with the blocks. This was Rhett's block creation.

Emma's favorite thing to do is to put her baby in the high chair with her to eat breakfast. This morning she had two babies in with her, which was a tight fit. Megan started squealing to Emma 'stop'. I looked over at her trying to feed her baby bites of pancake! The baby she was feeding happened to be Megan's doll that Emma is now claiming as her own. But Megan is trying to keep some sort of claim, thus the squealing. Good thing they have plastic heads... syrup cleans up fine!

Reminisce

This week we were having breakfast and talking about our trip Charlotte with my parents. Totally had a fun time with them. Our favorite still is going around Charlotte Motor Speedway in a large passenger van. The tour guide only got going 65 or something but then he stopped on the turn - AHH! It was a 24 degree angle (I think) and that was enough for me - felt like the van was going to tip over.
I was having fun making the kids poise on these great fish in a park and we got in trouble for getting on the fish! WHOOPS!



Cute Emma on the bench at the 'fish' park and


then in the car as we were getting to Charlotte. She is a poop in the car. By the time we got there we all had enough of her crying!

We wore grandpa out... it was too funny to see all the kids sacked out on his lap. They thought it was great that he would climb into the back of the van with them. I had to put a stop on that because it is too hard to climb into the back for me - let alone dad!

We had fun riding the tram in Charlotte- we got to see people from all walks of life. I think it was a wide-eyed experience for the kids (and me). My kids think it is funny to sing some song about 'pants on the ground' I had to shuush them because they wanted to sing this and we were surrounded by this type of fashion!

Marathon

The kids were quite proud of themselves running the marathon at the school. They had to prepare by running or walking 25 miles and then they finish the last 1.2 miles at the school. It was scheduled for a day that really would have worked but it was a little chilly and had been raining so they postponed it. Arg! It was a lot hotter on the rescheduled day. They all had red faces!
This first picture is Eli running with some older kids. They stuck together the whole time and Eli thought they were pretty cool. The next is Rhett coming into the finish line just by the Durham Bull mascot. He was the first one in of my kids and was amongst the first group of kids that ran in. I never could get a picture of Megan running. She was past me when I spotted her both rounds!

Mr. Eli was so excited to see Emma after the race. All the kids flocked around her from his class. She was a little overwhelmed with all the attention. She is starting to tell the kids no when they get in her face.

They thought they were pretty cool to get a medal. I finally got them to throw away their numbers just this last week.

You can see how red their faces are in these pictures. Rhett's picture was taken about an hour afterwards, too.

If I had a better stroller I would have run with them but my stroller just isn't meant for an off road experience.
Oh the fun things we do!

Sweet

Redge is great. Usually I discourage him from getting me flowers because they just die. Well, I decided that it would be kind of fun to get flowers because he just doesn't do that (because of me!). So after having a conversation about getting flowers and that it would be kind of fun to get them every once in a while... he bought some for me for Valentines. I thought it was great that he found these at the grocery store. (yes, I am a bit cheap - especially on things that are going to just die!) But, they bloomed so pretty and lasted for almost 10 days. I had 10 days of remembering that my sweetheart thought of me.

So last week Redge comes home all beaming about a secret that he is going to tell me after the kids are in bed. In lieu of Mothers Day, he has booked a couples massage at a prestigious hotel here. I was a bit shocked!! First of all he thought way ahead for Mother's Day. Second, this is NOT something he would do (it was a bit spendy)! And most of all~ I am a bit scared to go! I haven't ever had a professional massage... And what is a couples massage? Nothing kinky, right? Well, I am sure we are in for an experience! This may be a one time experience. HAHA!!

Redge loves me! (It is kind of nice to know that you are still in love, huh!)