Ayden's first head injury

Not too long ago I took the kids up to my parents house to help my mom and let the kids play.  As we were leaving that day Ayden decided to start a snowball fight with my mom.  Well as it happens it is all fun and games until someone gets hurt.  Mom was chasing Ayden to give him a hug goodbye when something caused a trip for Ayden or my mom or both.  My mom instinctively tried to catch him and he still ended up hitting his head pretty good against the side of the garage on the corner of the bricks.  Needless to say we took a trip to urgent care to get it all taken care of. 

 

After it stopped bleeding and it was getting numb

He ended up with four staples.  I guess heads and stitches don't mix well

Getting ready to leave the doctor. 

 Ayden ended up with the four staples, a very minor concussion, a sprained knee and a little bit of road rash.  He was feeling much better within a couple of hours of leaving the doctor's office.

 

The wound healed nicely, although he will probably have a permanent bald spot.  Thanks goodness for a cowlick that covers that part of his head.

Masyn turns 4!!

Four years ago Masyn came into our family.  He has been such a blessing to our family!  He keeps everyone smiling and laughing.  Masyn still enjoys school and comes home asking to do homework.  Who knew a 4 year old would enjoy homework so much.  Here are a few pictures from the last year.

 

 

Playing Frisbee with Quincy at 4th of July



Ice blocking with cousins and grandparents

Masyn was a cowboy for Halloween

Masyn is always causing mischief somewhere in the house

Masyn's Lego and Angry Birds cake

The Call. . .

One Tuesday morning had started just like any other morning.  It was my week to drive carpool.  I had all of the kids up and getting ready for the day.  It was 7:15 am and everyone is dressed, fed and ready for school.  Our neighbor shows up and we head out to the garage to get in the van to go to school.  Jade (our neighbor girl) takes a step and I hear a crunching noise.  Guess what she stepped on. . .

 

 

That's right a DEAD MOUSE!!  I tried to stay as calm as I could.  I really wanted to scream and jump up and down like a little girl- but I had to be tough that is what moms do, right?  I calmly asked everyone to walk around the mouse and get in the van.  We all avoided the dead mouse at ALL costs!  After we back out of the driveway I call Doug (who is at work and only left a mere half hour before us)  to tell him what had happened.  I get his voicemail and tell him to call me immediately because he needs to take care of something. 

 

Doug calls me back within 10-15 minutes.  I told him that there was a large fat mouse dead in our garage and he MUST come home to take care of it because I refused to go in the garage until it was gone.  All Doug could do was laugh at me. . . eventually he was able to get out that he would come take care of it.  He was quick to share the story with his co-workers and all had a good laugh.  He came home pretty quickly to take care of it and set up some traps in case there were more.  Thankfully, there hasn't been any!

 

Tell you the truth, I refused to go in the garage until I was done running errands and picking up kids for the day.  I still can't go in my garage bare feet anymore -slippers aren't even enough.  I used to do it all of the time (the freezer is out there) but no way, what if another mouse comes out to get me??

Ryleigh is 6 years old!

 

I can't believe she is SIX years old!!  Ryleigh still loves to play with babies and anxiously awaited for school to start.  Ryleigh adores school and can hardly wait to go back (too bad she only goes Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons).  She has completed many different dance classes and just recently her first gymnastic class.  Here are a few pictures of her throughout the year.

 

Her first dance class

With one of her friends Spencer when he came to visit from Montana.

 

 

At a face painting party this last summer.

 

Reciting her nursery Rhyme at school in front of the WHOLE class and parents (Baa, Baa Black Sheep)

 

First Day of Kindergarten

 

 Riding the tramway in downtown Salt Lake City, with her cousin Katie Jo.

   

Ryleigh asked for a castle birthday cake. It isn't the prettiest, but the best I could do.

 

As with most birthday's everyone sang Happy Birthday.  At this party we were celebrating Ryleigh and her cousin Adriana sixth birthday and her cousin Delaney second birthday.  See if you have figure out what happened in the following sequence. . . .



 



Yep!  You got it Masyn blew the candles out not only for Adriana but Delaney too.  So we had to relight the candles and try again.  Needless to say Masyn had a time out.

 



Christmas

Trying to get caught up on the blog is hard.  Whenever this happens I promise myself that I am going to be better.  Yet here I am again! 

 

Nothing too exciting happened around here for Christmas.  Doug had to work but was able to have some time at home with everyone. Here are some pictures that show our day.