Climbing Higher

Today me, Brennden, Charity, and my sister Candice went rock wall climbing at the Y. We have been before with Dustin but didn't take any pictures.



I made it further than last time but still didn't make it much further than this. I know, I'm a wuss. (I'm only 10 feet off the ground.)



Brennden still only makes it a foot off of the ground. Maybe one day he will go further. But he did try a bunch of times. He is trying to smile for the camera here. Funny boy.



Charity climbs the six foot wall. I don't even hold her I just have my hands there in case she falls. She climbs to the top of that one. When she gets bigger she will be the first in the family to make it to the top of the big one.



And of course she wanted to take another pic.

My No Good, Dirty Rotten, Horribley Awful Day

That's right. This was my day today. But it didn't start out that way. Oh no, it started out rather good actually. Brennden got up and ready for school way easy. Dustin didn't have to work til the afternoon so I got to leave the kids with him and go to the chiropractor stress free. Charity went down for a nap easy and Dalin took one with her so I was able to catch up on the last House episode. Brennden was excellent at school today! It has been a week since he has gotten into any kind of trouble! And the rest of the afternoon the kids played together like angels. Up until this point my day was rather wonderful. But nothing can last forever and most things are too good to be true. I mean, a whole entire day without one little thing happening, who was I kidding?

I let the kids out back to play while I was making dinner. Charity somehow hurt her face and Brennden hurt his back. Dalin starts crying with no end in sight and the oven timer is going off all at the same time. Once everyone is calmed down we sit to eat. Kind of. Dalin cries through dinner, Charity won't touch hers, and Brennden downs his entire plate so that he can have Spaghettios. (He right now is on a strike of anything I make for dinner so if he eats whats on his plate he can have what he wants after) Charity gets a hold of yogurt and spills it all over my bed. Of course it can't be her own. Dalin is still crying. I've given him medicine, fed him, changed him, held him, but nothing is working.

Brennden and Charity need a bath so I decide to give them a bubble bath. What kid doesn't like a bubble bath? Mine. Brennden cries that he wanted a shower. I tell him to bad so he climbs in the bath. Charity runs away screaming. I have to force her into the bathtub where she instantly calms down and starts to play. She likes to fight just for the sake of fighting I swear it. Dalin is still crying. I clean up after dinner. Did I mention that our dishwasher isn't working since the city has the water softener down? I have to wash by hand now. Arg. I go to get the kids out and find that they have drained all the water and are playing in a big pile of soap. Of course it takes forever to get the soup off and the floor looks like the water drained onto it instead of down the drain.

I finally get them out and ready for bed when the doorbell rings. We've been expecting a package all day long and it doesn't arrive until 7pm. It is a COD, which we never have a problem with until today. For some reason the company decided to issue 3 different invoices from two separate address. This means we need two money orders instead of one. While writing down the amounts I need, the kids run out the door and into the delivery truck. And Dalin is still crying in my arms. And it keeps getting better. Since Dustin signed the money orders, only he can go change them and he is at work. I have to dig through the garbage just to find the receipt to be able to change the amounts. Luckily tomorrow is garbage day so I still had them. ( I don't know if I would call it entirely lucky that garbage day is tomorrow.)

Finally everything starts to settle down. Whew. Wait, what did I just step in. You have got to be kidding me! Who threw up! I clean it up and get the kids in bed. I start to pack Dustin's bags because he is working out of town for a few days and realize that the sheets are still in the washer. I go put them in the dryer and start to pick up the living room, and what happens? Once again, I step in throw up! Come on!

And even now, as I am writing this, Dalin is still crying. Somebody save me!

Fishing

We decided to go fishing today since it was free. Well, not really free, we did have to buy a lot of stuff, but we didn't need a license.



This is the only fish that we caught. We were told it is the best tasting fish, but it was too small to keep. : (



As you can tell the kids had a blast. We started at 11:30, went home for a nap, then went back out till 8:30.



I forgot about sunscreen for the first half of the day, so we are all burnt.



Brennden is quite good at casting a line. He has only been fishing once, two years ago, and all he did then was run around. We didn't even have to show him what to do, he just watched Dustin and then went at it. Maybe we will actually put a hook on it one of these days and let him catch something.



Charity tried but is obviously too little to know what to do. She just keep hitting the water with her little fish thing on the end of her line. She would sit in my lap and let me hold the button while she throw it out though.

Such a Spaz

Today I about gave myself a heart attack. Probably my sister too. Since we live in tornado alley now we bought an alarm to warn us of tornado warnings in our area. Today it went off to indicate severe thunder storms but I thought is was a tornado warning. I was talking to my sister Ashley when it went off and I freaked out. I told Ashely I had to go and hung up, went to the alarm and pushed the button to hear what it had to say. It was then that I realized that I was being a spaz. I felt like such a dork. I called my sister back to let her know that everything was fine and I was freaking out for no reason. We did have 15 tornadoes happen all around us but none hit us. At least next time I won't freak out but I am prepared for it if it does happen.

The Results Are In

Yesterday we took a family trip to the dentist. YEA! We decided that we had all better go one last time before we move so that we didn't have to wait to find a new dentist. Brennden was the first to go in. He even went back and let them clean his teeth without Dustin or me with him. He is getting so big. His teeth look great. I just need to work on brushing his back teeth a little better.
Next was my turn. Regrettably I am the perfect picture of pregnancy gingivitis. :( And there are a few spots that might turn into cavities. I hope not, so far I have a perfect streak and plan to keep it that way. I was told to brush 3 times a day and at night, after I brush my teeth like normal, to brush again with this special tooth paste. So now I get to brush 4 times a day. Like my day is filled enough already.
Last Dustin got to go in. They told him to floss 3 times a week and gave him some new tooth paste with something extra in it that he needs.
Over all we were there for 3 hours, spent not one penny, and had no cavities! It seemed like we were there forever but they were the most thorough dentist we have ever been to. And they had drinks, snacks, book, crayons,and toys to entertain Brennden and Charity with. Not even the children's dentists that I've tried going to (and not liked one bit) have had things for the kids to do.

Things I've Learned This Week

Since I got home on Monday, there are a few things that I have learned.

Tuesday:
Do not put a plastic lid on the stove burner that you just barely turned off. It will melt.

Wednesday:
Don't let the cat you just had neutered sit on you lap on the ride home from the vet. It will pee and poop on you.
Even if you give kids bubbles outside, they will end up spilled inside.

Thursday:
My kids cannot sleep in the same bed. I hope they will be able to share a room.
My cat looks funny with his tail shaved. HAHAHA!
My kids will let the cat out of his cage at the Vets Office if not watched closely.



Friday:
My stomach muscles have separated and that is why I cannot sit up out of bed or off the floor. Instead I have to roll over and push or pull myself up.
Every time I go to the store to buy the kids clothes, I buy twice as much for Charity as I do for Brennden. It must be because she is a girl and there is twice as much to choose from.

I survived!

I am soooo glad Sunday came and went. I am still trying to recover. Charity woke up at 12:00 midnight and continued to cry and scream off and of until 1:30 in the afternoon. AHHH!!! Needless to say I didn't make it to church. Did I mention that I didn't even get to bed till 11:00 Saturday? I was running on 1hr of sleep. I also had to make sure that Dustin's things were all packed for him to go to Salt Lake once he made it home from Albuquerque. Dustin ended up leaving here at about 8:30 at night in a down pour. A big one! I couldn't get to sleep until close to 11 again and I made Dustin call me every so often because I was worried about the weather and him driving alone so late. I am excited to hopefully be able to sleep well tonight.

Growing

I went to the doctors the other day to get an ultra sound done, and once again my due date changed. Looking at this picture I want you guys to tell me how far along I look. Those of you who 'know' the answer please don't let others know. In a week I will post how far I am to see if anyone can guess it right.

Angie's First Elk

This last weekend Angie, Josh, Dad and I went for Angie's first elk hunt. Our scouting day went great, we only saw one bull, but saw tons of fresh sign. The opening morning we went to our spot and waited for the sun to rise and the elk to start to move. We saw two elk right as the sun was rising, but were unable to get a shot off. After about another twenty minutes we saw three elk running through a clearing on the side of a hill about 350 yards away, but were unable again to get a shot off. Ten minutes later we heard Josh's shot and after thirty more minutes we headed towards Josh and tried another area for about thirty more minutes and headed back to help Josh dress his elk out. We then went back to camp and napped before the evening hunt.
In the evening we headed to a spot we had seen while hunting near Josh, two hours of waiting and nothing showed up so we left and tried to see if they had moved into another area near by, and lucky for us they had. But unlucky for us they moved out to fast before we could get set to take a good shot. We then headed back to camp to wait for the morning. Josh and Dad left to take his elk back to town and left Angie and I for the morning hunt.
In the morning we headed back to the spot we had seen them in the evening and tied up the horses and began to sneek up the trail. When we got to the spot were we had seen the cows the night before we scanned the meadow and found 2 bulls and 3 cows slowly moving out to the trees. Angie got set on the north side of a thicket to take her shot but couldn't quite see what she needed due to a small rise in between her and the elk. A quick move to the south side of the thicket and we could see them meandering there way towards the trees, Angie got re-set took off the safety and boom. The cow arched her back jumped, and began to run towards the trees. We began the hard game of wait then chase and after about two minutes started to walk to were she had shot the cow, but before we could get there we heard the cow fall and hit the ground about 75 yards from were she had been shot. A quick trip to the horses, phone call to Dad, and forgeting we had a camera later we began to dress the elk. Angie held down her breakfast and actually did quite a good job in skinning and quatering her cow. We then put the elk on Fraiser and began the long (actually it just felt long, it was really about 40 minutes) ride to the truck and the hunt was over.