Brave Lisette

So we had our first broken bone last night. I sent the kids up to bed and then Lisette came down crying ... she had jumped off the bed and hurt her arm. It was bent where it really shouldn't be so we rushed off to the ER. She was an extremely brave little princess ... today she is resting, watching movies, and eating lots of ice cream. She wanted me to post pictures of her being so brave.

Just got to the ER with a sad little girl.

No, sadly that bend is not her elbow.

The drugs have finally kicked in ... when the nurse came in and asked how she was doing, she answered "Oh, I'm great!".

Back home at last - the bones are reset and we're just waiting for the swelling to go down so she can get a hard cast on.

March ...

Scott really enjoyed his birthday cake this year (much to the children's chagrin)!

Talia liked the cake too!
Nathan & Kaylee spearheaded this year's leprechaun trap, but alas ... no leprechauns.
Scott's sister, Jodee, & her family came up for Spring Break. Everyone had a great time together!

Jenna's Project

Jenna's school project -- a setting from a book she read, all made with clay. (I know, it's not the greatest picture angle and all, but it was late! I'll get a better one when it comes back home. If you click on the picture, you can see it bigger and see the detail better.)

Cannon Beach

For my birthday, Scott & I went to Cannon Beach for a quick weekend trip. It was wonderful to have nothing scheduled and to just walk on the beach & look in the shops for hours. One of our favorite adventures was exploring the tidepools, caves, & waterfalls that are only accessible at extremely low tide! The large rock above is Haystack Rock - we were able to walk all the way out to it; usually all of this completely covered with water.

Kaylee (& the kids)

This was Kaylee's "Nation's Symbols" project for school. They had to make something 3-dimensional that represented one of our nation's symbols. Kaylee decided to make a pillow of the Betsy Ross flag (because it has less stars!). I did the cutting and most of the ironing, but she picked out all the fabric, did all the sewing herself, ironed on the stars, puffy-painted around them, stuffed it, and helped me sew up the gap! She worked REALLY hard on it and it turned out so cute!!

And here's a few other recent pix of the kids:

Swans & Curls

I took this picture at an old western town I visited with my brother Rod's family in Vegas. Our wedding cake topper (which got broken beyond repair, repurchased, and broken again) had two swans on it, because swans mate for life, so of course I had to post this picture.


So everyone wanted to have their hair curly for church last week ... Yes, it took a long time, but church isn't until 2 pm nowadays so we just made it. (Of course, it was one of the few weeks I had straightened my hair!) And no, Nathan did not get curls, but of course he wanted pictures too!

Snow Days!!

So yesterday I took a bunch of pictures of the snow we've had here all week. (Seriously, NO school or church since last Sunday! Yes, we're all going a little stir-crazy.) Then we woke up this morning and I had to take new pictures - there's twice as much snow and it is STILL snowing!! We have about 4 inches of powder covered by a 3/4 inch layer of ice and now 4-5 inches of powder on top of that. Here's a couple "Before" & "After" pictures.

And here's some pictures of the kids - they loved "stepping" (as Talia called it) and breaking through the ice yesterday. Scott said it felt like he was Godzilla. I think the biggest piece of ice we picked up was 2 x 2.5 feet! The kids loved to karate punch/kick the ice & break it.