Incarnacioooo oh oh oh oh oh oh!

happy halloween!!!!

Chancho. When you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room. It's for fun. 

celebrating independence

we got together with family yesterday and had a yummy BBQ after going swimming.

down here in Arizona, it's hard to party 'old school' when basically every fun firework is illegal.

we got to play with some poppers, popping bottles and 'glow worms'...aka....street poo...really, that stuff is just nasty to watch 'grow/glow'.

out there for almost 10 minutes....lighting fires in 110+ degree heat...hot.

miss those days when we would light off roman candles into the wheat field and put out a fire on our fence post when one of the fireworks set it on fire.  good ole' midwestern days of firecrackers.  we even had a friend make his own, and it turned out pretty cool.

maybe next year we can go out of state and get our hands on some fun stuff.  the kids would love it, and I'd like them to do what I did as a kid.

(conner dressed the part....pink, white and blue, with a camo croc for military support)

wahoo!

3 day weekend!  

have a nice memorial day too.  

remember those who have fought for what we are able to live...and enjoy...and continue to fight for it.

...and because ever post deserves a pic...a little friend we met at the park...

happy easters

to quote a favorite part in a favorite movie...Nacho Libre:

"Your only job is to cook. Do you not realize I have had 

diarrhea since Easters?" 

that right there will always keep me laughing.  it's great to have friends and family laugh and quote the movie with me.  fun times.

So, Saturday the kids got to color their own easter eggs, for the first time.  There weren't any major messes...just cracked shells from 'mr muscle' below rough handling the fragile babies.

they were so proud of their creations.

and excited to find them on Easter morning.

kaylee was sad and trying to get over the fact that she dropped and broke one of her pink eggs.

such a sad moment in her life.

she perked up after I told her the easter bunny was coming that night to leave her a basket of goodies and toys and that he would hide the eggs we made for them to find in our yard.

gosh, I miss the days when I saw her REAL eyes.  Darn you glasses.  I took her glasses off on purpose to get some sweet shots.  She couldn't take it for very long.  She was asking for her glasses after a few minutes...."I can't see mom."

dang glasses.

snow much fun

i've finished editing the rest of my favorite shots.

kaylee's face was frozen like this for almost an hour.  she had so much fun sledding down the hill by herself and with her cousins.

too bad we don't live in a snowy climate.

emily.  she was gracious enough to pose after sliding down for me and kelly.

hadley, emily and max....these kids are so much fun to sled with.

potential into kinetic.

energy.

david was in his element.  he just loved all the sledding and had so much fun with the kids.  i wish i could have gotten into the fun too.

jadey, that daredevil.

a sweet shot that Kelly got of hadley after flipping on the snow.

my own christmas cheeseball.

a cute angle of hadley.  she's 6 months younger than kaylee and about 4 inches taller.

close your eyes, this is gonna get scary.

chikin.

what a cute expression.

jadey and cade.  so fun to have cousins together having so much fun.

one of my favorite sledding shots.  kaylee was quite animated.

max-a-rubie and buddy.

cade LOVES max.  they slept down in the basement livingroom together and had so much fun.  it's nice to have the boy time.

hadley getting her sun for the day.

hold on, this is gonna be fast!!!!!!!

cade must have had a few muscle cramps in his cheeks from smiling so much.

and my favorite ACTION shot of them all....she's falling to her doom.

she doesn't.

she just rolls out of it, lies on the snow for a moment, and gets up to do it all again.

our fun cousins-in Orem

we had so much fun with our family in orem.  thought you'd like to meet some.  these are 4 of the 5 of my brothers kids.

so fun and cute!

Jadey...jades...jadey bug.  the oldest sib, smart, soccer babe, jokester.

max.  fun, sweet and helpful.

emily.  lover of shoes, kind and spunky.

hadley...hads...hattie.  another lover of shoes, adorable, sweet as they come.

(kelly got this shot...thanks!)

cousin Jadey and Kaylee...enjoying the slopes at lakeridge jr. high...our 'back yard' of fun!

too many fun moments captured!!!

the kids LOVED going down head first on the ice.

this reminds me so much of growing up...all the snow and ice fun we had!

cousin Max and Cade...buddies.

do you think they enjoyed themselves?

kaylee had so much fun on the knee sleds.  she could go super fast!  i even got a shot of her going off a jump in mid air.  she didn't look too excited at the moment, but she loved the ride at the end!

giddie up!

geez!  what a super fun time!!!  we gotta get us some snow!!!

lake walk

While up in Utah for the wedding, we went to Utah Lake and a blast of a time 'walking on water'.  We had tons of winter fun!  The kids couldn't get enough of it.  For your enjoyment....a true Family Christmas Photo.  This is just minutes from my parents house.

David had so much fun on the ice...he was sad we had to leave.  it was cold for the kids, but David was in heaven!  Here he is skidding on the ice while we watch.

conner getting his 'sea legs'

thanks Kelly for take the pics!

merry christmas!

love, us.

updates and vent

things have been busy.  but much busier lately.

the kids have just added to it.

Conner.

conner had a sad mishap on Sunday. he got his finger shut in a door.  now the nail is all white and the finger is red and infected.  looks like the nail might fall off....gag.  he's also dealing with thrush AGAIN!!!!!  aah!  The doctor thought it was a condition at first, that was called geographic tongue....a chronic and somewhat painful condition...but I wasn't too sure about that diagnosis, since we've had the thrush problem in the past and for so long.  I'm hoping thrush is the right answer (I've been slowly getting to trust my instincts more).  at least this can be relieved and healed

.

but hey, it looks like he's still enjoying life!...just not to the full extent yet!

soon though.  very soon!   (hopefully)

Kaylee.

we're still waiting on the new lenses to come in, and be put in the CORRECT way!  I still can't believe they screwed up the last pair...and we had her wear them for 6 MONTHS!

I only hope they don't ask for the 100 dollars for the replacement lenses...

really?

you want me to pay for a job done wrong?

sorry, but these are going to be on you this time! thanks.

the doctor says that her eyes will not have suffered any major setbacks due to having one lens too strong for an eye and one lens too weak for the other.  doesn't seem logical to me.  time will tell.

kaylee and kelly (kaylee's other mommy)

Cade.

he failed his hearing test twice at school.

took him into the ENT today.

he has fluid in both ears.  causing hearing loss.

we're giving him some steroids to bulk him up....i mean help the fluid drain.

in a couple months we have a follow-up appointment.  if there is still fluid in his ears....

ear tubes.

again.

(I'll ask him a question or say something to him.  and without fail..."hu?" replies Cade.)

he's also been stuttering lately.  not sure why.

and through all this, he still doesn't qualify for speech therapy.  and i know he does...and so does his teacher.

my poor caders.  can't hear too good.  can't talk too good.

but, he's a good kid.  and i love him to pieces!  every clumsy moment!

who couldn't love this face?

it's just frustrating when you know how to help your kids, and you're unable to be the one to help them.

we're depending on everyone else.

patience.

i must learn.

patience.

been a long day.  and emotional day.

alright.  done venting all that cold air.  now on to some warm vent air.

  gotta go snuggle the honey.

night.