Saturday, April 17, 2010

and some more Easter pics





more Easter





Easter






Easter this year was kind of a let down. It stormed on the kids Friday night so sadly the Easter Egg hunts at the school and down at the river bottoms with the Ball family were cancelled. We did our best Sunday morning after it snowed AGAIN!!! I'm not talking a dust layer on the greening grass but 4-6 inches!!!. I was dragging bottom in my car. I had just taken the snow tires of the Jetta so we were forced to drive the Traverse that whole weekend. Oh the trials we go through!!! Haha Anywho the kids had fun none the less. Dylan thought this whole egg was great. I of course made them wait at the top of the stairs until I had all the cameras ready. I remember my mom and dad dragging their feet at Christmas and Easter. Oh it was the worst but now I'm the mom I love it!!! Here are a few of the pics from that eventful day.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Poor Presley



My poor old kitty has had a bit of trouble lately. Around Sawyer and Dylan's birthdays he just was not acting like himself. He wouldn't eat. He would disappear all day and night. He stayed on the main floor and not come upstairs to sleep on our bed at nights. I was really sad because I thought that maybe his time was coming. I tried to change his food to soft food and that worked for a day or two then back to same old thing. Then one Friday afternoon he came up to me and his face was all swollen on one side. I called the vet and they let me bring him in. He had an absest tooth. They had to cut a hole in his cheek, pull a bunch of teeth and shave the right side of his face to do all that. They kept him over night. The next day when we went and got him....what a different guy! it was our old Presley. He now however has no teeth a big hole is his face and no whiskers but he is happy. We have found some soft food that he eats like there is no tomorrow. A few weeks after the first vet trip his mouth was swollen again. I took him back to the vet where they again had to shave his face, cut a big hole in his cheek to drain the puss. He now had an infection that was up in his bone. So its a good thing he loves his food because I easily hide his pills in his food and he gobbles it right up. These pics just don't do his face justice. Poor old Kitty.

Gymnasts Hands






The other day Sawyer came home from gymnastics with his hands all taped up. He showed me these big ol blisters. The price of being a gymnast. His coaches tried to make it sound like some cool thing that he got these awesome blisters because he has been working so hard on the bars. Everyone took a bath that night except for Sawyer because he didn't want to take his tape off. He wore it to school the next day and the girls signed it for him. Oh what a ladies man!!! Hehehe Now he is getting big Clausius on his hands. They will look like he works for a living for sure.

Feeding the Fish






The other day we went on a Sunday drive. Jaren is back to work and only home on Sundays again. So we went up to Ashton and ate at the Frost Top and then fed the fish. It was a fun relaxing day. We drove up and looked at our property at Shadow Ridge. Keller love to tell us how to get home. You know...turn left, go straight, now right. And Jaren loves to do what ever he tells him so needless to say we saw all of Ashton, Fall River, Squirrel, and Chester before we made it home. It was a fun day none the less. Sundays so way to quick at our house in the springtime!

State Boys Gymnastics






So I have not been able to find the cord for my camera. You know the one that lets me plug into the computer so I can add pics to my blog. Ya that one. Well I finally found it today so here we go again!!! Back in March we went to Boise for the State Boys Gymnastics Meet. It was my favorite one so far. They had a really great facility. Totally geared up so little kids to have something to do during the meet. I wish I could just sit and watch Sawyer but with his rambunctious brothers it is impossible. This gym had a big side room where they had a foam pit and rings and bars all connected to the foam pit. The big long trampoline and the best thing....a monster truck jumpy house!!! The walls were even padded in places. Its like they knew the "Ball Boys" were coming!!! Keller and Dylan loved it. Sawyer our State Champion gymnast did pretty well I must say. There were 18 boys in his class and he placed 9th overall. Not to bad for his first year of competing. He has decided that he wants to stay on the team for at least another year. It takes alot of practice time and he said he is willing to do it. The poor boy practices 5-7 hours a week. Remember he is 9. He is also doing piano, scouts and starts baseball tonight! We may have to drop something I'm afraid. But he seems to love it so here we go. Thanks for looking!