30th Week of Pictures - Red, White, and Blue

Red, White, and & Blue is the theme this week.  Normally I would be showing pictures of the July 24th parade and our fireworks but we had a different version of red, white, and blue this week.

 

Tuesday afternoon the boys were practicing their golf swings with daddy on the watch.  After they finished that, daddy told them to put the clubs away and came in the house.  His mom called and he was upstairs talking to her.  I was downstairs with Kimberly.  I heard a noise outside and instantly got this really sick feeling inside and knew I needed to go upstairs and check on the boys.  At this time, Brian didn't see anything but also heard something.  Then he heard Matthew asking Jacob if he was ok and then Matthew started screaming that there was blood.  Brian ran out to get Jacob.  I came upstairs to see Brian coming in with Jacob in his arms.  Blood was just gushing out of Jacob's head and running down his cheek.  That would be my red.

 

I was ready to pass out.  I couldn't believe my baby had blood everywhere.  I then needed to know what happened.  Well Matthew was running around outside upset at what happened.  I got him in the house, gave him a good spanking and then found out that he decided to practice hitting the baseball and didn't look to see if anything was around.  Oh boy that made my heart sink.  I could see Matthew was really upset. We already had a rule at our house that you don't play with the golf clubs without an adult.  I guess we now have to have the same rule for baseball bats.

 

I then could hear Jacob upset and fighting daddy so I knew I was going to have to suck up my fear and deal with Jacob.  I went in and tried to clean him up so we could see what we were dealing with.  But Jacob would not let anyone of us get near his head.  I was able to clean up a little blood on his hands, face, and legs but I could not touch his head.  From what I could tell with all the blood, he had a good cut and possible indention.  I knew we had to go to the hospital and I also knew I couldn't send Brian alone.  With some great help from a visiting teacher, Brian and I were able to head to the doctor within a few minutes.  White would be the color I turned when I saw all the blood and the fact that Jacob was wearing a white shirt, now stained with blood.  (We threw the shirt right in the garbage.)

 

We decided the Instacare would be closer and faster so we went there.  Unfortunately Jacob wouldn't let us cover his head so he looked pretty gruesome.  It was pretty busy but they took us right in.  Now Jacob is a cute boy and the nurses were gushing over him.  He was loving all the attention.  He got a sucker, a squirt gun (syringe), a sticker, and a movie all so they could clean his wound.  He wanted me to hold him and that was good because I couldn't really see how bad things were.  When the nurses cleaned it mostly up, they gave us good news.  The cut looked minor and very clean.  The dr came in and agreed with the nurses that it was a minor cut and Jacob was going to be ok.  The cut was big enough for some glue and Jacob took that great.  The dr was so happy with him so she gave him a popsicle.  Jacob had a big smile leaving the hospital.  I was just grateful it was so minor.  This could have been extremely serious.  After the glue, Jacob's wound looked blue... hence the Blue.

Here is the wound.

Here is my happy boy after all the crazy.

The only downfall from all this was Jacob is not allowed under water for a week.  After a couple of days, Jacob let us touch his owie.  He still loves his brother and brother, I think, has learned a valuable lesson.

We did get to enjoy a parade and fireworks on the 24th.  Here are some pictures:

He finally liked sparklers.

He was acting scared about sparklers.

Having fun for a minute.

I will tell ya.... I was pretty ill after all this.  I couldn't get that image of Jacob and blood out of my mind and it was making me sick to my stomach.  The worse thing... all these ladies kept telling me this is just the start.  I really hope we don't have anything much more serious than this.  I don't know if my heart can handle it.

Yard Sales

This past Saturday I had a first.  My very first Yard Sale.  Now I would consider myself a yard sale pro.  Pretty much every year growing up, my mom and family members would have a yard sale.  We (my cousin and I) would sale cookies and lemonade or kool aid and get bored and go play.  But we were around them enough to know what to do. 

So I decided it was my time to tackle a Yard Sale.  I had enough stuff.  For 10 years Brian and I have been collecting or hoarding all our stuff.  We moved every bit of it last fall and just a few weeks ago finally got thru the last of the boxes.  We also made the big decision to not have anymore kids so we didn't need to keep anything.

Talk about a lot of work.  And here I thought we were pretty prepared... but I was proved wrong.  I knew people come early to Yard Sales.  I figured if I put 8 a.m. on the annoucement, I would see people around 7 a.m.  I was shocked when people started showing up before 7.  I felt a little bad because I didn't have everything out but at the same time I just wanted to tell people too bad... you are early.  Then before we really could get everything out and organized, we had a swarm of people.  I had to finally just sit at the table and take money.

We did well.  I was very impressed how much we sold.  Yes we still had to take a truck load to the DI but we really did sell a lot.  Made more money than I expected.  Had a lot of fun visiting with neighbors and meeting new people.  My hubby says this is my thing because I love people.

Did I learn anything for my next one?  Absolutely!  Be ready at least an hour earlier than I planned.  Maybe not have as many clothes.  Need more manly items (I had a few men tell me to send the hubby to the store and then raid his tools and gun cabinet).  Maybe not have one in July (too hot).

When is the next one you ask?  When we get thru another phase of life.  Hopefully the next one will contain more toys.  So we are looking at a few years from now.
Kudos to those people that do this every year or even every week.

29th Week in Pictures - Water Fun

Water Fun is the theme for this week.  We sure have been enjoying any water fun we can get with this heat.  We are able to put our pool up and keep it up this year.  That is a lot of fun for the kids.  Every afternoon they are begging to jump in the pool.  They aren't the only ones though.  Brian and I have jumped in the pool a few times too due to the heat.

 

Matthew falling into the pool.

Kimmy posing.

I just thought this looked pretty in the pool.

You may be wondering where a picture of my cute Jacob is in the water... well he was out by the time I got the camera.  He is still learning to like the pool.  Hopefully next year he can take swimming lessons and start loving the water like his siblings.

Happy summer to all!

28th Week of Pictures - Favorite Place in Town

I love Millville.  I have many favorite places in the town I live to venture.  But if we have to be honest, my absolute favorite place in town would have to be my house.  I love my house.  I love almost everything about my house (and what I don't like, will get changed.)  So I had to seriously think about my favorite place in my house.  It would have to be my hammock.  I love my hammock.  It is so relaxing and a great place to unwind.  My only downfall is I usually end up with a few kids with me.

I do hope you have a favorite place for you to relax and unwind.
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50th Wedding Anniversary

Brian's parents celebrated 50 years of marriage together on July 8th.  We got the family together for professional family pictures (that have never been done) and we had a dinner back at our house.  I am pretty sure Margo and Verl enjoyed every minute of it because their family was all together.  It was a bit crazy putting this on but it turned out great.  Thanks to a lot of help from my sister-in-law Melanie.

 

Happy 50th Margo and Verl.  You guys are a great example to the rest of us.  We love you!

Bear Lake Fun

We took some time out of our busy cleaning getting ready for Brian's parents Anniversary party at our house to enjoy the warm weather and water.  The kids loved Bear Lake.  The only bad part was we could only find a rocky beach to plant our behinds.  So the rocks were a little rough but we still enjoyed and relaxed.

We sure do hope to get back there soon this summer.

4th of July Fun

4th of July is always a fun day.  We spend the day in my hometown of Soda Springs. The day starts with a parade.  The start of the parade is my dad and the other veterens carrying the flags.  What a great honor seeing my father in uniform marching.  I am so proud of him.  Then the rest of the parade consists of hometown businesses and events.  Granted my kids could care less but they throw loads of candy and we score big time at this parade.  We also get to see lots of family so that is fun.

 

After the parade, we walk around the park and visit with other old Soda people that come back for the celebration.  Fun but a little bit boring for my kids.  So then we head to my parents for a fun bbq and this year was a fun water fight.  My poor mom cannot move the next day with all the craziness we had but it sure was fun.  Love spending time with my folks.

 

This is our family (grandmas, aunts, cousins, etc.)

 

My dad!

The Vets!

Kimmy in action grabbing candy.

Jacob trying to enjoy the parade.  Too many noise fire trucks though.  But the candy is awesome!

We love the 4th of July!

27th Week of Pictures - Fireworks

This week's theme is firework.  Unfortunately fireworks are not popular at my house.  My children are a bit scared of fireworks and do not like loud ones.  We broke out the sparklers and the pop-its and that was our extent on fireworks.  Even with just those minor fireworks, I still had children freaking out.  One day they might enjoy doing fireworks.

The neat thing was from our house, we could watch a lot of firework shows from the neighboring town of Nibley.  My children had many oohs and aahs behind the glass in the living room.  It was a beautiful sight.