Rodeo

We went to the rodeo or as Z says, "rode-ro" today!
Yee Ha! We saw cows, horses, bunnies, sheep, goats, deer, long horns, and tractors. That's just to name a few ... it was a hot (mid 80's) and busy day.
We went with my friend Rachael & her son, as well as some of Rachael's family - that made the day much more bearable in the crowds.
The kids were a dream, just like they were on Tuesday when we went to the zoo. I can't brag on them enough, B&K helped with the babies and stayed close to me. Wonderful!!! Thank you B&K!

First here's a couple of pictures that I took before our rodeo trip.

K showing A the finer points of horseback riding (or should I say lion riding?)

Z fell in the mud - I'm sure his daddy thinks I probably made a mud hole and pushed him in but honest, he fell in on his own, I wasn't even close to him!

Now here's the rode-ro montage for you. Enjoy!

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A loose tooth?

Today we went to get one of K's teeth extracted. My basic understanding is that this tooth needs to come out so that her permanent teeth will move over and sit in their correct places.

Jason met me up at the dental office and sat in the van with the other kids, since we do create quite a crowd when we go most places. K and I went in, met the doctor and he described to K what he'd be doing and commented on how brave our sweet K is. I noticed that when he was describing what he'd be doing he kept pointing to her right side. Due to this when the hygienist came in I confirmed that it was the left tooth that he'd be removing and he double checked the papers from the orthodontist and assured me that was correct. We switched rooms and I was standing behind the chair trying to watch but stay out of the way. As I was leaning over I noticed that the oral surgeon was numbing the right side of K's mouth. Every fiber in my body wanted to yell but I didn't want to scare K or be presumptuous, until I saw him start to loosen the right tooth! At that point I said, "I'm not trying to be rude but I thought that it was supposed to be her left tooth that was coming out." Thankfully the doctor was very kind, stopped and double checked. Sure enough it was supposed to be the left so he had to re-numb her on the left and extract that tooth - all the while grumbling that he didn't see why they wanted that tooth out. So we have had an experience where we should have marked K's tooth with an x so that we were sure to get the correct one! Eeks!
Here's a picture of our brave girl with her tooth! As you can see the expander is working, the gap between her front teeth has gotten much more pronounced and they'll be putting four little braces on those top teeth once the other two come in. Sweet K - she was so brave during the entire thing so she had an ice cream sundae for lunch!

Update

It's time for an update.

Tonight we painted two walls - Dolphin Fin (grey). Tomorrow night we will paint the other two walls - Stone Fence (darker grey-blue) and then this weekend we will attack the base boards, door frames, doors and windows with some Powdered Snow (fancy name for white). Until then here are some pictures to keep my favorite mother-in-law happy - and all the rest of you too.

No going back now - Jason pulls out the base boards with A supervising.

Might as well do the windows too, right?!

Jason builds a shelf -ready for the doors and then up on the wall when the painting is done.

K lifting some 'heavy' weights in front of our new living room decoration.

Jason & I put together the bunk beds for K&Z (eventually Z&A). Z loves his new big boy bed.



Here's the new computer that Jason is putting together for B&K.

Finally we've had some time for fun. Bath time, playing out in the yard and today I took the kids to the zoo. I decided that watching four children was sufficient without trying to get pictures so I don't have pictorial evidence of that adventure. Hope you've enjoyed this little update.

Time to write a story

Since it is spring break and we really don't have a lot to keep us busy, I mean really 4 kids is a cake walk! HA! I decided to write a story, it goes like this....

If you give a man a desk

He's going to want a shelf to go with it.

And if you give him the shelf he's going to want to paint the walls before he installs the shelf.

If you give him the paint then he's going to want some new baseboards too.

By the time it is all done you have a brand new room (pictures later) - wish us luck!


Many of you will wonder how this all went down. Here it is, we went to get a small desk for K, since she is going be home schooled starting next week. We decided that she could just use the desk/table that Jason's been using so we looked for a desk to replace Jason's. We went to IKEA - that's swedish for insane asylum! While there we found this really cool desk and shelves, perfect. Then we got to thinking that the bedroom was the first room that we want to "re-do" (as in paint and make our own) we might as well paint those walls before we hang the shelves, which then led us to think that if we were going to paint we wanted to do the base boards too... so as you can see we now have a weekend project that will take us at LEAST a week. As I said before wish us luck & we'll put up pictures when it is all done

I will

14 years ago today I said those two words and I've never regretted them since. During our wedding ceremony we were instructed to say, "I will" instead of "I do" (since the latter indicates that you are currently doing it, whatever it is). So with that said...

Jason - I do and I will! Love you, cherish you, honor and respect you forever. Thank you for being such a wonderful husband. Happy anniversary - I look forward to the next 14+ years of our lives together.

Ha, ha, hee, hee, ho, ho, ho!!

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time!!!

Weekend Update

This weekend we enjoyed watching B swim in his final swim meet of the season. He swam GREAT! When I say great I mean he didn't just shave seconds off of some of his times, he took a 9 second BLOCKS of time (sounds funny huh?) off of his 50 breast. So much fun!

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