Sick, sick, sick!

S came home from school on Tuesday crying because she felt so sick. Wednesday she was feeling better so I sent her back to school on Thursday. Only she came home with red cheecks and feeling even more sick. Friday I woke up with a scratchy throat. It must be the mom in me but I refused to believe that I was getting what S had. I had a trip planned to visit my mom this weekend- all by myself! Of course Saturday morning when I was going to leave I was not in a good state. Yesterday I had the shivers, sore throat, runny nose, aches, and pains it was AWFUL. Last night L started crying and she was feeling sick too! So here I am at home, while Derek took S and X to church--we even have stake conference, he is a brave man taking a seven year old and a two year old all by himself. I have a great husband! L is currently making me look "falubous", that is how she says fabulous. She put a handful of gel in my hair and the brightest red lipstick she could find in my makeup box. She even brought me a flower to put in my hair. So I guess we are making the best of being sick and uncomfortable.





Here are our sicky-poo glamour shots. L did the makeup and hair, she is such a girly-girl!

The Joy of a Mom

S was at an event where she had to walk around the track a few times. She was walking by herself and after one lap she wanted to quit, so I told her if she finished what she started I'd take her out just the two of us. She was so excited she ran right back to the track and started walking. I was so proud of her that I decided to join her (stroller and all) for her laps. She loved having the company. That evening as I got my journal out to write my thoughts this is what I found. If you can't read it it says, "On thursday me and s are going on a date, just us. We are going to the "movie-dollar"-dollar movie :) We don't know what we're seeing yet." Isn't that so wonderful! I love S!

Here is S with her beautiful smile. She and I went to go see Aquamarine for our dollar movie. I can't believe she's growing up so fast.

Here is Benji wearing his mickey ears.

We always have to keep an eye on X. Here she is this moring. She climed up the dresser and was trying to grab our bird.

A Trip Down Memory Lane

We took a cake decorating class last year sometime. Here is Mako with her "tribute to Dallen" cake. Actually I think it was his birthday cake. I thought it turned out really
cool.

Here is my cake. I did a Totoro since my kids were really into that movie at the time. I love the transfer technique. I used it to do a Harry Potter cake which looked amazing, no pict of it though. The cakes tasted really good too. Problem was I ate so much cake I started to get a little tubsy, yet it was totally worth it!

Renee took the class with us. She forgot her picture to transfer so she used my Totoro picture. I think her kids thought it was cute. In the words of Homer Simpson Ahhhh.....Cake!(drool, drool)

Hail Storm

It finally hailed and it was amazing. The hail had to be the size of marbles. L wanted to go outside so we suited up with umbrellas and boots and ran in the rain.

Hot Morning

It's been hot and muggy all morning here in Tulsa. On the news they're saying thunderstorms and hail. Sophia has a tendency to freak out during "bad" weather here. She is very frightened of tornados. I've lived in the midwest my whole life and thankfully have never been affected by one.

Also this morning, Xela was playing with our little dog Benji. He snipped at her. He's a good dog and he has to be messed with a lot before he'll do that. I don't know what she was doing but she's been poking my eye for fun lately, so I bet that has something to do with it.

Silly Monkeys

Here are the girls at the Zoo. X, L, and S love that place. I think this picture sums up the three of them pretty well. They are my little monkeys sneaky, silly, and stubborn. Yet I love them what can I say! Their favorites are the shark feedings, train rides, carousel, earthquake machine, and the reptiles.