Good-Bye Tooth

We had something terrible happen last Wednesday. I was making dinner, McKay was playing with Legos on the kitchen island, and Kason was on a kitchen chair playing in the sink and watching the rest of us when all of a sudden he slipped and hit his face on the edge of the chair and fell to the ground. I hurried and washed my hands, as I had bacon grease on my fingers, and picked him up and noticed blood in his mouth and a huge tooth on the rug in front of the sink. He must have hit the chair just right and out popped one of his top teeth. IT WAS HORRIBLE. What was amazing was that the tooth and the root came out with one nice hole left behind and no other damage was done. He was truly blessed. He could have fractured something or lost more than one tooth, so we feel he was protected from above. Amazingly he got over it very quickly and was able to calm down just fine and eat dinner like nothing had happened and he has been fine ever since. The worst thing is now he has a huge missing tooth and it looks funny. Our poor baby has had a really hard time with his outward appearances ever since he was born and this just adds to it. His eye doctor is going to check his eye sight on his next visit in November to see if he needs glasses (one more thing to add to his poor face). Oh well, he is still a cutie to me!!! Now I have to prepare myself for all the people who are going to ask, "what happened to his mouth?!" It get a lot of people asking about what is wrong with his eye, and now I will get to answer more questions down the road. What fun!

Baseboard Fun

Since Mom and Dad were here visiting, we decided to put them to work and get some of our long awaiting projects done. We decided to replace our baseboard all over the house. It started with when we did the tile in our kitchen and entry way at the beginning of the year. We had to rip up the old baseboard and replace it. Kory found out at that time that our baseboard was not really baseboard but the casing that goes around our windows and door frames. So we put in taller, true baseboard on our lower level. It looked so nice we said to ourselves, "Someday maybe will will replace all of our baseboard." Well that "someday" came a lot sooner than planned. Mom did such a great job caulking, puttying, and painting the new baseboard, we knew we needed her expertise to do the rest. So Kory slowly began ripping out the old and putting in the new baseboard and when Mom got here we hurried and finished putting the new baseboard down almost throughout the entire house. Mom was able to finish it all and it looks fabulous!!! It was a lot of work, like all of our projects are, but worth it in the end. We are not completely done, still have a few closets and the office to do, "someday."

New baseboard.

Our house was a mess as we had to move furniture, toys, closet stuff out away from the walls.

Mom working away.

Family Time

I love taking pictures of my family. This was on Sunday and we we were bored so we decided to get our cameras out and start clicking. We got some good ones but most were blurry and had to be deleted. Oh well!

McKay Turns 7

McKay turned 7 on June 26th. We had a fun day. I took the kids to a place call Monkey Buizness with lots of inflatables while Kory had to help a coworker with sprinkler problems. The kids had a fun time, even Kason went down the slides and over the obstacles.

We had a little friend birthday party that afternoon at our house which involved lots of water games.

McKay picked out his own cake from Costco.

That night we ate at Red Robin and opened presents. McKay got lots of new balls and sports things for the outdoors, some books, and picture for his wall and his favorite, Legos.

I think Kason enjoyed the cake most of all.

Recycled Castle

This summer the Library near us had a fun activity where we were to build a castle out of recycled material. The kids wanted to do it and we spent an afternoon creating a fun castle which they painted all over. We brought it to the library where McKay and Erica were able to stand in front of lots of people and tell about their castle, get their picture taken with it, and got a free T-shirt and water bottle for participating. They also painted a picture with sponges and went fishing for prizes in a fishing pond at the Library. It was fun and worth all the work!

Tuba on the Roof

We were in our house one day and heard a really loud tuba sound. We looked out the window and saw our neighbor who lives behind us on his roof playing his tuba. We thought it was really funny and took a picture. They are great neighbors and full of fun!

Last Day of School

McKay looks so old in this picture. This was his last day of school. He gave a Book of Mormon and a reed diffuser to his teacher and his bus driver with a letter including his testimony. I was so proud of him and was excited to have him home and done with 1st grade, which he really enjoyed.

Zoo

These are kind of old pictures. I took Erica and Kason to the zoo by myself just before school got out. I thought I could handle taking 2 kids to the zoo but not 3, so we went while McKay was at school. Suprisingly it was crowded and Erica after a short time wanted to go home and had no interest in looking at the animals. Oh well, its a memory.

We paid $3.00 to feed a giraffe. I thought Erica would like it but she freaked out and I ended up feeding the giant thing and it was not fun. You put some lettuce on your hand and it sticks out its tongue and scoops up the lettuce. Feeling the giraffe's tongue on your hand was yucky, slimmy, and disgusting. Never again.


The penguins were definitely our favorite. Erica was a little scared they were going to somehow jump out of the glass and get her.

Merry-Go-Round, also a favorite for Erica, personally it made me sick going around and around and around and around......

Playing in an old jeep.

Kason was an angel the whole time, enjoying snacks, milk, and a ride.

Pretty lake. It was downhill after this picture and we soon went home.