Terrible, horrible, no-good day

Thursday started out to be a great day. Sure it was HOT at 109 degrees, but we had just one errand to knock out and then we were going to spend the day at my sisters pool.

Once we get to my sisters things were going well. The pool was super refreshing. It was GREAT. Then the kids asked if they could get on the trampoline. My sisters trampoline is, like, huge. it does have a net around it. The kids have been on it multiple times before. I said "sure". I turned my chair around and watched while laying out.

I got up to go get some more sunscreen and I had to walk out of view to get it. The next thing I heard was the most horrible screaming coming from BOTH my children. I race around the corner thinking they had collided in some kind of awkward jump that broke their bones.

But no, they are both on the concrete.

Great. Not only may they have broken bones, they may be bleeding from their brains. Great. So I see that they are holding their heads and also moving so I have them walk inside where I can think a little better. My bro-in-law was home on his lunch break so it was nice to have a calm person to talk to. He checked them out while I called the dr.

Of course the dr office is closed from 12-2 for lunch and it was now about 12:15. I got the exchange service to leave a msg for the on-call dr. She asked if they were dizzy or wanting to fall asleep. I didnt think so. So I hung up waiting for a call from the dr.

I talked to my kids to see what had happened and J said they were on their tummies (by the entrance that I didnt zip down) and that they fell out of the trampoline onto their heads (on the concrete).

About 30 min before this happened, Justus decided to "water" my phone with the watering can. So I had to deal with my phone shutting off and all my numbers not being accessible. Talk about inconvenient, especially during an emergency.

I waited for the dr to call, which he never did. Finally about an hour later (meanwhile my kids are laying on ice packs) I called again. But the phone system was not responding. After about 4 other calls I finally got to someone. No one was happy to help me until they heard my story. Then they got all serious and were like"we like to see that kind of problem right away" I was like, yeah, been trying to tell you this for forever.

End of story - we went in at 5 and got the kids checked out and they were ok. Just had to take it easy for a few days.

Bye Bye Sawyer

I was watching my friends little boy Sawyer for the last 7 weeks, 2 days a week. She only works part time and had him in an in-home daycare when the lady decided to shut down. Well, she is pregnant and was only planning on working til Labor Day so she didnt want to have to go through the process of finding a new place for him, knowing it would be short term. She asked me to watch him and of course I was happy to help - not to mention she also paid me.

So the adventures with Sawyer began. He is a darling boy. He has the biggest blue eyes and of course blonde hair. He was 17 mos when I started watching him. Thankfully his schedule already lined up with my kids and his mommy was totally ok with me hauling him around with me where ever I went. Which meant he went to Costco with me, to Starbucks, to gymnastics and to the first couple days of preschool.

Because he and Haven have similar coloring people often thought he was mine. You should have seen the sympathy stares I would get when Id come in with all three kids that have ages that are so close. Moms would lovingly smile at me and old people would smile and nod. Everyone opened doors for me and lent a hand when possible.

It was fun, but now its back to life as normal.

Unfortunately I dont have any real good pics of Sawyer. I would take them with my phone and send them to him mommy, but Ive deleted a bunch. So, even tho hes not looking up, you can see how people would think he and Haven could be siblings.

First Day of Preschool 2010

Today was Justus first day of Preschool for the 2010/2011 school year. Since this is his second year, both mom and J werent nearly so anxious.

Justus was all set to go, we snapped a few pics and he had a great day! We love his teacher and have heard great things about her so we cant wait to see what this year holds.

The only hectic parts were that I had Sawyer so friend Tiff came to lend a hand. Neil even got to stop by and wish J a great day.

Justus - the Cannonball King

Justus loves to swim and really he loves to do cannonballs!! That is his most favorite thing to do. Here are some pics of him in action:

Kitty Cats

My sister got two baby kittens the other week. The kids love to go see them and play. The kittens were orphaned by their mom who prob got killed (they are from the mountains) so Katie had to bottle feed the little black one. They dont have names yet cause were still not sure if they are boys or girls. The orange one is Kaleighs and the black one is Alis.

One last Hoorah

School is right around the corner and so the kids and I along with my sis and her girls decided we needed one last Hoorah before school started. So off to the beach we went.

Katie and I hung out in the chairs

While the kids played in the sand

We ate lunch - beach hot dogs, and the girls had snow cones

The kids were pretty tuckered by the time we drove home

Good times!!

Goodbye Jane....Hello Laura

Ive finished reading all of Jane Austen works. I absolutely loved them!

Now Im onto Laura Bush's book, Spoken from the Heart.