My Little Dancers

As I mentioned before I enrolled Gavin and Keaton into the Youth Art festival this year. Gavin took a Dancing Superhero class and Keaton took creative dance. It ran an hour every day for 2-weeks and they loved it! Especially Keaton who took his class so seriously. I can’t believe how well he did. He was in love with his teacher and he’d do anything she told him to do. Such a change from home where I yell at him and he still doesn’t move. Keats is usually very sloth like. We still think he might have joint problems. So this dance class did wonders for him. I found out after the class ended that his teacher will be teaching a creative dance class in the fall, and I already signed Keaton up for it.Keaton’s class was too little to do an actual performance on stage. So they invited us in to come watch a little performance in their class. It was adorable, but my camera battery died 3 minutes into it. But you can at least see how adorable he was dancing.


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Gavin also had a blast in his class. I didn’t get to watch his class much because he would get really distracted when I was in there. But his teacher said he was a great listener when I wasn’t there. He learned some very cool super hero  moves and had a great time goofing off with the other boys in the class. They got to perform in the sharing showcase last Friday night. They performed on stage in front of an auditorium filled with people. I was so proud of how well Gavin did. I thought he might be nervous to go on stage. Instead he actually went up on stage with another class of superheroes and tried to perform with them. It took his teacher a minute to realize he was not in that class and usher him back to his seat. It was pretty funny. He was awesome though, and he had such a great time!


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Let the summer begin

Summer has FINALLY hit Utah. After four straight weeks of rain and cold we finally have hit the 90’s here. For some reason we seem to have bad luck. When the weather is yucky out the kids are healthy and ready to go out and play. When the weather is nice and warm, they are sick. Yesterday Gavin woke up with a weird pustule under his finger nail. After John inspected it he decided it was just an ingrown fingernail. I was going to cut the nail down, but of course Gavin wanted nothing to do with it. So I just let it be. Well this morning I woke him up to get ready for school and he was feverish and complaining about his thumb. The tiny pustule was now 5x’s bigger and his entire thumb was swollen. I showed it to John and he immediately thought it looked like a staph infection. He decided to drain it and see if he could relieve the pain a bit. I have never heard Gavin scream like that. It took two of us to hold him down and when he finally wiggled free he ran upstairs and hid.

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The Outhouse

Four Kiddos

The other day my sister Kara and I decided to venture up the canyon for a picnic. We pulled off to the first picnic spot we found, which just so happened to be feet away from a very full and rushing river. We figured it would be fine and we’d just keep an extra eye on the kids so they wouldn’t wander in. We started setting up the picnic and while I was opening bags and putting straws into juice boxes I suddenly realized that Gavin wasn’t right next to me any more. I jumped up and asked Kara where Gavin was, we both looked frantically around and he was no where in sight.

I completely panicked. I was screaming his name in that shrill voice that is formed from the panic in your stomach. Kara was screaming too. I couldn’t see him anywhere and I started to freak out thinking he went into the water. Its strange the way you go from calm to hysterical in 11 seconds at the mere thought that something might be wrong with your child. I am not sure I’ve ever been so scared in all my life. I couldn’t stop myself from thinking “what if I never see him again”. Yes, dramatic, but true to how I was feeling that very second.
Just when I was about to lose it and jump into the water to search for him, I see this bright yellow shirt emerge from the outhouse that was about 50 feet away. It was Gavin and he was shimming back into his shorts after testing out the potty. I ran to him and I felt so relieved that I can’t even describe it. I wanted to spank the crap out of him for going off without telling me. Instead I just hugged him and tried to keep myself from crying.

I wish I could raise my kids in a bubble sometimes.

The Summer School Saga

I know, I know, I have been neglecting my blog. Its just been such a busy month. My brother Danny is getting married on Saturday so my entire family is out for a visit in honor.  My sister Kara and her two girls are staying with us and I’d rather be out having fun with them rather than blog. My mom and aunt will be here Friday, and my brother Jason came in on Monday. So its been a little crazy to say the least. Throw in tux fittings for preschoolers, finding a dress that doesn’t make me look fat, and nearly getting killed by a moose while doing bridal photos for my soon to be sister in law, I am spent.

Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way I’d now like to bitch and moan all about how mad I am at Gavin’s school. First i have to say that their summer school program is completely lame. Its only 2 hours long, 2 days a week, for 5 weeks. And although I am thankful they have something to stimulate Gavin for the summer, part of me thinks it is not worth it. Anyway,  back in April while we were visiting Texas, Gavin’s teacher emailed and asked me if I wanted to send Gavin to summer school. I let her know that we definitely wanted to send him and told her I would fill out the paper work when I came back from texas. When I got back I sent her a message and asked her when I needed to sign the papers. She let me know that she already sent them in for me and filled out that i had agreed over email. Cool and cooler.She then let me know that she would not be teaching summer school this year. Not only that but it was being held at a different school all together. Okay, that’s fine, Gavin will adjust I thought.

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Foto Friday: The Laundry Mat

Yeah its pretty sad that I haven’t posted for a week. I have a lot to update on and I will write more soon. I will leave you with a photo of how I punish my kids when they’re naughty :)

The Laundry mat

Foto Friday: In case you were wondering how potty training is going…

Potty Training

Blog? What Blog?

Sorry I haven’t been updating lately. I’ve been so busy playing Sorority Life on facebook I forgot I had a blog. A lot has been going on too. Let’s see, for Mother’s day John gave me the gift of Dish Network. Yep, we caved and got cable again. Sorry folks, living without 250 channels is not living at all. I guess I have been busy watching gobs of delicious TV goodness. Oh TLC, Discovery Health, and Lifetime how I missed you! I feel like asking them to prom, although I am sure they already have dates cause they are so unbelievably awesome.

Gavin finished his second year of preschool and I have an adorable video to share as soon as my internet stops being a douche bag and lets me upload it. He’ll be starting summer school in a few weeks and I can’t wait. Sure I love having more time with him, but I can’t stand how much he and Keaton fight. Gavin teases Keaton, Keaton screams, I yell at Gavin, Keaton screams even louder because Gavin is still taking his stuff, I have a small nervous breakdown and start eating chips. Rinse. Repeat. Speaking of preschools I have started looking for a preschool for the Keaters. Can you believe he is going to start preschool. Crazy right?

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Junk in the Trunk

I have been meaning to share this cute Keaton story for awhile. When we were in Texas the boys and their cousins were jumping on the trampoline. Keaton was running around in a circle with his hands out in front of him as if he were steering a car.

Keaton: “I’m being a car, and this is my trunk!” he says pointing to his back side.

Me: “That’s your trunk huh? Do you have junk in your trunk?

Keaton: “No not Junk, just groceries”.

I wish I could just video tape their whole lives.

Happy Almost Summer

Welcome to Summer

I love summer. I love tanned skin, the smell of sun  tan lotion, eating too much watermelon, sitting on blankets having picnics, summer BBQ’s, the sound of crickets after the sun’s gone down. I love not having to wear shoes to go get the mail, and feeling the cool grass under my toes. I love swimming for hours and coming home with that exhausted-comfortable feeling you get after that much time in the water. I love going camping, I can almost smell the roasting marshmallows and the smokey fire. I can’t wait for cool  summer evening walks, hiking in the mountains, Pasta Salad, and corn on the cob.  Most of all I am excited just to sit outside and soak up the heat. I am so happy its almost here.

I have so many good memories of summer. I hope I can make just as many great ones for my kids!

Happy almost summer!

Jump Around

Drowning

The return of Foto Friday: Catching Butterflies

catching butterflies

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