A Happy Home is Filled with Love and Laughter: May 2016

Kaylee's kindergarten project and choir performance

Beej & Chris

Kaylee's kindergarten class each got to pick an Oviparous animal (one that hatches out of an egg). They were then assigned to research about this animal, find a picture of them, write out details on the animal, and then they made the animal out of clay at school.

Kaylee chose a snake and did a great job researching. They then invited the families to come and ask all of the kindergartners questions about their animal and then join in a pic nic on the lawn afterwards.

Kaylee did a great job! It was so fun hearing her tell all about snakes to everyone that came and asked her.

Way to go Kaylee!

The same day I broke my foot (and daddy's birthday) it was Kaylee's choir concert. I blogged a little about it on the earlier post, but here are a few more pictures of Kaylee singing. I love seeing how much she loves the songs. Kaylee would get so excited with each song.

Broken Foot on Daddy's birthday

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On BJ's birthday after Kaylee got home from Kindergarten we decided to surprise daddy and take him lunch for his birthday. We decided to buy him one of his favorite (hamburgers at Five Guys). Since they didn't have a drive through I parked the car right in front of the doors of Five Guys and ran in to order. I immediately came back out to the car and hung out with the kids. I then went back in and waited for a little bit but they still weren't finished with his food, so I kept going back and forth from the car into the restaurant because I was so worried about leaving my kids in the car by themselves for longer than a minute or two. Well, one of the times I was rushing back to the car to sit with the kids while we waited for the food I stepped off the curb wrong and landed with my ankle twisting. I heard a loud "POP" and fell the the ground. The kids saw me fall and Kaylee got really concerned. Another man saw me fall as well and came over to see if I was ok. I quickly stood up but didn't put any weight on my foot. The guy who saw me told me to try to put weight on it, I barely touched it to the ground and he said "Ok, you didn't break it otherwise you wouldn't have been able to do that". I secretly knew he was wrong, but wished he was right. That kind man offered to go in and get my food for me. I hopped into the car and stupidly started driving to BJ's work since the foot I hurt was my left foot.

I didn't call BJ because we had made plans to go in and sing to him for his birthday. I didn't want to ruin his birthday and I was just hoping it was a really bad sprain and that I would be ok. Well, as I was driving from Bountiful to Murray on I-15 the pain really set in. I tried so hard to be tough but kept hollering out "Ouch! That hurts" with a few tears streaming down my face. Kaylee was so concerned and said, "I wish I could drive because I would drive for you. Are you ok mom?". I finally ended up calling my mom thinking she could meet me at an Insta Care and watch my kids for me while I go get my foot checked so we didn't have to take BJ away from work on his birthday. At this point I was still trying to figure out how we were going to get inside BJ's office to sing for him for his birthday. By the time I pulled up to BJ's office I knew I was not going to be able to put any weight on my foot and broke the news to the kids. I told them we would have daddy come to the car and we could sing to him then. When he came to the car I tried to keep it together but when I saw his loving face I broke down and said "I think I broke my foot". He obviously helped me into the passenger seat and took me to the insta care himself. My mom met us there and helped watch the kids while BJ came in with me to see the doctor.

Here is my x-ray. The technician couldn't technically say anything, but said to me "Umm...you are probably going to need to make an appointment with a surgeon". Happy Happy Birthday BJ ;)

They wrapped my foot, gave me a shot of medicine and sent me home with some more pain meds. At first I told them I would be fine. But I quickly realized that it really was hurting pretty bad.

Here are some pictures of my lovely foot all swollen

Ha ha BJ gave me the funniest look when I told him we were trying to figure out how to come into his office to sing. He was shocked we DROVE to Murray after breaking my foot. Needless to say they sent me home telling me I needed to stay completely off of it until I see a surgeon. The kids were pretty sad because I knew I couldn't take them to Cherry Hill by myself with crutches. Sigh, not how we were wanting the summer to go ;)

That night it was Kaylee's big end of year performance. I of course made BJ let me use my crutches to go watch her. Yes, it hurt...but yes, it was worth it. I hate missing anything with these kiddos. They are my pride and joy.

My AMAZING brother Nate came to support the kids. Nobody else could make it, so the kids were really excited to have him there.

I then asked my mom to pick up a birthday cake for BJ so his birthday wasn't totally ruined. Thanks mom!

BJ and I were talking about how grateful we were for the secret door to our bedroom with my broken foot. It was so nice not to have to walk around the whole house to get to the bedroom.

Since I still needed to be a mom with a broken foot, Ashlynn and I got creative. I hopped into the kids ride a long car and took ashlynn to the back of the house so I could weed. I know I know, weeding shouldn't have been on my priority list but we had just got ridden of all of our weeds when we put in our grass that I was super determined not to let them go crazy again.

While I was busying weeding Ashlynn snuck away and got into the car

Before I knew it she was riding on her own on the Lindsey's backyard grass. I didn't have my crutches with me since I got there with the car so I hopped one footed to her while yelling for BJ (who was inside working from home) "BJ! BJ come help! Ashlynn is driving away!" ha ha. Luckily Ashlynn stopped right before she ran into the rocks around their flower garden. I learned my lesson not to leave the car unattended with Ashlynn nearby.

My amazing friend and previous Woods Cross neighbor Michelle Jamison surprised me and came and cleaned the bathrooms.

Then my sister Angela came to see how I was doing.

She even brought me my favorite M&M's.

Memorial Day

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This year for memorial day we ran the 5 k as a family. Dad ended up running ahead of us with the kids while Nate and I stayed behind for a bit. We weren't sure if BJ was going to make it since he stayed and waited till the kids woke up before he headed our way. They ended up waking up in time and he headed our way. He is so amazing to let me go with Nate to run and stay home with the kids. He is THE MOST supportive husband I could ever have imagined having.

Kaylee rode her bike while Connor and Ashlynn rode in the bike trailer

Way to go team!

Free breakfast for all those that ran the 5k! Sweeet!

After breakfast the kids went into the firehouse and got a fire hat. The kids loved climbing out of the fire house and learning the importance of safety. Kaylee has been super nervous about fires so I thought this would help. She still worries a lot about it and has been worried about having bad dreams about our house catching on fire. She is at that age where she is still figuring out all the many things in life that can happen and has some irrational fears at times.

After breakfast and getting cleaned up we headed over to the cemetery to visit Grandpa Parker's grave

Ashlynn loving on my dad

I then took the kids golfing and swimming at Cherry Hill. We LOVE our passes! We were so excited to go on the first day it was opened. This year we got King of the Hill passes, so golfing is including. Since Connor is still obsessed with golfing we knew getting that pass would be of great value.

BJ stayed home with Ashlynn while she took a nap and I enjoyed some time with the kiddos. It was perfect.

Lemonade Stand & Desiree's Birthday Party

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The kids had been begging to do a lemonade stand for a while. I finally took the time to get it set up and let them go out to do it after Kaylee got home from kindergarten. They hollered and sang out to get people to come to their lemonade stand. Kaylee sat there ALL DAY long. She walked away from it once. Connor stayed for a good portion of time as well, but he did get distracted and played with the neighbor Evi for a bit. When it came time to split the money I made sure to have Kaylee get a bigger portion. I was so proud of her hard work!

The kids made the signs and price sheet

We even advertised on social media and got two amazing grandparents come to support

The kids were pretty excited to get a $5!!!

Kaylee's friend Charlie came and helped for a bit as well. Kaylee and Charlie took their bikes up and down the street hollering out "Lemonade for Sale! Come and get your LEMONADE!"

I wish I had written down how much money they had earned, but it was around $28! After paying tithing, putting money in savings, and then splitting it they each got to buy a small toy.

While I was out refilling lemonade Connor went inside and started to cook himself some macaroni and cheese. I walked in and smelt the burning smell, heard the microwave going and quickly pulled it out. I talked to Connor about the importance of not using the microwave without a parent, locked the microwave, and then told him how this could have started a fire and that we were very lucky.

These cute siblings eating pancakes together. Look how big Ashlynn looks sitting up on the bar stool with her brother and sister.

The kids got invited to Desiree's birthday party at the park near their apartment. Connor and Kaylee had another party to go to so we could only take the kids for a little big. Ashlynn fell asleep in the car so I kept pretty close to the car while Kaylee went and played for a little bit.

Cousin time is always fun

Poor Camden was running with his squirt gun and wasn't looking where he was going and ran right into a wall. He had quite the goose egg to show for it.

Kaylee and I taking pictures of one another in the car after we searched and searched for our keys to the car. Kaylee ended up finding it at the park where Gavin had taken it and was playing with them. We were rushed to get home and frantic to find the keys, so we were so glad when we found them.