So the kids are keeping us busy as usually-hence the backup on the blog. I will take you back to Conference weekend. Jason had decided to take the boys outside to help him fill in a window well hole that we had dug out earlier this year. The boys all went out and found shovels to help Dad. They all cam back with shovels only Kyler's had a broken handle. We thought nothing of this until later. They started filling the hole and Kyler's shovel got stuck in the dirt and couldn't get it out. William was behind that shovel when it came out of the dirt. The result wasn't pretty!We toke William into the eye doctor who toke a good look at everything. He ended up with 6 scratches on the conera, and one deep one right next to it. They doctor thought it would need stitches so he recommended us taking him to see the eye surgeon on Monday morning. He also told us that it was a good thing it wasn't just a little farther the other way because it would have ruptered the eye. Thank Heavens for the centimeter. We toke him in, and the surgeon told us that everything was healing fine and that it needed no stitches. Again very good news. William recovered just fine, he just had a red eye for a few days.

So we have been doing some exciting things at the house...well at least the 3 middle boys. Bryson and William toke to riding their 2-wheelers around labor day which was exciting because William had never thought about a bike and he just picked it up and off he went. Alex on the other hand would have a meltdown whenever you mentioned the word bike. He would get on the bike and when you would let go he would stop peddaling and stop the bike. Well today something clicked and he decided he would give it 100%. Once he did that he was off and running. We are so happy for you boys. Now it just means that I have to keep tabs on you more often because you already have the habit of going all over the place and not telling anyone where you are going. Alex was so happy to finally be riding the bike after so many days of trying, that he was singing,"You can't catch me I am the gingerbread boy!!" It was really rather cute. Way to go boys.

Summer has come to an end and to this we say "Thank You!" We are all excited at our house. The kids have been counting down the days since the first of August. Well all except Brinley who has been counting since the first day of June. But we have finally made it here and I don't think there is one of us who can beg for just one more day of summer fun. The only complaint I am hearing is from the twins who aren't starting Pre-school for a few more days...but at least this too will pass and they will all be gone at least for a few hours a day.

Way to go kids!!I hope that you have a wonderful year.


Here are their first day of school pictures at least the older children.


Kyler: 2nd grade
Brinley: 4th grade
Bryson: 1st grade

So what a great Labor Day we had. Well...sort of. It started out okay. We went down to Payson to watch the parade in which Uncle Don, and cousins Robbie and Ian shared with us the amazing bagpipe talent they have. We came home and it was just a beautiful day that we just wanted to be outside. Isaac didn't sleep all day and we were exhausted from the infants lack of sleep(it really just drains you when an infant doesn't sleep). We had dinner and then I toke Isaac outside to sit with Jason while he worked on the boys bikes. Isaac was down crawling around and started hanging on Jason's bike the next thing we know Isaac was screaming and blood was running down his hand.

We rushed him to the InstaCare but they wouldn't touch it so to the ER we go. After 4 long hours and 4 stitches later we arrived home. It looked like someone seriously toke a giant pair of nail clipper and clipped through his nail. We aren't sure what happened other than they had to take the top part of the nail off so they could stitch the nail bed up. The good news is that the bottom nail stayed in the nail bed or they would have pulled that out and stitched it back in so that the nail bed would stay open for the new nail to come in. What a wonderful end to our Labor Day 2009.

This is our Bryson. He looks and acts very innocent. But looks can be decieving. This picture on the right is his head after he had 2 staples put in.

It is Sunday afternoon and the Home Teachers had just got to our house. Bryson was so active all day but when they got here he got really active. He was jumping around and as I walked into the room he went down onto the concrete hearth of the fireplace. They said it was up to us if we wanted to put the staples in-but as a mother of this very active boy I decided to get them put in to keep all the little boy junk out of the wound.

They will be in his head for 7 days at which point the doctor gave Jason the staple remover to take them out. We will see how that goes next week.

This is Alex. Alex is missing a tooth at 4 years old. Alex was playing one day and got hit in the mouth. He told us it was hurting but we already had dentist appointments so I decided that we would just want a few weeks until the appointments.

Well we went and it was infected. The dentist said we could leave it and try and save it but it might not work, and risk the infection going up into the permenant tooth. Or we could pull it out. We choose to have it pulled. So in one day Alex had 2 cavities filled, and a tooth pulled. When asked if he still likes the dentist he replied, "Of course." We love our Alex.

So I finally became somewhat creative with my blog. I even have a picture on my profile. Well We are going to try to show you some pictures of the baby. Here is little(big) Isaac. Sorry his hands are in his face but here you are. Jason is feeling left out because I no longer need him to show me how to do these things. I love you anyway.