kid pictures

One morning my Friend Lynn and I got together and she took some pictures of the kids. Thanks lynn. Macie 4 1/2 and Thomas 2 1/2

Last chance for fun!

Well we made it home and this is how far we went!  I'm tired!

Before we left for home we stopped at Rexburg to say bye,
Thomas & Macie took advantage to beg for another ride!

The kids loved to "Bounce!"

Thomas bouncing his heart out!

Tom loved the swing and wore a hole in the grass.

Macie was always cooking us something to eat!

No, she didn't fall...

Fun at Grandma & Grandpa's!

More fun at Grandma and Grandpa's house!

Tom has been itching for a ride on grandpa's tractor!!! 

Macie of course wanted a ride too!

Macie loved playing with her cousins, after they left she asked,
"Mom can I call my cousins and talk to them?"

Tom thought he was a pirate!

Grandma's Upper Valley Women's Choir concert.

Tom fell in love with the Ipad

BYU-Idaho Center

My mom and dad are missionaries in Rexburg serving at the new BYU-I center, so they gave us the grand tour of the center.  Man was it amazing!  People had told me that it was large, and had even compared it to the conference center in SLC, and I will be honest I didn't really believe them until now!  It seats 15,000 people and has 10 full sized basketball courts in it!  There are 3 levels of seating, you really can't see it because we only turned the main lights on.  Sorry the camera pictures aren't great, we don't really carry a camera with us so we just take pictures from the old cell phone.

Welcome Back to Idaho

A week of from school means a road trip to Idaho!  This time we took a different route because Marianne's nephew Cameron had open heart surgery.  I canceled all my patients and we left for Colorado a little early.  Poor little guy is only 9 years old and spent 17 hours in surgery.  He had several problems and it wasn't an easy fix for the doctors, but he is doing better and showing improvement everyday.  Basically his coronary artery was as small as a needle when it should be more the size of a pencil, his aortic valve was not functioning properly so they cut out his pulmonary valve and used that for his aortic valve, and then they placed a cows valve in place of his pulmonary valve.  After such a long procedure his heart had to be placed on a pacemaker because it wasn't working normal.  Before we left Colorado the heart had began beating on its own.  There was still a block to the ventricles, so the pacemaker was only being used to coordinate the ventricles into rhythm with the atrium.  Doctors are hopeful that he will be out of ICU within the week and he will be able to go home soon.

We left Colorado and came home to Rexburg and the drive was really nice!  We had a lot of fun taking in the sights and loving the mountains!  The pictures above are along the Hoback river in Idaho.  The kids did really well in the car and we were grateful for that because we almost had 30 hours in the car after going through Colorado, a total of 1830 miles to get home!  Eck!  It was a lot of fun to make it home in time to say happy Mother's Day to my mom and Marianne's Mom, and especially fun to have a good Sunday dinner with all my brother's that are in Rexburg.  We look forward to spending more time with family and catching up!

Fun wall art

Macie needed some wall art on a bare wall in her room. It was a rainy day so this is what we came up with. I had saved this frame from the fate of the dumpster a while back not knowing what I would do with it. So I found some fabric in the closet, liquid starch under the sink, and this frame and got to work. I put the fabric on the wall with the liquid starch and then I painted the frame white and here is what it came out looking like a wall hanging for under $8. Macie loves it, more because it has butterflies in it than anything else.

Just a Side note...

I am so excited to announce that we are diaper less at our house and have been for some time now, (boys are way more easy to potty train at this house than our girl was) well that is until number three shows up!!!