Bird Update:There gone!

The birds grew up so fast. They are all gone now, they got a little to big for their nest and off they went. It's crazy cause you can actually see their feathers growing in.
Not even joking a few days later they looked like this.

One by one they would brave leaving the nest and try to fly away, they did not succeed the first time sadly, they just sorta dropped to the porch then run down the stairs and continue to run away.

This was the first one running away, i hope it made it somewhere safe. Hopefully the neighborhood cats didn't find them before they learned to fly.

It was fun watching the birds hatch and become cute little birdies, but honestly i was sick of squirting bird poop off my porch, cars, driveway like twice a day.

Summer fun

This year Dustin surprised me and the kids with season lagoon passes. We got them 2 years ago and have not been back since, so the girls were super excited. We have been going on Saturdays or later at night, i haven't dared brave it with just me and the kids yet lol.

Jumping Dragon one of the new rides this year

Bombora the other new ride, it's just like colossas but without the loops. My kids love it.

The kids each brought a couple dollars and played a couple games. Jace won a large prize his first game.

Taylers favorite rides- Bombora, Lady bug Bop

Megan's favorite rides- The mouse, lady bug bop

Jace's favorite rides- The Whales, driving cars, bumper cars

They have arrived!

One day they look like this...The next day they looked like this.
Kinda weird looking if you ask me, kinda freaks out the kids lol.
They are kinda see through

Their eyes have not opened yet. Mommy bird finds worms in the grass chews it up and feeds them. Really neat to watch. Darn neighbors cat keeps trying to get them, we have to keep scaring the cat away.

First day of summer starts with hospital visit.

Last Wednesday before t-ball practice started the girls were playing at the park and tayler fell off the playground, she came running to me crying holding her arm. Some lady said i heard a snap from here, so we left Megan at practice with a neighbor took jace to aunt Kari's and off we went to the Doctor. Well we got there and they did an xray and said yep it's broke. They said we think you need to see a pediatric surgeon because it's a pretty bad break close to her joint, well they pulled her xray from 2 years ago from her other hand and it was the exact same break. Well the Dr, said come back Monday (5 days later) and we will xray it again and go from there.

Well we went back today, they had her hot pink & black cast ready to wrap on her and took her for a quick xray. Well the xray tec. had me sign some paper releasing the xrays to me to take to the pediatric surgeon. They said the bone has shifted a bit, i couldn't even see the break in the first xray and today i could see it really good. So after a few tears from tayler, sad about not getting her cast on and knowing she has to go to another Dr. we headed to get bubba from my friends house and headed up to Mckay Dee to see the pediatric surgeon.

After he looked at the xrays & her arm for a few minutes he said he was just going to cast it, NO SURGERY!!! yeah:) So she got her PiNk & BlAcK cast on after all.

Tayler the day she broke her arm

The bone she broke is right before her elbow, you can see it sticking out a bit.
Today before her cast

Jace & Megan thought it was funny while the dr. was putting taylers cast on to put on taylers old wrap. You should have seen the looks i got from everyone leaving the hospital.

Tayler with her Hot Pink and Black Cast on.

This is this girls 3rd broken arm in 2 years and hopefully her last.

Memorial Day 2011

Every memorial day we go visit our loved ones who have passed. I have been very blessed and only lost great grandparents and my sweet step grandpa. My kids love visiting their graves we have done it since the kids were little and i hope they keep it up as they get older. We visited Grandpa Thompson's grave.
We visited Great Grandma & Grandpa Dances grave

Great Grandma & Grandpa Murray's graves

But this year their happened to be two new graves next to the ones we were visiting, that were not there last year. It hit a little too close to home because both of them were my kids ages. They were both the cutest grave stones i had ever seen.

I feel SUPER blessed to have all my children, siblings, parents and most of my grandparents all still alive. Today at church i found out that a family that i really look up to has just found out that their 3 year old grandson has just been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer . I wish the best to this sweet family. I love my family so very much, and i am so grateful for Eternal Families.