I LOVE CHOCOLATE

I think this picture tells it all!!!!

I LOVE MY HAT!

Today the kids and I spent most of the day cleaning out

drawers and closets, you know getting rid of the summer

stuff and making sure they each have enough winter stuff.

As you can see Cooper found his winter hat and had to wear

it all day he even had to wear it while he was eating lunch.

(Oh and by the way YES he is still wearing his pajamas)

#2 Lip Repair

Here are a few pictures from Gracie's last surgery. When we were at the hospital and I was taking pictures Gracie said,

"Mom are you going to put those on your blog"

I said, "do you want me too"

then she shook her head yes and got that embarrassed look she gets.

Gracie is so brave, whenever we get to the hospital for a surgery she is always so calm and we never hear a complaint or a cry from her. We are so happy that Grace is getting close to being done with all her surgery's.

The first 2 pictures are before surgery. Before surgery she always gets evaluated and they make sure she is healthy enough to get the surgery done. Then we go to the surgery waiting room. It has lots of things for the kids to do, color, play toys, read, watch TV, make a doll, pretty much anything you want to do you can do it.

The next two pictures are murals on the wall in the surgery waiting room.

When she gets to go home she always chooses a wagon to ride out in.

Cat Lady

Well I guess you can call me the cat lady. I don't want to be, but I just feel so bad when I see poor little innocent baby kitties that don't have a mommy. This is are newest find. I went to help my friend move a dresser and when I was getting ready to leave we saw this tiny little baby. My kids have been loving on this baby for a few days, but lucky for us Aunt Dee took it home for Audrey and Hayden to love on. (thanks Dee)

This is Faiths idea of putting her mascara on. I think she has been watching her mom way to much.

Just thought I would share, I think Cooper looks so handsome in this picture.

...a funny for the day

I thought I would share this funny kind of gross story with ya.

If you have been to our house recently, you know we have a toilet in Gracie's bedroom. No not one that is hooked up to water, we just didn't have anywhere else to store it until we remodeled the kids bathroom, so it has just been sitting in Gracie's room.

Faith has been working on the potty training thing for about the last month. The other day she was upstairs and yelled she needed to go potty. So I (me not thinking) told her to go on Gracie's potty, (I meant the one in the kids bathroom.) Sure enough she did go in Gracie's potty in her bedroom. YIKES not only pee, but POO too. Thank heaven the toilet was sitting on a big piece of cardboard and didn't leak on my new carpet. After we got it all cleaned and bleached I told Faith she couldn't use that toilet anymore, and from what I could tell she understood that the toilet didn't work and was not for peeing in.

So today I was cleaning and couldn't figure out why my upstairs stunk so bad. I knew it wasn't peed sheets because I had just washed them, & I knew there wasn't any peed diapers in the garbage cans cuz I just emptied them. You guessed it Faith had peed in the toilet again!!! You would think I would learn to move the toilet out to the garage the first time, but no it only took me two times. Hopefully she will not find the toilet in the garage.

PCMC

I have lost track as to how many times we have been to Primary Childrens Medical Center in the past. Gracie and I went there last week for a couple of appointments. One with her plastic surgeon, and one with her orthodontist. Gracie is getting ready for her 6th surgery. She has had a tough rode, but I think we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. After this surgery she won't have to have another one until she is a teenager, and hopefully that will be the last one. Here are a few pictures from the past.

Lip Repair

Soft Palate Surgery

Hard Palate Surgery

Bone Graft Surgery

These last three pictures are of the people we see the most when we are at PCMC.

Dr. Siddiqi & resident (plastic surgeon)

Leann Rolling (Craniofacial Coordinator)

Dr. Yamashiro (orthodontist)

BIG FAT JUICY WORMS!!!

Faith found this worm and decided to torture the poor thing. At first it scared her to touch it, but she got braver and decided to hold it. Thats more than I would do, I hate holding slimy wiggly worms, it grosses me out!

Nap time for Faith

Faith has been falling asleep in the most peculiar places lately. We gave Cooper the crib about a month or so ago, and since than getting her to take a nap is pretty impossible, unless we are in the car.



My girls have been asking to get braids for a while now so we finally got started on it. Faith was the first to get hers done. I was a little worried how long she would actually let me braid. She didn't do all to bad considering we had lots of candy, coloring and cartoons. That night when I was getting her PJs on I asked her if she liked her hair, and she said "Yes, thanks for my hair mommy."

I just finished Gracie's hair, and am waiting for Quinceys hair to come in the mail so we can get her done.

We had another photo class tonight, and yes once again I learned a ton of new things.

Saturday Soccer

Quincey and Gracie choose to play soccer this year and are loving it. Gracie is loving it for the treats and Quincey really does love it. Our school is to small to actually have soccer as one of the sports so the recreation district does a one month league. Its not to serious but it's fun for the kids to learn the sport.

Faith and Cooper spend their time playing on the play ground at the school. Faith was having fun until she couldn't find the board for her feet to go on. Funny picture huh? Don't worry I didn't let her fall.

Camping once again!

What another great camping trip!! (besides trying to get there without killing each other and not lighting the camper on fire) Sharon thanks for having us again, it was way worth taking the time to come relax, and just hang out!!! I didn't go quite as picture crazy as last time but here are a few from our trip to Soda Springs.

This picture was taken during the "girls ride" be thankful that you can't see our faces to close because we are all brown and dirty from eating everybodys dust. We were looking pretty good!!!


Nate really is fishing in a creek. It looks like they are fishing in the weeds, but they had to stand back far enough that the fish didn't see them, or they would swim away. Quincey never did catch any thing, and she was pretty bummed.







I thought the designs the bugs made in this tree looked pretty cool.
Okay so yes I did cut Kylans bangs, but I swear to you they are straight when they are wet.
Kristin this picture is for you, I promise I was not checking out Bretts butt, I just thought it was a pretty cool picture!! (no he is not peeing, he is fixing a riser that somebody ran over with the rhino.

Be prepared to look at the next couple of pictures, they are gross. Don't ask me why Nate decided to do what he did. It is probably because he watches those survival show on TV, and he wanted to try to see if he is a real SURVIVOR!