Summer Vacation Begins!!!

I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that summer "vacation" has started here. The quads were done with preschool last week. Tanner and Hunter are done on Thursday. We are wasting no time in making this a summer to remember. :>
I recently got a new Nestle cookbook full of yummy treats. We have decided to try one new treat a week. Each youngin gets a week to pick their treat and help make it. We have been doing this for several weeks now and have only found one really good and one moderate dessert we like. Jayson picked this cake last week. We were pretty impressed with how well it turned out. However, no matter how hard we tried we could not get the chocolate shavings to be as long and beautiful as the recipe picture. We need Aunt Mary (the family baker) to help us!!! But we tried!!!

Poor Nathan has suffered our first injury of the summer. We had gone to the gym to workout. Cassie, Nathan, Jayson and Bryan were being sooooo good. We were all walking ever so nicely to the van, staying on the sidewalk, staying close together, and from out of no where jumped this stinkin brick wall and bashed Nathan in the face. I saw it happen in slow motion but could not do anything about it. The first thought through my head , was..... Man, that is going to bruise. However, when he turned around and I saw the blood everywhere, I realized this was not going to be an easy fix. Once he saw the blood it was all over.

The clubhouse was closer than the van so we headed back as quickly as we could. Luckily my two friends that had been there with us jumped right in, one ran to get paper towels while the other tried to herd and calm down kids. I also had a fellow ward member pull up. I am telling you I have never met a woman more prepared than she was. She had it all in her van. Wipes, ice packs, juice boxes, granola bars, and tylenol. There was also a nurse leaving so she came over and looked and said we probably needed stitches. So armed with some butterfly bandages, three grumpy and hungry kids, and the poor injured bloody one we headed to the doctor office.

Between the blood all over me and Nathan we were quite a scene so we were ushered into a room immediately. The sad thing is they do not do stitches in the office anymore so we would have had to have gone to the ER or a plastic surgeon. But the doctor said that they really do not do stitches anymore they just glue you back together. Since we had done a good job sealing it back together with the butterfly bandages he said the plastic surgeon would have had to tear it open again to stitch it back. I told the doctor that "chicks dig scars". (Jay keeps telling me this is true. ) So he cleaned Natty up, rebandaged him and sent us on our way with a prescription for antibotics. We raced home to get the boys off the bus, dropped off the prescription, ran to finally get some lunch, ran to the post office, back to pick up the prescription and finally home. It only took us five hours to go to the gym yesterday. :> Not bad!!! All in a day's work. LOL. Aunt Amy if you are reading this..... don't let it deter you from coming!!! :>

Natty is doing better today. He is more sore, but his injury did not slow him down at all. I must admit I am very disappointed that they do not do stitches anymore. I would think it would keep infection out better and I know several of our scars would not be so large. The cut was open again today so I super glued him back together and cleaned it up again. Yes, you read that right. I super glued him myself. I have also been known to do this too. It seems like such a waste of time to go all the way to the doctor for them to do something that I can do myself. :> I must admit, I am getting really good at this.

We go back to the doctor tomorrow for a follow up. So there you have it my friends, the fun begins!!! Have a great night and rest well. I know I will. (mostly from shear exhaustion.... I still have not figured out how to bottle their and use some for myself. :>)

Another "first" tooth GONE!!!

Hmmmmmmmm. Not really sure about how I feel about this one. I think that may have hurt a little. :>



Okay, I do have this really cool hole in my mouth and there is blood. That is "awesome". (new kid word of the week)



Now I am loving it, has that darn tooth fairy been here yet?!?!?!?! Oh, how quickly they grow up. This is Jayson and he has been working on his teeth for about a month now. And now that one is gone he is working on tooth number two, while Nathan is going for three, and Bryan and Cassie are still trying back for one again. They all just want their dollar for the dollar store. :>

So grown up so fast. Hug your little ones tonight and remember how quickly it all changes. Good night my friends!!!

Happy Mother's Day!!

I think this year was the best Mother's Day yet!!! Jay is usually out of town on Mother's Day, so just having him in town was a treat. :> I remember one year..... not only was he gone, but we had to be out of one base house and in the new house within three days. The little ones were almost 2, I think. Luckily, mom flew out and the ward helped out or there is no way I would have pulled that one off.

So this week was interesting. I love to listen to the raido as I am dropping kids off at school and I heard that a local station was honoring moms the entire month of May. I came home and told Jay he should nominate me!!! I even found the form and emailed it to him. Subtle, I know!!! But hey, they are giving away a trip to San Diego for four days and three nights. How awesome would that be?!?!!? Well Jay wrote a letter and sent it. ( I think he is hoping I will take him with me if I win!!! )

I was on my way into the gym and my cell phone rings. It sounded like someone trying to sell me something so I was getting ready to tell them that I did not have time right now to talk to them. Well, lo and behold it was the radio station. I was so excited and surprised!! I was the Mom of the Day!! When they asked me who might have nominated me it just did not seem right to say...... well I made my husband do it because I wanted to win a prize...... So I told them I hoped it was my husband. They did read me the letter and it was very nice. I really sounded good. It is a good thing that he has to write a lot of performance reviews, he knows how to say things. :> However, there was a catch. Since we have a half dozen kids (which is basically abnormal ) and Jay is a pilot for the air force they wanted to come out and do a news story for the 10:00 news on Mother's Day. I really do not like doing news stories. We have done sevearl since we were to pregnant with the quads. But I agreed as long as they promised to make me look good. :> So the next day they came out to meet the kids and do a story. It did turn out nice and the kids always enjoy seeing themselves on tv. We are still waiting to see if we will win the trip, and now a local pool company is also giving away a above ground pool so we might win that instead. That would all be fun!!!! Keep your fingers crossed!!!!

Sunday was great. The kids made me some great cards, gorgeous pictures, and took really good care of me. I got to lay in bed a little longer, got some great flowers, a cake, and Bride Wars. I love that movie!!! Great romantic comedy. All in all I was sad to see the day end and get back to the grind. It was nice to be appreciated!!! And then came Monday and everyone forgot "that I was the best mom ever." Just kidding. I am very lucky to have such a great family. My kids are miracles and even though being a mom is the hardest job I have ever had, I wouldn't trade it for anything. I recently heard the song "Ordinary Miracle" by Sarah Mclachlan. If you have not heard it you should take a moment a listen to it. It will give you a whole new look at each day. I am thankful for my "ordinary miracles". Sleep well, my friends.

March of Dimes T-shirts

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

I am making some good progress catching up. LOL. Here are the t-shirts that I made for our March of Dimes walk. Thank you so very much to all of our sponsors for the walk. We were able to reach our $500.00 goal. We were so very proud to be able to do this walk and help to support March of Dimes. As you can tell by our pictures having had four preemies this is a very near and dear topic for us.

I spent 7 weeks in the hospital on bed rest after having been on bed rest at week 12 of our pregnancy. The babies were born at 30.5 weeks and we then spent another 7 weeks in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit before being released. It was a roller coaster of a ride but we made it!!! And as you have read in previous posts they are truly keeping me on my toes. Again, thank you everyone who helped us to reach our fundraising goal. Have a great night my friends. I will post actual walk pictures very soon!!!

Happy Birthday Daddy!!!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

So Jay's birthday is April 7th! (this is not too late. :>) He was supposed to be out of town for his birthday so I had no gifts, cake, decorations, nothing nada. The night before he is supposed to leave ,he lets me know that there has been a change of plans and he will be here after all. He explains to me that since I am woefully unprepared it does not matter. I try to explain to him that after having children our birthday's are not about us anymore they are about the kids. If we do not have presents, cake and decorations for Daddy they will be disappointed.

So the morning of his birthday I drop the kids off at their respective schools and with only about two hours I run to Walmart, Jcpenney, The Party Store, and Cold Stone Creamery. (which by the way are not all located close to each other.) When I say run I literally mean run. I barely got back home as the bus was pulling up to drop the quads off.

We frantically wrap presents, and inflate over 50 balloons. It is then time to run to the bus and get the older boys. We run back home to put up streamers and signs, run Cassie to choir, run back home, make dinner, do homework, run back to get Cassie, shove dinner down as fast as we can get it, run the boys to karate and finally back at home for bath time and party time. Whew, makes me tired just thinking about the day again. However, despite being woefully unprepared we managed to pull off a pretty good party, if I do say so myself!!! We were so glad that Daddy was able to be home for his birthday!!! Another successful and yet unpredictable day!!