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. :>)