No pictures today, sorry.  It has been a crazy week.  2 trips to the urgent care last week, soccer, band, young womens activities, cub scouts, service projects, church, PTO meetings, laundry, cooking, cleaning, what else?  I am running on low today. Do you ever just have those days where you just don't want to do ANYTHING?  That is today.  I have been wandering around the house all morning and haven't really accomplished much.  The kids are fed, though and happy at the moment, so I guess that is something.  

Friends

Last post today, I just wanted to put up this fun picture of the kids with some friends of ours. They moved to Southern Kansas 2 years ago and so we don't see them as often as we would like. We took a Saturday just before school started and went down to spend the day. That was the last thing on Eli's list to do this summer, so we were glad that we got to finish his list. We all loved spending time with our good friends. They were our next door neighbors from the time that Ben was 3 months old, until just before we moved to the "farm". That is 6 years. We had a great time watching the kids play and get used to each other again. They all did great. We can't wait until next time.

Awesome Brother

Michael is a huge help, when he wants to be, of course.  These are just a couple of times I have caught on camera of him helping the little ones take a nap.  He and Josh share a  room and many nights we go in to find this scene.  When we don't, Josh stays awake and jabbers until much later than Mike.  Usually, when Bodie and I go to bed, Mike has been asleep for hours and Josh has finally crashed on the floor in front of the bedroom door, waiting for us to pick him up and tuck him back into bed.  Again, how we count our blessings that they love and care for each other.

Best of Friends

We have been having a lot of fun at home.  Here a just a couple of really cute pictures that I caught while we are just having  a normal day.  I am so glad that they love each other so much and are always playing together.  What a blessing from above.  

OUCH!!!

There are many times in a mothers life that we would love to be able to stop time and get to the exact spot we are needed and then start it again.  Oh, just the idea of that is wonderful.  Unfortunately, that is not what happened in Danny's case.  He was just cruisin' along the fireplace,  trying to figure out how to walk like the rest of us, tripped and hit the beloved Clarinet case belonging to the older brother.  Now, Mike refuses to believe it was his case, I think it makes him too sad to think about it.  But, this is just another case of total accident that Mom couldn't stop.  After calling different urgent cares around, and being told to go to Childrens Mercy Emergency Room because of his age, I finally called our regular doctors office back and convinced the doctor on call that I didn't want to pay $500 for 4 stitches.  He agreed to do it for me as long as I was sure that it was not a serious injury, since he cannot obviously see through the phone.  It was a really fun experience to be sure.  I took Danny in to the office by myself, thank heaven, and got to hold a numbing solution on his eyebrow for 30 minutes and then got to hold him down for the next 30 minutes to get the stitches just right.  The biggest problem, and the reason that I didn't just clean him up and steri strip him at home, the top piece of flesh kept wanting to overlap the bottom.  That doesn't make for a pretty scar!  The doctor and I literally worked together with the needle, thread, and gripping tweezers for about 5 minutes on the first stitch to make it line up.  All of this is probably more information than any of you wanted, but it was pretty fun for me.......I need a life, I know.  Anyhow, he is just fine.  After we stopped holding him down, he immediately sat up,  stopped crying and started jabbering at me.  What are we in for???  The older kids were quite upset when they saw the blood gushing from his head, and were pleased that we arrived home in time for them to see him before bedtime.  Poor little Ben was crying for his little brother and Ruthie kept insisting that she get to go help me at the hospital.  Thankfully, Daddy was home in time to intercede on that one.  I don't think she would have been much "help".  When we got home, Josh couldn't keep away from Danny.  He wanted to love on him the entire time, even when Danny was sound asleep.  What a fun day........

Tagged for 4 Things

Delise I can't believe you did this to me in my first week of blogging......

4 random things I like about my husband
His Smile, I can't help but smile when I see it

His Energy, the man just doesn't stop

The way he plays with kids

He makes me HAPPY

4 jobs I have had
MOM
Xray Tech/Nurse

Medical Records Clerk

Demo Girl


4 places I have lived
Kansas

California

Texas

Utah

4 TV shows I watch
The Discovery Channel- Bodie loves all the shows on this channel and I get sucked in

HGTV-whatever is on when I have the time

4 places I have been Most Recently
St. Louis, MO

Branson, MO

GIrls CAMP

That pretty much sums up my summer.....

4 people who email me regularly
family (there's more than 3 of them *smile)

4 favorite foodsDesserts of ANY kind!
Brownies

Ice Cream

Cheesecake (Godiva Chocolate is the best)

Berry Cobbler

4 places I'd like to visit

Denmark
Jersalem
South America
Carribean

4 things I am looking forward to this coming year
being with my family
getting into shape

Fires in the fireplace with snow outside

cousins

A Couple Birthdays.....

Are you serious?  You want me to eat this all by myself?????

     Okay, I think I can handle this.  What is next?

Very perplexed by the candles....

Loved it once it wasn't "on fire".

Just a couple of pictures from some of the birthdays this summer.  How they grow!  We love to just look at them and count our blessings.  What joy they bring to our family, each and every one.  These two are trouble together.  It is like they speak their own language.  One gets into something gets caught and the other sees it and knows Mom is "unavailable" for the moment and is off to the next spot.  Unbelievable!!!!!

A Start

Ok, so here goes.  I have been checking other peoples blogs and loving it.  Finally, today I decided that if I like seeing other families lives, maybe they would enjoy seeing mine.  I know, a huge assumption on my part.  Anyhow, I hope that this will give me the motivation to keep some sort of journal of my family and in turn, let my loved ones have a glimpse into our lives.