All the other stuff

Ada's finished Biology project.

Since babies faces aren't all clear... this was meal time the other day.  They're all teething so they all like to be pretty close.

Jer had his first ever trip in an ambulance. Wed, Jer got hurt somehow.  He did a run, went sledding, and did some work in our bathroom putting the cabinets in place.  Between everything, he tore several muscles in his thigh.  The pain is in three places which then radiates down to his knee and up his hips and back.  We were trying to have him rest it.  My marvelous parents took him to the instacare on Thursday because I had daycare. They gave him meds for aggravated nerves.  Friday was okay, Saturday not so okay.  Saturday night, we watched a movie to keep it low key and still spend time with the kids.  About midnight we got the kids to bed and about 12:30 I tried to get Jer up and into bed.  He couldn't stand or sit.  We ended up laying him on the floor and propping him up as best we could.  By 1 am it had gotten worse, and Jer was shaking like he had Parkinson's. Jer asked me to call 911, so I did. I got Ada up to watch for the ambulance and got back down to Jer.  Ada said that they parked in our neighbor's driveway and knocked on their door.  Ada had to go outside and wave them over to us. 5 giant men came down, gave Jer an IV, took his vitals, got him on the stretcher and into the ambulance.  I conferenced with Ada, packed a bag and followed. They did x-rays to make sure nothing was broken and tested some stuff for his nerves.  They diagnosed with him torn muscles in his thigh.  They put him on a muscle relaxer and pain meds and sent us home at 6 am.  We stopped at the pharmacy for some lidocaine patches, grabbed breakfast and I basically dragged Jer into the house.  Sunday our sacrament program was based around the choir song we've been working on for the last two months... So I slept for 3 hours and the kids and I went to church for Sacrament.... then we came home and crashed.  

Sam was practicing the flute and Ada walked by and turned on the treadmill on her way by.  She said she was getting him ready for marching band. He just finished practicing and Jer kept joking that any time he made a mistake we would turn up the treadmill.

 

Robyn's birthday

Robyn invited us to spend her birthday bowling and going out for a fun meal together.  Usually just I go, but my family went with us this time.  It was fun.  I'm a poor bowler, but it was fun.  Happy birthday Robyn! 

We went to Yummy's for dinner.  It was a hit. Ada's decided that this is where she wants to go for her birthday.

Seth was hiding his face, so I took pictures until I got one of his face.  But Robyn had ducked out of this one.

 

Southern Utah

During the big winter storm, the atmospheric conditions were just right by my friend's house that they saw three suns and a double rainbow that went in a circle above their heads.  I thought that was pretty cool.

 

NOVA program

Our school has a program for good community citizenship.  It's called N.O.V.A.  Evelyn just graduated this last week.  We didn't know about the graduation so I was doing daycare when I got a text from my friend at the school that asked if we were coming.  Jer jumped and went to join her for it.  Evelyn was thrilled that he was there.  I'm proud of you Evelyn!  Some of the things that they had to do to graduate were: plan a service project, do a technology fast, learn about the harms of vaping, smoking and drugs, etc... 

 

Winter storms

 We've had record snow storms this year.  We've had more snow in February this year than in recorded history.  It's good because we need the moisture. It makes for some fun sledding too.  The kids had a digital learning day, so Jer took the boys sledding on his lunch break.  They had fun.  Sam had a bunch of friends that were already there.... so they had a blast.  Seth and Jer did snow angels.   Between all the different storms this week we had about a foot of snow in our yard.  We usually don't get very much at all in the valley.  I had daycare, but we couldn't go out in it because my fence that was supposed to be finished by the Wednesday was delayed because of the snow.  Hopefully it will be up by this next Wednesday. 

Musical

 

Ada and Sam did such a great job in the school play.  They both have very different styles of learning and socializing, so sometimes it was hard on them to both be in the same group without getting frustrated at each other.  But they both performed their parts well.  They both had learning experiences too.  They were both in the notes for main character call backs, but Ada told the director that she doesn't memorize lines and Sam didn't get the parent permission forms in (he filled them out but somewhere between the submission button and the actual submission didn't work).  Ada was so done by the end.  I don't know if she's going to do another one, but I think Sam will.  The only two things he didn't like were the waiting for others during practice and the makeup.  Ada loved that she was assigned to do Jafar's makeup.