Fishing

Kenny took the girls fishing on the free fishing day.  Emily and Ashley both enjoyed the fishing part.  They caught a couple fish, but as you can see from Emily's expression, she's not sure how she feels about the actual fish.  I think their favorite part was spending time with dad and eating the snacks that he brought. :-)

First Day of School

 I now have two children at my school.  Ashley is now in 1st Grade and has an amazing teacher, Miss Hull.

 Emily is in 3rd grade and her teacher's name is Mrs. Lundin.  This is her first year and Emily likes her a lot.

 The traditional front door pose

 Posing by our mascot, Grover the Grizzly

My girls are growing up fast!!

Grandma A

In July of this year, my 93 year old Grandma passed away.  She lived a wonderful life and growing up, I LOVED going to her house.  She was an awesome grandma!  Her funeral was very celebratory and we all basked in our love of her!  It was also great to see my cousins that I rarely get to see.  We all love you Grandma A!

 My Grandma on my wedding day

 Playing with cousins at the dinner after Grandma's viewing

The Great-Grandchildren singing I am a Child of God at the funeral

 

 

 The girls loved getting to take a rose from the casket bouquet.  Ashly wanted to place hers on Grandma and Grandpa's headstone.

 At the luncheon, Tyler said he wanted more water and we said okay then got distracted, so Tyler helped himself to the water...literally.  :-)  Love that kid!

4th of July

We had a fun 4th of July.  We found a super close parking spot that was very helpful with my knee and enjoyed the parade.  After we had a nice BBQ at my sister's and set off some great fireworks.  Fun day for all.

 Is he cute or what!?

On a side note, Tyler discovered the girls play high heels. :-)  He's so cuuuute! :-)

My knee surgery

 I had knee surgery on May 22.  This was the sight I got to look at for the first week or two.

The surgery went very well, but the recovery was so hard!

 Nice people in our ward brought us dinners and treats.  That was such a blessing!

 The biggest blessing during my recovery was that this little guy didn't want to leave my side.  He sat next to me all day and we read book after book after book after book.  Then watched movies and played games too.

 After a month, I could start walking on it which was nice but difficult too.  This wheelchair was invaluable while I was recovering.

 When we went to Disneyland. we rented this wheelchair.  It was awesome!  It was such a lifesaver.

 My girls loved it too!

My knee survived Disneyland

 I was working my butt off in physical therapy and my bend was coming along, but my leg would not straighten all the way.  As hard as I tried and as hard as the physical therapist pushed me, it wouldn't progress, so on July 15 I had a manipulation where they put you under and bend and straighten your leg like crazy.  I'm SO grateful that we did this, because it made all the difference!  My knee is now progressing and doing so much better.

Plus, I got a lot of sympathy from my cutie pie little Ty!!  Oh, how I love him!

My knee is still weak and it definitely isn't all healed, but each day it gets a little stronger and I feel a little better.  I was scared to start school, but it has been going well and my knee isn't hurting when I go home, so I know it is coming along!

ER Visit

Ashley was jumping on our neighbor's tramp and slipped as she was getting off and cut open the side of her lip.  We weren't sure if it needed stitches or not so we asked a doctor in our neighborhood to come give us his opinion.  He said to probably go.  Unfortunately by this time our instacare was closed so we had to go to the ER.  Can we say traumatic??
Ashley did not handle it very well, but in her defense, if I were pretty much put in a straight jacket, I don't think I would have handled it well either.
In the end they gave her three stitches and it healed, but she'll have a little scar forever. :(

Future Plumber?

Do we have a future plumber on our hands?  :-)

Or maybe a future farmer (notice the farmer tan) ;-)

I sure love my sweet boy Tyler!!