Put your heads together?

Me and Hannah and Lexi were all putting Lexi's big girl bed together last night. I was getting a little frustrated because those things are not the easiest to figure out without the instructions! Hannah kept asking me "You okay mommy?" I would say "No, I need your daddy so he can do this or we need to put our heads together and figure this out." Hannah would just blink and say "okay mommy, I'll be right back." Then she would zoom off to one thing or another. Until the time she decided to jump really high, right into my head. We both immediately broke into tears, followed by Lexi who had no idea why we were crying, she just does everything Hannah does even if it is crying. I got the bed together in the end, even though I was a little dizzy the rest of the night. I can imagine how Hannah must have felt. Poor thing.

What not to do

I have a little desk-office thing in my kitchen. The cupboard above the desk starts about my chin-level and goes up to just a foot below the ceiling. This is where we store tape and scissors and pens, pencils, paper, phone books, etc. On the bottom shelf I have a little wooden bowl into which I drop paper clips or safety pins when Ezra brings them home from school. I needed a paper clip the other day so instead of pulling the bowl out of the cupboard (which I normally do), I stuck my head inside the cupboard, I guess it made sense at the time to look for the clip before I put my hand in to get it out. Anyway, just as i stuck my head over the bowl, I sneezed.

It has been about a week and the mark on the bridge of my nose where it hit the razor-sharp edge of the cupboard is still an red-open wound and I am still getting questions about it from many small children.

Easter sickness

I hope everyone and a great Easter. Ours was actually quite fun, however, little Mags got really sick. She threw up early in the morning, but we thought maybe it was because she was coughing, so we put her in her little Easter dress and went to church. She ate a couple of goldfish, then laid on chris's shoulder like raggedy-Ann. I looked over at her, then up at the clock, there were still 20 minutes left of sacrament meeting, then I looked over at her again and stood straight up and walked out. I got home, laid her down on a blanket and out jumped the goldfish. It was very well timed, luckily. Poor little thing. I held her pretty much all the rest of the day and all day Monday. She had a high temperature and wouldn't eat or move. She just looked miserable. Today she is much improved with no fever and she even ate dinner. We'll see how tonight goes, hopefully her tummy will let her sleep through the night. I hope nobody else was sick over a holiday.

Art Gallery

My girls and I were talking about the talent show that we had last time we were in Utah. They had such a good time. So we came up the idea of having some type of art show when we come in June. The girls suggested that everyone who wants to participate can draw or paint something, create a sculpture out of clay or legos, write a poem or a story, show some special photography or anything that can be put on display. You can make more than one thing if you like. No pressure, of course.

What do you think? Can't wait to see you all this summer.

What the?

Okay so Carrie, I literally just found peanut butter in Lexi's ear!

Okay here is Steph's old table! Thank you Steph for the table, I am so excited not to have to hold on to my table so the kids don't knock it over anymore! Thank you Mom and Meghan for bringing it all the way out here and helping me refinish it! Thank you Carrie for already doing yours so that this was easy!

Hannah opened this present last, just moments after Grandma said, "She won't care about that one, it's not a toy." What a great birthday Hannah had! Thanks for the gifts Grandma!