Our FUN week

This past week, we have had lots of fun with Madi and Maleea, while their mom and dad were in Hawaii!! We did lots of fun things. Here are the pictures for proof. They are not in order but we had fun. We have had very tired worn out kids. Here is our list of fun, we just wish Kevin, Kristen, Luke, and Brady would have been able to join in the fun a little more.
-Art class at Roberts
-Oquirre Mountain Temple openhouse
-Slip-n-sliding
-5K race and kid run
-Popsicles and Icecream cones
-Helping grandpa cut the grass and pick up apples
-Following grandma around
-visiting great grandma and grandpa Olson in Ephraim
-Visiting great grandma and grandpa Wride in Benjamin
We had lots of fun!!

Mark the Great benefit 5k walk/run

Today we participated in a 5k. It was a lot of fun. It was to benefit a family who recently lost their father/husband. Tylers family knew him very well. They also had kid races. Avery, Madi, and Maleea all participated. They all looked so cute and were very excited about the race. I was so proud of Avery. She took second place in her group. They all got medals when they finished, which they were all so proud of. Then during the acutal award ceremony, Avery was called up to get a ribbon. It was a great day and really neat to help a family, especially since I know all too well what it is like to lose a father.
Tylers Grandpa Wride was even out cheering us along as we passed his house.
In the kids race, Ave is the one in orange shirt and brown shorts.

PRIVATE!!!

I am making our blog private, at the request of my husband!! It is so much fun to keep in touch with everyone, so please leave me your email so I can add you to our blog list. If you are not on our list already, but like to look at our blog, go ahead and leave you email. I will switch over in a few weeks!!!

Pioneer Day!!

We had such a fun day. The day started with the PARADE, which was fun. The kids loved it and Adi broke out of her shell. She was dancing and giving the clowns HIGH FIVE!!! After the parade we headed to Grandma Olsons and made a slip and slide out of tarps. It was a lot of fun, but after 6 hours in the sun, we had some tired kids. It was a great day, except for the sunburns!!! I love this Utah tradition.
(We went to the Rodeo on Wednesday night which was a lot of fun to. Adi covered her head for an hour and a half of it though due to some fireworks.)

Mean Mom!!!

So, apparently I am the MEANEST MOM EVER, or in the WORLD, denpending on the day. I wish I could type that phrase as dramatic as it is said to me. When told this I just laugh it off, which makes her even more upset. Sometimes I pretend to cry, which in return I hear "No, your the nicest mommy, I promise I love you mommy!!" Well, I have decided that being the Meanest Mommy is a role I will glady accept. To my girls, mainly Avery, being the meanest mommy, include the following mean acts by me.

- Not letting Avery play outside in her underwear.
- Not letting them watch Sponge Bob.
- Not stopping at the Slushy stand EVERYTIME we pass it.
- Not letting them take toys away from each other and Not letting them hit each other (go figure)
- Making them go to bed before 10 p.m.
- Not letting them eat candy before they eat breakfast.
- Timeouts
- Not letting them run through the neighborhood on their own.
- Not letting Avery go into a public restroom on her own.
- Getting apple dippers sometimes with happy meals instead of fries.
- Not letting them drink their dads Mt. Dew.

I hear you are the meanest mom atleast once a day. These are just a few examples that to Avery warrant that phrase, and looking at them, I have decided, yes I will be the meanest mom if it means keeping my kids SAFE, HEALTHY and NICE. (Sponge Bob does not teach them to be NICE.) I love my kids and we do have a happy home, even if mom is being mean.

KNOCKED DOWN!!!

Has anyone ever been to Parowan, Utah? UGH!! I don't recommend it. Let me just tell you the story. We headed to St. George on Monday afternoon to finish up a few little details for our BIG move coming up here in about 3 weeks. We stopped in Beaver to get gas. About 30 miles into our drive, yes I was driving, I heard a "Dinging noise" and noticed that we were over heating. I ofcourse get and instant stomach ache, because I was driving. Luckily, there was an exit close. I pulled off to a safe place. Tyler opened the hood and let it cool down. Mean while we let the girls walk around in the grassy area. You know what made this even more fun? It was about 100 degress plus out and for some reason, I allowed Adi to eat pretty much and entire bag of grapes on her own. Because of that she had a tummy ache and atleast 5 "stinky diapers" in a 15 min. period. Back to the story. We sat there for about 15 min. and it did not help. So we pulled forward to a DIRT road under a tree. SHADE IS WONDERFUL. Yes, a dirt road right off the freeway, just to show you we were in the middle of NO WHERE. A few people stopped, one guy had coolant, which we thought would solve the problem. We put the coolant in, and sat for about 30 more min. Meanwhile, I was able to eat some very yummy dirt cakes served to me by my two girlies in bottle caps. I wish I had thought to take pictures, but between my tears and frustration I forgot. It would have came in handy when Avery was laying in the middle of the dirt road making a SAND ANGEL. My girls were FILTHY, but were having fun. We got back on the free way and thought all was well. That lasted about 1 min. and it took us 45 min. to make it to the gas station 5 miles up the road. We had to pull over about ever 2 min. to let it cool off. So scary sitting on the side of the freeway. We made it to the gas station and sat there for 3 hours. Did I mention it was a truck stop? My girls heard words they have never heard before, so don't blame me if they repeat them!!! We finally realized the car was not fixable and 5 hours after it started over heating we said goodbye to the TRUCK STOP and the many bats flying over head and hopped into the BIG triple AAA truck and were towed to ST. George. Adi was scared to death to get into that truck, but with in 2 min. both girls were out. They were ABSOLUTE angels. They were such troopers and who knew that a HUGE flat bed truck could get us safely to St. George going 85 mph. The whole ride there I was thinking of different ways I could hold onto my kids when the truck rolled down a cliff. I was terrified.

P.S. The title of this post came from a cute conversation I had with my 3 year old neice as we sat at the truck stop. "Why aren't you here yet aunt Cole, are you still KNOCKED DOWN?" It was so cute. We did have a fun but stressful few days in St. George. I will post pictures later. I need to thank my WONDERFUL mother-in-law who came down to get us. She saved us. And thanks to Mike and Janille for letting us crash at there house. We made it home safely, but our car is still there.

Baby Poke!!!

Adi calls her new cousin Baby Poke. She saw the IV's in one of the pictures and since then she has called him baby POKE, usually in a sad little voice. "OOOHHHH, little baby Poke". Well, Jack, or Baby Poke, whatever you want to call him is doing great. My sister Heather was able to hold him yesterday for the first time, because as of yesterday, he is completely off oxygen and as of today, no more feeding tube. As soon as I saw the picture of Heather holding him, I started to cry. I was so excited for her. I just wish I had been there to see it for myself. I know how hard it has been for her leaving him at the hospital everyday, not even able to hold or touch him. Now if he can maintain his body wait in a normal crib, he can come home. We are so excited for them. It has been very rough on my sister and brother in law these past few day. He is doing great though and will be home soon. The first picture of Jack, to me looks just like my dad, his grandpa, whos birthday Jack so luckily shares. (did that make sense?) Keep getting better Jack.