Boring as Ever

In our life, it was a pretty boring week.
Ash got a new cast on...GREEN of course.
Election Day.:(
Our nephew broke his wrist (that makes two since Ash), he got a GREEN cast.
I "got to" attended a two day seminar on Biligual Education.:)
A Bronco Game on Saturday that was pretty stale!!!
Church, and Family Bowling night.

Everyone have a great week!

Lots of Lara

Tage is ONE

Mark and Tage came over to visit. Since Shandi lives in a small town about thirty miles from us, driving clear to Boise with what little time Mark has with Tage, would eat up an hour of the 2 1/2 hours that he has with him. So we will now get to see lots of Tage. Before now we only have seen him 3 times in his first year. Laura came over and so did mom and dad.

Halloween

I'm bummed that I didn't get better pictures of the kids Halloween pictures.
By the time Halloween had come around the kids had already worn them a bunch, I didn't even do their makeup like I was going to. Ash was a Vamp, and Brenn was a Ghosty so he could say BOOOOOOOO!!!!

We went to Ash's carnival, our ward party, a party at a friends, a party at Paul's work, Aimee's work (our city, does a big trick-or-treat around the down town businesses), The Parent's ward party, to the hospital (for our traditional reverse trick-or-treat, and to Paul's parents.

The kids started a savings account on Halloween also, with a $. Fun stuff!!

Frustrated Incorperated!!!

So who knows this line from a song? Anybody? One brownie point to who ever gets it.
It was the motto of my week when Paul was out of town.

The week Paul was gone to Florida was a little hectic for me...to say the least.
I had a rough draft due for a paper. Each week in the History class I'm taking, someone takes the lead on teaching the discus ion;it happened to be my week. Ashlynn-Marie was student of the week, along with getting special classroom privileges, she also had to do a state report (she drew South Dakota, not only is there not so many interesting things about S.Dakota, all the words associated with the highlights are really hard to say.), and a presentation on herself.
Wednesday, Brennen screamed off and on from 3pm to 1am. He ended up getting a funky toe infection in his right baby toe. I orig anally thought that it was an ingrown toenail, but it wasn't. They think that he damaged his toe some how, it tried to heal itself, but didn't couldn't or wouldn't with out antibiotics (which he is allergic to all of them). They put him on a special med to help fight the infection. The Dr. was really concerned and glad that I had taken him in, and glad that the infection hadn't started traveling through his blood stream. So we soaked it every few hours for several days.

I was origanally going to take a mental health day, but ended up having to take Brenn to the Dr. again for them to check on his toe. Also it was the day for Ash to give her report. With mom's help I finished the kids costumes, because there was a trunk-or-treat/carnival at Ash's school. I was in such a hurry that I locked my keys in the house. My neighbor climbed the roof to Ash's room to get me in the house. Meanwhile Ash was having a fit because we were missing the party. I also was put in charge of a carnival game (the sucker tree) for 1 1/2 hours, and didn't eat of get my kids any dinner, because I was virtually by myself.
Right when we walked in the door, when we got home, Brennen threw up (Sorry for the picture, but It was just such a great climax to my week, NOT!).

Also I had a primary program practice, ward trunk-or-treat, party at a friends, and the Primary Program last week.

To say the least I was glad for that week to be over.

I don't know how single parents do it!!! Gotta hand it to them.

Paul working REALY hard!!!

Darn, Paul just had to go to Disney World for work!!
He did have to walk about a billion miles through a bunch
of hotels!!! None of them we could ever afford to stay in,
even with his discounts.

Ash's Rebreak Surgery

They ended up putting a pin in her arm. Yuck!!! she didn't like the choices of colors they had at the surgical center (she wanted orange for Halloween). She didn't want them to put a needle in her arm, so they had to put her completely out (which took her forever to wake up). When she finally did, she cried for two hours about her cast being ugly. They had to slit it, because they had to cut her arm open (I don't know what that looks like yet), to allow for swelling.

Pumpkin Shirts

We found this cute activity in our FamilyFun magazine that we get. Ashlynn just had to do this. granilani help Ash, Brenn, and the neighbor's granddaughter Maddie Tye dye the shirts. Then the next week, I helped them color them with fabric markers. They just love them. They wear them all the time.

Harvest Party- Berry Ranch Pumpkin Patch

Every year our friend's the Dalbey's have a harvest party. This year it was earlier than usuall, put we basically got the first pick of the crop of pumpkins. This is always a fun time.

Brennen's Birthday Party

"I get to be 4," says Brennen. He had a great time at his party.

Harvest Classic 9-27

Each year our down has a fun run for the schools, a two mile and a competitive race.
This is Ashlynn's second year running it. Last year I made a goal to run the two mile race, then vacation and school happened. So I decided to do the one mile with Ash. My friend Heather and her son were also there. Ash and another friend from church ran ahead and Heather and I "ran" with her son. I ended up running half of that mile, and about died afterwards. Again my goal for next year is to run the 2 mile race.

Family Home Evening- Feeding the Ducks w/ Papa and granilani 9/22

We had been gone all afternoon after school going to appointments and running errands. We had just walked in the door when mom called and said that they would be over in 10 minutes to take the kids to feed the ducks. They then got to play in the park and get twist cones at Artic Circle (Their Favorite). Thanks Papa and granilani for a fun evening.

Brennen the Fly Whisperer

This is a talent that we found out that Brennen had when we were in Utah for Grandpa Fox's and Nita's Birthday Party. Over the summer, Brennen caught many "friends" to play with. @least 50 of them. Here is a picture when he had caught two of them at the same time.

Mountain Home Airshow 9-13

We stood in line for over an hour to get a look inside this plane. They only allowed like six people in, because it was set up as a misquito abaitment and herbacide plane. So it had 4 large tanks in the back cargo area.

Ash's 1st day of 1st Grade/Birthday/ Ice Cream 9-8

Ash's Birthday Party 9-6

Just for Aunt Dietz

I can't get the darn pictures to load. Plus most of the pictures are on Aimee's card, and I couldn't get them to transfer..... Its making me grouchy!

I'll try to get to my blogging more regularly.

Love Ya,
Lara

I know, I know, I know....

O.k. I know I haven't been to faithful lately. Since school started, I've done nothing but run around.

Our biggest news is that Ashlynn-Marie rebroke her left arm on Thursday October 9 (Happy 1st Birthday Tage!!!), and had to have a pin inserted and surgically set on Friday October 17th. Which followed by two hours of screaming after she woke up from the anaesthesia, because she didn't like how the cast looked. I snuggled with her in bed for about an hour after we got home, and Aimee brought her a pound of M&M's and her world was right again. Yesterday morning my friend Heather's four year old broke his wrist. I think we've started an epidemic, one of which I do not want to take responsibility for.

Ashlynn-Marie loves school! Most of our evenings are filled with homework. She has quite a few activities each night that need to be completed. But she loves school work so it isn't a problem to get her to do it.

Brennen just attended his first "friend Birthday Party" yesterday! A new little boy in our Primary is a week younger then Brenn. This is the boy that Brennen poked in the eye during sacrament their first Sunday. It's funny to see a bunch of Four year olds together, they will play together for a little while and then go their own way for a time, and then come back together again.

Paul's is headed to Florida this week for work. They are going to "Tour" the sites of Orlando so that when people call to book travel there, they have places to recommend. So he gets to go to Disney World, and Universal Studios. How Rough, Right!

I got my first research paper back from my History Prof. I got a B+, and I am shocked. It was such an obscure quote from more than 100 years ago, and then it was a quote about a time period 40 years previous to that one. Anyway I'll take the B+.

How this is finding you all well.

Lots of Love,
Lara

Vegas

To say the very least, we had a little bit of trouble navigating around Las Vegas!!! Coming and Going! Crazy! Any whoo. We had a blast with my brother, SIL, and adorable nephew Easton. We went swimming in the morning; though it felt like an Idaho afternoon! BLAZE'N HOT! Brennen was burnt to a crisp all week. But he didn't complain about it. If we lived in Vegas, I would need to own controlling stock in a sun scream company.

We went and saw the conservatory at the Bilagio, and the Lions at MGM, but the kids are still talking about the stuffed animals Paul and Mark won for them at Circus, Circus while Em, Aim, and I had girls night out. We went and saw Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. A chic flick meant to seen with a bunch of Sisters or BFF's!

Thanks to the Vegas JOLLEYROGERS Hotel, for the grand lodging!!!

Viva Las Vegas

Rock walls & Hell-a-hopters

Our town has their National Night Out on the Saturday before the 1st Tuesday of August (when it is usually Nation wide). It is an event where the Emergency services and military teach kids about their jobs, and educate parents on child safety.

The highlight for Brennen was the Hell-a-hopter. We looked at it twice.

Ash's favorite thing was the climbing wall. She asked us several times in an hour to try. The Soldiers were really inpressed with her...until she ran out of options near the top, and couldn't find a foot hold. They hadn't told her how to get down, and she got spooked. One of the soldiers had to go up and get her down. She was so embarressed, but she wants to go down to the rec center and learn to climb.

National Night Out