Activity Days

For activity days we had a Spa Night here.  We did homemade fruit facials, fingernail painting, foot bathes, hair and of course cucumbers on our eyes. It was a blast.

When activity days were over my children had to have a turn also.  Zach tried the cucumbers and  a facial, silly boy. Gotta love him.

Paige and Brinn did it all. Hope thought the foot bathe was great fun.

Our new addition

Sparta is our newest addition. Or as Hope calls him, Wuba.
Paige and I went shopping and saw a family with a box of free kittens.  Jokingly I said," we should get one". I honestly thought Paige would say," no way" because she is allergic to them.  But she said, "we should, lets go see them."  So we did.  This kitten was so gorgeous that we just had to have him. He is so cute and tiny. Hopefully he will help keep mice out of our house and yard.

No more braces

After little more than a year, Braden got his braces off!! He now has nice straight shinny teeth.  He has clear retainers to wear at night for the next year or two.  He says it feels so nice not to have a metal mouth any more.

Guess who's

                                                Who's hand do you think this is?

If you guessed mine, you are right.  I tore the ligaments in my thumb and get to wear this nice contraption for two weeks.
How did I do this, you ask.  Well, we all are aware of those crazy child proof covers they make to put on door knobs, apparently they are adult proof and dangerous!!! Okay, maybe only dangerous for me.
I couldn't get the knob to turn and so I put my left hand over my right to get more leverage and pop. It only hurt for a second so I didn't think much of it. A few hours later it began to hurt and was very swollen. I waited until the next day to have it x rayed in hopes that it would get better. No such luck.
It is tricky using my left hand and having diapers to change. But life goes on.