Marathon

My training is going well. We ran just over NINE, that's right nine miles! Woohoo. At this rate we will be ready in no time!! Go us!!

Poor Baby Cole

Poor Cole is sick. I hate seeing my kids sick. He has a temp of 102, runny nose and keeps pulling at his ear. I believe he has a ear infection. He is not a happy camper, and I'm not much of one either, he was up most of the night. Our family doctor won't be able to see him until this afternoon due to being in surgery this morning. (and that's if he even has room to see him.)Maybe he will just call him in a prescription. Hopefully this will pass by fast.

I just had to post this picture

I just had to post these pictures of Jocelyn. At our family reunion this summer we took a big family picture with our "billy bob" teeth. We all got a kick out of Jocelyn. She even posed for several people to take her picture with them in.

Our shopping trip

Yesterday my sister-in-law and I went to Flagstaff to do some shopping. We had quite the eventful day!! First off when we went to Target, Crystal went to grab us some carts so we wouldn't have to drag the kids into the store. All went well, until she accidentally locked her keys in the car, along with her 9 month old, and the diaper bag. OPPS!! I went in the store and got the police department number. ( they will unlock your car for free if there is a child in it.) So, she calls the number, and they send the fire department out. We were thinking they would send out a small emergency vehicle, but no we got the fire truck with the big ladder on it. It was a great picture opportunity, so I got out my cell, and took some pictures, but forgot to save them to my phone. I was bummed. The kids thought it was great, Boston thought that the truck was going to spray him, and Cole wasn't a big fan of the firefighters at first. Staisha was a trooper in the car and was just smiling, and playing with her bib.

We get done at Target, and head to some other stores, and all was great. Then we run into traffic getting to the mall. Once in the mall parking lot, the brakes on Crystal's car go out. We get into Sears, and she asked a automotive guy for some help. He says that their technician was almost off, and they couldn't help, but here is some brake fluid. So here we are at Sears two girls who know nothing about cars, with four kids all ages three and under. What are we to do? I get brave and ask a man in the Electronic section if he knows how to check brake fluid, and if he can help us out with our car. He kindly agrees and follows us out to the car, and checks the brake fluid. Its FULL!! Crystal drives the car around the parking lot, and the car if just fine. We both thought, " man, we waisted some good shopping time."

Not only did all this happen but Jocelyn, and Boston thought it was fun to go in every public bathroom they saw. I think we went into every stores "potty" some even twice!! We had alot of fun., and the babies were troopers. We already have our next trip planned! Hopefully we can go without kids next time though.

New Calling

I got a new church calling. My stay in Relief Society didn't last long. I am now the second counselor in the Primary Presidency. I think that Primary is a life calling, or at least until my kids are out of there. I have been the nursery leader( I cried when I got this calling), I was a teacher several times, and then I played piano for almost two years in there.I'm really excited, and so are the kids. I think that it will be a lot of fun.

I forgot to mention

Cole took TWO steps on his own last night. It took alot of bribing with a chocolate chip cookie. But he did it!! YEAH!!! Maybe we can get him to walk on his own soon. He just has to beat his cousin Boston and walk before he is 17 months old. GO COLE!!

Another busy weekend!!

I can't believe that it is October already! I guess I need to get out all the Halloween decorations, and figure out what the kids want to be. On Saturday Kaden had another early morning soccer game. We had to wake up at six thirty on our only day to sleep in. His team lost. :( Probably because I wasn't there to watch. I was getting the rest of the house clean and ready for my friends baby shower. Here is the picture of the finished diaper baby I made. The baby shower went well and the food was yummy!!

Friday morning a friend and I went to the city park. I hadn't been there in a while and it reminded me why. Don't get me wrong I love where I live and I really like the people and friends we've made here. The city park is sooooo trashed! I took some pictures but don't want to post them. There is graffiti all over the playground equipment with all sorts of things you wouldn't want any child to repeat of ask you what they mean. It's so sad that our city won't fix it up. Oh yeah, their way of fixing it is to spray paint it to make it even more trashy! This has made me want to write a letter to our mayor expressing my concerns and others concerns about it. I will be sending him the pictures also, I really don't think they think it is that bad. I'm also thinking about maybe a petition to get new equipment that is fenced in with city park hours from sun up to sun down. I don't know if it will do any good but at least I will have tried. If anyone has any suggestions on how to approach this let me know.

Friday night we went to the annual Standing on the Corner celebration. This is a city event that is put on by donations every year. They have a bunch of vendors, food, and live bands. They used to have alot more stuff for the kids but there hasn't been to much the past two years, so we left the kids with a babysitter for an hour. If you don't know "The Eagles" wrote a song about Winslow. It's their song "Take it Easy". This is where this celebration stems from.

I attempted to go to the gym this morning. I was hoping to get 4 miles or so on the treadmill but Cole wouldn't have it. Jocelyn was doing great sitting in the kids room watching Dora. Anyway back to Cole. There is this really nice old indian guy that works out at the gym all the time. As soon as we walked in the door Cole got one look at him and started screaming. The man left the room to go put his stuff in a locker, and Cole stopped as soon as he left the room. A few minutes later he came back and started to warm up on the treadmill next to me. Cole was terrified and wouldn't stop his screaming. So after running only 2 miles I had to leave. I got home and thought it was a waist of time. It took me longer to get the two kids ready to take with me, than to run the 2 miles. Needless to say I was disappointed.