Easter

I am a slow poke posting about Easter. But here it is. It all started On the Saturday before Easter. I had to help with our primary's Easter egg hunt so I got up early to go "hide" the eggs. Even though it was freezing we still put the eggs outside. I did have to remove a dead bird from the vicinity for sanitation reasons. We had over a thousand eggs for about 70 kids. Sheesh it was a lot of eggs but I couldn't believe how quickly they disappeared. THe whole thing was over in about two minutes. Poor Abby pretty much missed it because she bonked her head on the steeple of the church and cried and by the time she calmed down the eggs were gone.

Anyway, after that we zoomed up to Sugar City for a dinner with my family and another cousin sponsored Easter egg hunt. That was fun and I think I can put a link on here for a video. It really isn't very interesting except I think mom and dad would like to see it since they missed out. https://www.google.com/video/upload/Status?rf=1&hl=en


Sam with his stash





I really don't like myself in this picture and wish I could cut myself out. I wanted to have a picture with just the kids but we were going to be late for church.

Sunday just ended up being a quiet day. I cooked a turkey for our family (just because we already had one in the freezer) and we ate and that is about it.

Oklahoma Video

I am still trying to figure out a way to post video--which won't work for me for some reason. The reason for this video--by the way--is becuase my parents are on a mission in Oklahoma City.
Try to click on this and see if you get a video.http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1818509367649881127&hl=en

Ainsley's Talents

I don't know why, but this really cracked me up the other night when Ainsley was showing me how she could make her nostrils stick together. Her nose is so tiny to begin with, her trick makes her nose almost disappear.









And what a great smile this spazzy girl has.

Little Reader

Ellie is a readamaniac. She loves to read and read. She stayed home from school on Monday and read for three hours. Anyway, she just came up from bed a few minutes ago and started telling me about her book she is reading "Princess of Bamarre" and in the end a princess turns to a fairy and so she wouldn't die of the gray death and so the two princesses couldn't be together anymore. Anyway, Ellie had come up to tell me because the book was making her so sad she was starting to cry. How sweet.

Ellie did something funny a week or two ago. She talked to her school counselor one day and told Mrs. Noorda her tooth was hurting but we didn't have money to go get it fixed. She said this because I always tell her to brush her teeth well because we don't have money to keep getting her teeth fixed. We don't have dental insurance and it seems when we take our kids in we always end up spending 600-700 on getting cavities filled. Anyway, a few days later Ellie came home from school with a bag of food. I asked her where she got it and she said Mrs. Noorda had given it to her. I was puzzled for a second as so why she would give Ellie food, but then I started to figure out that Ellie must have said something to make Mrs. Noorda thing we are very poor and are in need of some essentials. I thougt it was kind of funny and very sweet of the counselor to try and help. Ellie is really embarassed and doesn't like me to talk about it. I need to call the counselor and just let her know we are doing just fine.

Still Sick

We have had the most miserable week with the kids. Ellie and Ainsley both had the flu which I think I mentioned before. Sam threw up Tuesday night and then didn't eat much the next two days. Then the real fun began. He threw up everything he ate all day Friday and Saturday and still threw up a couple of times today (Sunday). The poor thing feels like skin and bones.

I took him to the doctor Friday morning for a well-child check and he looked so bad the doctor ended up just working on trying to get him hydrated for most of the visit. He had me give a syringe of pedialyte to Sam every ten minutes. Sam drank it down without any fight. He would whisper to me "More, More." I told him I couldn't give him more for ten more minutes because it would make him throw up if he drank too much too fast. He just kept looking at me with his dark brown eyes--so serious and pathetic whispering, 'More more." After I wouldn't budge he said "Pees (please). Pees." It was the most pathetic thing ever.

Anyway, he has just wanted to be held constantly for the past few days. Finally today he started perking up a bit and kept some food down. Hopefully we are over the throwing up.

Sick

So today, the day after the blessing Ellie and Ainsley are sick with fevers and coughs. I am watching Sam because he has a green goobery nose and I keep expecting him to get a fever. Abby seems to be fine. My kids can be sick as long as I stay healthy. My poor neighbor has had all her kids and her husband and herself sick the last few days. I am hoping to escape her fate.

Isaacs Blessing Day

This weekend was a super busy one because we finally blessed Isaac. Jodi and I had wanted to have her baby and Isaac blessed at the same time and we hadn't been able to find a convenient fast Sunday until yesterday.

On Saturday I went to a super Saturday and made a craft (pictured below) "speedy quick" as Junie B Jones would say and then went home and way over cleaned my house. But I told Terry I felt motivated to do it so I should take advantage of my motivation. I washed all the bedding and cleaned the kids rooms spic and span as I like to say and then spent the evening cooking and getting ready for all the family that would be eating with us the next day. I felt I had everything under control.



Sunday came and we woke up early and got everyone ready for church. All the family drove to Pocatello that morning and they started arriving at about 8:30. We went to the church and Adelle and Isaac both were given beautiful baby blessings. It was nice because 2 or 3 people in my ward wrote down the blessings and so I have a record of what was said. I love baby blessings because you get a little hint of what these babys can be.

Anyway, we went to our other meetings and then zoomed home from church to get our feast ready. Once I came in the kitchen and started bustling around I realized with horror that I had forgotten to arrange for the food to be cooked. We had potatoes that should have been cooking for an hour and meat that needed to be warmed up. And there were 30 plus hungry, ready-to-break-their-fast people in the next room. I felt like a failure as a hostess. But thank goodness for microwaves. I ended up transferring the potatoes to a glass dish and warmed up as much as I could and the meat warmed pretty quickly in the oven. So people didn't have to wait too long and things turned out okay. Phew!!



After the blessing it was fun to sit around and visit with everyone. We ended up having Tom and family and Sidney and family and Cheryl from Terry's family. Shawn and Amy and kids and Suzette and Jodi and Evan were there from my family. (David and Kelley were home sick with influenza and strep throat, poor people). Evans parents were also there.
Here's Terry's family


Abby and Isaac before church

Jodi and Adelle

I liked this picture becuase they are holding each other's arms.


Anyway, it was a lot of fun.