The Flu

 Sadie got sick a couple Sundays ago with a fever and it lasted six days.  Nothing but a fever.  A really high one.  Like 104 when she wasn't on ibuprofin.  She felt miserable and looked like this until Friday of that week.

 It was pretty sad.  I washed my hands after every nose wipe and made the kids use hand sanitizer ever hour so they wouldn't get sick too.  Poor Sadie missed and ENTIRE week of school. But she obviously needed the rest.  After five days of a pretty high fever I decided to schedule a doctor's appointment.  So I called Thursday evening and set something up for the morning.  Of course, when she woke up she had no fever.  ha ha  But I took her in anyway and it was a good thing because she had two ear infections and a sinus infection.  So the doctor gave us a prescription and she was feeling better that afternoon.  

Neither of the other kids had gotten sick yet so I was feeling pretty good about keeping them healthy.  Then on Saturday we got our flu shots.  The whole family.  Zac had an allergic reaction and his whole thigh swelled up.  Then on Sunday he wasn't feeling well.  WE thought it was just a reaction from the shot, but Emery started feeling sick the next day.  Sigh.  So it has been two weeks of flu over here.  And this week was so much harder than last week because with Sadie she would just lay on the couch and sleep, but with Emery and Zac they are always calling out "mommy...I neeeeeeed you".  I was ok with it for the first three days, but after a while it gets hard to keep up with.  :)  I can't wait till these guys are feeling better.  And I made and appointment for Zac and Emery for tomorrow morning.   So they probably will wake up without a fever.  :)

 They live in their pajamas when they are sick.

Today around lunch time Zac was complaining that his eyes were hurting.  Then he started crying and wouldn't stop rubbing them for about 30 minutes.  I tried to look at them but he would just scream if he had to open them.  He requested pancakes for lunch, so that is what I made.  So it was pretty funny when I brought him to the table and he tried to eat without opening his eyes.  Poor kid.

Arm wrestling with dad

 The other night Rob challenged all of the kids to an arm wrestling match.  They had never done it before so it was pretty funny to watch.  Eventually they caught on and beat Rob!  ha ha

 Even Emery got in on the action.  :)

And then she got completely stuck between a couch cushion and the rocking chair.  ha ha.

Halloween

 We had a great Halloween this year.  Zac was pretty insistent that he didn't want to dress up for Halloween, he just wanted to be Zachary...but we finally had him talked into being a soccer player.  Then the day before he decided he would be a dragon because he found his old costume (from two years ago...as you can tell by looking at it.  ha ha)  I was happy with it.  Sadie was Violet from the Incredibles movie and Emery was Minnie mouse ballerina.  I made Sadie's costume, including the adorable black undies on the outside of her pants, but the others we had on hand which was very nice.  :)

We went to a little Halloween activity at the farm in Thanksgiving point.  The kids love going to the farm!  And we thought it would be crowded, but thanks to some very cold windy weather, it was empty!  We had a great time and spent most of our time there inside. 

Warning:  Picture overload!

 Here is Emery standing next to a very pregnant looking goat.  But the goat is not pregnant we were informed by a worker, she is just stretched out from having like 3 babies in the spring.  

 The kids got to make this green slime stuff in "Franketstein's lab".  That went right in the garbage when we left because it was leaking through the ziplock bags they gave us.  

 This was a cool witch decoration.  Sadie was doing her best impression of her.  Pretty good.!

 It took some coaxing, but we finally got Zac to get his face painted.

 A cute little bat.  That night we scrubbed it off in the tub.  Then the next day randomly in the car he started crying about how he was mad at Sadie fro scrubbing the bat off of his face.  Silly boy.

 Zac with a bat, Sadie with a butterfly, and I think Emery had a little heart.

 Pumpkin carving.  Sadie was the only one out of the kids to get her hands in there and take the seeds out.  Zac used a spoon and got one seed out at a time.  ha ha.  

 Cheese!

 Enjoying donuts at our ward party.  Notice how Zac's costume is practically at his knees.  I told you...it was from two years ago.  :)

 And I still can't get over the tail.  ha ha.  So cute!

 On their way to go trick or treating.

 Thumbs up.  Emery almost has it...

 Uncle Luke and Aunt Taylor came over and ate dinner with us and went trick or treating with the kids and Rob.  It is always fun to have aunts and uncles around.  The kids love them!  Notice Emery snuggling with Luke?  He put her down for bed that night.  Then the next day when I was putting her down for a nap, she said "I want Uncle Luke!"  ha ha.  

 The kids posing by their pumpkins.  So cute.

 Costumes.  Love all the kids expressions on this one.

 Sadie also got to dress up for school that day.  She loved showing off her costume and face paint.

 Action shot.

And another...I think she would be pretty good at this whole super hero thing!

The end.

Sweet Sadie

 My sweet Sadie is five years old and in Kindergarten.  I still can't really believe I have a kid in school!  She is just growing up.  One of her favorite things to do is take care of the other kids.  Whenever one of them is sad or gets hurt, she is the first to get a bandaid or get their favorite blanket.  She loves to get snuggles from the other kids when they will give them.  :) 

 This day she got three plates out by herself and got a snack for herself and the other kids without any help.

 And she was very proud of herself. 

Sadie loves school.  She is home sick today and really sad about it.  She loves to learn and do projects.  I never want her to stop loving learning!    

 Here she is running out after school.  

 The after school hug.  So sweet.  Zac always runs up and gives her a hug when she gets out of school.  He sure misses her while she is gone. Glad I captured this on camera.

 She comes up with the funnest ideas.  She made this face out of pom poms all by herself.  And this was on crazy hair day...so she had about 5 ponytails with crazy bows.  So fun.

 She loves to help Zac ride his bike...she is like his little engine.

Emery wanted to help too.  Zac was in heaven.  :)

We love our Sadie!

Hiking

 Since Rob missed our last hike to the Sandy waterfall we decided to go again with him.  The kids were so excited to show him the waterfall.  The knew just where to go.  We got there and started the hike up the stairs...

 Rob was in charge of the camera most of the time.  :)  Isn't he handsome??  

 The kids showed him this cool cave.  

 Rob helped them climb onto that ridge again.  Sadie was a little nervous since this is the spot where she was stung by a bee the last time we were here, but she didn't get stung this time!  Phew!  There were actually a lot less bees and wasps flying around this time.  I think it was because when we went with my mom, we were hiking at 11:00am and it was sunny and hot.  This time, we went in the evening, so it wasn't hot and the bees weren't hovering over the water.  

 I love this picture!  My family is the cutest!

 Emery enjoyed playing in the wet sand the whole time.  

 And she kept her undies dry the entire hike.  I was really glad about that since I was the one carrying her on my back!  :)

 Sadie climbed up here all by herself.

Just to give you an idea of how high it was.  Pretty high for her.  

I love spending time with my kids in nature.  We play a lot outside at home and everything, but taking them up into the mountains is just fun.  They love all the rocks and water and trees.  Zac's favorite thing to do is throw rocks in the water.  He could do it for hours.  I am so glad that Heavenly Father created this world and made it beautiful for us to enjoy. 

Pretzel glasses

 I remember doing this when I was younger...so the other day when I realized I bought the larger sized pretzels I showed the kids what I used to do with them.  They had lots of fun.  And they were so cute too!

 Sadie had the most success keeping it on her nose.

 Emery needed to use her hand so it didn't fall.

 And I think Zac had the most fun with it.  Ha ha.  

He played with these for a good twenty minutes.  :)

Its the simple things...