Funny pictures

 These are funny because in my pictures you can see my little hairs growing back from where they had to shave my head for surgery.  They are much longer now...And Emery's picture is funny because we were painting nails and I looked away after painting her fingers blue and when I looked back...this is what I saw.  I wonder what she was doing...ha ha

 The kids think it is hilarious when Finley sucks on her pacifier upside down.

 Riley walking with her friend Lucy while also sharing her blanket with Finley.  ha ha

 This was Zac's birthday meal.  Chili and hot dogs.

 Finley likes to crawl like this.  It reminds me of Mogli from Jungle Book.  

 Emery playing soccer.

 Emery loves to find these potato bugs.

This is Sadie's team.  She really improved this year and has loved playing defense. 

Finley and Food

This girl is just a riot  She makes us all laugh! Even when she is eating.

Catch up

Just catching up a bit.  I feel so behind that I feel like I can't catch up so I decided to just do my best.  :)  So here are a bunch of pictures with some explanations. 

Walked into my bathroom to find this one day.  Ha ha.  I am going to miss finding treasures like this around the house when my kids get older.

Emery learned how to ride a bike.  It took a long time but now she is out there riding every chance she gets!

Finley...this was before she was very mobile.  Riley would give her toys to play with.  And one day Riley told me mom look!  And she was making this face.  She called it her emoji face.  ha ha.

Emery and her friend Stella and Riley playing dress up.

Zac building card houses.  This came with lots of highs when he got it to work and lots of tears when it would fall over.

I had my first follow up MRI 3 months ago.  They said things were looking pretty good, but there were some things they would keep their eye on.  I have my next MRI in a week and a half.  Then maybe I'll post some pictures of my brain on the blog.  :)

Cute Finley swinging at the park.

Rob wanted to take the kids to the aquarium while they were on spring break because he had never been there.  We actually decided to just buy a season pass because it was so expensive to get in for our family that it would pay for itself in 2 visits.  So we are looking forward to going back there lots this summer!  When we went over spring break, it was a rainy day so there were tons of other people there who were also on spring break.  It was so crowded so I was glad Rob was there to help with the kids.

Here is Zac showing me some huge fish swimming around.

Riley's was just looking at the fish with her bum sticking out like this.  I thought it was cute.  And the penguins were definitely my favorite thing there!

The kids watching the penguins.

Sitting on a killer whale.  

Here are the kids going across the rope bridge.  They had to wait in a long line to do it.  Rob helped Riley across. 

In some kind of fish's jaw...I love how Finley is just hanging out above Sadie's head.  

At one of our favorite parks.

Here is Riley enjoying whatever it is that she is eating.

We decided one night to go out to eat and take the kids to a place called Tepanyaki.  It's one of those places that they cook the food right in front of you and make big fires and do fun tricks.  We thought the kids would love it...

Sadie (and Zac if you look close...) loved playing with their chopsticks.  And Finley did great sitting in the high chair the whole time.

These two were terrified of the fire and enjoyed the show from under the table.  ha ha! Overall it was a fun time. 

Here are the dresses that I made the girls for Easter.

First Broken bone...and Zac's baptism.

 So two days after the pinewood derby, Zac got to go on a field trip to the dump.  After they went there, they stopped by the park near our house and ate lunch and played for a bit.  I got a text from my friend that happened to be there saying that Zac hurt his arm.  She said he was saying he was fine, but she observed him and gave me a call.  He was just sitting by her and whimpering.  So I drove over to pick him up from the park.  I took him to the Dr. who sent us somewhere where he could get x rays.  Sure enough it was broken.  My friend said that all the teachers were saying it probably wasn't broken because he didn't cry that much.  Ha ha.  I guess he is just really tough.  :)

 Here are his x rays.  I couldn't for the life of me see the break until I asked the Dr. to point it out.  They said it was in a spot that may need surgery.  Fortunately he didn't need that!  If you look at the picture on the right, at the humerus (upper) bone, on the very left at the bottom there is a tiny gray line.  That is the break.  I would have never seen it if it wasn't pointed out to me.  

 Here we are waiting for his x ray.

 Then we had to go back to the Dr. and he put a splint on him.  He said it wasn't allowed to get wet...I told him that Zac was going to get baptized in 2 days...He basically said "good luck."  ha ha.  So I bought a plastic cast cover and we taped that on.  And it stayed dry.

 The place where we got his x rays was right near Rob's work so he met us there.  

 Here we are a few days later at Zac's baptism.  It was a wonderful day and he got to be baptized on the same day as two of his friends.  Lucy and Aubrey.

Left to right: Aubrey, Lucy, Zac

 

 Family picture.

 Zac with his best friend Bryant.  After the baptism we planned a taco feast because it was Cinco de Mayo.  This was how many people were there...None of them were there for us.   Ha ha  Oh well.  The food was amazing though.  :)

Five days after he broke his arm, Zac finally got his cast.  He chose a blue one and I got to sign it first.  :)  WE went and got some ice cream to celebrate.  He actually gets it off in 2 days...so maybe we will have to go again.  :)

 The kids always like the bright colored ice cream.  I'm pretty sure it is just because it looks fun.  I always go for Chocolate almond.

 Sporting his new gear.  I got to sign his cast first.

Grandma and grandpa were lucky enough to come an get to sign his cast too.