Saved pictures on my MEMORY card!

Yes, a few pictures were still on my memory card so I am going to catch up on a week of blogging.

Friday, Oct. 3 Carly had a 9am check-up on her arm. We decided to plan a whole day around it.

They took x-rays and the bones are healing great!
These are some exercises we are to do. Unfortunately, Carly left with tears because she still can't do PE, ride her bike and any real physical activities until Nov. 3. We are waiting for the pins holes to feel in with new bone.
Lindsey and Cole waited in the waiting room, Carly brought Cole out a succor! "Time to be happy" I told Carly, "we are going shopping. "

Stops we made:

Scout shop

Old Navy

the bank

Superstition Springs Mall (Lindsey got 3 new pairs of pants- I am jealous)

The Pretzel stand (yummy)

Walmart

Conner chose to stay home and play his rented baseball X-Box game. Erik home asleep.

Oct. 4-5 General Conference

One of my favorite weekends. I love conference. We sat around and listened to the prophet Pres. Monson speak. The talks were so awesome! So uplifting and encouraging.

Monday, Oct. 6 Cole was complaining his ears hurt, so off to the doctor we went.

His ears hadn't cleared up and his wheezing bad. Dr.'s orders breathing treatments more often. New medicine for his ears. Dr. worried his congestion might lead to phenomena, yuck!

Tuesday, Oct. 7 spent day at "Amazing Jakes"

Carly invited Whitney S.

Lindsey invited Summer E.

Conner invited Dallin E.

Erik stayed home with Cole

Dallin and Conner they have so much fun together.

Carly & Whitney go round'n round on the mini roller coaster.

What a fun place to go. Amazing Jakes is an indoor fun center. They have bumper cars, go-carts, rock wall climbing, laser tag, mini roller coaster, 18 holes of miniature golf, night bowling, video games, rides and more rides. Did I mention all you can eat buffet including ice cream and cookies. We had such a good time.

Waiting in line to ride the go-carts.

Do you have your license?

Conner you better put your seat belt on, your in for a ride!

Mom let's go hit the track!

Don't throw up - the teacups will do it to you every time!

What are you two up to?

These two had so much fun! Whitney kept telling me "this is the best day of my life!" I am glad they had such a good time.

gOoFy golf - Conner was in it to win! The rest of us just had fun!

Me and Carly - she is my clone!

Crazy Summer!

What a face Lindsey!

Raced back to Queen Creek to hit Cub Scout Pack Mtg. That night Dallin ended up spending the night at our house and after YW's Lindsey stayed the night at Summer's. Lucky for all everyone was tired and the boys weren't up all night!

Wednesday, Oct. 8 we played around the house all day! That night was "Ladies Night Out". Jodi and I had organized a cousins, sisters, aunt night out. It was so much fun! We met at Serrano's for dinner at 6pm. It was so good to see everyone and visit.

Starting on the left: Jodi Alder, Lori Morris, Lisa Steverson, Larissa Lopez

On the Right: Aunt Marilyn Larsen, Cassandra Larsen, Jen Roberts

We missed everyone who couldn't make it! Several ladies that lived in town had YW's - callings that night (Aunt Linda, Amy, Jessica), off on vacation or getting ready to leave(Patrice and Aunt Roxann) and a new baby (Ally)!

We laughed and shared stories of dating, marriage, health, blogs, trips, photography, children and pregnancy! One of us is pregnant! Can you guess who? It was SO much fun! I love hanging out with these amazing women! Blogging has helped us reconnect again!

After dinner everyone except Aunt Marilyn went to the movies (Momma Mia). I can't say it without singing it (ABBA rocks). We laughed, sang and enjoyed being together. We need to get together quarterly! I love you all and enjoyed the time we spent together.

Thursday, Oct. 9 Was my turn to watch kiddos while Lisa and mom worked. We spent the morning playing at the train park. Of course, the bin of sand toys was a hit. Cole spent most of the time on the swings. We spent the rest of the day hanging out and playing. The kids had so much fun together - everyone was there due to fall break ( NO school)!

Erik and Conner went with Papa Morris on the Quail hunt. Left Thursday 12ish and spent the night in Papa's truck. Came home Friday around noon. They had a fun time and even shot some quail.

What a fun week! It was so fun having the kids and Erik off.

Computer crashed...

I am going to try hard to hold it together as I post this! Our computer crashed this week and we lost everything! Dumb us hadn't backed up our pictures since JUNE. Lost all summer pictures! Lost all of our word documents (all my scout files, journal entries, journal book I had made, London's run stuff, etc...) I think you get the picture. Even lost all email addresses and items sent to us! Can you say I CRIED!

On the positive end this BLOG saved me as far as pictures. At least I could go back and re-save all the pictures off my blog a tender mercy!

Needless to say, we will be setting up a new system, so this never happens again! I am glad Erik was able to get the computer up and running again, so I can BLOG!

Slicing veggies and oops my THUMB!

I can't believe it, this is something that would happen to Erik (he is always getting hurt), I sliced off the tip of my right thumb. Yes, all the way off! You can actually see the tenden.

I was helping cut up some veggies for a wedding reception and using a slicer for the first time (and did I say last time) when the cucumber I was slicing slipped and I sliced off the tip of my thumb. Never quite injured myself this way. I'll tell you the thumb bleeds a lot! They hurried and gave me some motrin (oops that is a blood thinner- I should have taken tylenol) to help with the pain.

The ladies (Moe Edwards/Heather Solomon) I was with called a trama ER nurse from our ward and she said since the tip of the thumb was not attached any more and the location there wasn't anything a dr. could do. It would just need to heal on it's own.

So, a dear lady in our ward (Michelle Solomon) who has some natural oils jumped at the chance to help me. She put some Geranium oil to stop the bleeding and help a scab get started. What a sweetie (she has called already to check on me!) Cute Heather S. has also called to make sure I was okay and the Edwards brought me a Sonic "vanilla coke" I am so blessed to have awesome friends. Thanks for checking on me ladies!

Darn I guess no major cleaning this weekend - I will just have to take it easy!

51 miles...one way

When I look at this picture I think of a tender mercy.

Thank heavens Erik had a flat at home and not on the road.

He travels 51 miles one way to work.

Glad he was safe and home where it was easy to change.

A darn screw! Luckily an easy fix!

We on the other hand spent our day being lazy. It was a Blockbuster day. We rented movies (Curious George - was Cole's choice of DVD's), Conner opted for a baseball X-ball game, Carly choose 2 that everyone would like and I picked up a few (Penelope - Lindsey's choice). It wouldn't be a lazy day without Aunt LaSchelle's famous chex mix we made this afternoon.

I love days like today, easy and fun!

dIsCoUnT Movie Day

Today we went to the movies!

WALL-E

The ticket says it was PG 13, but it was a G movie!

We went the cheap route...popped popcorn from home, brought water bottles and stopped by Walgreen's and everyone got to choose a treat!

Lindsey invited her friend Olivia Knapp.

We had a fun time.

Cole started to lose it half way through,

so he and I went next door and watched KUNGFU Panda.

He ended up falling asleep the last 5 minutes.

It was a good day!

Came home to cub scouts at 5pm. Lindsey had young women softball at 6pm. Conner ended up spending the night with his friend Dallin Edwards and Lindsey over at Megan Hunt's house. Carly was sad, so she and I are having a sleep over. (That means she is sleeping in our my bed - Erik is at work all night!)

Fun day...I wonder what tomorrow will bring?!

Read the bottom line...

Conner and Carly's first time to go to the eye dr.

Can you believe I forgot my camera?

They did such a good job.

The air being shot in their eyes and all.

Great news...no glasses needed.

Their eyes are in great shape, yeah!

My city girls go to the country!

Lindsey and Carly left Saturday morning with Jodi to go to Pima. The Alders have built a roping arena and once a month hold a competition. I was suppose to go, but still don't feel 100% and thought the dirt and dust wouldn't be the best for me right now.

They had a blast! I guess they got to ride horses, see the new liter of St. Bernard puppies, help run the concessions and hang out!

Carly told me they had 3 momma dogs and one daddy dog. There were 4 new 3 week old puppies. She said, "Mom there were 3 momma dogs and I didn't know where the 4th momma was?" I guess you can tell our kiddos haven't been around a lot of baby animals. Lindsey had to teach her about animals and how they have liter's (more than one baby). One of those life lessons you forget or think your kids know.

Lindsey said one of her customers at the concessions was this boy. He just stood there, finally she said, "can I help you?" Then he just stood there. Finally she listed the items they had, "hamburger, hotdog, nachos, soda, candy." Finally he said, "I will have nachos, soda, and chips." She asked him what kind of "soda"? He asked her, "what is your favorite kind?" and she replied, "WATER". He said he'd take a "SPRITE". Gotta love those pima cowboys (teenagers)! Oh , is she really getting that age where boys like girls and girls like boys?

We told her she was the new girl in town! I think my grey hair has began to grow!

Carly said Jodi honked her horn the whole way through the tunnel. Lindsey said they took turns listening to each other's I-pods in the car. They had a great time. Jodi, thanks so much for taking the girls you are such a fun person! Love to hear Lindsey took good care of Carly (Carly's first time to be away from us over night/out of town) - she is such a good big sister!

Glad they are home!

Our fall break is here - NO school for two weeks!!