Broken Arm

Poor Gabe broke his arm this summer at the Flint Family Reunion. The reunion was a blast and was held in Paradise at at Church owned property called Little Bear River Resort.

This place had little cabins with bunk beds for each family. As is typical with all kids Kelsi and Gabe ran to get the top bunks. The first night there they climbed up on their bunk beds and stayed for about 10 minutes and then decided they wanted the bottom beds. The next day after spending the day playing in the creek, playing football, frisbee, hiking and with Gabe raiding any DS's he could find they were pretty tuckered out so when they crawled into their top bunk, even after dad telling them it wasn't a good idea, they fell asleep by the time their heads hit the pillows. About 2 in the morning we hear Kelsi crawl down to the bottom bunk. Jeff gets up to check on Gabe and pushes him all the way to the wall. An hour later Gabe rolls out of his bed and must have woken up mid fall and tried to catch himself. He broke both bones in his forearm and they shifted down. His poor arm looked like a Z. So we ran to the ER and after 3 hours at the ER and a half an hour of jerking and setting the bones he was able to head out. The killer was when we were driving to the hospital and Gabe while sobbing looked up to Jeff and asked him why he didn't catch him. Broke our hearts.

Gabe had to wait about a week to get his hard cast on and he was so upset because it was also the week he started school. Luckily the orthopedic surgeon saw us at like 7 in the morning to get the cast on so he was able to make it to his first day of school and had all of his friends sign his cast.

He should get a short cast on tomorrow and then another 3 weeks before he is done. As long as he cooperates and I can keep of the tramp and his bike and everything else. The x ray last week didn't show a lot of re growth so hopefully he drank more milk this week and it is healing better!

Back to School

Gabriel is starting kindergarten this year. His teacher is Mrs Jacobs and Gabe loves it. He comes home from school every day to tell me what snack he has and then eventually what he learned and who is friends are. He has a lot of friends from church and soccer in his class with him. I am glad he is having so much fun! He is excited to learn and excited to do his homework every day.... I know it wont last but its fun while it does!

Kelsi is starting second grade this year. Her teacher is Ms Briggs and Kelsi has liked her. She was excited because 2nd grade is in the portables. She came home from school pretty disappointed that first week because "the portables are just like every other classroom"!

10 Years

This year was our ten year anniversary. I can't believe it has been that long all ready. We are so happy together and love our family so much. It is the life we both always wanted. We celebrated this week by Jeff taking the week off of work and spending it together. The kids stayed at Grandpa and Grandma Luthy's while we went to our favorite anniversary get away, Destination's Inn. We stayed in the Egyptian Room this time. It is a pretty cool place.

We then spent a day at Lagoon. It was a blast. The kids went from 10 - 10 and still were jumping and running around when we got home. They had so much fun.

Kelsi was asked to be in the perfomance done by Cirque. She was so nervous and they suprised me and Jeff by asking us to be in it also. (Jeff looked pretty in his crown and wand.)

We finished the weekend by taking the kids to Toy Story 3 and swimming. It was a really nice break from everything and nice to spend time together at home.

Hungry Little Alligators

At Kelsi's school in the first grade they make their own opera. The kids write the music, words and props for their show. Kelsi's class made their opera on some lost little alligators that were trying to make their way home in the swamp. Kelsi was a swan. She did a such a good job and was so proud of it.

Gabe

Me: Gabe you need to clean up your room and do your homework before you can play the X Box
Gabe Yelling: No, I dont want to
Me: Gabe you have to do your chores if you want to play X Box
Gabe: Who put you in charge because I dont like it. All you say is no, no, no
Me: I put me in charge, I'm the mom. Clean your room and you wont get no, no, no


Room stayed dirty all night, no X box.

Victoria's Birthday

Tori turned 2 this year. It went by so fast and yet so slow at the same time. Tory is a beautiful little girl and has us all under her spell, well maybe not Gabe. She pretty much controls the house, but we are slowly gaining some of it back. She has been a difficult child and has given me and Jeff more nightmares then we care to go into. The doctors have never been able to give me an answer regarding her breatholding. But as promised and as we always believed she is gradually growing out of them. She rarely has seizures after the breatholding now, but she still will hold her breath and pass out around 4 times a month. We took her to The Children's Center for group therapy to mostly help me figure her out and how I can intervene with her and help her handle the situations. I dont think it helped Tory out much but the information from all those sessions was great to learn and beneficial for all my children.

Tori is a beautiful girl, she is almost extremly bright, she has things figured out years before the other two. She knows her mind and what she wants and is determined to get it. As long as we get that pointed in the right direction we are good. She loves to be outside and especially on the trampoline. She jumps on that for hours on end. She loves playing with Kelsi and Gabe when he will ( those two have a love - hate relationship, but they are gradually learning to love being with each other more and more ) However when Kelsi and Gabe got to go to Grandma Luthy's for a week Tory asked where they were and we told and she yelled out YES! I guess she was excited to have us all to herself! Tory wants to be big so fast, she wants to ride bikes with the kids, run as fast as them, go anywhere and everywhere they go. She looks up to Kelsi and Gabe with pure admiration. She gets very frustrated with everything if she cant keep up with them or if they dont want her to play with them.

We love Tori so much and are so glad that everything is working out with her. Here are some pictures of her 2 year old pictures and a video of her singing Popcorn Poping with Jeff

Gabriel's Birthday

Gabriel turned five this year and it was such a good birthday for him. He had his first big birthday party with a bunch of his friends. Gabe of course wanted a batman birthday party, so I made little batman capes for all his friends. Of course it decided to rain on us and so I had to change all of my outdoor activites to indoor, but it turned out really well.

We love Gabe so much, he is such a good kid, he has an infectious laugh and is a smart kid. He is in a tough position being the middle child and the only boy at that, but he is finding his place and starting to stand up for what he wants to do. He loves playing X Box, he could do that all day if I let him, his favorite games right now are Sonic the Hedgehodge Super racers, and any of the Lego Games, mostly Batman. He is a very affection and emotional boy. He is also the most held back of our three kids but almost always the one that gets hurt. He has mastered his bicycle this spring and when he isn't wanting to play X Box he wants to be riding his bike. Its a good thing we live in a cul de sac because Gabe's idea of checking for cars is yelling as loud as he can there's no cars and hoping it is true. One of my favorite Gabe saying lately is when I was asking him to put away his clothes he turned to me and said, "who put you in charge?", I replied I did, I'm the mom and I am the boss, so he said, " well I dont like you in charge, all you make me do is work, work, work."

Gabe starts school in one week, he is so excited for kindergarten, his teacher will be Mrs Jacobs and Gabe will have a lot of friends from our ward in class with him. Grandma Luthy bought him a Transformer Bumbelbee back pack for school and he has worn that everywhere we go. I think this will be great for Gabe, he will love being able to find his place and find out that he is really good at things.

We love Gabe, he is such a special boy. Here is a couple pictures from his birthday and his 5 year old birthday picture.