I hope these things don't really come in threes

If bad things/accidents come in threes, I think it is best that I stay in bed all day today. Either that or between the hours of 5-7 pm I need to go hide in a padded room for my own safety. ha ha

It all started Monday evening as I was carrying Jackson downstairs to make dinner. When I was a little over halfway down the stairs I stepped on the very end of the stair and my foot slipped off the stair and folded under me. Luckily, I could tell I was going to fall so I was able to keep Jackson from getting hurt. He didn't get hurt in the slightest. My body took the brunt of it and I have the bruises to prove it. When I finally stopped falling my right leg was completely pinned underneath me. How I didn't break my leg or at the very least my toes is beyond me. At the time however I was more worried about the muscle that I pulled in my belly. I'd venture to say that falling down the stairs in your 3rd trimester when you are already in higher risk pregnancy, is not good. We feel very fortunate that Jackson wasn't hurt at all and that all I have are some ugly bruises and some serious stiffness and a back ache like no other.

Fast forward 24 hours. Last night after dinner I went up to my friend's house to go visiting teaching. It was such a beautiful day and she doesn't live too far away so I decided to walk and to take Jackson with me. As I got a ways up the street I saw one of my neighbors outside with her daughter and I paused to wave. What I didn't notice until it was too late was that she had a friend with her that also lives in the neighborhood and he had his evil possessed dog with him on a leash. I HATE this dog. It is a little dog but it is seriously evil and it has bitten me before. So of course the dog charges me and the kid lets go of the leash and then just stands there as the dog proceeds to attack me. When it first charged me I kind of hopped behind the stroller until I realized that it could reach Jackson so then I turned the stroller to keep it away from Jackson. Then it came around the corner and bit me. So I start yelling to the kid "GET YOUR DOG, IT IS BITING ME!" He of course doesn't do much so after it bit me for the second time I grabbed the leash myself and handed it to the kid and said "I HATE your dog!" I feel kind of bad now because the kid is only a year or two older than Garrison, but that is the SECOND time he has let go of the leash and that stupid dog has attacked me. Luckily, neither bite broke the skin. One bite did make a bruise that I already had from falling down the stairs worse but hey, it didn't break the skin so I feel fortunate about that.

By the time I got up to Amy's house I was shaking and sweating to death from being traumatized by a stupid little dog. It is a little dog but I repeat.......it is evil.

So, I suppose I need to be on my guard from 5-7 pm tonight in hopes of staying safe. ha ha.

This is for you Con

GO JAZZ!!!

I swear we really do have toys!!!

Between last week's game of Wal-mart sack races and their entertainment this weekend, you would think that our kids don't have any toys to play with.

We first start off with the game where you just put a box over your head and bump into everything and everyone.

Next, you see how many people you can fit into that same box.

Then you ditch the box, rip all the pillows off the couch and start having a pillow fight.

Then Dad decides that he doesn't want to miss out on the fun so he joins in.........and then it really gets crazy! Then Dad is so pooped out he decides that he needs a nice backrub. (He thinks it is nice, I think it looks painful!)
Who needs toys when you have a box, couch cushions, and a dad???

We start our kids young

We start our kids young with chores. First we made our 18 month old sweep the floor.

His next chore was to scrub the grout.

Then it was his turn to vacuum the floor.

OK...........so really we were taking before and after pictures for his haircut and he just happened to be playing with cleaning supplies everytime. Whatever keeps him entertained I guess.

Goodbye Little Lambs!

Hailey is done with preschool for this year. She sure is sad. She LOVES Little Lambs. I am glad that I found a place to send her that she likes and that I like as well.

They had a cute little program where they sang some songs and did some little dances. Then they had a big pizza party with all of the families as well as a slide show of the last year.

She and Garrison are both very excited that they will be going to school together next year. I just wish that they would be going to school here as I love Garrison's teacher and I love his school. He is getting such a good education here.........well besides all of the vampire, mummy, zombie talk. ha ha. I guess that will happen anywhere he goes to school though.

These are two of my friends, Maryke, and Kelli. We are all due within a few weeks of each other and they have kids that have been going to Little Lambs this year as well.

We will miss Little Lambs!

A decent family picture.......to be or not to be

I took the girls to get their pictures taken on Saturday. First of all, I have to say that it is SO much easier to get 2 kids pictures than 4. HUGE difference. With that being said, the boys (when I took them a couple of months ago) were SO much easier than the girls. Boys hair is so much easier to do and takes so much less time. Plus, if they mess it up it is easy to fix where as with girls, well lets just say it may not be fixable away from home. I won't even start on keeping their dresses looking decent.

Anyway, the girls were really good and I was so grateful. I wish we would have had a better photographer though. She missed so many good shots. I realize that I was being somewhat of a backseat photographer (or whatever you want to call it) but seeing as that I have been a photographer for a photo studio, I do at least know what I am talking about. ha ha. Oh well, they turned out decent and it definitely could have been worse. They could have turned out like our Easter morning pictures where we couldn't get a good picture to save our lives. Case in point: Jackson sliding off the stairs.

Example number two: You can't see Hailey's eyes very well with the picture this size but they are SO wide and funny. They make me LOL everytime I look at the picture.

And then we have: going, going................

and GONE.

And that is the end of Easter morning pictures at the Whetten house. What can we say........we did our best.

I do have to say however, that may favorite "bad" picture is the picture that we got taken of the 6 oldest grandkids. That is CLASSIC. The other day I pulled that baby out just for a good laugh. Mandi, do you have a copy of that on your computer anywhere? I only have it in hard copy form. Anyway, we were lucky to even have all of the kids on the table at the same time. Garrison is the oldest and he was 3 1/2 at the time so we had 6 kids 3 1/2 and under. We kept telling the photographer "JUST TAKE THE PICTURE" because we all new that it was only going to get worse. Oh boy. Fun times I tell ya!

Weekend fun

It's amazing what kids will find to do when they are trying to entertain themselves. On Friday the kids were so hyper they ended up having potato sack races in Walmart bags. I have no idea where they got this idea from but they sure had a blast (as you can see from Hailey's and Alexia's hair). I think they went through about 30 bags. Afterward Garrison said "Uh-oh! We are almost out of bags. You better go shopping Mom!"

While the older three were entertaining themselves with shopping bags, Jackson entertained himself with Daddy's Blackberry. The boy is obsessed with our cell phones. If he sees one of us using it he runs toward us screaming, reaching for it. Then when we finally relent and give him the phone he has a conversation with some imaginary person. He says "HI!" a bunch of times and then tells his imaginary friend something, although were aren't exactly sure what that is. His new thing is that he covers his other ear with his hand. That made me laugh because he got that from Conal who always covers his ear when he is trying to hear the other end of a work related conversation, but he is surrounded by a bunch of hooligans (probably having Wal-mart sack races or something similar).

On Saturday we went to a party for the baptism of a co-workers 4 year old daughter. It was a typical El Paso party complete with a jumping balloon, TONS of food and a pinata. The kids had a blast and the 89 degree weather rocked!