Aren't they Sweet?

These are 3 of my nieces. Isn't this a cute picture?

Haylee (oldest on left)

Emilee (on the right)

Kylee (in middle)

So Stinkin Cute!

Chads birthday was on Thursday so we had a backyard bbq and birthday cake for desert. Well Corbyn LOVED the cake. It was so fun to watch him eat it.

My Week Out of Town

OK, so I mentioned that I would tell you about my being out of town for a week. I'm not sure it qualifies as a vacation though. Every year the YMCA in Boise holds a Bike tour called "Ride Idaho" They ask our Ham radio club the VOI to help with communications during the 450 mile ride. basically we drive with the riders everyday and if something goes wrong such as flat tires, wrecks, fatigue, etc. they aren't far from help. They ride an average of 60 miles a day. But that doesn't mean I only had to drive 60 miles a day, that would be too easy. Because we have to drive up and down the course until all the riders make it to camp. one day they had to ride 80 miles but I drove 230 I was so tired. The original plan was Chad wanted to go, however since it was his week vacation from work he didn't want to spend it away from the family so he wouldn't go unless I did, well in order for me to get the free hotel room and free meals, I had to also contribute. So Chad and I both drove out to Idaho falls Chad in his truck and me in my car. We both worked hard. What about the boys you ask?? oh yes they were there! I thought for sure it would be just awful trying to take the boys in the car for a whole week. But they did really well, better then I expected. They were both well behaved and all of the riders and YMCA staff were impressed with how they were.
The problems. Yes of course every trip has to have problems. On i think about the 3rd or 4th day, my car started being weird and with in 20 min it died! We figured out it was my alternator witch makes me super upset because we just replaced that last year. We were out side Alpine WY and we had to drive into Jackson WY to get the part. So Chad and my dad (thanks dad) stayed up super later and fixed it in the hotel parking lot. And also that day my tire got a slow leak and we had to air it up everyday. But then the night we stayed in Lava Hot springs we woke up to a complete flat tire. SO we put the spare on and did the ride and when we got to Pocatello we got it repaired. But the hardest part of the whole trip was we couldn't get to the hotel until after 7pm and by the time we got to bed around 9 we had to get up at 5 or 6. I know to some people that seems like enough sleep but me and the boys aren't use to it. the boys' bed time is 8pm but they sleep until 8am. and me I got to bed around 10pm and get up at 8am. So it was a really hard adjustment for the week and it made us all tired. I felt so bad because every time we woke the boys up to get them dressed they just cried because they needed to sleep longer.
So anyway, it wasn't 100% awful but it wasn't my ideal vacation. Everyone keeps asking if I'm going next year but we will have to see, I will have the new baby and not sure I want to do that with that small of one. We'll have to see.

Better Pics of Corbyns Finger

Corbyn's Finger

So, Yesterday Corbyns and I were out side doing yard work. We sat on the front porch to take a break . Well Corbyn decided to move the chair away from the house and then stand up in it backwords. Of course it tips over smashing his finger between the concrete and the metal top of the chair. At first I wasn't sure where the blood was coming from because it looked like he face planted so I was look around his head. But I got him in the bathroom and got a wash cloth and realized it was his finger. When I wiped the blood off the whole tip of his finger peeled back. I thought for sure he needed stichtes. So I started makeing calls. My friend (thanks Lorinda) took me to the ER where Chad met me. They did an xray to make sure none of the fingers were broken witch they weren't. But then they told us that they couldn't stitch it becasue his fingers are so small there wasn't enough meat between the flaps to hold it. The Dr left it up to us saying he could try but since he didn't think it would hold he didn't want to add more trauma to Corbyn. So we agreed and did not get the stitches we left the ER with a single bandaid. I'm just beating myself up because I took him to the ER to get a bandaid. Anyway This picture was taken this morning 24 hours after the accident its looks so gross. He's doing ok with it. He just gets frusterated becasue he can't use his hand (I put gauze over the whole wound instead of just a bandaid) But other then thatit only hurts when I have to change the dressing. He wont let me touch his hand. All of his fingers are bruised. So anyway, It was a pretting emotional day yesterday.

This was the first ER visit involving the boys. Carsyn has had a couple close calls but we never took him. BUT again I thought for SURE they would need to stitch this.

I know, I know I KNOW!!

it's been a while since I've poated (again). I've been out of town for a week. I will post when I get home and tell you all about it.

Does anybody want a dog?!

So It's been a frustrating summer! As you know I planted tomato's and Peppers. Shortly after I got the peppers in the ground the dog lay ed on one if the plants and broke it off there was only 1 leaf left. Luckily It has recovered. There was another pepper plant that he did something too (not sure what) I think it's trying to survive but I don't think it will. Then he seemed to leave them alone for a bit. But then He completely destroyed one of the healthy plants. I was SOOO mad I was beating him so badly that Chad turned off the lawn mower and came and stopped me and sent me in the house to calm down. So then we put him on the chain. After a few weeks of that I started to trust him again and just let him be in the yard. But with in just a day or two he decided to eat all of my green tomato's that we growing good. I beat him again and put him on the chain and that is where he has been ever since. But tonight......ARGH!!!.....We left the house for a few hours. When we got back he had somehow unhooked the chain (and re-hooked it to itself?) and we rushed to check the tomato's and sure enough my 1 remaining tomato from the first round of blooms that was half red was gone. along with all of the tomatoes bigger then the size of a quarter. I'm SOOOOOO mad. I didn't want to go buy stuff for a fence because that would defeat the purpose of growing my own to save money. I'm seriously so mad that my blood is just boiling. I usually let Chad bring the dog in the house in the afternoon because it's hot out side but now that privilege is gone and he can sit out on the chain in the hot sun all day!

What Fruit Are You?

You Are an Apple

You are strong, powerful, and even a bit stubborn at times. You have enough strength to help those around you in trouble. You are adventurous and charming. Many people are drawn to you. You love life, and you enjoy traveling the world. You enjoy fine food, art, and culture. People have accused you of being a snob, but that's not accurate. You do enjoy the best things in life. Unlike snobs, you truly appreciate quality... not just pretend to.

What Type of Fruit Are You?

Do you Like?

I've been playing around with some back grounds. And while I loved the backgrounds from Pyzam.com I will probably never use them again because when I uploaded that background (with the scratchy sketches) it deleted a bunch of stuff so I had to rebuild my blog..:( Anyway My very good friend Steph told me the site that she uses and this is what I came up with. I really like this back ground. I might still play around with the font colors and link colors but as for now I hope you enjoy seeing something a little different.

This is what I did this weekend.

Chad and I went camping to help do radio communications for the VOI . We were providing communications for the Idaho Rally event. If you go to Chad's blog he has posted some pictures of the rally cars. It was fun to watch the races. It did get kind of long though because once we were in our positions they closed the roads so we had to stay in one spot for HOURS then they would move us to the next race and stay there for HOURS. and those of you with little boys know how fast they get board lol... But it was fun.