Fourth of July!!

Mon. 4: Jase was feeling better and I spent the whole day with the kids. Rick opted to stay home and work.  He wanted to clean out the unfinished room in the basement to get ready for his Studio equipment that was due to come this week. So now all of the boxes of storage are in the family room in the basement instead of in the other room and we have nowhere to put it!  He has been calling around to see if we can get a shed out by the garage but it will be probably be awhile before we can get one ordered.  He brought several big loads to the DI. 

I packed a picnic lunch for the kids and we all went to the park in St. George to enjoy the Fourth of July Festivities. I left Jaiden home with Rick, putting her down for a nap before we left, and she slept pretty much the whole time we were gone. The kids did all of the free games and went on the 100 foot slip and slide. We ate our picnic on the grass in the shade. We weren't going to do anything that cost money or required a ticket but then we had two different people (total strangers) come up and give us tickets because they were leaving. So the kids went on the giant blow up slides several times. We ended up running into Barneys and the kids had fun going on the slides with their kids.

I had told the kids I would take them to a movie "Herby Fully-Loaded" and Janika asked if Madison could come too. Her mom gave the go-ahead and so she ended up tagging along. We went home first to drop off Janelle since it was time for her nap. The movie was cute but still had the Lord's name in vain several times - and it was rated "G!"  I mean if you can't trust a "G" movie - what can you trust?  Why can't they just say, "Oh my gosh!" instead of using the other word?  The kids were all very good during the movie and they all loved it. 

Our neighbors called and invited us over to their place tonight for a BBQ.  All of the kids went swimming. Neither Rick or I felt like staying up late to see the fireworks tonight. I told Rick it was his turn since I had been with the kids all day but he didn't want to go either. Janika was really giving it to us, whining and complaining about how unfair that was -- especially since they didn't get to see them last year either. Then some ward members invited us to go over and watch the fireworks that they had purchased.  That seemed to satisfy the kids and so they weren't disappointed about missing the big ones. They came back all excited and said that they were "so cool!"  I had just put the baby to bed and so I stayed home and let Rick take the other kids.  

  

Stomach Flu

Sun. 3:  Jase was complaining of stomach cramps all morning and was just laying around on the couch.   We didn't know how serious it was and we all went to church (bringing a barf bag just in case). Good thing we did!  No sooner had Sacrament meeting started then Jase started throwing up!  So Rick rushed him out the door and stayed home with him.

I had totally forgotten that a week or so ago Janelle and Jaiden had both thrown up in the middle of the night.  Janelle had been crying and said her tummy hurt and so Rick had brought her in bed with us.  Then in the night she started throwing up and Rick shouted "help help!"  He had actually caught it all in his hands (unbeknownst to me of course!) and was pretty proud of himself.  But when he shouted "help!" I grabbed for Janelle, trying to yank her out of his arms to make a run for the bathroom and of course it all went flying everywhere!  He was a little upset at first but then we had to laugh about the whole thing.  I told him to shout something more specific next time like: "grab a towel!"  So we had one of those middle of the night do-an-emergency-load-of-laundry sessions along with the middle of the night bath for Janelle.  The commotion had awakenen Jaiden and so I had gone in to nurse her and then she promptly threw up all over me too! 

Anyway, back to Sunday...I had been was asked to sub for the chorister in primary, but they ended up not having a Pianist and so I ended up playing the piano instead and they found someone else to lead the music at the last minute.  That has happened before when I was asked to lead the music.  I am supposed to lead the music next week too.

When we got home from church, Janelle's crib was in the garage and her little bed was up.  She excitedly crawled right on to it!  In fact, after dinner I couldn't find her and she had crawled on her bed to go to sleep!  It hasn't always been that easy though!  Often she just runs out of her room giggling.  One day I put both girls down for a nap at the same time.  I could hear them in there and so I went to check on them and Janelle had crawled into Jaiden's crib and was playing with her.  When I walked in they were both giggling guiltily and crawling around in circles! These two little girls really keep me going, but they sure are cuties and a lot of fun!!  They love to play and are always laughing!