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Blog housekeeping items

Item Number One:  I joined Pinterest and it is the coolest place ever.  It's kind of like a virtual bulletin board for all of your inspiration for every aspect of yourself.  It's a great place to keep your ideas organized.  Anyway, you can follow other peoples boards so I would love to have more people to follow and follow  me.
If you already have an account I think you can go here to follow me.  If not I guess you can search for me.
If you want to join you can either request an invitation from them or let  me know and I can send an invitation from my account.  It's so much fun!

Also, I had a hard time getting my pin-it button to work in Explorer so I changed my browser to Google Chrome (which I like much better anyway), and it worked great.

Item Number Two: I know watching my hair grow is about as excited as watching paint dry, so instead of doing posts I will be putting the pictures on the sidebar at the bottom if you care to check it out.

Thanks-That's all!

Seventh Birthday!

We celebrated the boy C's seventh birthday with family on Memorial Day with Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes:
















Then on his Birthday we opened presents in between baseball games in the car.













He is a great happy kid is does great at sports and school.  During the girl C's crisis instead of freaking out, he went and got three band-aids, opened them, and calmly laid them on the table without being asked.  I wasn't even that calm.  I love this kid.

ER Visits and Birthdays

The day before the girl C's birthday, I was making dinner. I had someone (name will not be given to protect the innocent) go get and open a can of pears. It didn't get opened all the way, and the girl C was apparently hungry and stuck her hand in to get some. I noticed what she was doing and said, "don't let her cut her hand!" The same someone panicked and grabbed the can and pulled and the process cut the pad of her middle finger off.

All we knew at the time and she was gushing blood all over the kitchen. She wanted me, but I was too concerned about my new t-shirt to let her hug me. So I took off my shirt and Tristan went to get me a gross one. We called my SIL to come over and left the boys.

Urgent Care wasn't sure what to do either so they recommended the ER. He dropped words like skin grafts. Not cool. ER told us that there wasn't anything to stitch and that she would heal just fine. So, basically we have to wrap her hand (after a couple of ointments) every day. She is doing really well with it. She hates to have her wrap off because she feels very vulnerable.

We are glad it wasn't worse but it was a good reminder how precious life is.

This is after 24 hours.


This is after a couple of days.


Here she is Birthday morning with her "purple" hand.







One-handed opening of the gifts.



She got the cutest little house set ever.

And we had chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes.



And a singing candle.


I love that little girl.  She makes me happy every day.

Sports-tastic

So far this year the boy C played basketball.

And soccer.



And it was the first year for T.


He loooved it and did pretty well.  No more watching his brothers!!


T had his first T-ball game too.



And B&C are on the same pitching machine team.

This week we also signed up the older two for tennis camp which they thought was a lot of fun.











And the youngest two hanging out while they play tennis.

Good morning beautiful

When the weather warmed up, (for a minute anyway) we must have worn the girl C out because for about a week she slept until 11:00 or 12:00.  The morning of these photos I had to wake her up so we could get ready to go somewhere.  I wanted to capture the process and loved the sleepy, satisfied look on her face.