Summertime?

Oh, what do you do in the summertime, when it's a 110 outside?

Do you swim in the pool, to keep yourself cool, or stay inside so you don't die?

Is that what you do? So do I!

The boys love to play in the water. Brody loves to get wet, but has not grown to love the pool. He would rather fill the pool with the hose than swim in the pool.

Brody wanted to hold the ball for Gavin until the water knocked it out of his hands and then would do it again.
This is our friends McKenzie and Malia staying cool in our pool.
This was a sad day. The heat is getting to my plants. As you can see these tomatoes are huge, one problem they are twice as big as the cage and have all fallen over. All my plants are looking sad from the hot weather.

How would it be to be so loved. The boys love Grandpa. Seriously we went swimming at Mike and Amy's and Brody wouldn't leave Grandpa alone. We would all try and take him and he would just cry for Grandpa. My boys only want grandpa when he is around.
Well we don't go on bike rides because it is way to hot. Brody loves to wear the helmet though and he looks cute doing so.
This is a big indoor activity that my boys love. Gavin is so good and letting his brother attack him. We love to watch them play together.

Poor Kids and Gardening

Update of Gavin
Day 3 and 4 were the worst he is finally doing better, but now is addicted to two movies. The Little Einstein’s and The Velveteen Rabbit have been his favorite.

Poor little Brody got his hand smashed in the door 3 times in two days, by 3 different people. Luckily, I wasn’t one of those people. The worst was the first time and if you can see in the picture is all purple. The second and third time was not bad, just probably hurt because he had already had that hand smashed.

This is just a cute picture of Brody that I liked. We were talking about who Brody looks like. Most days when I look at him I see my brothers Braydan and Travis. Then there are days that I look at him and he looks like his cousin Keagan on the Parker side. This picture I think he looks like Keagan did as a toddler. Gavin I still think it all his dad, personality included. Even if Chris says his personality is me; its him, I am not that anory.

As most of you know, this is my first year planting a garden and I love it. I go out twice a day to check out my garden. In the morning, I “make babies” as Chris calls it. I go out and pollinate all the flowers with a paintbrush because the bees just don’t do a good enough job. In the evening, I see what babies have been made and water.

I have 30 green tomatoes 2 red tomatoes and many tomatoes flowers.

My cucumbers are my favorite. I planted in the rocks and they have been doing wonderful! A definite must for next year. So far, my first two plants I have picked 12 cucumbers and at least 10 more babies are coming along. The plants I planted later are coming along also.

I counted 10 baby watermelons when I was out making babies this morning.

I am worried about that area. I think I planted too many plants right there. In that one spot, I have the watermelon, cantaloupe, spaghetti squash, zucchini (about 8 coming), more cucumbers, and pumpkins. I was hoping that they would grow on the rocks, but when I try to train them, they just go back on the dirt. I think I planted the pumpkins too soon. We will have pumpkins way before Halloween.

Gavin's trip to the Hospital and Past Events

From the words of Gavin as we are getting in the car to leave the hospital, “This is not a little fun today.” First going to the Hospital I was scared with how things were starting. As we first walk into the pre-op room, he starts crying. The nurse tried to get his temperature in his ear he screamed, kicked and through a fit. They gave up and decided to try to get his pulse with a thing that went on his finger. He didn’t want to wear it and after a half hour finally got a reading. Went back to finding out his temperature and it took a long time to get. What happened to the old school temp reading under the arm and holding their wrist to get a pulse? Then they tried to explain that they were going to leave mom for a min and have fun blowing up a balloon and taking a nap. He cried didn’t want to go so once they were ready they took him screaming down the hall a little after 7. I waited in there waiting room the doctor came in at 7:50 said everything went good and the nurse would get me after he was wake. About 10 min later they came and got me said he was a feisty little guy. Once we woke up he started screaming ripping off his gown which they ended up taking it off. He also has scraps on his nose from trying to rip off the mask before the surgery. The nurses said he wanted his mom. So I get in there and hold him and he went to sleep. That day he was pretty much asleep all day. Good thing because the hospital didn’t have any cartoons. So, when he was up we watched Deadliest Catch (crab catching) it was on all day. The cafeteria closed at 1:30, which I thought, was weird. So I called Emily who lived close to the hospital and asked if she could bring me dinner. Emily got me some Chinese and Gavin decided he was hungry and was throwing fits because he wanted to eat Chinese food. The only time he was up was in the later evening from 5 until 9. It was probably the best stay I ever had at the hospital (must have been because I was not in pain). I shared the bed with Gavin and we only woke up once at 3 because he was crying and the nurse gave him more medicine. We got up at 6, Gavin eat Jell-o and out of there by 7. He still wanted real food and has probably has eaten 8 cups of Jell-o. Today he gets to eat more. He has eaten bread with no crust; more jell-o and he wanted real food so we gave him chicken soup. I was eating lunch with him and he wanted carrots. I told him he has carrots in his soup, but he wanted them raw with dip. It has been very hard to explain that it will hurt him if he eats hard food. Dad and I gave him two Beanie Babies and I asked what animal he wanted and of course he wanted the same ones Lexie has Pounder the Elephant and Heartbeat the dog. We gave Brody Chompy the Alligator because he was so good for Grandma and Grandpa. Today he is pretty much back to normal. I was wishing for him to sleep most of the day. He has been up running around playing, and bugging his brother. He really seems back to normal besides the occasional crying when his mouth hurts, as he calls it. Will see how he feels tomorrow, but it has been nothing like I expected, well except the first part. When I got mine out I remember lots of throwing up blood and lying on the couch in pain. The technology must have really improved over the many years. I think Gavin will have a quick recovery. Thanks for everyone’s thoughts and prayers.
Chris got to enjoy time with Brody and let me know of all the cute things he does.

Old happenings that I wanted to post.

This picture is of last year. We have really upgraded. Gavin decided he likes the bigger pool and the bigger towel.

This Years Towel.

This years pool.

I actually bought two pools. Brody likes this smaller one.

Brody going down the slide to the bigger pool. Gavin and Lexie love to go down the slide into the pool. I don't think Brody liked it so much.

This is a new favorite of Brody's. I really don't like it because every time I try and vacuum he is trying to grab the vacuum and help. It will be nice when he can go faster than a snail and learn to turn the thing. Maybe when he weighs more than the vacuum he can actually help.Dad thinks it is funny. I am starting to think I need to do while he sleeps along with everything else I have to do during that time.

I took this post from Jennie's blog and changed the names. Last weekend, we went up to the Plastow’s parents cabin with Jennie, Trever, McKenzie, Malia, and Emma for the night. We kind of decided at the last minute to go, so I didn't have things organized. Since Trever took the car that day, and we wanted to get there asap... Jennie and I loaded up her car with our 5 kids and camping gear, food, clothes etc for both families. I wish I had a picture. We had things under feet, behind heads, under arms and on laps! It was definitely an adventure!!! The boys came straight up after work. We had originally planned on staying in tents in pine on Jennie parents land. As we were driving up, it was pouring!!! So we decided to just go to their cabin instead. We could have saved a lot of car space if we had known that we didn't need our tents and everything!
We had a good time with games, a nature walk and shopping. It was a short trip but very fun!

Malia giving Brody Loves.

Gavin, McKenzie, and Malia

Emma and Brody playing in dirt.

The troop doing a nature walk.

This is a play date Jennie and I did at her parents house. I love their house, one day I would like a home like they have, big area to play, full of fun things for the kids to do.

This is the kids watching the goats at the neighbors.

The Go Cart we took for a ride around the block.

Lots of fun toys. Brody playing on the air plane tetor totor. Gavin liked the trampoline and electric car.

Tried to take some cute pictures of the boys.