On and on it goes

So we are headed to Yellowstone tomorrow to rendevous with the Wilcox clan. Parker and Londyn started school (3rd and K). Friday last week, Abigail fell off the neigbors' slide platform and fussed a bit. Saturday she used her arm a bit and we figured she'd be fine. Sunday morning Parker was helping her put on a backpack and she really freaked out because she was hurt, so Sharee insisted that she be taken in right then. I was figuring that it was "just a sprain" and resisted the push to take her in, but I did so anyway in the middle of sacrament meeting because she wouldn't stop fussing. Sharee had nursury and so I took Abby to the quick care and we missed the rest of our meetings. She was such a trooper at the Doctor's office. She played for about an hour while we waited and then she fell asleep just before it was time to x-ray. She was semi lucid and did not resist at all the placement of her arm on the cold metal x-ray plate. Apparently if you fall hard enough you can get a "buckle fracture" in your bone... similar to hitting the end of a wooden stake with a hammer, the end splits and mushrooms out. Abby has two broken bones in her arm just above her wrist on her right arm. She now has a bright pink cast on her right arm from her hand to her shoulder, but she is much happier now that her "owwie" is protected. One interesting thing is trying to watch her eat out of her right hand because it is too far from her mouth with the cast. I thought it was funny to see her negotiate with the cast. She as taken to torturing Sharee by calling "MOMMY" and pointing each different signature on her cast repeatedly until Sharee tells her the person's name, after which she points to the next one and does it over and over. Anyway, that is the latest from up here in dry and burning Idaho.

Life is CRAZY!!!

Well I guess I won't be able to count on Rob to write anything, and it took me a while just to figure out if I had changed my user account name or password, so I could even get in. Life has been busy. Rob has started his new job, and so far likes it. He is able to be on a longer leash than before and he is doing stuff he likes, which I would explain but it is all way over my head, and in my opinion pretty boring. I guess if he wants to refute that he can get on and write. He is going up to Washington this week to get some samples run and also some sputtering.

We went to Lagoon this past weekend for the Ricks college Alumni day, it was fun, but I decided it would be about 10 years before we do it again. Sorry we didn't see anyone, but we came on Friday and left on Sunday. We mainly came down to pick up my sisters little boy. We have him for a week while they went to the Dominican Republic on a trip she earned selling books. So I have four kids now and have decided I better stop at three because I was already behind and I think four would just put me over the edge. We are having fun though. Abi not as much because Tylan likes to pick on her, especially when I tell him he has to do something he doesn't want to. She is a pretty good sport though.

I am excited for school to start as are the kids. Parker is ready to see his friends again and not have to play with Londyn all day, he will be in third grade. Londyn is very excited to start kindergarten, she has been ready since Parker started kindergarten. I got smart this year and went to get supplies about a week ago and missed the big crowds and even got everything but one item on the list, which is a first for me, I usually have to run around to 5 different stores and still haven't gotten everything. I am excited to be back down to just one kid at home for at least a few hours every day. It will be nice to be able to run errands and whatever else I want to do. I will be spending quite a bit of time at the school volunteering in the class room and also being the PTO secretary.

Parker and Londyn are in swim lessons this summer, and both are improving quite fast. The P.E. teacher from Parker's school teaches them at a local athletic club. Parker is learning the butterfly stroke right now. Londyn can almost swim the width of the pool with a one arm breast stroke and then flipping over on her back to breath and to rest. Abi is just busy discovering the world around her. She loves to swim also and will spend her time at any pool going down the slide over and over, or else walking off the edge of the pool and having me catch her, over and over. She doesn't even care if she goes under the water.

We have been busy with yard work, and have gotten the front yard done. We have put some rocks in and a fountain, and perennial flowers, because I don't like to plant flowers every year, and when I get done with a project I like it to be maintenance free. We still have work in the back yard, I want to put a two foot wide garden around the yard next to the fence so I can have a garden, and the kids still have room to run around. I would also like to put a pergola, that is what I have heard it called, up for shade and grow grapes on it. Vinyl of course so I don't have to maintain it. I also want to put in kiwi vines, and lots of blueberries and raspberry bushes. Then in the summer we will plant vegetables and a little herb garden. I would also like to get a peach tree. But that will probably take a few years to get all that done. Rob isn't looking forward to it because he gets to do the heavy work. I guess I can always claim I am in my child bearing years.

We went rafting a few weeks ago with some of my cousins. The kids rode in a raft with her, she is good with the raft, and Rob went on a blow up wave runner, and I went in a tube, there were more in tubes also. It was a lot of fun. Abi stayed home with my aunt. Then two weeks later Rob took the kids with our neighbor and his kids. We borrowed rafts from the next door neighbor, they were 2 man rafts. Well they got in to launch and barely fit with the two kids and the rafts were riding pretty low in the water. I wasn't sure they would make it. They made it down, it took about an hour and they had to drain the raft along the way and found they had to sit on the back wall so they wouldn't hit all the rocks. They had fun though.

Well I better quit for now, this is longer than I expected. You'll have to excuse my spelling and letter form, I have never done well in English, and my last English college course I was given lots of special treatment because I was pregnant with Parker and the teacher felt sorry for me, which was to my advantage, not liking English. Hope everyone is doing well. I will write later.

The Idaho Owings

Wow this thing has a really cool spell check!