Never A Dull Moment

Urgent Care, doctors, stitches, medicine...that's how we spent our morning.  About 9:00 this morning Ricky got a call from Logan's daycare that he had been hurt and we needed to go pick him up.  Apparently his pinky finger had been caught in the hinge of a gate out on the playground. That resulted in a pretty good cut on the bottom of his pinky finger, from his top knuckle to the tip of his finger. His fingernail had been smashed pretty badly and the skin on the top of his finger around the nail had been scraped off.  We were most worried about him losing his fingernail so we picked him up and headed straight to Urgent Care.

They were able to numb his finger, clean it, put in several stitches and then bandage it up.  He will lose his fingernail but the trick is for it to stay on as long as possible so a new nail will grow before this one falls off.  My poor baby was in a lot of pain when someone touched it but as expected he was quite a trooper and survived it all.  Stitches will come out in 11 days. The little guy couldn't even make it to two before stitches!  I have a feeling that will not be our last Urgent Care visit for him.

 

Rough day for this poor little guy.  Sometime you just need a binky and a blanket. 

The Bath

Rick mentioned to me that we needed to give the kids a bath.  Logan loves baths so when he heard that he perked up immediately and then he started asking for a bath.  We were all sitting in the living room and Logan said, "Bass. Bass."  (His pronunciation of bath.) Lincoln immediately jumped in to help him.  "Logan, it's not bass...it's baff. Say baa...fff. See, baff."  Logan did exactly what Lincoln told him.  Next thing I know we have two kids asking for a baff.

Young and In Love

Someone once said, "Date night is expensive but marriage counseling will be more."  I've tried to take that to heart and realize that date nights are important and worth the expense.  We try to get out once a month or so just to have time for us to be together away from the kiddos.
I had a gift certificate to a restaurant that we'd never been to before, Calico Jack's. We walked in and Ricky headed to the bathroom while the host seated me. The employee began to tell me that we had the best seat in the house...for what he perceived to be a date. I confirmed that it was in fact date night. Then he asked, "is it a first date?" I couldn't help but laugh out loud.  Then I replied, "Oh no, we've been married for eight years and we have two kids.  We're way past the first date."  He seemed a little embarrassed and then went about his business shortly before Ricky returned to the table.
A lot of thoughts ran though my head as I was replaying the conversation to Rick.  I was glad that I looked young enough that I couldn't have possibly been married for 8 years and have two kids.  I was more excited about the fact that Ricky and I still look like we're in love...in a possible budding romance...a fresh and exciting relationship.  It's all true!  We are in love.  I'm not gonna lie, some days it doesn't feel very fresh and new but I get really excited to spend quality time with him and it reminds me of our dating days or pre-children days. It's way to easy to get stuck in a marriage rut and I think date night is the perfect fix.
We had a great time together, even if the food wasn't all that great and the restaurant is somewhere we wouldn't go back to.  Time together is important so I'm grateful I have an eternity with Ricky.
I figured this is a good time for a flashback...

Our Engagement Picture

 Our wedding day - we were much younger!

Camping - Sort Of

If you want to go camping but the thought of cold showers, dirt, bugs and chasing two little guys around the campsite sounds like too much mess and work....just escape to the wonders of your backyard!!  On Thursday I decided that we should go camping at the Grand Canyon.  By the time I evaluated everything and came back to reality, I realized that wasn't going to happen this weekend.  Ricky decided that he'd put up the tent in the backyard for the boys to play in for the afternoon and then he and Lincoln could sleep in it.  Logan and I slept in the house, in our warm, soft beds.  It worked out well since I've been recovering from a terrible migraine for the last couple of days.
As expected, the boys loved the idea of playing in the tent and Lincoln thought he was pretty lucky to sleep  in the tent with daddy.  He had his binoculars, his flashlight and his teddy bear so he was definitely set. Ricky didn't sleep too well but Lincoln did and he had a fun time. I hope next time we pull out the tent it's to really go camping somewhere fun...like the Grand Canyon!

My First Singles Tennis Match

I've always considered myself a doubles player...until now.  Last night was my first singles match in competition play.  I've had a lot of singles practice matches with other players on my teams but have always ended up playing doubles on game nights. I was scheduled to play doubles last night but in the car on the way over to the courts our captain switched it up and put me at #1 singles. I'm a team player and will play wherever I'm needed.  I was anxious, excited and a little nervous about playing singles.  Mentally I was prepared for doubles, which is quite a different game.  I was also wearing new shoes that I was breaking in and had never played at these courts before (they had terrible lights and no score cards) so there were a lot of new elements for me. I didn't play as well as I wanted to.  I made a lot of unforced errors and our match ended up being a good battle. After just over two hours of play, I won!!  I was determined and did fairly well at staying focused. Our scores were 6-4, 7-6...it was pretty close.  I'm glad I was able to pull out a win because our team won 3-2. Had I lost we would have lost the whole match. I'm playing singles at nationals so this was great practice.  Here's to more singles matches!
P.S. - I had to wear a jacket to my game last night. We've actually hit weather in the 70's and it's starting to feel like fall!

Sad Day

We are an Apple family.  We love our Apple products - from our ipods, iMac, Macbook, iphones, itunes and our iPad...we love it all. Like many other families, our kids at the ages of 1 and 3 even know how to operate these gadgets. Ricky is always reading the latest and greatest on what Apple is doing with technology.  It's quite an amazing company. Ricky and I even stopped at the headquarters of Apple in Cupertino on our last visit to Northern CA.

Well, today is a sad day for Apple with the passing of co-founder, former CEO and really the face of Apple as we know it, Steve Jobs.

1955 - 2011

From Aunt Talicee

My little sister Talicee got the artistic gene in the family.  She's attending BYU and took an art class last semester.  She surprised me by taking a picture of Logan off of our blog and using it for one of her assignments. I didn't find out about it until it was complete and my mom brought it down to us on her visit last month. I didn't know what to expect but it was awesome.  Really neat.  I'm going to frame it an put it in Logan's room for him.  I know he won't appreciate it now but I hope he will as he gets older.  I thought she did a really good job and I'm so glad she picked Logan as her model!

Too Tempting

A few days ago Ricky took Lincoln to ACE Hardware with him to pick up a few things. After Ricky made his purchase and was heading out he noticed Lincoln, with his hands behind his back and a mischievous look on his face, pass the counter and head for the exit doors.  Ricky clearly knew something was up.  He asked Lincoln what he had behind his back. "Nothing." Lincoln replied. After Lincoln continually denied that he had anything, Ricky was able to see that Lincoln had this....

a package of Now and Laters that he was hiding....trying to sneak them out of the store. Really??  Ricky couldn't believe it.  He immediately, with multiple other customers and workers around,  had a conversation with Lincoln about not taking things we didn't pay for. Ricky, being the good dad that he is, end up buying the candy to show Lincoln the right thing to do.  Lincoln didn't get to eat the candy right away but I hope he learned his lesson.  I never doubted that these little boys would cause some mischief at some point. Luckily he's still little and learning so we are able to teach some valuable lessons. Hopefully we won't be dealing with this one again!