The best laid plans...

You know when you have a to do list for the day & inevitably you hear a loud bang, thump or whack coming from the other room??? Well that was our day today! Morgan was hanging on on of the towel hooks in the bathroom upstairs (because of course it could hold her weight!!!), and broke the metal hook. This sent her crashing down to the tile floor which ensued the loud whack and crying!

She came and found me (thus a test of how badly they are hurt... if they can make it to mom... it must not be too bad!!!), and I gave her a love, she turned to leave the room and I SAW THE BLOOD!!! We calmly went into the bathroom to see how bad it was... Yep, a few stitches were needed...

This is one of the main reasons for the lengthy story... if you are squeamish DO NOT SCROLL DOWN!!!!!

THREE staples were all that were needed. None of our kids have actually had staples before... they were kinda cool.

It is pretty bad though when tears are avoided because of the promise of being featured on the BLOG!!! She will have very scary hair tomorrow cause she cannot get it wet for 24 hrs. My guess is a pony tail in the back will do the trick!

When you do this... You get this!!!

When you make 16 of these...

You get lots of this!

I went out today to do my LAST tall witch (I don't even get one!!!) and before I could start sanding... I had to take a pic of the little colorful sawdust mountain!!! It reminded me of Lake Powell!

Temple Night

Wednesday night we went with Ben to the Bountiful Temple for the first time. It was a little surreal going to the temple with my baby... but he did a great job and I really look forward to going with him to the temple regularly before he leaves for his mission.

Thanks to everyone that was able to be there with Ben. It was so great to be surrounded by family!!! I imagine that is how Heaven will be!!!

A trip to the eye doctor!

It has been almost a year that Russ has really started to have a hard time with his vision. (READING!!!)  Today we finally went to the eye doctor's.  He gave a a very through eye exam... and I have a slight stigmatism... and Russ needs reading glasses!  HE said that both of our conditions would get worse as we get older!!!

After we donned our very fashionable eyewear, we needed to go to Target to pick up a few things.  We started in the women's sock section where there was a fabulous sale on the little toe socks that I wear with my Sunday shoes... well with BOTH of us having our eyes dilated... NEITHER of us could make out the sale price!!!  We had to depend on the kindness of strangers to tell us the prices on the little teeny price tags!!!

BOY, DO I FEEL OLD!!!

Family Picture

It's that time again... the one everyone fears!!!  The dreaded extended family picture!!! 

We have the date now all we need is the color coordination!!!  Vote for your favorite color combination in comments!  Erin voted for autumn colors... what is your choice??? 

More from California

Russ in line @ Big THunder Mtn. (if you could call it a line)  Most days were great!  The worst one was the friday before Labor Day, but that was to be expected.

We decided to do the big all you can eat bar-b-cue lunch on our anniversary!  It was pretty good!

This is our hotel room.  We stayed at the recently renovated Red Lion, it was just 1 mile to the gates of disneyland!

This was our beautiful bathroom!

We're Back!!!

As most of you know by now...  Ben received his mission call to Atlanta, Georgia while Russ and I were in California on Thursday!!!  We thought it would be for sure 2 weeks and up to a month!!!  I'm glad he will be in the states... I think... looking at pictures, it looks like a really big city!!!  Does anyone have any info???  He will enter the MTC on December 9th!!!  Just 3 months.  I don't know yet if he will be there for Christmas OR if he will fly to Atlanta on the 23rd!?!  I will post more info as I get it!

This is Russ & I in front of Cinderella's castle.  It was 87% or more HUMIDITY each day that we were there!!!   We were dripping as soon as we went outside!  We stayed at the Red Lion hotel which was only 1 mile from disneyland and walked to and from once or twice a day!  Needless to say... many miles were put on my new flip flops!!!

This is Russ' 1st attempt at taking our pic. while he held the camera... I figured with his long arm it couldn't hurt!!!   We didn't take many pictures... but I will post a few more next time!!