Winter Fun!!

Just thought I would post some pics of the kids having fun in the snow. Grandpa York took all the kids tubing down his street behind his neighbors 4 wheeler. The kids had a blast (and so did the adults!! :)) Grandpa was even good enough to let three boys sit with him on the 4 wheeler at the same time so every one could get a turn "first".

Every year a snow plow comes and plows the snow from the roads into a big hill right in front of our house. The kids love it and find new and creative ways to use it!!

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Brayden...again!!

Well we have yet another doctor visit for Brayden. Somehow he fell off a nine foot cement driveway and was no worse for wear, but play Santa Claus with his brother, Brock, and watch out!! Somehow, in Brayden's words, Brock dodged him and he hit the table...I don't know I never knew Santa Claus could be so dangerous but with our boys I guess anything goes! So for Christmas this year Brayden got six stitches! He handled it well...didn't cry at all until i got home and changed the band aid...go figure...the shots don't hurt...the stitches don't hurt...but take off a band aid... :)

Makeover!!!

Well, with Chei's help my bathroom got a makeover this week!! I didn't get any before pics but lets just say it really needed it! Our baseboards were cracking (Darrin and a friend replaced those-my hero!!), our towel rack was broken off the wall (another heroic act by Darrin got a new one put on the wall :) ), and we didn't have a shower curtain...yes, it was sad. Oh and it is our guest bathroom....so here are the pics of my new bathroom...after lots of painting by Chei and I and lots of scraping paint off the floors by Tristan and Jordan it had its unveiling on Thanksgiving. Yay to new bathrooms!! :)

Yes Chei and I were a little crazy off the fumes!!

The finished product!!

13!!!

Tristan turned the big 13 last Thursday. I told her the whole week before she couldn't cop an attitude because she wasn't 13 yet...I am still trying to come up with a good reason she can't cop one now...If you have any ideas let me know!! :)Anyways, here's too our little girl all growing up. sniff sniff. She is a great kid and we are blessed to have her 13 and all.

Halloween

I couldn't wait to post the families costumes. Some how the kids all ended up in black...and Darrin ended up in pink-he just can't help but try to prove he looks good as a woman. I guess we all know what he would like as an old woman...and it just isn't pretty

Brayden's Adventure!!

Well...we always knew that life with 4 boys was bound to end us up in the hospital at some point but we didn't expect that with 4 boys we would end up being blessed to stay out of the hospital after an 8-9 foot fall onto cement!! Brayden has been learning to ride his 2 wheeler bike and decided to try his new found skill on our neighbors driveway. Unfortunately as he got to the end he forgot how to brake and rode his bike right off of their (8-9 foot dropoff) driveway onto a cement pad. I didn't see it happen and when he came in he didn't tell me what he had done...just that he had fallen and needed a bandaid on his face. So I bandaged him up and sent him back out to play. 2 hours later as we were getting ready for lunch, Kenzie asked if we should include a prayer of thanks for keeping Brayden safe in our prayers. I asked her why and she said because he had fallen off the driveway. I had Brayden show me what happened and sure enough he had...the kids had found his bike earlier and figured it out but nobody thought to tell me. :) So Darrin and I watched him like a hawk all day yesterday, did pupil tests, taste tests, smell tests, amnesia tests, confusion tests and Darrin stayed up all night with him. Everything looked good except he said his arm hurt. So we took him to the doctor today and they said all looked good but they would have him wear a brace for a week just to make sure and if at the end of the week he was pain free he could take it off. I don't know how Brayden wasn't seriously injured...I only know we have said many prayers of thanks and I, even more than ever, know that miracles still happen today.

A side view of the driveway Brayden rode off of.

A view from the top of the driveway...his bike landed next to the wood piece on the left, he landed next to the one on the right.

Brayden's face injuries...I really thought he just fell off his bike on the road...nothing there to clue me in to the extremity of the accident.

Brayden's brace...he is really using it to his advantage...I should get this because I have a brace, I should get to do that because I have a brace.... :)