Cabin Fever

My boy has had the flu since Sunday night. Fever and throw up. We have been stuck at home for 3 days. It was nice at first because it forced us to slow down. Yesterday we got out just to drive Sierra to swim practice (usually we walk but Ashton couldn't walk that far). Great just to get out of the house for 5 minutes. Sierra loved being at swim practice. She didn't go Monday because she was complaining that her stomach hurt too. (Maybe in her head. :))So Monday and Tuesday consisted of laying around watching tv and reading books. Today I actually lassoed Sierra into helping me clean bathrooms so we actually accomplished something. I finished Work and the Glory #4. We listened to our daddy on the radio today. He was interviewed on 1220 am KHTS about Mortgages. Sierra read 8 chapters of the Book of Mormon. Ashton got to mark off some chapters too on his bookmark. Hope my boy gets to feeling better soon and here's to hoping no one else gets it!

Our first sunflower...

has bloomed! We planted 3 with seeds and so love to watch them grow. This is our tallest and our first to bloom. Isn't it so bright and cheerful! :) The kids have been so thrilled to go check on it every day...to watch it literally unfold.

Have a sunny day!

Jesus is my shepherd...

IM

Today, Waves vs. Dolphins
My Si did her usual races, she swam breaststroke in the medley relay and swam individual breaststroke and freestyle in the freestyle relay. But today the coaches had her try something new. She swam the IM (Individual Medley). The IM is 4 laps, one lap of each stroke.

She was nervous...

Swimmers up, take your mark...Butterfly

BackstrokeBreaststroke
Freestyle

Problem...(don't make it known to her that I put this on the blog) When she did her turn from breaststroke to freestyle she did not do a two hand touch. I saw it and I looked to the stroke and turn judges and I could tell they saw it and I said right out loud to Jake and Janelle,"oh no, she is DQ'd." Her coach said to her as she was getting out of the water, "great race, just remember two hand touch after breaststroke." She didn't seem upset, I went to her and told her what a great job she did. She said, "mommy I forgot my two hand touch." I said, "I know it's ok." She then asked me, "was I disqualified because I didn't touch with two hands?" I looked at her and smiled, brought tears to my eyes that she could not see because I was wearing my sunglasses and shook my head yes. Instantly there were tears in her eyes. My poor baby. I told her to come and sit with me and I held her on my lap and told her how proud I am and gave her lots of kisses. I told her that it was just a mistake and we learn from our mistakes. That was a hard race. She was so tired. SHE DID IT! I am so so proud of her! There were 4 racers and she came in 3rd. She dropped 13 sec. from her time too. Nice racing Si! Love you baby!

Fun in the Sun!

TODAY was HURRICANE HARBOR with GRANDMA and KATE!
Sierra went on Tornado with me and Kate, she was so nervous, she was in tears. She has been on it before but it has been a while and she was terrified of going down the drop backwards. In fact when our raft started moving she grabbed the wall and said please don't make me go backwards. I grabbed her arm and told her to let go. I ended up going backwards so she got just what she wanted. She was mad at her self last time we went because she chickened out at the last second and walked back down the stairs so I made her go this time and she said afterwards that she was so proud of herself for doing it, me too! YAY!
I also went on the Bamboo Racers for the first time and that was so fun. Sierra and Kate went too, I tried to get Ashton to go but he wouldn't. Sierra was in front of me in the race and then I passed her. So fast and so fun!

the weekend

Friday my mom called and said she and Briana would be home about 2 if we wanted to come up to swim. Of course, we ran to Ralphs and did our recycling and then did some grocery shopping. We got up to mom's and swam with Briana and kids and Sophi's kids too. Love it when Briana comes, I feel like I'm on vacation too. We just play! They all went to the track that night so Lincoln and Nixon could race BMX. Ashton got to go too! Jake and I took Sierra to Chili's, she loved that! Then we watched Narnia Prince Caspian with her.
Saturday we swam at mom's and then went to dad's in the later afternoon. We swam there too and then dad bbq'd so we ate yummy food. Boy's stayed to watch the fights and me Sophi and Briana went to mom's to watch "how to marry a millionaire" with Marilyn Monroe. It was cute. Sierra watched "the goofy movie" in the playroom. When our movie was over me and Si walked home and Ashton spent the night.
Sunday HAPPY 4th of July! Sierra ran up to mom's to have blueberry pancakes. Ashton was up at 6am, not normal for him he is a late riser like 9am. Went to church in red, white and blue.

Ashton fell asleep during Sacrament meeting. He is a party animal. :)

After church we went to mom's for swimming and bbq.

Rossi was swimming with Sierra, she loved it and he was so happy! :) Whenever there is an adult in the water he prefers them but at that time Sierra was the biggest one in the water so he wanted her. :)
Aunt Ruth, Uncle Randy and kids came to mom's too! So fun!

Went to Bingham's to do our own fireworks. Pretty fun stuff! :)

Monday =relaxing

We went to the big pool and swam then went to Grammy's and swam. Ate lunch, put Rossi down for a nap (my first time putting him down, he is so sweet, read him a book and then laid with him and he was out!)

Blowdryed Sophi's hair. Kids just played and played. Went on a bike ride with Jake just the 2 of us and that was so fun. Ate dinner again at mom's for Jacque's birthday.

Isn't she so cute, due in 10 days, can't wait! Don't know what it is, I think girl!

The kids swam and swam. Cousin Kate came. Sierra was in heaven!Kate was teaching Sierra synchronize swimming.

Kate had a sleepover. Everyone up late. A FUN weekend!

bottlecap jewelry

These girls are into bottlecap necklaces. You have the necklace and it has a piece of metal on it and then you have these bottlecaps that have magnets on them and you can interchange bottlecaps to match your outfits. Well, Sierra found about 28 bottlecaps on the ground when we were camping at the beach at the beginning of June. We washed them and spray painted them silver and yesterday these girls decorated their very own bottlecaps. I had all the supplies there and they just decorated all themselves. They did such a great job! They turned out so so cute!
Today Sierra bought magnets for each of them with her own money. She has them stored on her bed and LOVES where she has them and LOVES showing them off. She couldn't wait to show her daddy when he got home and she even had her brother wearing one of them to daddy's softball game.