Going ons here

Well things have been busy here at our house. The weather is nice out again so we have been playing outside allot. Alex has made A honor roll. Nathan has made a/b honor roll and got he attendance award. We are very proud of them both. Over this past month Hope has hurt her wrist and was in a soft cast thing for about a week. It was a bruise on her wrist. Joshua got hurt during PE and badly sprained his wrist. He has been in a splint for the week. He is not happy about that since I will not let him skate board until it is off. Avery has graduated to a big boy bike and loves it. Apartment living is going okay it is still really hard on me since there is not much that all the kids can do. They want to go out and shot the paint ball guns and BB guns but here is not the best place. Next week is my last week of no kids since Joshua will be out of school on the 2nd. Then he will be going to boy scout camp for a week in mid June.

For those who do not know. Joshua has been dealing with a few medical problems. He is nearly 13 and still has issues with bed wetting. So we went to an Urologist and after a month of testing. Joshua's kidneys are both swollen and dilated and is bladder wall is thick. On July 2nd he will be going in for day surgery. They will try to fix the problem then. Of course I do not fully understand everything. Once a doc says surgery my mind sorta turns off. We are waiting longer to do this so he is out of school since he has missed so much due to medical things. And so he can go to camp. I am a little nervous about him being gone for a week. But I am sure he will be fine. His scout Leader is a P.A. and knows about everything going on with Joshua so that really helps.
McKay is working as much as he can but it is still really hard. There are a few opportunities that are possible. One may me a relocation but not sure of it yet.

Look what Avery can do!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQxGoYbivcI

pics from Hope and Nathan's Birthday

Mr. Nathan Michael

Okay so after the busy weekeend I am finally getting around to doing this.

So friday April 16th was Nathan's 9th birthday!! He had a good day. What he got
Pokemon Cards
R2D2 trouble board game
large plush pokemon
build a bear dog
tony hawk ds game
a case for all his pokemon cards
star wars dart gun

Nathan still is really shy around people. His fav food in the world is enchiladas. He love to read. Currently he is reading The Book of Mormon and Percy jackson The lightning Thief. He loves to play outside and go hiking. When the air is good for him. He now takes 3 pills a day 1 inhaler and a nasal spray. He is loving being a cub scout now. He really looks forward to tuesday nights. The Pine wood derby is coming up at the end of the month.

Miss HopeLeah

Well tomorow is her 10th birthday. I can not believe she is 10. Where has the time gone. Where is that chubby faced baby in pig tails? I remember when she was a baby she had to have her hair up all the time. She hated it down. While she slept she would play with it. Now she does not like it up and I have to nearly beg just to play with her hair.
Things she is really likes now.
Build A Bear
High School Musical
Twilight
Littlest Pet Shop
Reading
Drawing
Playing Video games
Pokemon

She still does not like math or vegetables. She likes her brothers most of the time. On Saturday she will be Baptized in the LDS Church. Her Uncle Quin (favorite uncle), Aunt Eve, Grandma Ellen, Grandpa Arnold, and Grandma Marti are coming down for it. She is very excited.

As per the rules in my House tomorow is her day. We all do what she wants playing games watching movies ect ect. She will not have to do any chores and she gets to pick what we have for dinner.

We did the birthday celebration last weekend. She got a sewing machine 2 new moon shirts a HSM shirt, A pink Build a bear kitty, Bella dancerella HSN DVD (it will teach her 3 dance moves from the movie) I was Hoping to find her the High School musical 3 DVD but could not find it. All in all she was very happy.

Over The Rainbow

Yesterday Hope Avery and I watched Wizard of Oz. I LOVE this movie. I so want the blue ray. I love that my kids like to watch classic movies. So they are not really fond of black and whites but that is fine. I have been adding some of our favorite to the Netflix instant watch queue. The selection is not that big. I started with what Judy Garland and Shirley Temple movies they had. Today is a nice day out So I kicked Hope, Nathan and Alex out. So they are out practicing on the Heelies. Avery has 1 more dose of antibiotics left so tomorrow he gets to play outside thankfully. Joshua just does not want too. But he never does.
Tonight we are having the missionaries over or movie night. They are bringing a few things to watch. I will be making mini corn dogs with tater tots, Root beer floats and Ice cream cookie sandwiches.
Tomorrow I take Joshua to get his ultra sound of his Bladder and Kidneys. Oh the fun things!

Blowing in the Wind

We have been having high winds here. Honestly it is driving me nuts. Generally I have no problem with the wind. It helps clean the air ect ect. But in the Apt the wind makes so much noise. I can not open the windows due to the high pollen count and Nathans Asthma. I actually had to turn the air on last night. That did not make me very happy at all. Of course I set it at like 80. Our front room heats up so fast when every I use the oven.
Yesterday was an okay day. The kids getting on my nerves, HELLO when don't they. Poor things are stuck in the apt all on top of each other. Nathan and Avery could not go out side if they wanted to. Josh Alex and Hope just did not want to. So we went to the library. picked up a 2 dvds and a bunch of books. Hope picked up a kids cook book and will be making a full dinner by her self soon. Alex and Joshua got a few books on Greek Mythology. We ordered a few others. Then we were off to Wal-Mart to pick up Alvin & the chipmunks the squeakquel. It was really cute.
Today after doing the cleaning up I am going to call it a video game day. So it will be nice and peacefull. Joshua will be gone most the day for a scouting thing woohoo!!!