Mini Update

Well, Stress takes a toll on me. I admit, I am having a hard time hacking this motherhood stuff. My house is a mess, my kids are unruly and I don't get a full 8 hours of sleep as recommended by the FDA. Now, those of you who have known me for years will testify that I very rarely, like 5 times in my life, have had a zit. Well, I must be going thru puberty finally, because my forehead is covered in them. I am just devastated! This picture is after 3 weeks of actually washing my face every night (something that I NEVER do) and 1 week of finally treating it with OXY Clean, (which really makes me feel like a teenager!) They are smaller, but still there! Ugh, I know, poor Molli! Whah Whah Whah.


As for the rest of the clan, same old same old. Dalton got his cast off finally, and he is really happy about that. He finally gets to do some fun stuff like Karate, and he loves it! Casey is taking the class with him too and they have a blast. Speaking of Karate, Tyler and I have also been taking a class together. I am the oldest in the class. That is kinda humiliating being 32 in a class with a bunch of 8-11 year olds. But now Tyler and I are Yellow belts and we are in a class of teenagers! Maybe that is where I got my acne! Alyson was 2 weeks shy of being allowed to take a karate class so she will start next month. Pretty soon we will all be able to gang up on poor Russ with our Karate skills.

My friend asked me if I would roll the fondant for her son's wedding. Well, they turned out, ok. Charm City Cakes won't be calling me any time soon. It was fun to experiment though.







Look at Lydia and Alyson just laying back in the shade, eating pringles! They know how to kick it!







This is on Womens Confrence. My friend April had an extra ticket to go to Salt Lake and see the Confrence, we were in the 8th row. Really nice seats. It was fun to see all the General Authorities and Presidencies of the Church.







This is Isis our cat. She lounges on her back all the time.







My sleeping angel

Time marches on.

Casey turned 7 on August 13th. As usual we had a pool party.









Casey, finds any excuse to have fun. We emptied a bunch of old water bottles in the front yard, and that became a huge water fight. Luckily he was the wettest guy there!









We got to go to Boon Docks, Tyler loved the bumper boats.









The biggest thing to happen was that Dalton fell from our blow up waterslide and broke his arm. Check out the s bend in his wrist. He sliped it right off the growth plate on the Radius and cracked the Ulna. Well, the patched him up good and now we have just 2 more weeks in a cast. Poor guy missed a lot of fun swimming, jumping on the tramp, soccer, and especially riding his bike. But we survived the pain and itching so far, just a few more days.






Aly and Casey are loving soccer. Aly is the fly away hair girl on the left in yellow.







Lyida is about 15 months now, and she has learned that crying is very effective in getting what you want. So this face, messy and frustrated, is a very common face around our house. We just think it is the cutest little pout.







Our dishwasher tried to burn our house down. Check out these burned wire caps. And no, it wasn't poor wiring on our part. We had a Bosch, it cleaned great, but the wires that came from the control pad grounded on the frame, and caused a power surge, and melted the power cord. Nice. So now we need a new dishwasher, and we are not getting a Bosch or a KitchenAid. Bad experiences with both. Anyone have wonderful machine you would recommend. So far we have gone thru 4 dishwashers in 9 years. Something Wrong Here!

How Do You Keep Up?

I don't know how you bloggers do it? It is almost all I can do to take the pictures in the first place. Let alone scrapbook them, and then blogg about them on top of it! So this is us since June.
This is Lydia and I playing doggie bone.

My sister Tierney came out to visit.

This is my rear view crew. With 5 kids now that my brother Dalton has come to stay for a while, This van is bursting at the seams.

Dalton was stung by a wasp. OUCH. And we heard about every painful day!
Aly was bit by a dog the very same day as Daltons wasp sting. Aly was trying to play ninja with a dog at a friends house, the dog was taken by surprise and whipped around and got her top lip. Luckily it only broke the skin in one place and bruised the others. The dog had all its shots so she should be ok in a few days.

This is us trying to get a tick off of Alys head when we went to Deer Creek. Just for your information, do not try to suffocate the tick like we did. All it does is kill the thing, and then you worry about it backwashing into the bite area. You are supposed to just get some tweezers and pinch by the head and pull the sucker off. And it takes some pulling. Russ said that the Doctor pulled up Aly's scalp about a half inch before it finally came off.
This is the actual tick. Tyler has an Eyeclops that you can look at things on the tv with. That chunk of white stuff in the ticks mouth is Aly's scalp. Even after the thing was dead it would not let go and the skin ripped off when the doctor pulled the tick off. Totally Yucky! Wear your bug spray!

This is Tyler and Lydia on Puff at Chuck E Cheese

Here the kids are at the Eccles Dino park in Ogden. They could care less about the dinos, they just like to feed the fish there!

Lydia loves watermellon.

We are on a hike to a waterfall.

This is Dalton and Casey going thru the waterfall.

Molli's shoulder update

Well, it has been 3 weeks now since my skin fry. This picture was taken about a week later, not too bad. But as of today, it is still a little red and itches like crazy. I also have a few freckles on the top of my shoulder. I asked the doctor about them to see if they were melanoma, but he just replied- "You're 32, not 22, you are going to get age spots." UGH! You mean I will get old and wrinkly with the rest of them? Oh what a cold cruel world! At least they weren't melanoma!

Aly's mom impression

I was cooking in the kitchen when I hear Aly say "What are you doing honey?" in a soft but very high pitched voice. I turn to look at her and see that she has put on my slippers and stretchy pants. I said I liked her outfit, but she replied that she was "mom" and that I should act like it. I think after seeing her in that outfit, pretending to be me, it is definitely time to start dressing better! That outfit is going to the D.I.!

Russ Turns 33

Time stands still for no one. And so Russ turned 33 this year. June 20. I am sorry to say that we didn't do anything too exciting except go to a Comedy Sportz show and dinner. I didn't even make him a cake. He just got 12 samoa girl scout cookies. What a gip huh?

Casey's first tooth!

Casey finally lost his first tooth! This was a grand accomplishment because Casey hates pain, and this tooth was painful! The adult tooth came up behind the baby teeth, so there was nothing pushing them up. We worked on wiggling that thing for weeks. Russ even got some dental floss tied around it and tried to yank it out, but it still wouldn't come out. Then one morning Casey wakes up and says "Thats wierd! Mom my tooth fell out!" The tooth was still in his mouth under his tongue. Boy was he proud! He even said he had a dream that he lost his tooth. I am just glad I didn't have to listen to casey complain about the tooth any more. Now he can eat tough food again.