I don't know why but blogging has sort of fallen off the radar as life has gotten crazy. I don't want to forget all the good times but I just get busy living them instead of writing them. So I figure as a catch up post I will go picture crazy with few words....
In October we took a trip up to northern Utah to visit Papa Weight and the cousins. We spent time at the new children's museum. We were there hours and could have stayed hours longer. It was fantastic.
Over Thanksgiving we took a little field trip to a ghost town only 20 minutes away called Silver Reef. Our cousins came and we had so much fun.
This year decking the halls was so much fun. All four kids were into it even if Creed was just into playing in the empty tree containers.
Just for the record and to avoid the yearly drama of whose turn it is to put up the star Taryn did it this year so it will be Jocelyn's turn next year....
Taryn slammed her finger in the car door and it was a bad deal. The bone was completely broken and it was torn at least half way around the finger and the whole darn tip flopped over to the side. She went into shock and almost passed out twice just getting back into the car. Then she started puking all over the driveway. Grandma ended up taking us to the ER and Brent met us there. After an ER ex ray it was determined we needed an orthopedic surgeon. Lucky for us our friend is an ortho surgeon and although he wasn't even on call he came down and saw us. He tried really hard to set it without pins but it wouldn't stay in place and Taryn was having issues with the pain and fear (for good reason obviously). The ortho friend said she really needed it pinned so off to the OR she went and finally we got home 9 hours later. She had the pins for three+ weeks and still has stitches and splinting 7-8 weeks later. She does still have sensation in her tip and I can't believe the finger nail didn't fall off. Luckily because the break and most of the tear were below her first joint she missed the growth plate and joint. She does have pretty limited movement in her first two fingers but she doesn't complain about the pain anymore. In fact I think she was more concerned about having messy handwriting and not being able to type and do school work than she was about the fact that it seriously killed. She has been a pretty good sport about having no PE and eating in the Principal's office everyday. Her teacher has been nice and let her do a lot of her work orally too. These pictures are three weeks after the fact and you can still see tons of swelling and bruising but knuckles starting to reemerge from swollen sausage fingers.
This is what it looks like when you are potty trained without any accidents for a week and you earn/receive your spider man action figure. Creed started potty training the same week (2nd week in Nov.) that Taryn had her finger accident so that week was a little rough with poopy accidents. But after that first week he was a champ and has really only had one accident since then (when I didn't hear him calling from nap time that he had to go and he was totally traumatized...). So we are all thankful to be done with diapers....wow what a milestone!
Brent got new office space and a new desk. They out grew their old office/warehouse several months ago and the move was WAY time intensive and WAY stressful and WAY a lot of work but they are very happy to be where they are with more space. Brent and his partner are also in the middle of starting a new company and were happy to receive two big grants-one NIH grant and one from the state. That company is the project of 2015 and is medical engineering related. It is really exciting.
Creed climbs on everything all the time and is smart enough to figure out how to get to brownies that I stashed in the microwave so he couldn't have free reign....Nothing in our house is safe now....
We spent one Monday night viewing a live nativity and going for a train ride/polar express action to view Christmas lights. Creed is WAY into trains (Thomas or any of his friends) so this is his (and Brent's) idea of a good time.
Also a highlight was both Cami and Taryn were awarded the super citizen/super scholar award from their school in September or October (I don't remember which now) and got to run through the halls of their school getting big high fives from everyone. We are really proud of their responsible hard work at school and pray that they always will be great learners and thinkers and kind people.
So that is what we did all fall with some soccer tournaments and family game nights and helping in classrooms and playing outside too....
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