Last week of July- Where's the summer going?

John Here. Tiffani is a little busy with school, kids, doctor's appointments, house showings, studying, cooking, cleaning, laundry, changing diapers, disciplining children, etc. etc. etc..... without her husband to help. So she has tasked me with updating the blog this week.

Collected a few pics. Enjoy.

Tiffani showing what a season pass to Seven Peaks will do.... change your race. Some of us get tan....the rest of us just burn, peel, then go back to white. (me)

Maddie enjoying her new front yard bench.

Spaceship house I saw yesterday on my bike ride. What you see is just the roof- not a UFO.

View from the top of Naomi Peak above Tony Grove lake- Logan Canyon. It was a 6.4 mile hike round-trip. 2.5 hrs walking time. Beautiful.

Looking towards Cache Valley

Lots of wildflowers along the trail this time of year.

Wishing I could just sprout wings and fly out into that mountain air...maybe in the next life.

And the water supply is where?

Drew's first hospital visit

So in my haste to get to the hospital I forgot to bring a camera, only after the fact did I realize that my phone has a camera, oops!!

Drew woke up screaming bloody murder that his stomach hurt.
Every time I tried to touch his stomach to figure out what was wrong he would scream even louder.
After he woke up Madison with his screaming, I had two kids who wouldn't stop for anything.
I called my sweet mother-in-law and asked for help, she came running.
When she arrived I was able to call Dr. Eric and ask what he would do, which was take him to the hospital.
This all happened during the 9 o'clock hour.

At just before the 10 o'clock hour Drew and I arrived at the Emergency Room.
My kids have this uncanny knack for calming down and stopping all screaming when we arrive at the doctors.
After FOUR hours of waiting they finally got to seeing us.
They took some blood for testing and then sent us for an ultrasound.
He was asleep when they started drawing his blood, and his little face scrunched up into a little puppy dog face. The longer they took to draw his blood, the more scrunched his face became until he had little tears start to fall down his cheeks. About that time, he started crying.
Good news . . . his White Blood Count (WBC) was well within normal ranges and his ultrasound didn't show anything abnormal at all.
So, they sent us home.
We arrived home at approximately 5 o'clock in the a.m.
Poor Mom, she was stuck at my house for so much longer than she had planned.

When I called Dr. Eric to tell him what they had not found, he said that you can get Messanteric lymphadenitis, which presents similarly to appendicitis, and that may possibly be what he had.
Poor kid just can't seem to catch anything normal.
He seems to be feeling better, hooray!

July so far

July 3rd we woke the kids up super early and took them to see the balloon festival. When we woke Alexis up and told her we were getting ready to go she said: "I'm too tired, I just want to sleep, go without me." I can just see the teenage years now.
When we got there, they were filling up the Tony the Tiger balloon. It was pretty cool to see the guy standing inside of it getting it ready to go.

Tony the Tiger balloon.

We found our neighbor friends at the balloon launch, Alexis and Drew were so excited to see them there.

The balloons getting ready to take off.

Balloons taking flight.

Daddy and Madison watching the balloons fly away.

We decided to have a picnic at Canyon View Park and the ducks were so aggressive, they came right up to us trying to steal our dinner. Drew grabbed his fishing pole and started chasing them away. What a great little protector!

Alexis fishing.

Mommy and Drew fishing.

The only thing we caught while fishing, we're true Wadley's!

We went to Grandpa Hakes' for a July 4th bbq and I guess Drew had to pee. What a cute little butt he has!

I had Alexis clear the kitchen table and when I looked up to see how it was going, she was on top washing it! What a great little helper she is.
Don't worry, I sanitized it after she was done, I didn't want foot germs all over my dinner table.

Two great video clips of John playing baseball in the basement, yes, in the house, with the kids. They love to dance to the "horse song" as we call it. I loved Madison's moves while it was going and then I found the one of Alexis dancing while playing baseball, gotta love it. She's a good mix between priss and tom-boy! Drew is running around Alexis while the song is going because that is usually how they "dance" to it, they will run around and around in circles until their parents think that the song will kill them.

Tiffani is WONDERWOMAN

This blog is usually updated by Tiffani, while I keep my own blog...(jawsbites.blogspot.com) but today, Tiffani has asked me to update the blog this week as her schedule is ULTRA SUMA MEGA GRANDE busy. She is doing a summer term at UVU.....Anatomy no less. It has the reputation of being one of the hardest classes on campus. So far Tiff the Wiff has gotten great scores on her Quizzes and such. So NICE JOB Tiff! Of course having to watch all three kids while half of them seem to be perpetually sick doesn't make things any easier. Also not having a husband...as I am in Logan at my new job....doesn't help much either. She's WONDERWOMAN!! Hopefully we can sell the house soon so the family can move up here with me. Our plan is for me to come home every weekend to see the kids and hopefully after summer term is done, we can just move everything up to Logan and SQUEEZE into my little two bedroom condo I'm renting. It's a great place though.

Last week the kids came up to Logan for a three day weekend. We had a great time. Tiffani was greatly impressed with my apartment selection abilities.....LOL. The kids had a great time feeding the ducks and Carp. It was a feeding frenzy. Kinda gross actually. See video. We also went to a really cool park named Ryan's Park. We went to the Logan Zoo which was pretty cool. They had some Eagles, Turtles, Owls, Monkeys, Pelicans, and lots of other birds.

The kids loved being toted around in the bike trailer. At one point I didn't realize that I was spraying them with dirt and dust from the ground that my bike tire was flicking on them. OOPS. Both Alexis and Drew loved riding in our old school childs bike chair that attaches behind the seat. It provides a whole new vantage point that also leans to the left and to the right.

All in all a great weekend.