Unexpected Excitement

I guess I should start with an explanation. Unfortunately, you may end up as confused as I still am. Cheyenne had a volleyball team party on Saturday afternoon. The girl whose house the party was at likes Connor...needless to say him and a couple of his friends were invited as well. They swam, ate and of course played volleyball. The ball kept going over the neighbors chain link fence. On the third time of retrieving the ball "something happened" and Connor ended up hurt. His hand was punctured quite deeply as well as a tear originating from the puncture which was bleeding a lot...enough that he passed out after a couple minutes. We took him up to the instacare and the got him cleaned up and he had to have his hand stitched up. He wasn't real happy about that...he was somewhat in a state of shock and it didn't help that there were going to be needles involved. Things are fine now, but he is supposed to leave on Wednesday morning for Zion's to hike, hike, and hike some more! He'll have to go with stitches and try to keep it all clean...

This is our first stitches...it was something I don't want to do again. When Connor showed me before the doctor visit-let's just say that it was something I knew Jeff better handle or else he would have to pick us both up!


the outside dressing


the puncture and tear are in his palm


the damage to his stomach


Connor crashed out on the couch

Junior High Awards

Sandridge held their awards presentation tonight at Roy High. Cheyenne received a certificate for being on the Honor Roll for a year.

Go Cheyenne!


Connor Recived his awards tonight as well...

He received a certificate for being on the Honor Roll two years, and Certificates of Recognition from the Foreign Language Department and the Social Studies Department.


We are so pleased with their hard work this year!

Kidnapping and Awards

KIDNAPPING!
Connor was initiated this morning at 4:45 AM...he heard me on the phone so he knew what was coming...he has a problem being the center of attention, let alone being humiliated in front of the school. He was up and showered and had set some "booby traps" for his nappers. He put toothpaste on the door knob and light switch and put saran wrap across his door. He also put pillows in his bed to look like him while he hid in the closet!
He was the first one to get napped...everyone else was asleep and in their pajamas...he had a great time waking up everyone else! They all went to breakfast and then back to school. He had to wear the crown all day!


outside his room

coming upstairs

leaving...

Connor in his crown- it says Vice Pres is you're trying to read it.
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3Rd GRADE AWARDS
After sending everyone off to school...Joran, Maren and I headed up to school for the awards assembly. Boston received 16 gold seals and an academic excellence pin. Seals are awarded in different areas like mastery in math, spelling, reading and passing certain grade level challenges.
Go Boston!

He doesn't like pictures...

Here I told him he better smile...Joran, on the other hand is usually all smiles...it was a long assembly!
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After Boston's awards assembly we came home for lunch and a quick nap. We were then off to the school again...this time for Sierra's awards assembly. She received 16 seals and an outstanding student pin. Her seals were in similar areas and the challenges were 5th grade level. Joran was thrilled to be in these pictures ...the assembly was much shorter!


This is the page with 1 seal...the 3 pages behind are full of the seals.

Sierra also received a certificate from the Utah State Board of Education for excellence in the area of mathematics on the IOWA test. Yeah Sierra!

Stay tuned...the day is not over and we have the Junior High Awards in an hour...I'll try to post those when we get home. It's a busy week ...Kindergarten graduation is tomorrow so check back often!

Basement Bathroom After Pictures

Here are the finished pictures from the basement bath which was torn out and put in first.

looking straight on

the back

the bottom...

We still have some clean up in this bath as well...but they all work and there are no leaks...what a relief!

Memorial Day

Here we are doing the graves...I forgot to take pictures at the first cemetary....ooops!

Jeff, Boston, Grandpa Stephens, and Cheyenne

Sierra with the flowers

Grandpa and Grandma Gus

Judy

Joran, Charlie and Annicha in Grandma's car to keep Charlie happy (and the kids as well)

Scott

Brian


Dick


Jan

other graves we did...

Master Bath Remodel

Here are the before pictures of our Mater Bathroom...

The back...

The front...

From the side...this tub wasn't leaking yet...we found out either the contractor or the people we bought the house from had patched a couple holes in the tub and then spray painted it...not cool!
Anyway, it was cracking and there was a spot that moved when you pushed on it...another water mess waiting to happen!

Here is Joran helping ...he was sweeping up all the tile, grout, mortar and wall board Jeff was dropping.

Jeff cutting out a wall...

Because the tub was "damaged" we decided to not replace it...the bathroom door wasn't up to code (it was too narrow) so there was no way to put a new tub in the bathroom anyway. You might be wondering how we got the other one out...Jeff sawed it into thirds! As you can see from the picture...it's a good thing we pulled the tub...it was leaking and so once again, Jeff had to tear out the sub floor and all the gross insulation...but this is what we are left with now.....a beautiful walk in shower...

the front...


the back...

the side view!
We have now ordered the glass doors for the shower. It will have a pattern called "rain" if any of you are familiar with it.
It's been a long road, but we are almost done and it will be nice to enjoy...just a side note on this day. Jeff did the demo in the morning and his cousin came to do the installation around 12:30 pm. While this was going on, the new furniture we bought 6 weeks ago showed up for the master bedroom...it was a mad house!

How Does Your Garden Grow?

We always tease our baby...Maren, Maren quite contraren (we have to make it rhyme) how does our garden grow?
We thought we'd give you the latest look...we didn't have too much success with our square foot gardens last year so we decided this year to do some of both...
The first box has peas, the next has tomatoes, in the ground is peas, and corn.

These are all rows of corn (we have a total of 9 rows of corn)...we had just planted these boxes so we'll see how they do in the coming weeks. We planted one with beans and the other with broccoli...we also started some pumpkins between the corn, also we tried some watermelon, cantaloupe.