Wheeling and dealing with Larry

The end of year RedHawks baseball party was again held at Billy and Cade's house in Peterson. We left South Weber Days after the parade and headed up here. The kids swam even tho it was a windy and overcast. Parks trying out his new swim skills he learned from swim lessons this summer.Hud taking a crazy dive off the board.

I feel bad I didn't get a picture of Larry handing out the trophies to the boys. Afterward Larry and Billy talked to all the parents about where the kids need to improve and any concerns the parents had. Larry had promised the boys that if they played their best at the Tournament of Champions that they could shave his head. But the talking took too long and we forgot that night so we invited the boys to our house and took them to a Bees game. Only a few were able to make it.
It was really just a desire of Larry's to buzz it every year like he usually does in June so why not lay it on the kids like he HAS to hold true to his word...since he knows I hate it buzzed.

Cade seemed like a natural barber. He really enjoyed it and got a little scissor happy on the side of Larry's head. ha ha

Scott and Hud helped out.

Lyn being a hairdresser herself was a little concerned. She touched it up even after I had my turn.

Parks may look happy here, but he told Larry he was ugly and he didn't like it. ha ha Well at least we save on shampoo. And hopefully he is not too old that it doesn't grow back. It is looking thinner than it did last year after the buzz. What did I expect??

First day of school

Hudson is in 4th grade, Parks in 1st

Parks has been counting down for a month for school to start. (Here is Hudsons first day of Kindergarten. And Jessica and Ellie and Megan. Notice Hud wore a Steelers jersey then too. I had a new polo I wanted him to wear this year and he refused.) :)

Logan however is bored stiff. If they are gone before he wakes up the first thing he says is "Where is Hud and Skrapper?" If they leave after he's awake by 10am without fail he is asking "When will Hud and Skrapper come home". That makes for a long day since they've only been at school for an hour. Sometimes even after he's watched them get on the bus...awhile later he'd asks "Where did Skrapper and Hud go?" If we go to the store he repeats several times "We need to go home cause Skrapper and Hud will be there". It's usually only about 11:00 and I have to tell him they haven't even ate lunch yet. Fortunately, we'll be starting the neighborhood preschool in 2 weeks!

The bus was only 20 min lates the first day...no biggy!

Tierra is now attending Northridge High in Layton as a sophomore. She loves it!

Tierra wanted the first "week" of school so she could scrapbook her new wardrobe look.

Toof-less

An ordinary visit to the Dentist for check-ups left us with an anything but ordinary dilemma.

Looking at Hudson's X-rays the dentist noticed he had 2 sets of adult front teeth. Here he was at 9 years of age and still hadn't lost his front two teeth. Who knew such a simple ordinary thing

Well the second set of adult teeth were pushing on the first set and wouldn't let them descend so he had to have surgery last week to pull 4 teeth, his baby teeth and that extra set. Hud had already lost his two baby teeth on either side of the front two. They are suppose to come in 9 months AFTER the front teeth. Well now I know. They also said it is hereditary....but I don't know of anything like this on either side of the family?? Poor Hud was miserable for at least 3 days. He was on a liquid diet but still didn't want to eat much...shakes is about all he liked. Just opening his jaw to put food in was the most painful. He was actual pretty tough since he never asked for any meds.

Instead of bulking up for football he was losing weight! He had to miss football practice which he hated. But he didn't want to stay home, he went and watched practiced the very day of his surgery with a bloody gauze pad hanging out of his mouth. I have to cut the corn off the cob for him and cut up his apples like you do for old people. :)

Now he looks like a vampire which reminded me of Logan.

Logan got this awesome treasure chest from Dawson and it came with a lock and key. Since we are still in the "refusing to go poop on the potty" stage at almost 4 yrs old, I'm trying something new that my cousin told me worked for her little boy. I put a surprise of some kind in the treasure chest and lock it. When Logan poops on the potty then he gets to have the key and open it. His first surprise today was wax vampire teeth! Hooray for Gunner! Now if only he wouldn't clog the toilet! :)

Speaking of teeth I couldn't help but mention Skrapper lost his first tooth last Sunday up at Gram and Pops. It was a family affair (or cousin I should say) Parks bit down on a corn cob and realized he needed to lose that tooth if he wanted to enjoy his dinner. He ran to Larry and told him to pull it. Larry tried and it needed some more time. Parks has no fear. He plopped himself down on a quilt and let Abby work on it for awhile with at least 5 other cousins crowding around. It finally moved to the front of the house where Abby was prepared with paper towels and a glass of water to rinse his mouth out. After a few "pops" it came out. Jonah and Parks showing each other their missing teeth.

Narnia day (May 14th)

I haven't had time to post this but it was a huge deal for the 3rd graders and I also was on the committee and helped out. We started planning this in November. It started at 9am and went until school got out at 3:25! I had a lot of fun working with Diana Hyer and doing things preparing for the actual day. Glad it is over but hope that Parks is lucky enough to have Mrs. Sheffield and enjoy this awesome day also. I wish I could have added more pics. It said i could put up to 400 but I only could do 30?? I needed maybe 5 more is all!

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10 year anniversary

We were married on Friday the 13th. Larry picked the date because he thinks it's lucky. That shows what an optimistic person he is. He is very superstitious however. Things like not washing your game socks or shaving or getting a hair cut when you are on a winning streak in sports. If I could have done anything different...I would have chosen a cheaper photographer cause he was $#@& expensive and not any good afterall!!! My friend Christine took better pics that day with her camra and they were more meaningful and natural. She caught those precious moments in the brides room! If I could find them I would have posted them...I'm so far behind on my blogging that I won't promise to post them later. If I do then I do.

I Love You Larry!

Oh my how the families have changed!

For the past couple of years I always thought I'd want to do something big for our 10th...like Hawaii, but now that it has creeped up on us, we just don't seem to have the time or money! So tonight we are going to a movie (The Proposal) how fitting. Tomorrow we will go with the kids to Lava Hotsprings to camp for a few days. Next month Larry is going to California for 9 days on a business trip so to celebrate our anniversary I will fly out there and spend a weekend with him. He keeps asking me to plan what I want to see and do....all I want to do is relax and go to the beach and eat some good food!

MOZALTOFF!!!