Beach trip July 2009

We went to the beach on Saturday July 25, 2009. Tristan loved the water, Allyson loved to play in the sand and run from the water. and Gavin like to play in the sand but not go in the water. We took so many pictures this day since the waves were huge. We had to make sure that someone was with Tristan at all times when he was near the water. We stayed most of the day and it was hard getting the kids to go home. It was the perfect day, and the kids can not wait to go back. Here are just a few pictures.

Kaitlyn and April buried Tristan in the sand. But I loved this picture of Gavin looking over him.

Gavin wanted to be buried in the sand after he saw Tristan get buried in the sand. April (Kaitlyn's friend) did the honors. He hated to go into the water to get cleaned off.

Allyson played in this same spot all day. She did not want to be buried. She would run from the water and never really got wet.

I took like 5 or 6 pictures of them all together. They all came out so cute it was hard to pick one to add.

Not so lucky after all!!!

Well although you can not tell by this picture Allyson has PINK EYE!! Well last night her eyes yes both eyes were red and starting to get weepy. So we still have lots of medicine and started late last night with the drops. This morning she already looks a ton better. We never let it get bad. Still pink but no weep!! I think we are pros at this pink eye stuff. One more kid to go.

What does this look like??

Last week we told the kids that we would take them to the beach on Saturday. But all week Tristan had been reminding us of the Church Pioneer picnic that he really wanted to go to. So we told then that we would go on a different day and that we would stay home and swim then go to the picnic. Good thing. Take a look at this.

Yes Tristan looks like he got hit in the eye, but no this is not the result of a fight with another person. Here is how the story goes.

We got up for breakfast and the kids wanted eggs. So I made them eggs. Allyson and Gavin wanted scrambled with cheese and katsup of course. Tristan wanted his over medium with the same toppings but when asked i he wanted it cut he asked "mom can I have a butter knife so I can cut it myself?" What was I supposed to say, no?? Of course not so I gave him one and showed him once and he was off. He did a great job.

Well as the day went on Tristan's eye was starting to look really bad. At first it just looked like he got some lotion in it. It was starting to tear and get lots of what looked like sleep in it. I took the Allyson and Gavin to the park. It was 110 degrees so we only stayed for 1 hr. Mark stayed home with Tristan. Later that night it was just looking really bad. Mark took him to the ER and it was an eye infection of course. The Doctor said Pink eye. Why not!! Just what we need. Anyways when they got home I took that picture. The next morning after some antibiotics and eye drops he looked like this.

Fun with the camera

Well it is not hard to tell from the pictures that the boys got a hold to the camera. Here is the proof!

Sunday July 5th.

Well Sunday's are normally very uneventful. Well not this day. We normally get up and go to church and have a nice peaceful day. Not today. No pictures for this but Mom ended up taking Gavin to the ER. Here is how the story goes.



We slept in after a very late night out on the 4Th. Gavin was the first one up. The others were up not too long after. We took our baths and sat down to have some cereal. Not sure what and how and if he was dared to do it, but as Mom walked into the room to see how the kids were doing she hears "Tristan can you get this out of my ear?" It got moms attention and she watched Tristan pull a piece of cereal out of Gavin's right ear only to have him ask mom to get the piece out of his left ear. She did not see it at first. After inspection she sees it pushed in his ear. Still a whole piece. Mom calls Dad in for a consultation, and they see that they will not be able to use the tweezers to get it. So they decide to flush his ear with water and then were able to pull a small piece out. Dad left with Tristan and Allyson to church and mom continues to work at getting the cereal out. She tries to flush it out which is the only option and then calls Grandma for some help who tells her to throw in the towel and take him in for some help. Once there the nurses laughed but thought he was so cute. They gave him a coloring book and crayons to occupy him while they flush his ear. Well we finally get the rest of the cereal out. He looks at mom and says "I will not put cereal in my ear mom, I will eat it only". After an RX of antibiotic drops we were back home within 1 1/2 hours. Not bad!



This is not our first visit and by far not the last visit to the ER, but it will be the funniest.

Independence Day 2009

We had a great Day. We swam at Grandma/Aunt Vickie's house. Mom worked early in the day. Later we went to Aunt Lynne's made home made ice cream and watched Fireworks.

Makayla, Gavin and Mark in the pool.

Mark shooting water at Tristan.

Tristan got water in his eyes.

Tristan filling his gun to shoot Mark.

Tristan shooting at Mark.

Abby, Tristan, Makayla, Max holding Haily, Mark and Allyson at Vickie's house.

Tristan, Gavin & Daniel.

Allyson not liking the loud planes flying over head.

Tristan, Uncle Max and Daniel in the back.

Gavin helping with the ice cream.

July 3rd

Well the start of our 4Th of July weekend started with the 3rd. Mom and Dad both had the day off. Daycare was closed. We washed the cars (moms and dads) and swam almost the hole day away. What fun. We took Gavin's floaties off and started to teach him to swim. We are hoping that this won't take long. Cousins Garrett and Daniel came over to swim for a while with us as well.

Washing Dads truck. We already washed moms.

Mom when can we go swimming?

You don't need to clean in there buddy!

Allyson is our little fish.

She loves to jump in.

From all sides of the pool.

Tristan just falls in.

At least we did not have to throw him in this time.

He even made it across the pool.

No more floaties!!

He did very well. We started with him swimming from dad to mom then moved onto this.

This was the second time.

Garrett, Tristan & Daniel.

This was the only time Tristan jumped in with them. After this he went back to the shallow end by him self.