Birthday Time at the Powell's

I decided that I was decorating the house for Thad's birthday whether we were having showing for the day or not. 

I love when Tucker came down stairs and looked in the kitchen, "Just what I thought." when he saw the streamers.

After the whole deal with my foot, I still wanted to go with what Thad had picked to do for his day.  He wanted Chicken Alfredo from Costco and go bowling.  We surprised him and invited his friend Ira to come with us for the evening.

Opening his gifts while I kept my foot up.

In the car ride on our way bowling.

I just loved the colors!  I had to take a picture of all the balls the kids picked.  You would never guess which one was Thad's lucky ball.  :0)  The pink one.  I know, shocking.

I couldn't get them all to look at me.  They just wanted to play.

Katy got to help me.  I really needed to do her hair.

Then, since I couldn't bowl, I got carried away with the camera and the color feature.  Loved that they all were in orange.  Norma came down today and said that she had worn orange just because it was Thad's birthday.

Tried to catch the high-five.  Bit blurry.

Katy wasn't in orange so I had to get her color.

It came down to the last frame.  Ira was beating Nate's score by one and so Nate let Katy roll the last frame.  She got a strike. :0)

We went to Arctic Circle for some ice cream cones.

I hope that my boy had a wonderful day.  My mom had brought up the day that he was born and I get so emotional thinking about it.  I love my Thad-man and am so glad that he is mine.

Flip-flops are No Protection

*If you get squeamish don't read.  I might have a hard time writing this. :0/ *

Check it out.

Flip-flops are no protection against mulch.  The mulch will win every time.  We were leaving Wal-mart and who knows how, I'm just good I guess, but I stepped off the curb and ended up with a piece of mulch in my foot through my flip-flop.

Now I'm going into detail for those of you who want to know. If you don't, skip this part.  I had to pull the wood out of my foot just to get my shoe off.  I stood there and let my foot bleed all over the parking lot. ;0)  Hopped over to the car and got a look at my foot.  There was a hole as big as the tip of my pinky finger in the bottom of my foot.  We couldn't tell if there was any thing in my foot.  There was something black and we didn't know if it was part of my flip-flop, a piece of the bark or just from it being such a big hole.

The whole reason we were at Wal-mart was to get treats to take to Thad at school for his birthday so we took the cold stuff home, dropped Kate off next door, went to the school, checked out Norma and headed to Instacare.

I was so happy to see Lori from our ward was the nurse that helped us.  I was not looking forward to what I knew they would have to do.

Did you know that having the shot to numb up your foot hurts worse then the tetanus shot I had to have.  And you all know how I feel about needles.  Then here is where I nearly lost it.  The doctor really dug around in my foot to make sure that that there was not anything in there.  So much blood and I could feel how deep he was digging.  It took everything in me not to lose it.  He finally decided that there wasn't anything in there and told me to stay off it to let it clot up.  If it was to get infected to come in to my regular doctor for a prescription.

So much for bowling for Thad's birthday. 

Sisters

I had kicked the girls out of the house while I cleaned it up for a showing and when I looked out the door, I saw this.

Norma is painting Katy's toes.  And nails. 

Then they came in.  I had to take a picture of the sisters together.

 Yes, yes they do need a bath.

Katy needed her baby in the picture and then Eva thought she needed to be with the girls too.

I think I need to put make-up on more often so my girls will know how to put it on right.  That or I need someone to teach Me how to put make-up on right because I've taught my girls all wrong.  :0)

1st Day of School

 Check out my amazing kids!

 Thad is going into 3rd Grade and has Mrs. Jackson.  If someone can talk him into not tucking in his shirt like that, I would love them forever.  You can't tell me that he is not his own person.

 Norma is going into 1st grade and has Mrs. Worlton for her teacher.  She was told that she was beautiful because of her shirt.  The dogs went nuts too.  All the sun spots on the wall.

 Look at this handsome man!  Tucker is starting 5th grade at a new school, Hidden Hollow.  He is still in the A.L.L program and has Mrs. O'Very for his teacher.  He has some new students in his class this year and gets to ride his bike with a boy from our ward.

 Can't leave this beauty out.  Chocolate face and all.  I had made chocolate chip muffins for breakfast as a special treat for the first day of school.

 Thad and his best friend Ira.  Ira lives right across the street and is going to be the hardest thing to lose for Thad when we move.  I love that he has a best friend right across the street, that they can play all day and that they enjoy each others company as much as I enjoy spending time with my best friends.

I have to say that it is going to be hard just having Katy home.  Even more so now that we have things packed up and in the garage.  I can't craft, sew or make cards.  I have been cleaning more and walking Norma to and from school.  That took up some of my day. :0)

The night before school, Nate gave the kids some amazing Father's Blessings.  I am so grateful to have a husband who has that amazing power and can use it in our home and with our children.  I love knowing that the Lord uses his mouthpiece in our home, Nate, to talk to us individually and knows what we need and what we want.  I am so very grateful for the protection that this offers all of us for the school year.  Helping us remember that we can make it through as we listen to the Spirit and the Lord and stay strong as a family.

I should make a note about the stress that I had the first day, but it makes me upset to think about it again, and its over and not much I can do about it.  But just for journaling sake I will say that there was a mix up, lots of stress on my part and that things are good now and hopefully stay that way. ;0)

Trying Something New

As most of you know, we have some behavior issues with Thad.  We have tried many different things to try and teach and help him with his anger.  We had something just happen and the thing that I came away with after being able to talk with him and not having either one of us upset is that it helps him to do something physical when he is angry. 

This is one of our solutions.

I know that some of you may be thinking, "Great, you are teaching him to hit.  Thanks."  But that is not what it is for.  It is to help him focus his anger on a physical thing and gives him something to "put a face on" so to speak.

We are also putting him into karate.  We hope that the lessons that they teach will help him know that hitting people and other things are not the answer.  That if he really feels like he needs to hit something, there are things that he can hit and we are hoping to help him learn different ways to be able to talk out his anger when he learns that hitting is just for fun and exercise.

He is not the only one who has enjoyed the new addition.  Nate can't help himself.  Every time he is upstairs for something, he has to detour into the boys room.  He thinks of things to do upstairs just to go hit the thing.

Katy also enjoys it. :0)

The Floor?

I found Katy here last night.

She had made her own bed on the floor and that is where she slept.

Why all the cleaning you may ask?

This would be why.

And this

is about 20 minutes from where we are headed once we sell.