new wheels

My Sadie learned how to ride a bike last night. I was fixing dinner

and Rick came in and told me that I needed to come and watch her.

I came out and there she went. Starting and stopping by herself.

Thanks to Aryn Cerva for helping with the starting she is off and going.

(If Aryn is willing to move in I won't argue with anyone. She held Rylee while

I made dinner than went outside to help Sadie)

She is so proud of herself that she called everyone last night to tell them.

what do you think?

Okay Dede has helped me learn how to use my camera.

I bought it about 1 year ago and I am finally learning how to use it.

Believe it or not I have read the manual but it went in 1 ear and out the other.

So I have been playing with the camera(on manual) and this is the only

picture that I thought turned out half way good.

So I am posting this to have Dede is what I did.

I still have lots more to learn and lots more questions

now that I starting to take pictures.

So thanks to Dede for helping me out.

jyll and natalie

On Saturday we did the MS Walk at the Gateway.

We did it for my sister in law Jyll Mendenhall Roberts and Natalie Mendenhall

(middle picture of them)the MS sisters

Jyll had all the shirts made up for all 59 people that walked for her.

It was all amazing who came to support her. It is a nasty thing to have and

I hope that someday they will find a cure for MS.

You would never know that Jyll has MS. She will run circles around

everyone that I know. She works hard. She wants a family so bad

but MS does not stop her with that. She had a little girl Chloe in July.

There was thousands of people there walking, running and in a wheelchair.

We walked a 5K around Salk Lake with a break in the middle.

I was so proud my Dad and my Mom made it.(now that is dedication)

At the end they gave us medals. Sadie kept saying "I can't believe we won."

Eli said "I can't believe they gave us a bronze medal"

It was so much fun (and a excausting) day.

I can't wait to do it next year!!

2 months check-up

Rylee had her 2 month check-up on March 30, 2009

She had 3 shots in the leg and 1 oral.(which was new to me)

Of course she had her hips check and checked again.

So far so good!!

She also had a zit (thats what we called it. I am sure that is not a technical term)

on her neck which I pointed that out for you if you couldn't see it staring at you.

Her doctor removed that off of her.

She now weights 11.2 lbs (52%)

23 inches long (78%)

Sadie couldn't stand it that she was crying so much

that she was trying to make her stop. "It's okay Rylee I'm right here"

I'm sure glad that she was there to protect her.

Sorry for the picture but she wouldn't smile at the camera just at Sadie

my leg is longer

So you remember to good old days when Naomi was 1 and she had this cute purple cast on?

Well today we had our annual check up with our Dr. Cast (Dr. Stotts) at Primary Children's Hospital. I was really hoping for good news but unfortunately we did not. Naomi's left leg just keeps on growing, which makes the hip cup not growing.

So in May she will have to have surgery to stun the growth of her left leg so that they can even up. She is kind of excited about all of this because she gets to have slurpee at the hospital and she gets to have crutches. (What ever makes her happy about this)

I am trying to make this happy for her but really I am dying inside knowing what she has to go through. Sometimes life isn't fair, but I love that she will smile about it and do it because she knows that it will work out.

Please keep her in your prays and have a positive attitude when and if you talk to her.

memory

"Memory Game"

I love it when things turn out.

I made this memory game for my kids.

I found a fun paper and then my brother took mugshots of everyone in my family.

(you can have cute pictures but I don't know how to do that)

I put there pictures on the back and now my kids can play memory with pictures of my family.

This was fun and not that expense to make.

warning...

Who would have thought that a kite would be dangerous.

Today Sadie went to play at the neighbors house. They went

outside to fly a kite. Sounds simple right?

WRONG!!!

As the neighbor was trying to get the kite up the wind

said other wise and shot the kite done.

As the kite came down Sadie happened to be there

the the string went wrapping around her neck.

Luckly they got the string upwrapped and she came

running home.

Luckly she is alright, she is going to have

a red mark around her neck to remind her

(really she will remind me)

of what happened.