6-7-09

Hi all! Our week was a little less crazy, but still crazy. Monday we started swimming lessons, and the water was cold! Tuesday more swimming lessons and something of a scare/funny story on Tuesday night. Gwen and Jim were in the bedroom talking and Reagan came running in saying John was bleeding everywhere. Gwen ran into the kitchen and there were drops of red on the carpet and in a long line on the tile in the kitchen. Next she saw John holding his hands up to his face and red spewing from his mouth into his hands. She quickly got him to the sink to rinse off to see where the cut was...John had opened a package of red koolaid and ate it! He didn't like the taste so he was spitting it out all over! It gave us a short panic, but was pretty funny (OK, after it all got cleaned up), what a relief it wasn't more serious. Wednesday we fed the missionaries, but earlier in the day Gwen and the kids spent time in the pool. We were playing "shark" and John was the shark. He pretended to eat Reagan and she said, "Don't eat me John, mom is meatier!" It was funny. Thursday we had countertops installed, it makes the kitchen look so different and we are really glad to have it done. Friday was a busy day with nana. We went to the mall to get shoes for her (luckily we had left by time the Amber Alert went out for a missing child from that same place!) and then we went to the bounce place for the kids to use up some energy, and then a little more shopping for mom/gwen. Home to the pool where the kids were so excited nana got in with them. Jim was in Tucson that day, so he came home tired. Saturday Nana flew home and we worked on the house and Gwen did lots of laundry. Saturday night Jim dislocated his toe - AGAIN! He suffered through the weekend with it (it has now been popped back into place and is doing better) thank goodness for pain pills. Sunday was a long day at church and then we had yummy oreo pie for Reagan Thornley's birthday celebration. Hope everyone is well, we are really looking forward to seeing everyone soon for Jake's wedding. Love, Jim Gwen Reagan and John

5-31-09

Ok ready? Take a deep breath and then read...Monday for Memorial Day Jim was lucky enough to take the kids to the summer movie "Spacechimps" which he LOVED! (hee-hee, just kidding) Gwen was on-call for work and it ended up being a very busy phone morning so luckily Jim could take the kids and they met up with the Thornleys. Tuesday we got a call from Lois saying she wasn't feeling well (just a sidenote - she had been to the ER twice over the weekend but they didn't find anything). So Gwen and the kids went to grandma's and we ended up going to the heart hospital near our house and she was admitted and they eventually found that she had had a small heart attack but further tests didn't indicate any damage to her heart. We are so thankful that Cara was here to take the kids while Gwen stayed at the hospital most of the day with Lois and that she could also pick up nana. Tuesday night nana had her first stay and the kids were so excited to have her here. That night Jim broke one of his wisdom teeth (we were told 2 yrs ago to get them out -oops) so Wednesday we called the oral surgeon and were blessed and they got us in that day. We had to wait awhile but we can't complain. He did pretty well and that took care of that day. Thursday Gwen headed to yet another doctor, the pediatrician, since the kids had been complaining for a couple of days about their ears. Reagan had an ear infection and swimmers ear in one ear and John had swimmers ear in both ears. We'll we were headed out to pinedale that afternoon with nana so we went to the pharmacy to get the special ear drops and guess what? our insurance didn't cover $100 (for each kid!) so we had to get another prescription sent up to the showlow walgreens. We made it to pinedale, got the medicine and enjoyed some gorgeous cool weather! Friday we took nana to see the sites in showlow and the temple in snowflake. that night we had a couple of people from our ward stay at the cabin too. Saturday we had a lazy day and came home late afternoon. Cara and Steve came over for dinner that night and then Sunday was church, Jim taught an awesome lesson on home teaching (even brought a couple of men to tears :-) and we enjoyed having nana here. Poor nana, had to experience all of our weirdness this past week but the kids sure have loved having her around and just can't understand why she isn't up at the crack of dawn with them! :-) Hope everyone has a good week. Love, jim gwen reagan and johnp.s. Lois had a funny when they came to take her for her angiogram (sp?). She was really nervous so when the nurse asked her her name to check her band, Lois said "anna-susanna-banana" to be funny and quick as a wit, the nurse said, "OK, so you're here for the sex change operation - right?" It was so funny!