14 June 2009

Hello all! Well, Jim and I can't remember Monday or Tuesday...except that the kids had their last week of swimming lessons. It's kind of a relief it's over. Reagan really liked hers but John was a little stinker and didn't want to be in the water, even though he loves the pool at home. Cara did a lot of painting at our house on Tues/Wed - it looks really good, what would we do without her!? Wednesday the EQ challenged the Priests to a softball game. It was the perfect weather, cloudy and breezy and the Elder's beat the Priests pretty good! :-) It was a fun night. As we were leaving the field, one of the Elders said to Jim "so I'll see you tomorrow night?" and Jim suddenly got a look of horror on his face, he had forgotten to tell me he signed me up to go to the temple with him the next night! So of course I'm trying to figure out babysitters..luckily Cara was able to watch the kids and it seemed to turn out OK (luckily for Jim!) Again, what would we do without Aunt Cake? Friday Jim took the day off and primed the kitchen cabinets for painting. That afternoon the kids and Jim helped out a family and Gwen went to Cub Scout Day Camp. Again, we were blessed with breezy/cooler weather. Our ward/spanish branch had the biggest group and the boys had a good time. Saturday we worked on cabinets again - Jim's such a good worker! And then he was rewarded by going to UFC and hanging out with the guys :-) Gwen took the kids to the park to get them out of the house. And church today, the normal busy-ness. Hope everyone has a good week, really looking forward to the Utah trip!

21 June 2009

Hi all! It has been a busy week! Monday Gwen and the kids met Cara and the Thornley kids for the Monday summer movie. It was a bit scarey for my kids, but they liked it (Spiderwick). Cara graciously watched the kids that afternoon while Gwen took Lois to her cardiologist followup. It was a long wait and kind of annoying, but hopefully they will find out why she is still not feeling up to par. That night Jim and some guys helped someone move and he didn't get home until late. Tuesday was Jim's 40th birthday! Reagan loved decorating for his birthday and wrapping presents - it's so fun to see her get so excited! We waited for a candy order and that night had a quick birthday celebration with the Thornley's and then Jim was off to do church visits for the night (and again didn't get home until late). Wednesday was another waiting-for-candy-order-day and in the mean time it was trying to get the kitchen cabinets primed and painted. Thursday we did a story time and activity which was fun for the kids and that night we had a ward visitor's center night and then rootbeer floats at the church - again, another late night for everyone. Friday night Gwen and Jim had dinner/games with another couple in the ward. Saturday was misc jobs for Gwen and Jim and putting the kitchen back together. Then we had cake for Stockton's birthday at Cara's house and afterwards, Jim had guys over for UFC at our house. Sunday was the usual church and Lois and Cleiburn came for Father's Day dinner. we hope everyone is well and we are excited for the wedding festivities!

28 June 2009

What a busy week, but it was OK because we knew a vacation was waiting for us! Monday Gwen and the kids had the Monday movie “Madagascar”. They enjoyed this one a lot, even though it still is kind of hard to sit still. We also did VTing and Jim did his usual errands. Tuesday I don’t really remember except Cara watched the kids for a bit and then I watched 3 sisters from the ward for quite awhile. Wednesday the kids had haircuts in preparation for the wedding and that night Jim had church PPIs. Thursday Cara was kind enough to watch kids again while Gwen did more errands. Friday was more visiting teaching that went wayyyyyyy too long but the kids had fun playing (I visit teach my Primary President so there is lots to talk about). That afternoon was spent finishing laundry, packing, etc. That night John had a hard time sleeping and we eventually made our way to urgent care just 6 hrs before our flight was to leave! It was some sort of throat infection (no strep) and was kind of a weird deal, but we came home and slept for 1 ½ hrs and then made the decision to keep our flight (john was doing much better by then). We made it to SLC and went to temple square with nana and Emily and ellie and danny. It was fun and then we stopped to see Rog, Hilary and Bonnie. The kids are having a great time! That night Rog and Hilary came back to BC and we all had smores around nana’s fire pit with Uncle Jim and Aunt Ann. But Gwen was so exhausted from so little sleep! Sunday was early church and lots of visiting. With John and Danny in nursery, we doubled their numbers and Reagan was the only girl in a class full of boys. We are looking forward to seeing everyone, drive safely!

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!

5-11-09

Happy Mother's Day yesterday! Hope moms got some relaxing time - Jim was sure good to me, let me sleep in (in between all the work calls :-) and he and the kids made cards and brownies and let me have some alone time - it was just what I wanted :-) This past week the work van was in the shop again - we're ready to change mechanics, the problems are just not getting fixed. Also, Gwen went to a food storage class at the cannery and John hung out with daddy and they got Reagan. Tuesday Jim had Elder's Quorum night and Gwen and the kids went to Pack Meeting. It was pretty chaotic and then home to bed. Wed we had something but I can't remember. Thursday was John's jumping beans class - only 3 boys showed up so we built towers with foam blocks and destroyed them over and over! That afternoon we spent time at Cara's house and then Gwen had Roundtable that night and afterwards went for ice cream with her old Webelos partner. Friday morning Reagan's class had a tea party for all of the mom's. Reagan picked out pretty clothes for each of us and we had cake, punch and the kids sang and showed us a few things. It was fun and Reagan was so excited! Saturday Jim cleaned the church and spent the day mounting the tv above the fireplace. It sure looks good, a little different to get used to. Gwen did a cub scout orientation and that night the kids had a babysitter while Gwen and Jim played games with other couples in the ward. Sunday was a busy phone day for Gwen, church, and that night the Petersen gang and Thornley's came to dinner. Hope everyone is well, starting to look forward to all the exciting summer events. Too bad it's getting completely hot here!!!

5-3-09

Welcome to May! Monday and Tuesday we waited for candy orders in the morning. Jim took John on work errands (John made friends with a dog that is at a supplier's business) Tuesday afternoon we went to Cake's house and the kids played while Cara dyed Gwen's hair. Tuesday night the kids played with daddy while Gwen had primary leadership meeting. Wednesday was pretty mello, except Gwen scurrying to get company quarterly reports done. Thursday we had John's little "jumping beans" class and he loved doing tumbling that day. In the meantime, Reagan played in the rec center's "kid's club" and she enjoyed dressing up there. That afternoon the kids had friends come play and they had alot of fun. Friday the kids played with different friends and then John went with Jim and Rusty (single guy in our ward) to Father's and Sons. They drove up, had dinner, hung out and came home around 11:30pm. They had a really good time and next year they might even spend the night :-) We had girls night with Cara and we went to the mall and did each other's errands together and then had dinner. Gwen did some cleaning and then watched a girl show. Saturday was more errands, we bought a sink and faucet for the kitchen and then had another single guy over for dinner and the girls were off to a wedding reception for Gwen's friend that cuts the kids' hair. Sunday was full of meetings and now it's time to wind down to begin another week. Only three more weeks of school for Reagan and then let the summer activities begin! John's new thing is changing clothes 2-3 times per day and being VERY opinated on what he wears (dirty or not). And Reagan is reading! She is doing very well at reading the little booklets sent home. Reagan also lost her second tooth on Saturday! And she got in the pool - it's too cold for the rest of us but she was loving it!