Visit From Aunt Karen and Cousin Ellie

Hurt Flumb

This morning Rowan was playing with some winter gloves, and I asked her to take them off, and she told me that she was using it to make her hand feel better because it hurt.  The room was dark, and at first glance I thought she had wiped her nose and had a booger on it. Then I realized that her thumb (she calls it flumb) was all swollen and looked very infected.  It appears to have swollen up over night because it didn't look that way yesterday!  I called the Dr. right away, and they got her in.  They drained it, took a culture and bandaged it up, and she will be on antibiotics for the next 10 days.  All I can think that happened was it got infected after I trimmed up a hangnail.  Will be a lot more careful about trimming and washing the clippers and area after...poor girl :(

She only started crying and freaking out after she showed it to me, and insisted we go to the Dr. right away.

Liam told her that he thought it might be a 'white boo boo mystery', and she made sure to tell the Dr. that.  She was so brave at the Dr.

Proud of her pink bandage!

Been Awhile...

You would think I would have more time to blog now that I am not working, but that is not the case...Just thought I would post this video that Google made from my pictures and videos.  I thought it turned out pretty good!  Happy New Year!!

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Fall Fun

Kids at our traditional trip to Pumkinland to pick out our pumpkins.

 Thanksgiving Point Gardens had 2 days that we could bring our dogs.  The weather was beautiful!  And they had a fenced off area the dogs could run around...they were in doggie heaven.

 Mike happened to see a family activity in Lindon online when he was searching for something else. It is called Stringtown Nightmare Express. It is a free haunted train ride that a family started in 2005, and has become more and more popular each year.  We went on a Saturday night.  It wasn't too busy when we arrived, but one of the trains was having issues after we arrived, so the wait in line ended up being a lot longer than we anticipated.  Regardless the kids were very patient, and had a great time!

 Then on Sunday we took them up to Wheeler Farm...the weather was amazingly warm, so it was pretty busy, but finally found some parking and the kids had fun trick-or-treating at the farmer's market.  We found some tasty Italian dip, and some really delicious salsa!  Kids also had fun exploring the old farm equipment and checking out the ducks.  We ended the trip at the park, and got them some pizza before heading up to downtown to pick up our artwork at SLAC.

Finally found some artwork for this space!

Rowan's School Pictures

I never was very happy with the pictures that were taken at the kids last school, so I was pretty excited when I heard that our favorite photo place was doing the pictures at Rowan's new school.  When I got the prints though, it was of the 2nd picture below, and while it was a really cute picture of Rowan, I was disappointed that her head was cropped off.  When I got home I discovered they had put several other pictures on the CD that we purchased as an add on, and I just love them!!  Rowan also kept talking about wearing red glasses, and now I know what she was talking about...just adorable!