Cooper's Tball Practice!

It's that time of year, and Cooper gets to play tball this year. I LOVE tball, and Cooper's team does not disappoint--it is so fun to watch! They have had one practice, and he had a blast! Cooper is left handed, so he is still trying to figure out how he likes to catch and bat. As of right now, he likes to throw with his right hand and bat with his left!

Jemma came out and watched with me. She cheered for every boy on that team but Cooper...oh boy! And Lucy slept.

A Good Mom Upstairs

Oh you guys, I was a great mom upstairs. Macey had this Earth Day/Recycle Project to work on from school. We had been saving all of our recyclable items, and Macey decided on her own that she wanted to create a ring toss game. (She is so much more creative than me! She came up with that idea on her own...my idea was totally lame!)

We had a crazy afternoon, so I decided I would have an art station set up as soon as she got off of the bus. We had paint, glue and glitter. I decided I didn't want Quinn and Jemma around that, so I sent them downstairs together to play in the toy room. Quinn and Jemma are a lethal combo, I knew that, but I figured I would be okay for 30 minutes.

And then I heard the patter of little feet, and Jemma telling me that Quinn was in the storage room and wouldn't come out. I ran downstairs and found this: The Sugar Incident of 2018. Come to find out, Jemma and Quinn had played in my giant canister of sugar, it went out into the hallway and then into the boys' room--where they dumped cups of sugar around the room, including Quinn's bed.

This is my vacuum canister after vacuuming up 3 piles in the boys' room. There were several more. This poor vacuum has been through so much the past 6 months.

So what did I do? Well, Jemma and Quinn got a swift talking to and a swift spanking. I loaded all the kids in the van, let Macey finish her project, took a couple pictures and then went to get mom a really big Diet Coke! The trouble kids fell right asleep!

With her project, on the way to the bus the next morning!

The Many (More) Faces of Quinn!

Sibling Love

We all love our Lucy, and she sure loves her old siblings (and their food!).

Dance Pictures!

My girls' dance classes were back to back all year, and so were their dance pictures! Macey got off the bus, and I had to be to Jemma's pictures 20 minutes later. I had 20 minutes to curl Macey's hair and do her make up and then leave her for an hour. It was a crazy afternoon, but the girls looked stunning!!

Macey's Schoolwork

Grandma Jemma

April 15th! She did it!

Lucy and the oxygen. She was on oxygen for a total of 35 days. She hated it. Totally hated it, and I can't blame her!! She ripped her nasal canula off multiple times a day--especially when she napped. I hated it. This was such a trial of faith for us. I knew the Lord could heal her, and He had promised her (in priesthood blessings) that He would, but in His own time. She was fine in every other respect, but she just couldn't kick it. I tried taking her off every day, tired lowering it, and it didn't work.

We had one more day to get her off oxygen before we had to pay for another month. I had been calling around to get approval for another month of oxygen from insurance, doctor's office, oxygen company...and then she was just done with it. She woke up that day before, and she was fine. It was like she woke up from 35 days of sickness! Her personality was fully back, she was rolling around and playing with toys and brothers and sisters. The experience was like someone literally snapped their fingers and she was better. Just like that. He healed her.