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Tonight, Derek put the training wheels on Emma's chopper bike that she is too big for and Ava got the hang of it and was riding all by herself! Uncle Jason and daddy had to show off their cool bike moves too. It was so nice outside. Once the sun goes down it cools down to a perfect temperature. Yesterday it was over 90 here and it made me really dread summer!






It has been so windy here the last couple of days. Someone left a kite out in the grassy field and Jerrod and his friends got it up and were flying it.

Dentist Time

Man, I hate it when you are somewhere and you just are wishing you had brought the camera. That was me today at the dentist. The kids have the day off of school so all four of them went in for their check up. Last time they just peeked in Ava's mouth and counted her teeth but today she let them do the works. She got them cleaned and was so good until the very end. She just kept looking at me like she had the most disgusting taste in her mouth. It was so cute. Emma was the only one with a cavity so we go in next week to get it fixed. They are going to give her some laughing gas which I am actually looking forward to see what it does to her!

Fun with Uncle Jason

Uncle Jason and daddy pushed Ava around on the skateboard last week while I was at class. I thought the pictures turned out cute!

Ragball

Our stake is playing ragball for kids ages 8-11. So, on Saturday our ward had its first game. Since we were really the only one to show up Emma got to play too. They had a great time. It made me miss baseball season in Reno a little.

The girls in the outfield just chit chatting.

Emma's New Bike

Emma decided that she had outgrown her chopper bike we got her about 3 years ago so she used her birthday money to get a new one. It is purple, her favorite color!

Emma's 7th Birthday

Emma turned 7 yesterday and so we celebrated it all weekend. On Saturday, Derek and Jason took Jerrod, Emma and Ava to see Horton Hears a Who. Allison had a rough morning so I stayed home with her. After the movie we opened her presents and then all of us went to a birthday dinner. Emma picked Macaroni Grill which was so good as always. The waiter brought her a huge piece of chocolate cake that she pretty much finished all by herself. As soon as the cake came out Allison and Jerrod said that they were going to pick that restaurant too when it's their turn! On Sunday, we made caramel pull a parts for breakfast and watched conference. We finished off the day with an ice cream cake. Today, I took in cupcakes for her class. I'd say she had a good weekend.

She asked for a purple ipod shuffle

What a goof ball!

Our Fish Tale

Wednesday nights I am at class from 6:00 pm until around 11:00 pm so Derek gets the kids all to himself. I got home on Wednesday and found him watching TV trying to decompress which I can relate to so well. He told me the story of the night and I thought it was good enough to share. Derek had gone upstairs to give Ginger a bath since one of her favorite things is to roll in the dirt in the backyard. One of the kids came up and told him that Ava had gotten into the pepper and that it was all over the place. So he went and checked it out and sure enough she had dumped the entire container of pepper all over her, the floor, it was even on the couch. He went to take off her shirt not realizing it had one button in the back and so it got stuck on her head which made the pepper go in her eyes. Poor thing, she instantly started to scream. Derek then saw that it was time to go pick up Jerrod from scouts so he loaded up a screaming baby in the car and once he got to the church ran in and told Jerrod he had 10 seconds to get to the car. As soon as they got home, he rinsed Ava's eyes out and gave her a bath. She was fine. He then went to vacuum up all of the pepper off of the floor and looked over at our fish tank to see one fish floating at the top belly up and two at the very bottom looking very dead. Ava had fed them some of the pepper too. Knowing that the kids would be devastated to lose their precious fish he hurried and transferred them to fresh water and tried to flush the pepper out of their gills. Pretty soon, they came back to life!!!! He saved our fish! They are swimming around perfectly fine. Crazy!!!