CRYSTAL'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

This girl just keeps growing up!!! She is 14 years old now! And she reminds me at least once a week that she can get her learners permit in March! We decorated the house Sunday and had all her favorites for family dinner! We even had a large donut for her cake! Sweet Livie thought she should get her own cake too so of course we obliged. So glad we have so many cousins close to us for moments like these! Monday was her actual birthday. We were going to go out for her birthday Saturday because Crystal had a soccer game on Monday, but since we didn't (Jay's head injury), Crystal decided after the game she wasn't too tired and we went of Olive Garden to celebrate! A week later Crystal was finally able to have her birthday party. She wanted a glow in the dark party and the weather was good enough they were able to do it outside. They blasted music, ate snacks and danced around in the dark for a couple of hours. I love that she has found such good friends. I worry a little less knowing she has these kids around to watch out for her! 

JAY VS THE BASEBALL BAT

We have the basement all cleaned up and ready to be finished, so naturally the kids have been playing down there a lot. Saturday all 3 kids had friends over and they were going back and forth from outside to the basement. At one point Crystal and one of her friends came inside and headed for the stairs. I looked up from my project and saw her friend had our metal bat in her hand. I asked what they needed the bat for. She said, "to hit stuffed animals with." I told them as the headed down that the bat didn't belong in the house. I definitely should have confiscated that bat at that point, but they were already downstairs and I knew the stuffed animals were all buried under the stairs until the basement was finished so I figured they wouldn't find anything to use it on and it would be okay. WRONG! They found a little stress ball somewhere and as she swung at the ball Jay walked in the way of the bat. It bled... a lot... like a lot a lot. It scraped his head causing his skin to more pull away from his head than actually cutting it. The actual cut was very deep but also small. I finally managed to get him in the tub to soak it and it cleaned up well enough that we were able to superglue the cut shut. Problem is the skin around it was bleeding underneath and started bleeding through his pores around the cut. It was weird. We pulled the clippers out and cut the sides of his hair so we could get it out of the way as much as possible. Then we used another bottle of skin superglue to get the bleeding to stop.  He got himself a nice new haircut out of it at least I guess!  We were supposed to go out to dinner for Crystal's birthday but instead Crystal and I brought food home. Jay wasn't feeling up to eating much.

Poor kid definitely had a small concussion. His eyes were dilating okay, and he could answer questions and didn't show any serious signs of a concussion, but he had the worst time concentrating the entire week that week and really struggled at school. He had a headache for a couple of days and couldn't handle loud noises at all. After a week he was back to his old self though! And after a couple of months the wound has healed up nicely. There is only a small scar now. It matches with the tiny scar on the other side of his head from the wound we had to superglue when he was a baby! The kid is so accident prone!!!

 

GRANDMA GORDON'S BIRTHDAY

Grandma Gordon was in Utah on her birthday, so we celebrated a couple of days early with cake and ice cream! She was coming home from Utah on her birthday so I surprised her by decorating the house for her! There may or may not be pink and red spots left on the front door still from my decorations... whoops!

 

FAIR WEEKEND

Crystal's first soccer game was Friday night and then she had a soccer game Saturday morning. She was exhausted but it was the last weekend of the fair! We weren't able to go with Grandma and Grandpa but they paid for the kids to actually ride the rides this year! Crystal was so so so sore and tired that they probably didn't have as much fun as they should have had, but I think plenty of fun was had all around! Jay had several 4-H items in the fair. I think the girls probably did too from 4H camp but no one knew what it was so we couldn't find them. They managed to get their ribbons later on. I still don't remember what was entered. Haha. Ty and I had fun looking through buildings and the new trailers while the kids were riding rides. The kids caught up to us while we were still in the trailers. I took some pictures of us in our 'future' trailers. It's fun to dream! The kids ate turkey legs (Crystal had a footlong corndog but she had finished it before we found a place to sit down), and Ty and I had prime rib sandwiches for dinner! We wanted funnel cake but the line was literally a mile long. I genuinely believe the fair grounds would have closed before we got to the front of the funnel cake line. So we settled for other treats instead. The kids all got foam swords from the sword booth and we drug our feet back to the truck completely exhausted! Such a long fun day!