Archery Range and Playing Doctor

ARCHERY RANGE

Ty bought a membership to the archery range in Provo Canyon this year. He's been pretty excited for the weather to warm up so we can actually use it. It was warm enough this week that we decided to drive up there for some target practice. 

The archery range is pretty nice. It has a target range, 2 3D courses and a target course. It also has camp sites you can pitch tents in or park trailers and stay the weekend! It has a big fire pitt, a few very nice barbecue grills, a pavilion and picnic tables, swings and a 'sand box' (looks like its an old sand volleyball court) for the kids, and to top it off the view is AMAZING!

Our friend and his son were able to join us! The kids played while we got some target practice in! There were a lot of bugs (box elder bugs... annoying but harmless... hard to convince the kids of that though) around so the kids were a little nervous about playing in the sand or on the toys at first. They got better after awhile. Well everyone but Lily. My little fearless child is PETRIFIED of tiny little bugs... yeah I don't get it either.

Her Sandcastle

I love that he doesn't eat the dirt. He just loves feeling it! Until he finds a rock or stick... then it goes in his mouth. Haha.

He found a stick.

I think his walking stick makes him look like yoda. Haha.

PLAYING DOCTOR

 J had a little accident Saturday afternoon. Ty was spinning with J and Lily in his arms. J got a little too excited and flung himself backwards in Ty's arm. Since Ty had Lily in his other arm he couldn't catch him. He flipped out of his arm and after he hit the ground his head fell backwards and hit the corner of the bookcase. There was a lot of blood at first and I called the doctor (who didn't call back until Monday... apparently their phones weren't working right which ended up working out for us and saving us a lot of money). The bleeding had stopped within minutes but there was still a nice deep gash in his head. There was no swelling or bruising. He didn't hit it hard, thank goodness, he just hit it in the right spot on the bookcase to cut his head. We really didn't want to go to the ER and pay an arm and a leg for them to glue it shut and our doctor's office wasn't calling us back. Ty called Tom (a cousin doctor of ours :)) and we decided we could handle gluing it ourselves. Ty went to the dollar store and bought some super glue. I cleaned it out as much as J would let me and pushed the skin together so Ty could put the glue on. It worked quite well. (I should take an 'after its healed' picture. Now after a month there is just a tiny line where the cut was. The part of his head where the super glue was is white because his head tanned and apparently super glue blocks UV rays really well. lol. But other than that it looks great now.)

Before

After

 Minutes after gluing it shut he was back to his old self again:

RANDOM PICTURES OF THE WEEK:

J loves playing in the toy kitchen. He even stirs whatever he's making in the pan. Haha. I love it!

We sure enjoyed the nice weather this week. We even wandered over to the park!

J's Walking!

I've mentioned that J has taken a few steps here and there. His first steps were on the cruise ship in the beginning of March, but he would only walk when we'd beg him to. And even then he'd fight us and throw a temper tantrum a lot of the time. He has been able to stand himself up from the middle of the room for quite sometime now but has shown little interest in walking. He became such a good crawler so early on that he thought we were crazy to try getting him to walk. Crawling is so much faster! Haha!

After Conference on Saturday we were watching Scooby Doo with the girls and J stood up to dance to the opening music. He then suddenly walked halfway across the room toward the TV before he fell! We all cheered and clapped and he looked at us like we were crazy. He hadn't even realized what he had done. So he looked at us, stood up, and walked some more. We clapped and cheered for him and he decided all this attention was worth it so he continued. One time when we didn't clap and cheer for him he turned to look at us and started clapping and making noise. Haha. He was letting us know we had forgotten something!

I had to go work on our house for a bit and when I came back my mom said he'd been walking all over the place. And I couldn't believe it! She was right! He walked everywhere he went the rest of the night. And then again the next day! He suddenly just decided walking might be worth it! He also loves the freedom it gives his hands. He's ALWAYS trying to walk around with something in his hands ... sometimes whatever it is is bigger than him!

Idaho Falls Again and the Girls First Haircut

I had to go to Idaho Falls again this week to take care of our house there. I ended up doing a lot more work on it than I expected. After deep cleaning the entire house, I refinished the hardwood floors, painted the bathroom and stairwell (over newly carpeted stairs... it was a little nerve racking), painted the front porch, and covered the entire bathroom so my dad could refinish the tub without spraying everything in the room. Ty was unable to be there because of work, but I had SO much help in the process. My SIL helped me clean (and always made sure to bring cookies to entertain the kids!). My little brother sanded the floors for me even though I laughed at him when the sander would win and pin him up against the wall. My mom helped me refinish the floors, paint the bathroom, and paint the front porch not to mention watching the kids for me when I was at the house late! My mother in law watched my kids for 2 days while I did the floors and painting and then she painted my front door for me also! My dad helped me with the sanding, repaired my front porch, and refinished the bathtub for me! I am SO thankful for such a wonderful family who went above and beyond to help me out when my husband couldn't be there to do the hard stuff! This week was full of new and scary experiences for me! I had to do things that I had never done and was worried I wasn't capable of, but my family was there for me every step of the way making sure everything was done right! 

It was a rather exhausting week for the kids. They were up late most nights and spent the day in an empty house while I cleaned/worked. I gave them my phone the first day at the house to watch you tube videos/songs. Crystal started taking pictures. These are the pics she took:

Sanding the floors proved to be a difficult task. My dad laughed at me when I told him I was going to sand the floors. I asked my brother to come help me because my dad was busy and the sander was throwing him around everywhere at first. I then understood why my dad laughed. Haha. I wouldn't even touch it after watching my brother with it. I let him deal with the sanding. We were having a problem with the sanding discs. My dad brought us more than he thought we'd need and planned on returning what we didn't use. But we had 3 discs tear to pieces right after starting the machine! There didn't seem to be a specific reason for the tearing. Sometimes the new disc would work and sometimes it would tear to shreds! We unfortunately didn't have enough discs to finish after that. We needed one more to do an upstairs bedroom so my dad came the next day with another disc and finished sanding it. I was worried we had done something wrong especially since I noticed a few circular scratches in the floor while I was sweeping up dust! I was sick about it all night thinking I had messed up all the floors in the house. As it turns out the scratches are totally normal for an orbital sander and when I put the polyurethane on the floors the scratches became invisible. The floors turned out looking really good thank goodness!

After cleaning up dust from sanding the last room. This is about what all the rooms looked like. I just didn't think to take a before picture until I was in the last room!

Just finished the second coat on the floors!

This is how the girls looked when I got home. They were exhausted!

THE GIRLS FIRST HAIRCUT
Before I started the project of putting the finish on the floors I took the girls in for a haircut. Lily had cut her hair a while back. It wasn't noticeable but we decided we should take her in to get it evened out anyway. Crystal's hair grows faster in the back than the sides so we decided a haircut might be helpful for her. While we were there they both decided to get bangs cut also. Their hair turned out adorable! I absolutely love it!

 Since my dad's birthday was coming up we decided to surprise him with a Rock N Roll Birthday Party after Priesthood Session of Conference! This is how the grandkids helped us celebrate!

These two were kissing their reflections in the mirror. J got down before I could get my camera out though!