Summertime fun

I am still trying to figure out how to post pictures on here. So far our summer fun consists of time spent at Seven Peaks. The kids really enjoy going there and I am becoming a red hed with a tan, sort of. Now that our excitement is hopefully over the summer homework can begin. I am trying to implement a half hour reading time for all my kids. Probably before chores, we will see how well it goes. Kortney and her friends love playing school so I am putting her in charge of Trent. She will be reading with him and helping him with the sight words. I hope it works and doesn't bring to much contention into our home.

Bad things come in Threes.....

Ok so we had the missed bus, (yes I am counting that), the flooded bedroom, and on fathers day Trent broke his arm. Most of you have heard this story so if you have skip this post.

I had gone to Dad's to give him his gift and Trent and Korinn decided to go to Grandma Manders house. They then went to the park with grandma and their cousins. On the way home Trent and his cousin Nick decided to trade bikes. Good idea, except that Nicks bike is a mountain bike with hand brakes. Trent doesn't know how to use hand brakes. Going down a small hill he realized he didn't know how to stop, put his feet down, and went off the curb. They were doing construction on the road and there was a 3 or 4 inch drop, he hit that and down he went. He landed on his elbow, but had no other abrasions. He did manage to do a good job breaking his arm. He broke the tip of the radious off and severed the growth plate on his right arm. At first they were talking about surgery, but they managed to set the bone and now he has a red cast and we will have to wait 6 months to see if the growth plate re-attaches. So now it is official, we have had our three bad things for summer so I suspect the rest of summer will be pretty mellow.

Vacation part 2

So the vacation was great until monday morning. At 6 am my cell phone started ringing. I ignored the first two times but got up and answered the third call. It was Corbin calling to tell me that he was at the school waiting for the bus to go to camp and no one was around. Come to find out he was given the wrong time and missed the bus. He also told me that he had forgotten his wallet and went downstairs to get it and there was water coming in his window. He had slept upstairs and that was the first he had been downstairs. Come to find out the hose had been left on and was filling up his window well and coming in through the window. At first we thought it wasn't too bad but then Heidi went over after work and found out his whole room was flooded and the water was going out into the hall. She pulled up the carpet and tore out the pad, with the help of Kenzie and my neighbor. They sucked up all the water and left the carpet to dry with fans. Thank goodness Corbin forgot his wallet. I was more worried about getting Corbin to camp than I was the carpet. Now if I could just get someone to come out and lay more pad and tuck the carpet.

Vacation's over!

School was out on the 31st and we left for California on the 1st. We helped a friend move back home so we drove it in one day. I was a little hesitant, I haven't made that drive in one day in quite some time. My kids did great and we made it there by early evening. We visited with friends in El Monte and then headed for Camarillo. We stayed with our friends the Melines. They are great and they have kids all my kids ages so everyone has a friend. We hung out Saturday, I was too pooped to go out, and I got a smoothy from my favorite place.

Sunday was church, where we visited with everyone and then we left for the time share at the beach. Doheney is by Dana Point and the beach is quite rocky. Unfortunately we found out about a better beach on Thursday. It was a little nostalgic for me. Denton and I spent part of our honeymoon at that beach. Anyway we had a great time, unfortunately I was a bad mom and forgot the sunscreen the first day. It was cloudy and cold so I thought it would be a quick trip to the beach. I quickly sprayed down the little ones but forgot myself and Trevor. Luckily he kept his shirt on. Wendy and I probably looked the same. Except mine was the front of me. It took a while to heal and start to peel. I was pretty upset. Mainly because I should know better. Of course, the sun came out and we stayed for a couple of hours.

Well it is late so more to come later......