Avynlea had some excitement today

Warning:This post has some pretty graphic pictures which are not for the faint of heart. If you cannot handle it then don't look!

So Kefford and I were inside the house watching the BSU game when Avynlea came inside crying and holding herself. I told her to calm down and quickly run to the bathroom because it seemed obvious to me that she had to go. As she was walking away I noticed two little spots on the back part of her thigh. "Hmm, weird" I thought. She came out a couple seconds later and said she did not have to go to the bathroom. As she turned around I noticed more spots on the back of her jeans. I pointed them out to Kefford and after checking the back of her leg we saw this...

Turns out she was outside playing on her Daddy's motorcycle. She knows she is not supposed to but she was doing it anyway. So I think that as she was jumping down her leg caught on the foot peg and cut open. The weird thing was her jeans did not tear at all! So I took her to the emergency room where she got these...
Six big stitches! Poor baby, but she was very brave and the Dr was very impressed. I could hear her telling other Dr's how brave my little girl was. Avynlea just layed there and watched spongebob while the Dr did her thing. She did tell me it hurt a couple times but I was good at keeping her distracted. The Dr. said that Avynlea must have felt the last stitch because she jerked and said it hurt. After we got home Avynlea had this happen for her...
Ryker tucking her in and taking care of her. In fact he is out right now with Kefford buying her a treat with his own money. He is such a good big brother!

Gobble, Gobble

The kindergartners were all given paper turkeys to take home with strict instructions to cut them out and decorate them with anything they can think of. So after leaving the turkey on the counter for a couple of days I suddenly hit upon the perfect thing for Ryker's turkey. When he came home I told him my idea and he jumped all over it, he was really excited. So Ryker and I got together and came up with this...

BatTurkey!

I think it is the coolest looking turkey ever and watch out bad guys cause BatTurkey can totally beat you up!

The two of us

I absolutely love this picture. I have to admit though, I did have the thought while Lana was posing us that this was kinda weird, but it turned out looking so cool. Just like the pictures I always admired and wished we could take! I made the comment to Kefford that it felt like we were having our engagement pictures taken.

Family Pictures 2008

I wanted to update our family pictures from last year and after convincing Kefford that yes, it was necessary, he finally agreed. So I bought black shirts for everyone who didn't have one and off we went. (funny side story...Ryker got birthday money from his grandma Lutes and combined with his tooth money he felt very rich. When we were in Target waiting in line to buy his sweater Ryker told me that he wanted to buy the sweater. I said "no it's ok I have money I can do it" to which he replied "no mom I really want to pay for it" I finally convinced him to save his money to buy the toy he has been wanting since our friend let Rylee use her kids in church on Sunday. After our pictures Kefford took him to the store to buy the mini etcher-sketch he wanted. (i know it is etch-a-sketch but etcher-sketch is what Ryker called it and I thought it was cute) Lana did our pictures again this year and I am loving what she does. She has fantastic ideas and doesn't even get frustrated when Rylee screams and won't cooperate!

I really love my family!
I love the pictures that were taken of just Kefford and I! (Lana-Lou you did a fabulous job!)

I really do not know what it takes to get Rylee to be happy and smiling in our pictures.

This picture was a fluke! It is really the only one where she actually looks pleasant !

Avynlea is trying really hard to do her fake smile and I am behind the camera trying really hard to get her to not!

Ryker is extremely photogenic. I think he would be an awesome kids model!

Kenedy is just beautiful. I was coaching her about not doing her fake smile and said try doing a closed mouth smile. I didn't know she was never going to show her teeth again!

my stylista, cake, and more from the stylista

I just took this picture of Avynlea. I told her to get dressed for the day and she came down wearing Kenedy's shirt. This kid has some serious style!

After feeling bad that my big deal 30th birthday went neglected Kefford made me a cake Sunday after church. We did not get around to trying it out until after the kids went to bed but when we did boy was it ever good! So good that Kefford decided that this cake was off limits to kids, they could have different treats. I did cut myself a piece yesterday and share it with Rylee but, shhh, he does not have to know. When he came home from work yesterday he was kinda disappointed that when I put the saran wrap back on it was touching the frosting. I had to laugh when I woke up this morning to find the cake looking like this, all nicely re-wrapped so that no more plastic was touching the cake...bit OCD you think?
On Sunday Avynlea wanted to wear her pretty, green, poofy, sleeveless dress. I told her that was fine but that she had to wear her white sweater with it. I had to laugh when she came down with this sweater on. I took a picture, told her how pretty she looked, then told her to go back upstairs, take that sweater off and put on her white CHURCH sweater. This kids style really cracks me up. It is quite normal for her to bypass all of her pretty girlie shoes in favor of Rykers shoes. Yesterday we were going to the library so I dressed her all cute with a sassy hat and everything and then she put on Rykers old cowboy boots. I told you she has style!

Happy Bithday Elizabeth and Ryker!!

Ryker chose to have a speed racer birthday party. This is the cool speed racer cake that Kefford cut out and I designed. I think we did a pretty good job. Ryker said it looked awesome and his is the opinion that matters so it was a great success.

It was a crazy madhouse for one and a half hours because of all the kids that were invited. But since this was Ryker's first year of having a birthday party and because Kefford was home to help, I let Ryker invite as many friends as he wanted. OK so I am not that crazy I did put a somewhat limit to the amount of invites. I had just been in his classroom helping so I knew which kids were the problem ones and to steer him away from wanting to invite. The kids had alot of fun and Kefford was really good about keeping them somewhat calmed down. The only problems came when the games took too long and the ones waiting got restless and would start to chase each other around the house. We played pin the car on the race track, pass the car, and we had a pinata!

Happy 30th to me and Happy 6th to Ryker!

For my big celebration we went out to eat at Red Robins where Ryker and I got free ice-cream sundaes but we told them no singing. (I know, we are big party poopers!)

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Voting Follies

*I Voted*

I wasn't going to post anything about today because I think everyone knows how important today is and anyway this blog is about my family and not about sharing politics. No offence to those who do share politics I just didn't want to. But I happened to have a funny thing happen today while I was voting, and so, for today, i will let this be about politics (kind of) and not about my cute and adorable kids.

A funny thing happened at the voting booth. I picked up my ballot and went to the last voting booth on the left, right next to a nice looking old man. I placed my ballot in front of me and proceeded to give it the once over. Just to take a breath and not let my voting nerves get to me. As I was reading it I suddenly got a BIG case of the giggles. I know, probably not the most appropriate considering where I was at and all but you tell me that not a single one of you would have done the same thing if you saw what I saw. In casting a vote for Governor or Senator or something (I really can't remember which) I saw this...

Pro-Life(formally known as Blankity, blank(i added the blankity, blank cause I cannot remember his former name))

This guy was so serious about this issues that he had his name changed just so we all understood what he believes in!! Now do you blame me for getting the giggles. The bummer side about all of this is that I had no one to giggle and make fun with. I tried engaging the old man next to me but he gave me a disapproving side glance and hugged his ballot closer to his body. Probably thought I was trying to cheat,well maybe I was! Next time all of you have to come voting with me so that I will not be alone with my giggles. Cause who wants to giggle alone?