Pickle Appin'

Yup! On our way to apple picking with some friends this weekend, Lila says 'When are we goin pickle appin?' We were getting gas, so she wondered when we would be on our way. We just laughed and laughed and called it that the rest of the day!
Reminds me of the time when, early on in our marriage, Kevin and I were going to Bates Nut Farm and I said 'We need to find out how to get to Nate's Butt Farm'. Couldn't stop laughing!! We still laugh about it.

Here are some pics from our fun day....


Savannah totally enjoying her 1st real apple...


Lila and Issy...


Daisy and Mae...


Pretty apple tree...


Joshua and Caleb...


Looked so pretty against blue sky...you think?


It's so hard to get a picture where everyone's looking...

It's official...

Kevin really did break his wrist in Cour d'Alene. He saw a Dr. yesterday who looked at his X-rays. It is still broken, but is healing fine, so far. He is wearing a wrist brace now for the next several weeks. Just thought I would update you on that one...

Mr. Man!

I have to brag...most of you know how shy Joshua can be. We've had issues with his not talking to adults alot of times. He has been improving significantly since Spring, but yesterday was HUGE!

Wed. is Chapel day at school...well, the whole school has a school-wide memory verse. This week it was 2 Cor 13:14...I was told by Joshua's teacher that she asked if anyone wanted to get up and recite the verse. HE RAISED HIS HAND!!! He got up in front of the whole Elementary school and recited, into the big, scary, loud mic...with his cute little East Coast/English "Joshua" accent!!

I was told later that a bunch of girls from Daisy's class kept saying they thought he was cute! This just cracks me up--is this what we're in for in about 10 yrs.?? It was soooo sweet and encouraging to hear this--and what makes it even sweeter was that I was praying at our Mom's prayer meeting and thanking God for his improvement right about the time that Chapel was taking place! That was just extra icing!

Whirlwind of events!!

I don't even know where to begin.

Our trip was great-in some ways.
There is waaaay too much to write, so I will put the basics.
If I on't do it this way, it will be a book-no kidding. We had so many mishaps, it actually became funny.

1. We fly in on a Sat. afternoon-all is well.
2. Sunday we visited a very nice park, which had rides and all kinds of fun things to look at. The park even had a really cool HUGE Red Flyer Wagon!! It was a jungle gym, the wagon. I took pics and will post them soon.
Sunday night Kevin starts sneezing
3. Monday Kevin is worse and Lila has a bad cough
We were in my Mom's nice basement..carpet, tv, couches,bathroom, bedroom...BUT, we had been having a heat wave of 100 degree weather..so Mom had the A/C on ALL night-in the basement-which is COOL and underground. FREEZING! Felt like winter, almost. Figured out the A/C had been blowing on Lila all night.
4. Tuesday, Kevin is sneezing and wheezing and finally took some Benadryl.
5. We leave for Cour d'Alene--check into our hotel, Lila is really bad...coughing and sounding like she has pneumonia. Savvy has been sneezing some.
We check out the hotel, cozy in our room, and watch some Olympics--seeing as though a few of us were out of it. Starts raining....
6. Next day we take Lila and Savvy to a pediatrician in town. Lila checks out ok and Savvy too-Thank God! We were surprised, if you had heard Lila's cough you might be too.
We get back from the Dr. and Savvy starts projectile vomiting. On our bed, on her clothes, etc...
still raining HARD!
7. Next day (Thursday?) Kevin takes D&J bowling while Lila, Savvy and I mostly rest...still cold out, so inside we stay. Kevin comes back from bowling and says he thinks he might have broken his wrist! He went to bowl a ball and he slipped on something slimy! He said it looked like something they might have cleaned the floor with. SO he can't move his wrist--I can see some serious swelling. We get a bucket of ice and he ices it. Next day his wrist is stiff and painful.
8. Friday we actually met up with some people from San Diego that were up their visiting. A girl Daisy goes to school with. Nice people.
9. Saturday, our anniversary. It was a loooong day..but we had our Champagne and Strawberries delivered to our hotel room that evening, which was nice.
Keep in mind, Savvy is still waking every 2-3 hours--agghhhh!!!! All of us, all 6 of us in ONE room!!
10. Sunday, we go back to Mom's in Spokane (30 min. drive)...Kevin decides to stay in a hotel a mile from my Mom's and I planned to stay there too...BUT, wanting to spend some quality time with Mom AND NOT wanting to stay in a hotel room again with 6 people total...I decided to stay at my Mom's with Savvy, while Kevin stayed with the kids...well...here's how that went. (He was really fine with that, btw).

Sunday evening all is well...
Monday evening, my Mom and I are blowing up balloons for Lila's bday party the next day. The phone rings, my Mom says "private number" and I said "Answer it"...that ring just didn't sound right. Well, Kevin was on the other end saying Lila just hit Joshua in the head with 'something' and she wouldn't say what it was and Kevin thought he might need stitches. So my Mom and I take her car and go down the street (about a mile) with Savvy and I in the back seat...her car seat is in our rental, at the hotel, so I am holding her on my lap-Blah!!
Kevin says Joshua had blood all over his face and that his wound was open. So we are freaking!
We get there and it's not as bad as we thought...although, she hit him pretty hard! Daisy and Joshua never hit each other-so this is new to us...yuk! My Mom butterfly-bandaged him and he ended up being fine. Kevin was WHEEZING real bad and almost went to the E.R. himself--forget Joshua! Kevin had been in my Mom's house earlier that day for a couple hours and his allergies started up again. I was really getting worried at that point! He ended up being fine...
then Tuesday we had Lila's 3rd birthday party, which was fun-except the part where she peed her pants (or dress) right when people were arriving.
Plane ride home next day...get home..TIRED, it's 11:30pm when I get out of the shower and brush my teeth...and guess who wants some action? Yup! You guessed it, no need to say more--you've ALL been there, I just know it!

By the way, Dr. says he chipped something in his wrist, so he will be seeing an Orthop. Dr. soon!!

Talk more later...