Broken Joye

Yesterday the kids and I were at my dad's house. Alek threw a ball for my dad's dog and the dog's chain caught Joye at the ankles. It lifted her up off the ground, and she fell hard. I was more worried for head, that I saw smack off the ground. She cried for a while, but who wouldn't. She took a nap, and when she woke up she was favoring her right arm, so I looked at it and I thought she might have broken her collar bone. There was a little bump and I thought it was out of line. My dad just thought it was sore and I called Braden, and he said that he had broken kids' collar bones in wrestling and that they were in a ton of pain. He didn't think Joye would be so calm and be able to move her arm as much as she was. Well by the time we got home, she was in a little more pain, and couldn't lift her water bottle. We gave her some Motrin and she slept really good, 9 hours. This morning, she was swollen with a little bruise.

When we took her to the doctor, he said that he didn't think it was broken, maybe just a ripple fracture. When collar bones are broken, they stick out. He sent us over to x-ray. When we got back he came in and said, "I can't believe it. It is broken clear through." He showed us the x-ray and it was broke through and it had only shifted 1mm. He sent us home with a sling and an ace bandage to wrap around her to keep her arm close by her. He said it would take 4-6 weeks to heal. She needs to wear the sling and bandage for 2 weeks, then we can take the bandage off, and just let her wear the sling. In 4 weeks we need to go back in and get some more x-rays. The doctor said by then, it should have started to heal. If it hasn't we may need to do surgery, and put a plate on her collar bone. So please keep Joye in your prayers, that she can heal quickly, and not need surgery.

Joye was so tough. She only cried from pain, right after it happened. Every other time it would hurt, she would only whimper. She cried 3 times at the doctors. 1-She didn't want to stand or sit on the scale. 2-She didn't want to get her x-ray. 3-She didn't want the nurse touching her, to put her sling on. So in other words, she's just really stubborn. She is such a trooper. Braden needs to find those wrestlers from back in high school and tell them that his 2 year old daughter just showed them up ☺

This is a picture right before we went to the doctor. Her right, your left, you can see a little bruise, and if you look close a little bit different angle. Don't mind her crazy eyes.

Waiting for x-rays

The nurse getting her sling on.

Tonight. All smiles with her new accessory for the next 6 weeks!

Anderson Reunion

The weekend of the 24th was the Anderson Reunion. Joni was in charge this year, so we went to her house and set up tents in her backyard. It was so fun. There were lots of crafts for the kids and fun things to play with. We also went to a parade on the 24th and had fireworks that night it was such a fun weekend. We missed Erick, Leslie, Bryn, Kyler & Koby.

The first crafts we did were cups and bags. I didn't get a picture of the cups, they were cute though. The kids took their bags to the parade to keep their candy in.

Joye hard at work.

The boys taking a second to smile for the camera. Grandpa hard at work cooking his "secret recipe beans"

Jaxon and Rylee being friends.
Joye played most of the time by herself. She's really good like that, she can entertain herself. She was riding around on this little toy, and she figured out there was a little compartment in the front. She knew it was for dirt.

When she wasn't playing by herself, she was playing with Taylor. Shocking! They usually don't get along.

Getting ready to go to the parade with their new bags.

Walking to the parade. Joye and Taylor hand-in-hand.

The kids waiting anxiously for the parade.

Dallas driving the fire truck in the parade. He took Mark and 4 of the kids with him.

The water truck was the last one in the parade, soaking everyone behind it.

Joye eating parade candy off the front steps.

The dad's had more fun than the kids. The night before a bunch of us played horse and lightening. Then after the parade, the men played horse, granny shot style. It was so funny to watch. The men also played the Saltine game. They had to try to eat 6 Saltine's in one minute. Sounds easy but it's not.

Joye and Taylor being friends again.

Kyrie. This is one of the nicer faces I got from her this weekend. She only likes mom and dad.

Avery's favorite thing was to eat sidewalk chalk. Yum!

Uncle Dallas took the kids on a fire truck ride.

Joye was not having anything to do with that big truck.

After the fire truck rides, the kids decorated visors and t-shirts.

After all the fun over the 2 days Alek fell asleep on the couch while the other kids played Wii.

Joye was all tuckered out too.

After dinner Bruce & Shirley and Mark & Sherin headed home. The rest of the adults played games. Nerts was the game of choice, although Dallas said he couldn't remember the name so he changed it to something else. Lets just say it was a lot funner yelling out his title instead of Nerts ☺

After games we did fireworks. Joye is terrified, everyone else had a great time.

Thanks Dallas and Joni for the great weekend! And everybody else! We had a great time

Little Miss Joye

I just wanted to post an update on Joye. She is 2 years and 2 months now. She is tall, skinny, and full of spunk. She wants what she wants, and will do anything to get it. Anything usually involves a shriek, and some violent outburst. Outburst's are usually hair pulling, pinching, scratching or biting. When she gets mad, she stomps her feet as fast as she can. But she can also be so sweet. She will give lots of loves, and kisses. But only if she is in the mood. She gets embarrassed really easily, and cries. She loves her dolls, she carries them all over, she rocks them, feeds them, reads, and sings to them. She still loves books. We will be watching a movie as a family, and she will be off away from us reading her books. She thinks she is just as big as the boys, and gets so frustrated when she can't do what they are doing. Her hair is growing back pretty fast. So that's good. She is finally getting her vampire teeth in. I was beginning to think she didn't have any. She has three poking through. Potty training is going ok, but not as good as I was hoping. She does really good some days, and horrible the other days. She is talking so good. I can understand her better than Jaxon sometimes. Her favorite thing to do is stick her hands in the peanut butter jar, and lick all the peanut butter off. It drives me nuts, that's probably why she loves it. She loves my phone, she'll take it and pretends that she is talking to someone. She'll have a whole conversation. I'll ask her who she is talking to, she usually says grandma or daddy. The other day she was talking away on the phone, I asked her who she was talking to, and she said "Jairon". I said "You're talking to Uncle Jairon?" "Yep, Uncle Jairon!" Ever since then, she talks to him almost everyday. It makes my heart melt. What a sweet girl. I hope she continues to remember Jairon, so when he gets home she won't be scared.

Riverdale Splash Pad

On the 10th we had our July birthday party at the Riverdale Splash Pad. The boys had so much fun playing in the water with their cousins. Joye got 2 drops of water on her and she was done, she doesn't like water.

Alek

Jaxon And Miss Joye, dry as a bone, with a dirty face.

After we were done with the party, we were packing up. Alek kept bugging me, to take their pictures, by the bears. After they changed their clothes, Braden took their pictures.

Big Kid Alek

Ever since Jaxon started riding a two wheeler, Alek has been having a hard time. Alek wants to do the same things. When Jaxon could ride, Alek cried. When Jaxon lost his teeth, Alek cried. I held him and told him, that sometimes Jaxon would do things first and sometimes he would do things first. This didn't help. As most of you know, the boys have trouble saying their r's. They would come out as e's. For example water is watie, there is they, bear is bay. You get the idea. One day the boys were in the tub, and Jaxon yelled, "Mom, I don't want to wash my hay." Alek looked at him and said, "It's called hair. You can't say it right." Alek came out and said that he could say hair. So we tested him: year, bear, water etc. All of them came out right. He taught himself how to say r's. I told him that this was one of the things that he did before Jaxon. Well a few days ago, he was determined to ride that two wheeler. He did it! He got on and with a little help from dad he was off. They are both so excited that they can ride big two wheelers.

A Visit From The Tooth Fairy!

Jaxon had 2 loose teeth, forever. He never played with them or wiggled them. Finally, on July 6th, they were so wiggly that Braden convinced him to let him pull them out. Jaxon wouldn't let Braden just pull them out, so we told Jaxon we could get some fishing line, and tie it to the door and slam the door. Jaxon was a little nervous, but he agreed.

Here he is with the string tied around the first tooth.

Braden tying the string around the door.

After 2 slams, here is the end result.

After it was all over Jaxon was so excited. He wanted to call his Grandma's and tell them. He kept telling everybody that his dad pulled his tooth out with a fish string. The we put his teeth in a baggy and he ran right to his room and put them under his pillow for the tooth fairy to come. He slept in our basement that night and at 5 in the morning, he came up to use the bathroom. Braden was getting ready for work and Jaxon found his money. "Mom, Dad the tooth fairy came! HE HE HE HE!! I can't believe it, she brought me a green money! HE HE HE HE!" He was so excited he couldn't go back to sleep for a while, he slept holding his green money. I can't believe that we have such a big kid. His new teeth are just starting to peek through. He keeps telling me that he needs to brush his new teeth really good, cause they are his big teeth. I think he only brushes the tips of his new teeth, I have to remind him that his other teeth still need to be brushed.

4th of July Weekend

On Friday and Saturday of our weekend, we just worked. Then on Sunday the 4th, our next door neighbors invited us over for fireworks. The boys had so much fun. Joye was asleep the entire time. Jaxon's leg was hurting after fireworks, so he went into bed. Alek just decided that he would sleep on the driveway. And dummy me, I didn't get a picture.

This is our neighbors little girl. This is where she spent most of her night, on my lap.

Then on Monday, Ricky and his kids came up and we went with Bruce to the Bear River to go fishing. It was a fun day.

Here is Joye, trying to go potty in the weeds. She only wanted to because all the other kids went.

Joye helping Daddy reel in his fish.

Joye played with the worms all day. She would switch them from one container to another, pick them up and hold them.

Raimee was the best fisherman or shall I say fisherwoman. She caught 6 fish. 4 Carp, and 2 Bass. She caught the biggest carp I have ever seen.

The huge fish, swallowed the hook and Ricky wanted it, so he cut it open. Joye was so interested. She squatted there the entire time, just watching everything that Uncle Ricky was doing.

While Ricky was cutting, some blood squirted Raimee, almost in her eye.

Here's Alek with his little fish, he was a little disappointed that he couldn't keep it.

Joye and Raimee, with one of Raimee's many fish.

After we went fishing we went to the Riverside Parade. Joye didn't like the sirens at the first.

After the parade we went to Bruce and Shirley's for dinner and to let the kids play. Mark and Sherin stopped by for a minute, Mark caught a baby bird, and Alek was brave enough to hold it.

Joye playing in the sand. No wonder she was so sandy. I love her face.

After dinner we went to the Riverside fireworks.

Renee, Alek & Ryten

Raimee and Joye

Here is one of the fireworks. We were really disappointed this year in their fireworks, but with the economy, what can you expect from a little town.