A Day of Firsts!

We started our day out yesterday, with a drive down to South Weber. Joye had her 1st dance class!! She was so excited all morning. Her crazy mother, thought class started at 10, but really it started at 10:30. We killed the time at Ricky and Mi-A's, Rusty came early to drop Lydia off, and brought Joye a surprise....DANCE SHOES!! Joye loved them, she made me put them on her right then, and cried when I made her take them off, so they wouldn't get wet. She went right in without crying and sat with Michele. They started dancing and she was AWESOME! She stayed right on her sticker, and listened the whole time. She even did the dance pretty good. When we got home I asked if she wanted to show the boys her dance. She wanted to but she needed her dance shoes on first. She wears her dance shoes all the time. She even took them to bed with her. I won't let her wear them outside, so when she's outside she carries them. I think I've got me a dancer!!!!

Here she is going in!

Finding stickers to stand on.
Her splits.

Sitting in the circle talking.

After dance class we rushed home so we could take Jaxon to his first day of KINDERGARTEN!! He was so excited. He had his backpack, pencil box, and water bottle, and he was ready to go. He ran right to his classroom, and went right in. He never said it, but I don't think he wanted me there. In fact he didn't want me to walk him in today. He got out, and didn't want to really tell me anything that he did, he was too cool for that. He did say "Guess what Mom! R-E-D That spells red." And he had that smug look on his face. I couldn't help but laugh. He is going to do great.

Ready to leave the house

Running across the grass to get to the front doors.

Outside his classroom.

After he found his cubby and put his backpack away, they got to do some puzzles. He was ready for me to leave, and stop taking pictures of him.

Here we are picking him up. Look at that big smile! I can't believe that we have a Kindergartner, and I really can't believe that Joye is already big enough for dance. Time sure flies. Alek starts preschool next week. He can't wait. He has a really hard time when Jaxon gets to do things that he doesn't.

All Better

We took Joye to the doctor yesterday, and NO MORE SLING! They took another x-ray, and the doctor said that there was enough bone growth around the break that she would be fine. After a while the excess bone that wasn't needed, would go away and as Joye grows the bone will straighten out. So no more bump either! I was so worried that she was going to have an ugly bump forever, so yay! She was so brave this time at the doctor, she stood without as many tears this time for her x-ray. The doctor gave her a token to put in one of the prize machine's in the lobby. She wanted a ring. Lets hope this is our last injury for a while.

Until We Meet Again

My Grandma Johnson passed away last week. She was 87. We will all miss her very much. But she was ready to go. She had pretty much been house bound for about 2 years. She would go get her hair done every week, but other than that not many other trips. I didn't cry because she was gone, I cried because she was the lucky one. Now she gets to be with my mom, and love on her all she wants. At the funeral, my Uncle Dick said that Joyce was happy now, because she gets mom all to her self for awhile. That's when I lost it. They are the lucky ones. When we told the boys about grandma, they couldn't really remember who she was, until we said she was the one that gave you ice cream. They knew exactly who she was after that.

Here is Grandma and Grandpa's headstone.

Me and the kids. Braden had to work.

My Dad

Grandma's great-grandchildren from our family

Renee, Cambree, Raimee, Lexie, Sierra

Ryten, Alek, Jaxon, Lydia, Joye

Grandchildren

Ricky, Me, Rusty

Here are pictures from January.

We love you Grandma! Give Mom a hug for us. Until we meet again.

Weber County Fair

The Studio danced at the Weber County Fair. Braden worked so he couldn't be there with us. So I took the kids, and went with Ricky's family.

Here is Joye and Me standing by a huge horse. This wasn't even the biggest one.

Jaxon was the only one that wanted to go to the rodeo. So we had some one-on-one time.

And the kids got to meet SpongeBob!!!
I think Joye has a little bit of my fear of mascots. She wasn't so sure about him.

South Weber Days

South Weber Days has come and gone. This year we decided that we would take our tents and camp in Ricky's back yard. Mother Nature had a plan of her own and dumped some rain on us. So we ended up sleeping on their basement floor. The kids still had fun, so that's all that matters I guess. We went to the parade in the morning, the fair in the afternoon, and the fireworks at night.

Nick and Katelyn joined us in front of Ricky's for the parade. Here are the kids who weren't in the parade, getting ready to catch some candy. It wasn't the easiest for 1 armed Joye it get her candy. Uncle Rusty helped out, and gave her all of his.

See Renee really does like me

The kids on the float!

Joye and Grandpa watching the dancers.

Here are the boys dancing.

The biggest highlight of mine and Braden's day though was getting to drive this...

A Can-am Spyder! It was so fun!

I had to put this picture of Renee on. He loved the Jamba Juice booth. He had like 4.

We love South Weber Days!

Update on Broken Joye

Well it's been 2 weeks today since the incident. Joye is doing better. She doesn't have as much pain anymore, so she tries to use her arm. She has been really good about wearing her sling and bandage, she doesn't fight it. She has just found a way to get around it. She will pull 2 layers of her wrap up around her neck, then one layer down around her waist, so she can use her arm. She will pull the sling back far enough for her hand to stick out and use it. Then after awhile her whole arm is sticking out and we have to put it back on right. We tell her, "Joye you have to put your arm back in." She will reply, "Ok, in a minute." "No Joye, now" "Fine", with a little eye roll, she will pull her sling back over her arm. In the instance where she doesn't say fine, I'll try to put it back on and then she screams, "No! Mom! I do it. I do it" Then she'll pull it over. She is so funny. If she gets her arm out too much, she will start to hurt, and then she wants her wrap on right. She knows what makes it feel better. Since we are at the 2 week mark, the doctor said that we could just let her wear her sling. We'll see what we do. I am definitely going to wrap her up at night, but if she doesn't hurt I'll leave the wrap off of her during the day. 2 more weeks left to see if it's healing. Wish us luck.
I don't think I put this on the last post, but i wanted to get it on here so I could remember. The morning we were going to take her to the Doctor, she was laying in bed with us. She was having some pain, and kept complaining. I kept telling her that we were going to go to the doctor and he would make her feel better. She kept saying, "No, I no want to." "Joye, he'll make you feel better." "No, I no want to. I feel better. All better" And she'd pat her collar bone. She was so funny. I don't know why she didn't want to go to the doctor.