What can I say, I love my Mom and my boys love their Grandma! After Kiersten's graduation, my parent's came back to our house to play some games. The boy's had to practice the piano for the day, so my Mom sat down with them and helped them and played with them. It w
as really heartwarming for me to watch. I was sneaky and took some pictures. I'm sure Mom doesn't know about the pictures or I'm sure she wouldn't have cooperated!
We are so proud of Kiersten! On Monday she graduated from High School! The graduation ceremony was held at Weber University. It was exciting to see her get her diploma. In a couple of months, she will be transferring beauty schools and will be attending Paula Mitchel Beauty Academy. There she will learn even more techniques and help increase her knowledge in how to do hair. She is doing an amazing job so far in her beauty school. She has cut all of our hair, colored Will's for him and has done a great job. We took Kiersten out to celebrate her graduation on Saturday. We went out to La Caille restaurant. It was a beautiful place. We even fed the peacocks! It was nice to go out just the three of us to celebrate.
As we were walking out the door to go to the piano recital, I stumbled in my 3" heels and fell down the stairs in our garage. In my defense, I was trying to give directions over the phone and not really paying attention to where I was going. Boy did it hurt! Dave was in the truck waiting for me when I fell. He ran over to me and carried me to the car so he could check for any breaks or injury. My entire left side bruised up. My knee, middle finger and ankle got the worst of it. My middle finger is still really purple and green and is now pointing way off to the side! Did I stop wearing heels you ask. . . nope, that night we went out and I just moved down to a 2" heel instead. The pictures don't show it very well, but you see where it started to bruise on part of my leg.
On Saturday we had the boy's summer piano recital. They both did a great job! The boy's cousin Bella goes to the same teacher, so she played as well. She did a great job too and she also played a duet with the teacher. This was Tyler's 2nd ever piano recital. I think he was a little nervous, because he memorized his song a long time ago, but decided to read the piano music instead. He played his song perfectly! Good job Tyler!!! Will did a great job as well playing his song. It was a really neat sounding song, which requires him to move his hands all over the keyboard!
For 5th grade, the kids have to do a state project. Which consists of a state poster board and state float. Will picked the state of Massachusetts, because he thinks the state looks like the shape of a gun. . . Being a parent, you pretty much put forth as much effort (if not a little more) than your student. I had to give him idea's to choose from, figure out how to make it work, etc. So for the wonderful state of Massachusetts, we decided to do the famous Boston Marathon for our float. We cut out tiny runners, glued them onto toothpicks and had them racing towards the finish line. It was fun, but I am glad it is done!
What did I tell you. . . Seven months later and we have another mark on the head. . . Only one month from the smashed finger incident. Luckily, it looks like this one wont leave a permanent scar on his head, like our Harry Potter scar. Let's see how long we can go before we have another injury.
Look close. . . Can you see the tree sticking out of my sunroof? My Mom wanted another Aspen tree to add to her collection. The nursery isn't too far away and Dave needed his truck, so I thought I would take my car. Well, the tree wouldn't come even close to fitting inside my car. So the nice little kid who worked at the nursery helped me stick it through my sunroof. I told my Mom of my wonderful plan to drive with the tree sticking out the top of my car. She seemed a little concerned that I would kill her tree with my driving. So for my Mom, I drove extra slow (only 30 mph). Even going that slow, the poor tree was whipping in the wind. It seemed like a rather long drive to get home. I thought for sure by time I got home all the leaves would be off or the trunk would snap in half. Luckily when it came time to take it to Mom's, we were able to use Dave's truck, which held the tree perfectly. So if the tree dies this year, we will all know why.
anbags. It took the majority of our Friday night. Hours later we completed the project and Tyler is happy with his product to sell!
My hubby seems to think he can beat himself up on the job! He comes home with more bruises and cuts than I would care to see on him. He definitely is a man, because these "little" things don't slow him down in the slightest. He doesn't even scream out in pain. Good job of being tough honey! This was a couple of weeks ago and the swelling still hasn't gone down.
Case in point about my husband and safety issues with his body parts. . . . Here is Dave in October with a crow bar to the head. . . Did this slow him down you might ask? Why no, he kept finishing his work before he went to hospital :) I call this his "Harry Potter" scar. I tried to get him to go as Harry Potter for Halloween :)
