Witches Nite Out

Every year my good friend hosts a "witches nite out" at her house for spooky food and fun, just for ladies, before heading to the Gardner Village.. witches nite.

This is the group.

Very Fun!!

Pumpkin Patch w/ Abuelitos

Our abuelitos came with us this year to pick pumpkins!

We love the 'Maybe' pumpkin patch is has all kinds, their prices are reasonable, and I love walking through fields of pumpkins to choose rather, than the grocery store.

It is the experience!

Can you tell it is a VERY warm Oct.

With Weetos!
The Three amigos, pumpkin style!

Just as we were leaving our good friends the Sohms and the Summerhays, came to the same place to pick their pumpkins!

Sophia!

Gardner Village - Halloween

It is a Tradition.

Go to Gardner Village and see the

Witches..

At Halloween.

This year we invite two 'Abby's' to go with us..

Soooo fun!

My sister is sealed

My sister Sherron was able to be sealed this October!

We love her new husband, Nate!

This is a testimony that you can find a forever love after divorce, and you can find love after your 30's in this state!

She is so happy, so we are so happy!

The day Liv got MRSA!

The girls had a day off from school.

Josh took the day off, since the weather was warm.

We decided to let the girls choose a place each to visit.

Isabel choose liberty park.

Eva choose classic skating.

Fun right?

Wrong!

We are pretty sure Olivia got MRSA at classic skating. Notice her short skirt without leggins (dad got her dressed). Lots of exposed skin to allow MRSA, a antibiotic resistant bacteria, to colonize on her skin.

Once you have been in contact with the bacteria it will stay on your skin unless killed by some very strong measures; regular soap and water will not do. Any time you get an open wound after you have the bacteria on your skin, it will infect the wound and it is resistant to most anitbiotics.

We went to classic on Mon. On Wed. she had what looked like spider bites. Thurs. we went to the doctors and started antibiotics right away. Fri. she had a HUGE infected area 4in. x 2in. that was very painful and very red. I can't imagine what it would have looked like if we had waited a few days!

Unfortunatly, after 15 days on the antibiotics, just before we started the bleach baths, she had a new wound and it started again. Another round are strong anti's. We had kept some of the leftover antibiotics and were able to start her quickly on them, thus the new infection didn't get as big. The bacteria had colonized on her skin, speading to new places. The only way to get rid of it is to put her in bleach baths 3x's a week for 6 weeks; and polysporin up all of our noses 2x a day for 5 days.

My advice to all: if a place looks yucky, it probably is. Wear clothing to protect you in such places, and WASH, WASH, WASH, after being anywhere with yuckiness!

Also, our doctor said to start the bleach baths after the anti's were done. My advice is to start them right away, to kill the bacteria and not let it colonize!

Cast on - Cast off

After 5 un-fun weeks on!

The cast came off!
The pins came out four weeks later!

1st day of school 11'

Isabel in 5th Eva in 2nd.

Time flies! They are holding up their fingers, 1st day of 5th and 2nd.
Eva walking into her first day, with one of her best friends right behind her. I love when chance give you a lucky break like a best friend in a class.
(Eva lost her first top tooth the night before.)

Isabel with her teacher, notice the poor arm. She started school off with being unable to write with her right arm... but she is doing well!

Lagoon - Aug.

Josh's company have a Lagoon day every year. Hurray!

I love Lagoon!

We were able to meet up with my sisters family. Which made a good day even better. My kids love her kids, and Isabel and Brock were born on the same day, and their is a special connection, they love to be together. Olivia and Elle are only a month and half apart and they are such a cute pair of giggling girls, they just love to be together... so it was such a fun memory.

At the end of our day. Poor Sophi is spent.
The gang before we head home.

So happy together!

Always our first ride. I don't know how much longer Bella will be able to get into it.

Cool clothes for hot sun.

Bella and the broken arm

Josh out of town!

On my way home with two exhausted children, from night games.

Isabel walks out from our neighbors back yard, and says 'mom I did something to my arm and it feels funny!"

I look over, and her arm is clearly broken. It goes straight, down, straight. Yikes

She had simply tripped.

Thankfully Josh's parents were able to stay with the other kids, and a friend came with me to the hospital to hold Sophi.

She broke bones in her forarm, and they were unable to set it, so the next day she had surgery to place rods through the bones.

Needless to say we have bumped up the calcium intake at our home.

It has been a long arduous process of recovery!

Sophia - first solids

Sophia barely over the high chair!

Awwwww!

Lame - 24th of July

We gardened!

Fireworks!

Lame!

Next year will be better!

Sabrina - July

So my super cute niece came to visit for a few days in July. My girls were in 'big' girl heaven. They couldn't get enough of her.

What a fantastic girl! Sweet and patient with my girls, helpful, great manners, and what a babe!

We went to temple square, cowabunga bay, the gateway, and the whole fam took her to the mountains.

Olivia, for weeks after, kept asking for sabrina!

Babe-a-li-cious!
Love their Sabrina!
Dinner at the garden!

Grandma, and grandpa, the christiansons, the de la cruz's, us and sabrina!

Notice olivia and elle, they were SOOOO dirty!