Sunday, August 7, 2011

Family



The whole Hanks clan minus 2 kids who did want their picture taken.
Sleeping outside and going to Bear Lake was the plan. Then the rain set in the first evening they were here. The kids all slept in the family room. All 10 of them!
The last night the kids did plays and fashion shows for us. Micheal and Katie doing a Harry Potter scene.
AJ showing off his fashion sense.
More Harry Potter
A captive audience. Like father like son!
Fiona and her new lion hairdo!
The final pose of the show.
Better fashion
Addison would walk around the chair and come right back. She loved the attention and applause.
Cassady, Ellie and Katie. Katie is 10 days younger than Katie. Cass cried when she left and kept breaking out into tears cause she missed her, already. I told Seth and Jen they could change Katie's ticket and leave her here for a week, but for some reason sending their 7 year old home on a plane alone did seem like something they wanted to do. I don't blame them.
Lunch in the shade and the only few hours that it didn't rain while they were here.
Fiona and the alligator. Jordan misses Fiona. They made a connection while she was here.
We miss them and can't wait till they can come again or maybe someday soon we can go see them.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

WildCat Run



Cassady was so excited about the Wildcat run this year. It is a fundraiser for her school and we had asked friends and family to buy or donate to so much with Jordan's band trip and Kylee's Gymnastics that I felt guiolty asking for money again, but Cass was so excited!! I didn't think anyone would donate anymore money, but grandparents, and aunts and uncles gladly donated and she raise $50 and is now able to go to a pool party. Sponsers donated to her for her training for the 1 mile run. Kylee or I took her running almost every day. She kicked my butt everytime I took her. Her and Ky timed themselves one evening and ran it in 8 min 16 seconds. She was so nervous the night before! She prayed that night that she could run well and win 3rd place. We thought was pretty funny. If your going to pray for something why not ask for 1st.
It had been so cold and rainy this week, but the rain held out just long enough for all the kids to run. The sun even came out and was nice running weather. They through our neighborhood with their grades. She did so good and ran the whole thing! She didn't take 3rd place, she came in 5th of all the 1st grade girls. I was so proud of her and she was proud of herself.
Cassady and her teacher after the runCassady and her little BFF in her class

Cassady and her 2 BFF's from the neighborhood

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Pnemonia

AJ and Addison got the nasty cold that has been traveling around our family. On Thursday, They were doing so much better, so I took them to gymnastics lessons. Regretting that by Thursday night, the cold was back with a vengeance. By Friday morning I knew Addison needed to go to the Dr. I was really worried about her. She couldn't sleep at all. She would wake up every 10 minutes coughing and cough so hard the only way she would stop is if she threw up or dry heaved and then she would cry, until she fell back to sleep. Of course Josh was in New Mexico, I am sure she would have rather had her dad to cuddle with. I spent the night holding her trying to keep her up right. The next morning I struggled with the decision of whether or not to take AJ in to see the Dr. too. Our co-pays doubled a little while ago. I bought a cheap otoscope awhile ago at Walmart, so I could check for ear infections. Last year I got pretty good at spotting them, but I wasn't sure if Aj had an ear infection or not. I ended up making the appointment for both of them and paying the $50 to see the Dr. We went in and Dr Clarke had a student who checked out the babies first. He looked at Addie and said it was all still Viral. Not what I wanted to here. There is nothing like paying a bunch of money for the Dr to say nothing we can do, wait it out. Then he moved on to AJ. He listened to his lungs for a really long time. I always panic a little when they take a long time listening. That is how they first found Cassady's heart murmur. Then he said,"Well, this kids pretty sick, it is in his lungs." He told me a bunch of stuff in Dr. llingo. I said,"In plain eniglish what does that mean". He said well we need to get a chest x-ray to see how bad it is, but he has pneumonia (thank goodness for spell check on that one) . I was shocked. I was so glad I bit the bullet and brought AJ in too. Dr. Clarke came in and said,"His ears are infected and he seems like it is not affecting his air intake too much, so I will just give him a strong anti-biotic that will take care of the ears and the pneumonia. We will hold off on the chest X-ray and save you guys the suffering and the money." He told us some other things we needed to do for AJ and some to try for Addie. Addie still suffered through the weekend not getting much better, so on Monday I called in and the Dr called in an anti-biotic for her. So both babies are back to normal and doing great. So far I have gotten the Sinus pressure, that was accompanied one day by a migraine, but I have been fighting it off with Zicam, Echinacia, viatamin C, and going to the gym. Don't forget the Diet Coke, not that helps fight a cold, but it sure makes me feel better. I keep saying some day soon I will be done with it again for good. I am hoping this is as bad as it will get.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Tree house Museum

Cass was out of school for the weekend, so we were trying to find something fun to do on Friday, so we traveled down to Odgen to go to the treehouse mesuem with our friends the Coats. It was the first time I had done anything big like this without at least Jordan or Kylee to help with the babies. Glad to have Jodi and have 2 sets of eyes in a place that big. It is also good to have a kids eye view as I explain later on. It went really well and I can't wait to do it again.


Cassady got to be the ladybug in the little play they did.


Our next president! He promises to never sit at the desk, only climb on it!
Aj had to climb up on these drums to play them.

Addison political platform will be reading for children. Isn't this cute!!
Fireman Addie.
I wanted a picture of all three of my kids on the firetruck. This is as good as it gets. They all wanted to drive.
Addison was going to feed this sheep, when it moved and scared her.
AJ feeding his baby sheep.
He was being so sweet with the babies I wanted to get a picture of it, but this is what I caught.
Rodeo queen!

Ride em cowboy!
Pretty Cowgirls!
This was a milking cow and you could really milk it.
AJ loved the trains, just didn't like it when Addie touched any of them.
Next Queen Arthur?
Play knights and castles
Queen Cassady
Large trains
The queen of cheese!
We were all playing in what the kids called the cupcake house. All of the sudden I couldn't see Addison. I walked out of the little house thinking she couldn't have gone far, She was just here, no luck. Jodi and started running around yelling for her. I was really panicking. When Brooklyn said she is right here. She had climbed inside this oven and closed the door and was right in the room the whole time. I thought she was gone. Little stinker!
After being there for about 7 hours the 3 babies were done!!! Tears, tears, tears! It was 6:30
and with that many tired kids it was either fast food or Chuck-a-rama. WE hit chuck-a-rama. Jodi and I and 6 kids under the age of 7, 3 of them under the age of 2. We stood in line for probably about a half hour. I think everyone in line with us thought we were crazy. The kids love getting what ever they wanted to eat and AJ had a good time sculpting his orange Jello. We made a huge mess, but left a really large tip! It was a day of total chaos, which is the new normal for us and what we love. We had so much fun and can't wait to go back.







Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Happy Valentines Day!


Grandma bought everyone PJ's for valentines day. Thanks for the fun cute PJ's Grandma!
Cheese !!!
AJ and his pretty pink boots!
Aj has learned how to unzip his PJ's. After finding him holding his poopy diaper twice in the morning, we now make sure he always has on a onesie. Don't know what we will do this summer.
We were at a popular grocery store and Cass saw the balloons and wanted to get one for the twins for valentines day. We stood in line to get Them. Finally it was our turn and she had decided on an Elmo one and a lady bug one for the twins and a princess one for herself. The guy handed them to us and said $30 for 3 balloons. I about fell over. Another reason I don't like Valentines day, jacked prices. We handed the balloons back and walked a few doors down to greenbacks and bought a monkey, princess crown and flower balloons for $3. They loved those balloons!
Cass even got a hug from Addie
Addison's Cheesy face! Boogers and all! She always says mom boogers! A little while ago we were walking thorugh Sam's and Addie was telling me she had boogers, mom and AJ was sticking his fingers in his nose pulling out boogies and saying, OOOW!

We had fun making cookies and having fun with some valentines surprises.
AJ had to have his own frosting bowl. Forget the cookies!

Show us your cookie Addie and say cheese!

My cute boy making a mess all over mom! I have never eally like Valentines day. We had a fun time this year!
A good pic of Addies throwing us one of her evil looks.
We told Joran that we would pay for her to go to the sweethearts dance, if she asked someone besides Chris (her boyfriend). Surprising us she took us up on our offer. She asked one of her good friends.

She actually got his boutineer on by herself, she is learning. This boy bought her a coursage!!! They had a fun time! Isn't she beautiful?!