Morgan's First Choir Concert

Morgan, is in the choir this year and absolutely loves it. She has had 2 performances this week and one more next week. I attached some video's of her singing. I have to apologize that the camera is all over the place, Boomer has been out of town all week and trying to video and be a Mom doesn't work very well. This is actually the 2nd concert, I taped the first concert but the video were horrible with 2 kids on my lap 0)  But, you can at least hear the songs. The first video is in 2 parts...I had to stop taping to get my child off the table....

ENJOY the videos!!!

These pictures our from her first concert, their choir shirts came in 2 hours before the performance so, they didn't get to wear them.

We surprised her with a rose. Rylee gave her the rose and Luke and Jos gave her the greenery...it was cute.

Here is a picture before her second performance with the choir polo on..sadly she woke up with a red eye and very swollen. So, she was pretty miserable that night,  but still did amazing!!!

Here are some video's of the performance. To watch the actually video you need to go to our BLOG, there is a link at the end of the email.

This is part 1 of part 2 video....the first of the video is horrible,

 I was holding Luke.

We are so proud of her. Her teacher is AMAZING and really gets the kids involved. She absolutely LOVES singing.

WINTER WONDERLAND

We woke up on Wednesday with 6+ inches of fresh new snow at our house. It was SOOOOO exciting. Boomer actually was going to leave Tuesday night, but got busy working. So, he decided waking up at 4:00 and take off (obviously we don't watch the news and knew a storm was coming). He got up and took off, to find out all the freeways were closed. So, he came back and slept for a few hours and left again when the sun came up. It was crazy!!!

The kids and I had fun making a snowman and and snow angels. It warmed up to 51 that day, so it was fun to play in the mush!!!

Our First of Many.....

I am going to try and retell this story in the gory, traumatic way that it happened. So, you can fully have the experience with us :0)

It all started with the typical day...Rylee got home from school, we got her homework done and then she went off to play Mario with Luke on the Wii. Morgan arrives home about an hour later. She is upstairs doing homework, yelling for me to help. Joslyn asks for her 20th snack of the day. She settles in on the kitchen chair at the table eating a snack and watching Mario on the Ipad (can you tell me kids are obsessed with Mario lately). 

While, I am upstairs helping Morgan there is a crying, then screaming, then BLOODY murder screaming that comes from the kitchen. As I leap down the stairs, I think only touching 3 stairs of the 12, to see Jos on her knee's on the ground, covering her mouth...SCREAMING!!! As I scooped her up, trying assess the situation..by then the other kids running to see what happened. At this point we know it is the mouth region and there is a GROSS AMOUNT of blood, running from Joslyn's hand covering her mouth. At that point I am trying calm Joslyn down and still don't know where the blood was coming from. 

Rylee comes running up and asked what happened, I tell her I have no idea and am trying to figure that out...Rylee sees the amount of blood and starts screaming and yelling, that I need to do something..and points out how much blood is coming out of her mouth..while muttering is JOSLYN GOING TO DIE....Joslyn at that points starts crying even harder because she was GOING TO DIE.....SERIOUSLY PEOPLE WORK WITH ME . I send Rylee of to get the DARKEST colored rag (learned that from my Mom, so they don't see the amount of blood)..we sop up the blood and see that her top bottom lip is cut. So, we sit and cuddle for a minute letting Josyln suck on ice...but I noticed that there is still blood dripping down her chin...WHAT!?!?!? Where the heck is that coming from...as I assess the situation again, I notice that there is a cut on the outside of her bottom lip. Yep, you guessed it, her top teeth went through her entire bottom lip...it was a straight cut.

I had no idea where any urgent cares were, so I yelled for Morgan to come and hold Joslyn, so I could call around and get addresses and such...I totally not using the best judgement at this time, tell Morgan that her teeth had came all the way through her bottom lip and she would probably need stitches and she needed to hold her while I found out where to take her.....YUP, not smart telling her what happened. Morgan starts crying and freaking out...so, I looked her in the eye and as a sweet mother told her, " YOU NEED TO GET IT TOGETHER AND HOLD YOUR SISTER".....it took me about 10- 15 minutes to call and get all the info I needed to take Jos to the urgent care.

Luckly, Morgan was able to watch the kids, start dinner and put them to bed. Boomer was in town, but was at a meeting, missing all the fun action.

The next part I will spare you the LLLOOOONNNNGGGG details. After 2 hours waiting, the doctor said, they couldn't stitch it and that it would heal nicely in a few days. By the time we got home Jos and I were starving, this all happened at 5:30. We washed up the rest of her blood stain and sent her to bed. She woke up with a puffy lip, and her top tooth hurting (she keep touching her tooth to see if it still hurt throughout the day). We put medicine on her lip band aided her up and sent her to Preschool. because she was not about to miss VALENTINE'S day!!!

The part that helped the best, was the lady that checked us in at the urgent care, did the same thing when she was little and showed Joslyn the scar. So, Jos new what to expect. 

So, after all the crazy moments Jos has a sweet little mark, still healing. She was a trooper. Rylee called a few times while we were at the urgent care needing to talk to Joslyn to make sure was okay and not dying. Funny girl!!! She was greeted with lots of love and hugs when we got home.

OH, I forgot to write what she did for her teeth to come through her lip. I didn't find this out till we got to the urgent care, when Joslyn was finally calm and could talk. She was just scooting up on the chair and fell off hitting her chin on the arm of her chair. Obviously just perfect enough to send her teeth through her lip.

Here is her sweet little freckled face and a healing cut....

AH, The Smell of FUN!!!!

We had a fun evening roasting marshmallow's on our fire. It was sooooo YUMMY, I could do that every night :0) The kids had a blast!!! We need to get some metal hangers, probably not the best to use WOOD skewers on a FIRE!!! 

Boomer's First Race

Boomer has been getting back into racing. He has missed the sound of a motorcycle going around a track, the feeling of leaving the earth for just a minute flying over the doubles or the feel of tree branches smacking you in the face, racing down the mountain side. He doesn't have time for those types of races, YET. So, he decided to take advantage of this amazing track we have in town and race BMX bikes for now. He has so much fun on any kind of bikes, its in his blood!!!

Morgan's First YW Overnighter

Morgan and the Young Women of our church, went for an overnight to Ruidoso, NM. It's a quaint little city in the mountains, about 3 hour drive. She had so much fun, getting to know the other girls. They did projects, shopped and giggled the night away. Rylee of course had a hard time saying goodbye. Morgan was going to be away for 2 WHOLE NIGHTS!!!!

The picture with Joslyn and Lany (Redhead) she is one of Joslyn's high school teachers over at her Preschool. They just fall into each other's arms every Sunday!!