I LOVE MY FAMILY

Could I be any luckier!?  Love them!!

Trey's Tooth!!

Trey--his TRIPS to the dentist for one crazy tooth!!  Several months back Trey had a cavity filled.  My dentist told me he went down as far as he could and hoped he got it all, but wasn't 100% positive when filling in a cavity for Trey.  Sure enough, about 9 months later he began complaining about it, so I made him an appointment and they preformed a root canal on the tooth.  About two weeks later while bushing his teeth I noticed the all so recognizable GUM BOIL. I knew what it was because Kory ended up having a tooth pulled because of one, so I made him another appointment.  The only solution was the pull the tooth!

I must say he was pretty brave for such a huge tooth.  It had a lot of root left on it.  The dentist offered to make him a necklace out of it, but Trey wasn't up for it.  Next week we return again for yet another appointment to put a spacer in the area so his other teeth don't shift forward.  Our dentist joked that he set a record for the most work done on one tooth!!  

Home Projects

home Projects are always fun.  This summer we completed two of the home projects on our list.  The first was a New Kitchen Floor.  Our floor wasn't HORRIBLE, but it had some problem areas and needed to be replaced.  Monty and I had been to Home Depot and Lowes about 10 times looking at flooring.  We'd had two people come out to make estimates on the floor, but nothing was starting.  One day Monty told me he was leaving on a trip for work and that meant I needed a project!  I like to keep busy when he is gone and we had already agreed to do this project so I took matters into my own hands, watched a few YOUTUBE videos and started pulling up our floors. I will never forget Monty's face when he walked in the house.  He said, "Wow.  I guess we are putting in new floors this weekend!" It happened to be right before Mother's Day weekend, so it turned into a Mother's Day gift which was fine with me because I LOVE it.  So much better than our old floor.  Monty and I worked hard for a couple days and got it done!  In these pictures you can kinda see the before and after.

 

The second project was a necessity project.  The people who lived here before us put a fountain in right by the front step compromising the ground underneath and causing the step to sink.  A rain gutter that wasn't properly aligned led to another part of the entryway sinking just enough that it was a safety hazard.  Thankfully for us there is a new member in our ward who happens to be a structural engineer!  He saw the problem and offered to help us fix it.  Such a nice guy!!  So, for the last two weekends(Saturday's) this is what we have been doing!

About 7:30 in the A.M. excited to start! You can see just under Trey where it was sinking.  

The sinking step!  it was about a 13 inch step at this point.  

I had a YW service project that morning and come home to this!

The boys had a blast doing this part of the project!

We tried to get concrete delivered that day, but the plan in town was closed so Monty opened and mixed over 6,000lbs of concrete!  My hero!!  He was not excited about the job, but did it!  

Finally finished about 10:30 at night.  The Troopers!!

There was a slight miscalculation and the step was about an inch lower on the right side than on the left, but our buddy fixed it with this bright idea! I am actually glad we messed up because I love the detail on the step. We filled in the whole that was once a fountain and love the result!

Bronco's Seahawks Rematch!

Ever since the Super Bowl my boys have been waiting for the Bronco's-Seahawks Rematch!  Lucky for us we have some friends who have season tickets to the Bronco's games, but didn't want to go to the pre-season game.  Well, my boys did.  Our friends were really kind and actually found us a few more tickets, so we only had to buy a ticket for Makai.  We sat in different areas, but had a blast.

Ty and Ky.  I learned that night that they don't mind standing up for what they believe in!!  The only Seahawk fans in the stadium and proud of it!!(this was taken during a LAME thunderstorm!  They made the players go inside for about an hour--I never did see any lightning!)

My partner--he was a little whiny, but we had fun.

Post game!!  Tyler is a good sport!  

Since the Bronco's are Kory's team he got front row seats!!  He was pretty jazzed to see Manning play in real life!!

I hear trey was pretty whiny too, but I just think he is cute!

Great view!! Memorable night!!

Mammy and Grandpop

We were excited to get a visit this summer from Mammy and Grandpop!  It is always fun when they come and PLAY with us.  We try to show them a good time so they will keep coming back.  This trip we went swimming, to a children's museum, hiking...we had a fun time.  It went way to fast.

Group shot...minus the photographer who was pretty cute.

Tyler and Grandpop having fun.

Kyle loved this wall of tubes.

Create your own instrument!  Pretty fun idea.  

We took a picnic up to Estes Park and Hiked around.  It was a beautiful day to hike.  Well, in Estes it was.  In town it was kinda hot.  We had rain everyday for about a month till mom and dad came.  Then not a drop.  The day they left...rain everyday for about a week.

GROUP SHOT~everyone was in this one!:)  

5 most wonderful sons ever!

Selfie? 

What?  are they growing up?

Always striking a pose

Him too!

Thanks for coming!

monkeys!!!

Camp Out

While Tyler, Kyle and Monty were away on a scout campout the younger boys decided they wanted to camp out too.  We set up a tent and they had their own campout!

I loved that they all ran upstairs and got dressed in camo!  Poor Makai's were so tight.   

 I tried to sleep with them that night, but had trouble sleeping.  The fact that the sprinklers went off at about 1:30 didn't help.  I thought I had turned them off, but only put it on rain delay.  Anyway, about 3am I finally gave up and came and slept on the couch.

The next night the boys wanted to make a fort.  I was totally cool with that idea and slept a lot better that night!  Fun memories.  

Contacts!

This year Tyler started asking for Contacts.  Being that he is 13 and loved to play sports we figured it was probably a good idea.  HE LOVES CONTACTS, but looks really grown up now!!