Ready to go

We had to make our monthly Wal-mart trip the other day and I told Zach to go get in his carseat....this is what he thought was his new carseat. He grabbed his dads glasses and tried to buckle up...so he was ready to go!

Bowling

Friday afternoon we went to start the van and nothing...so we decided to all pile in the Altima (with the kids fighting the whole 25mins to the dealership) and go get a new van battery. On the way back we stopped by the bowling alley. The kids had fun bowling...but more fun playing arcade games. Mikayla hit the jackpot on one spin the wheel game and got 250 tickets!

Sat morning we went to a free pro volleyball tournament going on at the beach here. It was hot so we only lasted about an hour...the kettlecorn, roasted nuts and snow cones made it worth it. Then we went and jumped in the health club pool on the way home. Sat night we had a ward party at the pier park...and Sunday we had friends over to play card games and eat treats....

Kenzie the yoga teacher

I thought this was soooo funny! This is Kenzie trying to help Zach do the yoga moves on the wii fit.

Zach owie

See the scratch on the side of his nose? That is what happens when you ask your 30yr old bacholor brother to play with the kids. Zach took a "digger" as Adam called it on the trampoline when they were playing tag. Zach fell right into the springs becuz the net did not withstand his weight.

Kenzie gets ears pierced

Kenzie has wanted her ears pierced for awhile and so today we went and got it done. She picked out pretty white flowers with a blue center. She said it hurt but she loves them and keeps looking at her self in the mirror. (now Mikayla wants hers done, but she said she was waiting to find out if Makenzie cried becuz it hurt, letting her little sister be the guiney pig!) On the way there she kept asking how much longer to I get it done? On a side note...one Sunday after church I had a quick meeting and Byron said he would get the kids to the car. So go to the car, Kenzie is not in there. So my bro who was visiting went searching for her. He comes back to the car carrying her and we ask where she was. Her response "I was talking to people." It was so funny if you know kenzie becuz she is like a social butterfly.

Mikaylas tuff!

Byrons sister and family stopped by on their way to Orlando FL. We had a great time playing at the park and eating BBQ until Byron tried to pose all the cousins on a cannon statue with Mikayla holding Zach. Mikayla started to slip and fell to the side taking buddy with her. the ground below was rock/cement and thankfully she protected buddy, but she got hurt in the process. We were so worried about Mikayla that we didn't even notice for a few minutes that she had split her head open. As you can see the gash is about an inch and a half long. They had to put in 4 staples and poor girl they wouldn't even numb it for her! She sat very still and was tuff! I couldn't of done it!

Now if you will notice we had one heck of a week....Mikayla almost drowning, kenzie getting lost, and Mikayla splitting head open.

Kenzie Lost

Kenzie rides the bus this year since I figured she had Mikayla there to watch out for and protect her. Unfortunately Mikayla is not the protector I had hoped for. 3 days into school Mikayla comes home without Kenzie. I thought they were playing a joke on me and Kenzie was hiding somewhere. But nope she did not get on the bus. So we called the school to see if she was still there, they called the bus tranport who radioed all the drivers. NO kids still left on the buses anywhere. It was now 45mins after school had been out and 15mins since Mikayla had come home that I called the police. They then had police men searching the bus routes for 2 little 5yr old girls (she was with a friend who rides the same bus, but gets off at a different stop). It took another hour of worrying that my child was down in the ghetto standing on a street corner lost before they finally found them. They had gotten on the wrong bus and dropped off at an after school church daycare. Now we wonder how did this daycare not know that they had 2 extra kids? Kenzie said she told them she wasn't suppose to be there, but that was of course after playing on the playground and eating oreos. She wanted to go back the next day! So lots of things seems to have gone wrong here...now they will have tags on the backpacks and teachers checking off to make sure the kids get on the right bus.
Now the other part to this story...when Mikayla came home I asked if she told the bus driver her sister wasn't on the bus (kenzie has to sit in the front seat cuz she is 5 so Mikayla would of had to pass her seat). Mikayla said yes but that the busdriver said she couldn't wait and had to go. This is what I was telling the cops (so they knew she wasnt in our neighborhood), bus transport and the school. Mikayla LIED! She never told the busdriver anything. Mikayla knew I would be mad if she didn't watch out for her sister....well yeah! But Byron and I were much madder that she lied to us and that we had to make her call and apolozie to the bus transport (so the bus driver didn't lose their job over it) and the school principle.
We are so grateful kenzie was in a safe spot.