poor broken girl

ok, so our little darling girl has her arm in a cast.

a few days ago, we had a really strong wind with the storm. our neighbor's tree blew over, but the kids have such fun playing in it, that they don't want to cut it all the way down. so imagine a tree laying on its side with a large branch straight down to the ground holding it up about 5 feet off the ground. and another one sitting as a perfect little perch for small children. the kids play there every day, they even have a sheet draped over as a tent. it is a very fun place for them to hang out. well, yesterday, apparently they thought it would be fun to do the tarzan thing, and swing from a rope tied to it. the other kids did, and had a blast. but poor rebekah's grip slipped, and she came crashing down. the neighbor's mom walked poor screaming rebekah home, telling us what happened, and hoping she was ok. one look at the swelling already, told us it was either broken or severely sprained. dinner was on the table, but nathan, the wonderful dad he is, left it sitting, and scooped up his baby girl to take her to get x-rays. after a few hours, and a lot of tears, it was determined that she has a fractured wrist, and will need to see an orthopedist on monday to see about casting it. for now, it is in a splint wrapped in an ace bandage, with a sling over that. we had a rough night, getting up every few hours for more medicine. between rachel getting up to eat, and rebekah getting up for drugs, we did not get much sleep!! today has been better, and hopefully tonight will be too.

rachel blessing

ok, so i got rachel's pics done a few weeks ago at walmart, and i hated them when i got them back. she looked like a turtle, with her neck and head at such a weird angle. i am returning those, and i took a million of my own today, trying to get a good one. well, i think i did a pretty good job. don't you love digital cameras?? i sent my order to the photo dept and can pick them up in a couple days. i love that!! so here is our princess, just as cute as ever!! thank goodness the dress still fits. :) and she was much happier for us at home than she was at the studio for the strange lady with pink hair!!

half of them

so here are half of my children. caleb is dressed for church last sunday, his birthday. he is wearing colby's old tie, think it's a little small? he was so excited to have one though, he wore it to church anyway!! he is growing up finally! he was my baby for so long, i am not quite sure when he got so big. he is such a sweet boy, and can melt your heart with that gorgeous smile. he is stubborn and if he doesn't want to do something, you are going to have quite a time getting him to!!


and here is our gorgeous baby. she is chunking up a little. last week she weighed in at 9lbs, 5oz. and was 21.5 inches long. she is in the 50th % for weight, 75th for height, and 15th for her head!! i love it. she is so sweet. she smiles at us now too. i didn't believe nathan until i saw for myself. she is so young to be smiling already, but she definitely does. and it's with her whole face, it's the coolest thing ever! she is sleeping better, which makes for a much happier mommy too. she is wearing clothes cousin abby has grown out of, and we love it. she is even cuter when she has on adorable clothes. thanks aunt tattie! people ooh and aah at us when we go out. it is fun. just the other night, we carried her into walmart, and everyone in the whole line stared at us as we walked past. is it not normal to carry a baby instead of have her in the carseat?? when they cry, you take them out!! silly people.

caleb turned 3!!

wow, i can't believe how time has flown. i swear, we just had caleb, and now he is a big 3 year old. we were going to have a pool party saturday, but the pool looked like the creature from the black lagoon! so we decided not to do that. also, i had strep throat. didn't think everyone would appreciate getting that! so we just did our own thing on sunday, which was his actual bday. he got a lot of cool stuff, but when he pulled the bags off of grandma gresko's present, he started jumping up and down. he played with that basketball hoop at the toy store for a solid 20 minutes. he was so sad to leave it, and so very excited to see that it was in his house!! that is by far the favorite thing in the house right now. thanks everyone who got him cool stuff!!

beating on dad!!

i love the sequence of these pics. nathan has been working a ton of hours the last few weeks, so when he is home for a few minutes, he tries to play with the kids. This night, he just grabbed the sword and started fighting colby. it took him so off guard, it was great!!

jab......., stab.........., uh oh!!!
they got him!!! YAY!!! The kids thought dad was awesome!!

random pics, and blessing

here are some cute, but random pics. the first is rachel going to church. she was so cute in this dress!! all 4 kids have now used this bathtub, so i had to post that too.




rachel was blessed on sunday, july 6. here she is with colby and rebekah. she was beautiful, but not very happy!! caleb was dead asleep on the ground, so we have a picture of him the next day with her. what cute kids we have!!