She's gonna be fine.

That's the verdict. We have to change the bandages daily and have medication for her. But she's a happy girl and should end up fine and a little wiser.

Hooray!

Awww.... crap.

This has been a difficult month for us. I mentioned a few weeks ago that we had a big surprise. Well, at the time, the surprise was that we were going to be moving back to Vegas. I was going to get a job selling toyotas. Right before I was to move, I got a job working for Summerhays Music. A local music store. My job is a Road Sales Rep. I go to local schools (over 30) and work with their band and orchestra teachers/students to get them good instruments and accessories and have them buy it from us.

Well, some of you know that we were expecting our 4th child in October. That was the 2nd big surprise. Well, we went in for a doctors appointment on the 17th of April and... no heartbeat. So Helen made the decision to have a D&C that afternoon. Basically it's a procedure where they vacuum everything out. Basically.

We were also trying to buy our first place. A townhouse in Payson (about 20 minutes south of Orem), 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, attached 2 car garage. Nice. So we left it to the bankers. All the loans we were offered would have left us with a mortgage of about $1000 a month... and... they were interest only. Now, $1000 a month is technically economically possible but... it would have been cutting things super tight. So, we decided to back out. Here's hoping we get our ernest money back.

Then today, Morgan was outside playing in our ash/soot from our tree/rubbish pile and burned herself. Fairly bad on her hands. She has second and possibly 1 3rd degree burn. IF one is a 3rd degree burn she'll have to get a skin graft and some physical therapy. We'll find out tomorrow how everything will look. She's fine. She cried for about an hour. They wrapped her up pretty good. Her arms look like Candycanes, with white gauze and red medical tape. She had pretty high spirits after we left the doctors. She got to pick some treats have some juice and we bought her, her very own ball. She was happy.

That leaves us with Ben's birthday party tomorrow. Cross your fingers that we can avoid any other tragedies.

We're ready to have April behind us and move on to an easier and happier may!

Not to be out done.

Ben also wanted a song for everyone to enjoy. This is only a portion of the song, in it's entirety it would take about 5 minutes. So... here's a 30 second clip!

Hope you love it!

P.S. that munching at the end is him eating the candy. Just so you know.

Ode by Josh

We've decided that as a way to be more consistant in our posting, we will have 2 new weekly/biweekly/monthly, we haven't picked which yet.

1. Songs by Josh
2. Story time with Ben

Songs will be just that. His favorite tunes sung just for you! Here's part one for your hearing pleasure. Imagine this for hours at a time!

Enjoy!

That's my sister!

Having kids tends to mean having MORE kids over at your house, when friends and their siblings come over. Such is the case as we have a family of 9 to our west and a family of 4 to our east. In total there are 8 kids between the ages of 3-9 between our 3 houses.

They come over frequently to play as we have the largest yard they can play in and a super long sloped drive way perfect for scooters, bikes and the like.

Ben's best-friend/girlfriend (while at home) is the 6 yr old neighbor girl, Krystal. She's always over and with her, comes her 3 year old brother, Dennis. Now, Dennis is infatuated with Morgan. He's always following her around, trying to touch her and stroke her hair. All perfectly harmless and cute.... unless you're Josh.

Well before I give you the whole story, lets talk about some family dynamics.

Morgan's relationship with Ben is totally loving. If she's in trouble, she goes to Ben. If she's watching tv, it's with Ben. Where ever he goes you're bound to see her 5 seconds later pushing her little legs to the max to keep up with him.

Not so with Josh. They fight and torment each other. Constantly. She provokes him mercilessly and of course he retaliates with swift ferocity.

So back to our story.

The other day Krystal and Dennis are over. Ben and Krystal are drawing on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk, Josh is pretending to be pirate and Morgan is trying to play by herself, then, there's Dennis. Preventing Morgan from playing to her pleasure as he ends up knocking her over and he unstably tries to touch her and pet her hair.

She's getting fed up. He's not stopping.

DUN DA DA DUM (superhero anthem)

Helen and I are alerted to trouble by the sounds of agitated voices.... well AN agitated voice. We look to the front yard to find Josh, inches from Dennis's face, with his finger extended, shouting.

"THAT'S MY SISTER!!" Technically, "Dat's my thister" with a hard "t" at the beginning.

Dennis was shocked, unprepared for this verbal assault he retreats to the safety of his older sister.

Josh, the victorious, goes back to being a pirate but careful to keep a vigilant eye on Dennis and his intentions towards his thister.