50th Birthday

This afternoon we had Aunt Lisa's 50th birthday party! 

 Ryleigh was totally into the party. She was decorating everything and was serving everyone their drinks. She was getting so mad at Brandon and Wesley because they weren't taking the decorating serious and they weren't doing exactly what she told them too.

 My little Tball player. I have to write a whole different post about his game and how well he played.

 Happy Birthday Aunt Lisa!! Here's to 50 more birthday's! We appreciate you so much and love you!!!

 And FYI don't mess with Mom. She has a knife and she isn't afraid to use it!!

Jump Jump!

We had Ryleigh and Tanner's birthday party Saturday night at Jumps A Lot. I don't know how much longer I'll get away with joint birthday parties for the 2 of them but man I love it! It's nice to just get it out of the way. It's also nice to not take up 2 of peoples Saturdays in a short amount of time. We had a great turn out we had over 30 kids and a ton of grown ups. My kids are so blessed to be loved by so many people! Thank you to everyone who came and celebrated with us!

This is what happens when you give the camera to Whitney and ask her to take pictures. Be thankful Aunt Lisa that I didn't include the one she took of you eating! :)

She was very excited about her sewing machine from Gi Gi! Tanner was most excited about his new DS from Mi Mi, La La, Aunt Tammy & Uncle Jimmy and Nana & Paw Paw.

After the party they each got to ask 3 friends to spend the night...so a total of 8 kids at my house. CRAZY!!! The nice thing was that the party wasn't over until 9 so we didn't get home until 10. We played Red Rover, Duck Duck Goose, Freeze tag and hide and go seek outside until like 11:30 then they all came in and crashed. We wore them out!!

Happy Birthday to my 2 favorite kids!

Birthday Party

Book Parade

Every year ABC has a book parade. The kids have to dress up as a character from a book. In past years Ry has gone as Fancy Nancy and a Zebra and Tanner has gone as a Pirate. This week was crazy (which is the way all of our weeks seem to be lately) so at the last minute he decided to go as Spiderman. 

Thankfully we found a spiderman book in his room that was only 4 pages long. It was one of those thick board books. The school discourages people from coming as cartoon type characters (they specify Disney) because they try to read all the books that day and those books tend to be long. I think we were ok though since it was shorter...hopefully!

I'm sure Mrs. Carter loved the fact that I let him take the string shooter thing too, lol! It was a battle I wasn't fighting! 

Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday to the best mom in the world!! I love you so much!! 

Late last night when they got home from out to dinner and we got done with Tball practice we went over in our pajamas to celebrate with cupcakes! I hope you had a great birthday mom!!

Tanner Update

Tanner went to the doctor on Wednesday for his surgery. He did really well. We had to give him some medicine a hour before we left that made him really really sleepy. He fell asleep in the car on the way there and  woke up for a minute when we got there. We were able to love on him for a few minutes when we got there. The procedure was only suppose to last about a hour but ended up lasting almost 3.

Everyone who knows me knows that I LOVE my kids, however I am not overly sentimental or clingy. I rarely cry or get upset but when he came out of that room his hair was all messed up, his face was swollen, his eyes were blood red, basically he looked awful. When our eyes met we both just started sobbing. He looked so pitiful and it just broke my heart. It was so sad. All he wanted was for me to hold him. (Which made me fell really good because he normally only wants Ryan when he's hurt.)

Fast forward to Wednesday night and he was fine. He now has a back silver tooth and LOVES it!! He shows anyone who will take a few seconds to see it. He said his best friend Landon was going to be soooooo jealous that he doesn't have a silver tooth! He called Whitney and made her come over and see it as well. When him and Ryan went to Academy, they were checking out and Tanner said "Dad tell her (the cashier) what I have." Ryan said what are you talking about?? Tanner said you know Dad my silver tooth!

I'm just thankful the silver tooth will fall out soon enough. But in the meantime I'm thankful that he loves it and he thinks he's a robot! :)

Dentist Visit

All weekend Tanner had been complaining that his tooth was hurting. He's not much of a complainer unless it's a school morning. Then he pulls out the big guns and goes down the list of his aliments until he finds one that may be an acceptable reason to miss school. (They never are acceptable though :) I actually kinda feel bad for him because Ryleigh got to miss a lot more school than he did. Since K4 doesn't really count we were all about not making them go on Fridays or missing Mondays to sleep late. Now that she's in real school we can't do that so unfortunately since she's getting up for school we make him too. It's not like he couldn't use a little extra school in his life. Bless his heart. But anyway back to his tooth.

We got some orajel to make it through the weekend until we could get a dentist appt on Monday. Ryan took off work to take them. I had the busiest day of my working career. Well he texted me to call him and I wrote back real quick, Cavities? He said call me. That kinda freaked me out because he knew how busy I was and that it would be an act of Congress to call.

When I called he said Bad news- Ryleigh has 2 cavities and Tan Man has 4-well that is bad news but not news worth calling about. In my mind that could have been texted and then discussed last night at home. Then he continued...

Tanner has severe nerve damage in his gums and will need oral surgery to correct it. He also needs a crown on one of his teeth. I felt so bad for him and I was so mad! They have great teeth and have never had any cavities! Ryan thought the same thing and he asked the doctor what he thought was up with that. (We kinda know the dentist through some good friends of ours) As they were talking somehow it came out that we have well water. Yes, we live in the middle of no where. We are pioneers! According to the dentist since we have well water we don't have fluoride. It's an added chemical in city water. Because of this the kids are prone to cavities.

So on Wednesday morning my sweet little boy is having surgery. It's at 8:30 in the morning. It's not considered a big deal by the oral surgeon but to me it is a big deal. Please say a prayer for him. He's being a trooper! I may or may not have promised to buy him all of Academy if he did good...guess I need to win the lottery to make good on my promise!