Let the count begin.

Last night was our first trip to the ER for stitches. Dallin fell into the bricks around our fireplace and split his forehead open. Nothing major, two hours at the ER and 5 stitches later he was good as new. I'm sure that this is the first of many visits and stitches. Tyler is nine and until now we have not had any broken bones or stitches (knock on wood). We have had one trip to the ER for a dislocated elbow, but that is it. I am just glad that it happened before we left town. Mitch and I leave tonight for a weekend getaway. My sis is watching all four of the kids for the weekend. Good luck Jess and Nate.

Family Pictures

My little sister has started doing photography. We went over to campus with her the other day and took some pictures. Not too bad. You will probably be seeing these again on our Christmas cards. Oh yeah, and she can take your pictures too.

Happy Halloween

This year we had Harry Potter, a cowgirl, a hula girl and Buzz Lightyear. It was the best weather on Halloween that we have seen in years. It was actually warm enough to trick-or-treat without jackets. All of the kids had Halloween parties at school and then we unleashed them on the neighborhood for the night. After trick-or-treating we drove around to a few friends houses to visit them. What a great year. Next year Dallin wants to be a giraffe and the girls want to be cheerleaders. Tyler is a last minute kind of guy. We see what they end up being after a year has pasted. Happy Halloween.

Soccer

So it has been a while since is posted last. This is just one of the reasons why. Mitch coached the girls varsity soccer team for one of the high schools here in town. He was pretty much M I A for the last two months. They had a great year and did really well. They were first in there region and made it to the semi-finals in the state tournament. Needless to say now our kids are all huge soccer fans. I think that they like hanging out with the soccer girls more that actually watching the game, but that's OK. We even scored a few babysitters. We enjoyed watching as many of the games that we could. The season was great, but we are glad to have Mitch back. Soccer started around the time that school started along with all of the kids activities. So with Mitch being so busy with soccer that meant that i was so busy with everything else. Now things have mellowed out and I actually have some free time on my hands to update my blog.

Happy Birthday Tyler

Tyler turned nine a few months ago. I can't believe that we have a nine year old. He had a great birthday. He opted not to have a friend birthday party so that he could get a really cool mountain bike. We had a fun family party together. Tyler is our little genius. He is incredibly smart and talented. He is currently taking piano lessons, wrestling and participating in cub scouts. He is always full of energy and keeps us on our toes. Some of his favorites are reading, riding his bike, playing sports, and video games. We love you Tyler and are so glad that you are in our family.