On Porter's first day back to day care from Park City he decided to do some dare devil stunts and jump off a dinosaur, and cut his head open. When they called me I was imagining the scene: blood spewing from his head, Porter in hysterics, Burk and I both with the help of 5 nurses holding him down while the doctor checked his head to even see if it needed to be stitched. I could not have been more wrong. I actually met Burk and the boys at the doctors office and Porter was not even crying. He had the ipod and was playing angry birds, patiently waiting his turn. When we went in Dr. Carl took one look at it and said no way could it be glued, it was going to have to be stitched. Porter held my hand and squeezed when it hurt but was determined not to cry. Dr Carl told him he was doing so good he had stitched adults who were bigger babies. Porter took pride in that, telling everyone he saw for 10 days "six stitches, zero tears and there are adults who can't do that". The next day the dinosaur became "extinct" at the day care. Porter's favorite teacher Mrs. Judy, was the one who was with him when the accident happened. She was so worried we would be upset. But in truth we were so thankful she was there to keep him calm until Burk could get there. I guess the life of boys and their many accidents has begun.Sunday, August 22, 2010
6 stitches, 0 tears...........................................
On Porter's first day back to day care from Park City he decided to do some dare devil stunts and jump off a dinosaur, and cut his head open. When they called me I was imagining the scene: blood spewing from his head, Porter in hysterics, Burk and I both with the help of 5 nurses holding him down while the doctor checked his head to even see if it needed to be stitched. I could not have been more wrong. I actually met Burk and the boys at the doctors office and Porter was not even crying. He had the ipod and was playing angry birds, patiently waiting his turn. When we went in Dr. Carl took one look at it and said no way could it be glued, it was going to have to be stitched. Porter held my hand and squeezed when it hurt but was determined not to cry. Dr Carl told him he was doing so good he had stitched adults who were bigger babies. Porter took pride in that, telling everyone he saw for 10 days "six stitches, zero tears and there are adults who can't do that". The next day the dinosaur became "extinct" at the day care. Porter's favorite teacher Mrs. Judy, was the one who was with him when the accident happened. She was so worried we would be upset. But in truth we were so thankful she was there to keep him calm until Burk could get there. I guess the life of boys and their many accidents has begun.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Do people really pay to use Hot Saunnas?
Upon arriving home from Park City we were greeted with this.
This picture was actually taken around 11 p.m. after at least an hour of every single window in the house being open and literally six oscillating fans and the ceiling fans had been running. When we got home the temp was 89. Keep in mind the temperature gauge is downstairs and our bedrooms are upstairs.
This is what we found when we took the front off the furnace. Yep, you guessed it. The white stuff is ice. Pure, solid ice. I seriously don't know how ANYTHING was frozen in our home that day.
Pops said we would have to thaw it out and then it would run and cool us down again. He gave us a good idea about blow drying it. Check out my straight out of the 80's blow dryer.
She may be old, but she did the trick. I really thought that poor blow dryer would blow up on us. I guess if she made it through all the years of helping me sport the Utah Claw the ice was nothing.
Apparently this is what a "healthy" furnace looks like. So I urge you all, please, please, clean your filters every once in a while. The filter actually said once a month but I find that excessive.
And if you go out of town for 4 days turn up the temp a few degrees. It was HOT lesson, but we learned it. Another fun thing about being a home owner. :)
This picture was actually taken around 11 p.m. after at least an hour of every single window in the house being open and literally six oscillating fans and the ceiling fans had been running. When we got home the temp was 89. Keep in mind the temperature gauge is downstairs and our bedrooms are upstairs.
This is what we found when we took the front off the furnace. Yep, you guessed it. The white stuff is ice. Pure, solid ice. I seriously don't know how ANYTHING was frozen in our home that day.
Pops said we would have to thaw it out and then it would run and cool us down again. He gave us a good idea about blow drying it. Check out my straight out of the 80's blow dryer.
She may be old, but she did the trick. I really thought that poor blow dryer would blow up on us. I guess if she made it through all the years of helping me sport the Utah Claw the ice was nothing.
Apparently this is what a "healthy" furnace looks like. So I urge you all, please, please, clean your filters every once in a while. The filter actually said once a month but I find that excessive.And if you go out of town for 4 days turn up the temp a few degrees. It was HOT lesson, but we learned it. Another fun thing about being a home owner. :)
Another pictureless post. BOOOOOO!!!
I know post without pics are lame but I want this memory to make it into our blog book.
The week of 24th of July Burk and I and the boys got to go stay in Park City in Grandpa Great's timeshare with papa and Boggy for a few nights. It is in Sweetwater lift lodge which is right at the mountain resort so we always walk up to the alpine slide and the chocolate factory (like every night). We spent a lot of time at the park playing with a giant frisbee disk. That thing was a riot. Porter talked Burk into mini golf on the dumbest course ever and the boys went on the coaster a few times. There was no alpine sliding as we have banned it since the "incident" last year. We spent lots of time in the pool, and Rebb had his first swimming experience. He was pretty cute with his fat round belly poking out over his swim trunks. Porter, Burk and Papa went fishing Wed. morning and Porter caught the first 8 fish. He had been itching to use his new pole Papa bought him for his birthday along with the super cool spiderman tackle box. It was such a chill couple of days and I enjoyed myself so much. I took the camera but didn't even get it out. (oopsy). I loved every second of down time with this great fam. I feel so lucky to have all of them. :)
The week of 24th of July Burk and I and the boys got to go stay in Park City in Grandpa Great's timeshare with papa and Boggy for a few nights. It is in Sweetwater lift lodge which is right at the mountain resort so we always walk up to the alpine slide and the chocolate factory (like every night). We spent a lot of time at the park playing with a giant frisbee disk. That thing was a riot. Porter talked Burk into mini golf on the dumbest course ever and the boys went on the coaster a few times. There was no alpine sliding as we have banned it since the "incident" last year. We spent lots of time in the pool, and Rebb had his first swimming experience. He was pretty cute with his fat round belly poking out over his swim trunks. Porter, Burk and Papa went fishing Wed. morning and Porter caught the first 8 fish. He had been itching to use his new pole Papa bought him for his birthday along with the super cool spiderman tackle box. It was such a chill couple of days and I enjoyed myself so much. I took the camera but didn't even get it out. (oopsy). I loved every second of down time with this great fam. I feel so lucky to have all of them. :)
Monday, August 2, 2010
Swim Day
Around Porter's birthday in June he started asking to go swimming and go on the water slides at Cherry Hills. Since Burk's company was closed on Friday the 23rd in honor of Pioneer day we thought it would be the perfect day. I took off work and Rebb went to daycare. We went early and got there just as it opened at 10:30 we got all sunscreened up and started the journey in Cardiac Canyon. Porter loved it. we went down a few times and then decided to try out pirates cove. In Pirates cove they have a baby slide which Burk went down and tore he crap out out of his hand on some lava rock. From there we hit the Lazy River. This was by far my favorite. After a while in Lazy River we decided to try the dragon slides (the original slides) and then back to Lazy River. We grabbed a quick bite of lunch and then back again to Lazy River. Every thing we went on Porter said was his favorite. He loved it all. I loved it too and would recommend a day like this to any family. (We got $10 off coupons at Wendy's) Although I have to admit I am not sure it was Cherry Hills I loved as much as spending a day with two of my boys. It was really nice to give Porter a day without Rebb, that was all about Porter. Aside from Burk and I both being crispie, (this is literally my first time ever in life to peel) and Burk being injured in the kiddie pool it was one of my best days. I will remember it forever. I hope the boys will too.
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