Jared's Almost Broken Thumb

Jared's brother, Chad, invited him to be apart of his rec league team for basketball in Idaho Falls. Jared was so excited. They play on Tuesday nights and so he typically has mutual and misses most of the games but one night, the game didn't start until 9:30 p.m. Plenty of time to make the game.

 

Jared excitedly left for his game....when he came home....he wasn't so excited anymore.

 

Can you tell which thumb is the hurt thumb?

How About now?

 

Jared is getting frustrated with how long it is taking to heal. The doctor told him it probably would have been better for him to have broken it but he just jammed/spranged it really bad!

 

I find him getting frustrated over the littlest things, like not being able to open a zip lock baggie, or play a game on his new phone, or suddenly Jordyn jumps on him and hits his hand. To top it off, he also just started coaching the 8th grade girls basketball team and so he has to show them stuff. Luckily, because it is his left hand and not his right hand, he is able to show the girls that shooting the proper way requires no left hand, no flip of the left thumb, nothing. 

Turning 31, not for the faint of heart!

I've been meaning to post about my birthday for a while now. I turned 31 and so Jared said that i am officially IN my 30's which means I really am old. You know what, I may be 31 but I feel better now then I did in my 20's. With being pregnant, or nursing, or taking care of a baby that woke up in the night, I feel like my 20's were not so great health wise, but now that I am 31 and I have been working out, lifting weights, and eating better, I feel so so so good!

 

The day of my birthday was pretty much like any other normal day. It was a Saturday, which meant doing Saturdays chores, harping on the kids to do their chores, and then just hanging out. Jared and I had tickets to go to the BYU football game but I had already promised my friend, Emily, that I would help her out at her ward's daddy daughter dinner night. She's way more important to me than a football game and so I sent Jared to the game with his parents and I stayed home. I had a lot of fun teaching the Cotton-eye-joe line dance and the Virginia Reel to a bunch of dads and their daughters, I would do it again! Thanks for letting me come Emily! Also my good friend, Cassidy, brought me over a ymmy slice of chocolate zuchinni cake that made me feel better about Jared leaving me. She sang to me along with her daughter, Ellie, so I didn't wollow in self pitty during the day.

 

Jared was feeling guilty that he wasn't going to be home on my birthday so he took me out the night before.  We went to dinner and then decided to play Frisbee golf. We were at the 3rd hole when we heard a voice, "Do you guys mind if I play through?" We located the voice to find a guy waiting. We happily waved him through. Then, he threw his Frisbee and it soared! I mean....really soared. We were going to let him just pass us and then he said, "let's go all together." So we did. He threw his Frisbee again and it flew way farther than what Jared's and mine had gone. I jokingly said under my breath, "Man!  We've got a professional with us." The man says over his shoulder, "Oh no, I'm retired now!" Jared and I started to laugh and then realized he was being serious. So, for the rest of our game, the man whose name we learned was Steve, taught us different tricks when throwing our Frisbees and let us use his specialized Frisbees meant for putting, long drives, slicing through trees and other such nonsense! It was fun to learn all about the exciting world of Frisbee golf. Thanks to Chad and Dez for babysitting for us so we could go out!

 

But, the real birthday happened two weeks later. Jared's parents got all of their kids and spouses tickets to go see Les Miserables for all our birthdays. We traveled to Boise and watched an amazing production of the show. We stayed with some friends of Jared's, Jane and Ryan Olsen, and then returned home the next day. It was such a fun little weekend getaway. Thanks to Mom and Dad Heath for the tickets, to the Olsens for giving us a place to stay, and also to my sister, Sharon, for babysitting my kids so that Jared and I could get away without having to worry about our kids!

 

31 AIN'T SO BAD!
 I think my 30's are going to be great for me!

Cuts and Perms

We got to go to Nancy's, my sweet youngest sister's, school and get our hair done. Nancy is going to Paul Mitchell's school for hair and she is loving it. Last week the last week of classes and now she gets to practice what she has learned.

 

I've been wanting to get Mackenzie's hair permed for a while now because she likes to keep in down and by the end of the day she looks pretty scraggelly. So I set up an appointment with Nancy and got it done.

 

Here Nancy is prepping Kenzie for a nice hair washing.

 

 Alexis came with us too and got her hair cut by Nancy's friend, Danica. She has a cute little friend in her class at school that got a bob done and she wanted one just like little Sammy.

 Nancy putting the perm curlers in.

 Kenzie with her hair all done in the curlers and Lexie's finished haircuts.

I'll show a finished picture of Kenzie in a few days. We have to wait a few days to wash and really style it so her hair won't be ready for shoing till Sunday.

 

Thank you so much Nancy for letting us come, we had a really fun time and are so glad that we got to see you. It's really too far and few between that we get to see eachother!!

Cute Jordyn

 

This little girl has been a real joy!

 When we ask her her name she responds, "Jordyn Princess."

 She hears people call Jared and Me by our first names and so she copy's it but then adds our parental name...IE: "Jared Daddy," and "Courtney Mommy."

 If we call the kids for dinner, Jordy follows suite, yelling after us all the kid's names.

She uses the phrase, "I tired, " for everything. If she get's in trouble, she starts crying and then say's, "I tired, " and runs up to her room. If we ask her to clean something, she states, "I tired," and refuses to help.

 

She is so silly, I really am enjoying this stage with her since I never got to really enjoy this stage with any of my other kids cause I had a new baby by this point.

Life is good!

Spud Harvest



Normally for spud harvest we try to leave on a vacation but this year we spent our money on our kitchen. So with two weeks off of school and no where to go, Jared was asked to drive truck for farmer in our ward. Knowing it would bring in some extra cash, he accepted.

 

Jared drove the potato truck while the digger (the green truck) followes along just behind him and pulls up the potatoes along a conveyor belt and slowly drops them into Jared's truck. It can be a tricky job moving down a row together but interesting as well.

 The Cross Over, the orange truck,  digs up a few rows of potatoes at a time and lays them all in a path for the digger to follow along and more easily pick up potatoes. The whole process is fascinating and since it all occurred just behind my backyard, I got to watch the whole thing. The kids got an even closer look as they each took turns going with Jared in his truck for the day.

 After the trucks are all done, we can go in and glean the fields of the left over potatoes that didn't get picked up. There are tons of them left in the field.

 

Here, Jordyn and her little friend, Ellie, are finding potatoes. As you can see, there are a lot still lieing on the ground.

 Lexie is hamming it up, and Mackenzie is showing off the big potato she found.

 Our friends the Marshall's came and gleaned too. They are from St. George and had never even heard of gleaning a potato field before. They were super excited to experience gleaning and get fresh potatoes for free.

 

Here Cassidy and Elijah enjoy picking potatoes.

 Now Shawn was downright giddy! He just made me laugh with his excitement over how many potatoes there were!

I'll be enjoying fried, baked, and mashed potatoes for a while!

The Dentist and the Hives

Jordyn had her first official dentist appointment today. She's gone to the dentist in the past but he's just kind of opened up her mouth, looked for obvious problems or issues and then let her go. This time, Jordyn got her teeth cleaned and polished and painted with a protecting seal. She kept say "no" to every question asked of her even if the real answer was "yes". She made the doctor laugh with her "No's". She didn't cry for the female hygienist but she cried a lot for Dr. Carpenter, until he bribed her with his Dentist tools. Overall, I think Jordyn did really well and she made people laugh!

 On a different note, poor Eli got the hives from who know what! He really got it bad but these pictures don't do it justice. He had spots everywhere.

 Eli just so happened to have a Dr. Appointment the very next day...(convenient!) so they checked him over. He was not contagious in any way and this was purely just an allergic reaction. To what, we don't know, but the doctor said that a lot of people have  been having allergy problems due to the large amount of smoke in the air from all the fires. So he stayed home from school but told that he could go back the next day and that the hives might flare up for two weeks but that he is fine.

 I sent Eli to school the next day and called to tell the teacher about him. She didn't answer her phone so I left a message saying that it was just an allergic reaction to something and he is not in any way contagious.

Well...there was a sub that day and so she never got my message and calls me at the end of the day very concerned. I explained to her  what I had called about and she asked me what he ate. I told her that he didn't have anything out the the ordinary from what he usually eats. She said that the kid's snack the day before was peanut butter cookies. I said if Eli had been at school the day before then that would be very helpful but that I kept him home because he already had the hives and I had taken him to the doctors office that same day.

So, he if fine now. It was a big hula balloo at school with people thinking it was chicken pox but it was just HIVES! (Get off my back already! Gosh!)