Happy Father's Day

It has been a pretty scarey week. Sunday night my aunt had a severe arrithmya and they had to shock her to get her back into sinus rythm. She was improving and getting stronger, but today she began to have some difficulty breathing. So they took her for a CT scan and they found out she has a spot of pnuemonia in one lung so they have postponed heart surgery until next Monday. How she got pnuemonia when she has been on antibiotics for 14 days is beyond me. Hopefully they will be able to do surgery on Monday so that we can get her on the road to recovery! I will be flying next week to CA to help my aunt & uncle when she comes home from the hospital.


My mom's arm is recovering well, they removed her stitches yesterday and she is feeling better.



Emily & Ethan are good. We had another swim meet last Saturday and they did awesome! They both earned speeding tickets for improving their times on different races. They can't wait to spend their speeding ticket "money" at the snack bar this Saturday. I didn't have my camera at the swim meet, but took some on my friend Deana's camera, I will post some when I get them.



We did have a nice day with Ted on Father's Day, here is a picture of the three of them. They are growing so fast, it seems like yesterday we were celebrating Father's Day for the first time and Emily was only 11 months old. Now she is almost 9 years old and Ethan is 7. How time flies!
We took some time on Father's Day to talk about what we value about Ted, it was nice to share those thoughts and how important he is to us.

(yes that is a beard on Ted and yes it is very grey)

Well, that's all for now!

First swim meet

Last Saturday, June 9th, was Emily & Ethan's first swim meet. They are a part of the Holly Park Sharks. They were so excited for their meet. We were at the pool at 6:30am and we were done about 2:30pm. It was a long day! The weather was nice for the meet, in the mid 80's.

The kids did really well. I snapped this picture at the pool while we watched the other kids swim.

Emily swimming backstroke

Emily swam, a freestyle relay (they came in first place) a medly relay (she swam back stroke (her best stroke) and they came in first place, she swam25 meter freestyle and tied for 4th place; a 25 meter Butterfly and came in 2nd place, and a 25 meter Breast stroke, she was Disqualified for that one (she didn't do the stroke exactly right, she is still learning this one).

Ethan swam a 25 meter freestyle and a 25 meter backstroke. He is still working on his, he improved his time on his backstroke by 10 seconds! He did really good.

We got lots of sun at the meet, not to much burn, just a little pink. Ethan actually has a tan line, I don't think he has ever had one before.

Today Lori & Jordyn arrived to spend the week at our house. Paul & Ryan are at Youth Camp, at camp Cedar Ridge (near Delta, CO). Emily is very happy to have Jordyn here. Jordyn is excited to take a bath at Aunt Kathy's house. (She only has a shower at her house).

Well, that is all for now.

What a week

Well, what a week it has been around here. On Monday my Aunt was taken by ambulance to the hospital. She has a blood infection and a leaky heart valve. They are trying to get the infection cleared up so that they can either repair or replace the leaky valve. She is in great spirits. The kids sent her some email messages and we took pictures to send to her. Uncle Dick printed them and she has them at the hospital with her.

On thursday my mom flew to Stephensville, Texas to attend a family reunion with on of Bob's cousins. This morning she called to let me know that she was in the hospital. She had been taken by ambulance late last night, she had fallen out of bed and broke her arm. She will be having surgery today, Friday between noon - 1pm to put a pin in her arm.

What a week it has been!

I know that God is faithful and He has both of these special women in my life in His hands! But, it sure stinks to live far away and not be able to be near either of them.

I will update later.

Welcome

Hi there,

I thought it might be fun to start a blog. That way I can post happenings in our family and pictures for all our family & friends to keep up on our busy lives! The kids had me take a picture of them to send to Auntie Jo yesterday, this is a recent one of them. They are growing fast! It is hard to believe that Emily will be 9 in a month!

It is the start of summer, the kids have been out of school for about 2 weeks now. We have started swim team and baseball.

Last Saturday was Emily & her best friend Julia's dance recital. The recital was wonderful! Every dance was so fun to watch. Emily did a great job and had a lot of fun! Here is a picture of Emily & Julia after the recital was over.

Emily was in 2 dances, the first dance was a tap dance to the song, Shuffle off to Buffalo. Her second dance was ballet to Hard Knock Life from Annie. That is what the bandana was from. Both dances were very cute.

Emily attended a volleyball camp this week at Littleton High School with Julia & Jessica. The girls had a great time!

This week Ethan started Baseball. He is on the Cub's. He got his hat and t-shirt this week. I haven't gotten any pictures yet. I will add them soon.

The kids have been swimming too. They have their first swim meet this Saturday, we have to be at the pool at 6:30am. It is an early day! They are both looking forward to the meet.

Not much new for Ted or I, just busy running the kids from place to place! That is enough right now!

Well, we will write more soon.