Mermaid potion?

I came home from work the other day and I sat down to check my email and I pull up the screen and the screen is on You tube with the title " Mermaid Potion". I read a little bit and watch some of the video there are a few girls talking about how to make a potion to become a mermaid, and then I notice on the left of the computer table is a little cup with some cloudy water and a sea shell in it. I didn't think any thing of it at the time. 

Later on Alivia told me how she tried to make a mermaid potion and that it tasted really bad and it didn't work.....;) (salt water was the main solution)

Cooper has started Karate and I love having him in it . The instructors are amazing and I really love the lessons they teach and the topics they cover. Cooper loves it and has been doing so great in it.

Also my little Cooper has started some medication for ADD it was SUPER depressing and I almost started bawling in the pediatricians office when he said just looking at the paper work that we had worked on (to help diagnose him) just looking at the paperwork he said he would treat this child for ADD. I even have a hard time saying that he has it, I think I am in denial for many reasons other than I don't want something to be "wrong" with him..... I know, I know I have had all the talks of how he will do better etc....... but still I was hoping it was just immaturity or just his personality? My main concern is that it would change him, my sweet, happy, energetic, imaginative little boy will be different on meds.  He was and is sadly, he is a little more calm? (don't get me wrong) but he acts tired. It concern me that the medication might be for more of the Hyper active part? we'll see this is the trial period we are working through to get the dosing right so he doesn't have to do this during school. I didn't even tell him what the medication was for until we were at the pediatricians office and the pediatrician told him for me. He still doesn't get it, the test will be in school to see if he can get his grades up and not feel so overwhelmed all of the time.

Summer has been FABULOUS, our recent trip was to Flaming Gorge over by Vernal Utah, the lake straddles Utah and Wyoming. We packed up our entire house (almost, really feels like it anyway) and headed of the a lake neither one of us was familiar with. We stayed at a camp ground that was boat in only and to say the least it was AWESOME (once we found it) . The camp host was so nice and friendly and lived on a house boat there, he road his 4 wheeler around camp all day and helped pack some of our stuff the the top of the campsite which was pretty steep on the lake side.

 

When we got there we set up our stuff and it was dusk and so we just fished off the dock that was assigned to our camp site. In the first 30 minutes they had caught 4 fish. We caught 2 at Deer Creek in 4 days. It was so fun at one point Bauer said "Mom I want to fish, but I wan't to play too" he stayed and fished. They had a great time and loved the nights around the campfire. We taught them how to play charades it was so comical Kessler did the same action for a fish, monkey, mail man, the kids cracked up laughing because you never ever could guess what his word was.

 Love these series of photos, he caught his first fish and wasn't sure about holding it for the picture. He slowly overcame the slimy texture and thought it was awesome.

 Getting warm after she tried the thunder tube and the knee board, she had a major meltdown because knee boards take some balance and she wigged out and tipped over in the water (60 degrees...freezing). Also Bauer was just sitting off the tube by the dock and it tipped over and he was so stunned by the water temperature he couldn't get any words out only groaned short little grunts and then when he caught his breath started crying.

 Cooper was the same as Kessler didn't like the feeling of the fish but after a while liked the photo and smiled when I told him too:)

 The fish of the day went to Alivia she caught the fish of the weekend about 18 inches and was pretty stoked that she beat out her brothers. Overall is was a great weekend other than some trailer troubles we had today, we were going to drop off the trailer at my moms (where we are storing it) but had to keep it here to fix the trailer this week hopefully easy fix, it should be but who knows?

This week on the calendar....
-Scout day camp for Cooper
-Volleyball camp (Mon, Tues, Wed) for Alivia
-Crossfitt for Andrea (first few days my legs are not sore, that will all change tomorrow)
- Medication follow up for Cooper
-and just plain ol fun with all the fun neighbor friends!!