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!!

June already?

I think I posted once in May, now that is sad.
We have been busy with all kinds of fun things.
The kids are out of school and hip, hip hooray for no more schedules. Well kind of, we still have scouts, piano, Alivia has 2 volleyball camps she will be going to, Cooper is doing community ed karate, Bauer is signed up for a pottery class. I am doing a new work out routine CrossFit and it has been kicking my butt!

We went boating this last weekend and are learning more and more. We took the family up to Deer Creek and reserved a camping spot it was fun and HOT. The kids when on the thunder tube and had a blast the water is still only 60 degrees and Ben was in heaven being able to fish all day if he wants to which he did on Friday from 7am to 10 pm with a one hour break to come and refill his cooler and get some snacks.
Ben is off to Denver this week for a meeting? He then comes back and has to do a few overnight shifts for inventory.
We are planning another camping trip over Father's day and are still deciding where to go. We are thinking Yuba (I grew up on that lake) or Flaming Gorge which I am not as familiar.
I am working quite a bit in June, I want to surplus my bank account for school clothes and preschool fees.
All is well though, I still do my "stand ups" and they treat me well for the most part some days I come home and I am a zombie the rest of the day.

We got the pool set up and it is finally warming up, it is only going to be 97 degrees today? yowza!

Happy Birthday Bauer!

 Happy Birthday to the B-boy! our sweet little guy that loves kindergarten. His birthday was on the 8th and so  I am a little late. He did have a pretty cool birthday in Florida though. Bauer is the easy going one of the group, he loves to play outside, watch movies, play dress up, super heroes, swim, play with his friends, Gentry, Dallin and Avery. He has a little friend in his class that is a girl he really likes to talk about her name is Ruby and she lives in our ward. He loves to eat fruit, bananas, apples, oranges, he loves vanilla yogurt, peanut butter and honey sandwiches. He loves to have popcorn and chocolate milk on Sunday's. He loves Hulk and Iron Man. He is our early riser and the one who always falls asleep in the car. He has the sweetest cry, it still rips my heart out when he cries! He plays really well with Kessler and is currently so excited to go to school next week and have school lunch.

Florida 4-9.2012

 This trip to southern Florida, Miami beach specifically was fun, I said today one visit is enough. I didn't fall in love like I did in Hawaii.

Alivia our expert resident on toad and lizard catching, she was hunting as much as she was swimming.

 Not a really interesting picture, but one thing about Miami, is you have to pay FOR EVERYTHING, parking, driving on the roads, getting into places. I thought to myself this city must make a lot of money on all of us and I wasn't sure where it all went, it seemed to be one of the "dirtier" cities, don't get me wrong it was beautiful but frustrating sometimes!

 One thing we did the memory is forever ingrained in my brain was a trip to Key largo. Our original plan was to go to Key West. The drive was a little to long so we stopped at the first Key.

There were so many positives including the drive and the scenery. I loved going there so much! we took the kids to a place that is the first and only underwater state park. We took a boat ride through the waterways in the keys, THAT was awesome the wildlife was so COOL! All kids got out of the boat and snorkeled. 

 The key largo pics are at the bottom, Kessler tried to look through his goggles and see the fish, but the saltwater was too much to handle so he just floated around in the ocean I was surprised he did so well.

Bauer got really cold and wanted to get out after about 35-40 minutes and then Alivia, Cooper lasted the whole time and did so well wearing the flippers, goggles and snorkel. He loved the fish, he favorite the barracuda, because it was big and it looked mean.....

 Sorry for the blurry pic! the worst mistake I made was I forgot my tripod, I knew I would need it and then didn't bring it.

 The many frogs!

 One scary moment we had, was Cooper was out riding the waves on a a boogie board and long story short, he was out swimming and playing and kept getting a bit farther and farther, we weren't too worried because there was a nice sand bar to protect the kids from the big waves but he got just left of the sand bar and got pulled out by the rip-current. He LUCKILY had his board and was hanging onto it, but kept going under and coming back up, I asked him if he was scared he said he was just trying to swim and he said I couldn't go anywhere. I knew right away when he went under the first time he was in trouble and started FREAKING OUT!! Ben calmly gets up and wades out into the water, then I see lifeguards racing down the beach on their ATV's just about to jump in the water and go get Cooper, it was then I thought I was going to pass out. I got really sick to my stomach and felt really light headed. He made it back safe, didn't seem too scared.  I think he then got scared he could tell I was upset.

 There were these amazing water ways in the keys, it was like a maze getting out into the open water.

 A little nap before a swim in the ocean.

 On top of the boat. After our swim.

 The reef was called Grecian Rocks.

 Ben and Cooper.

 Our last night there, some evening showers made for a beautiful rainbows!

 I love this picture of Cooper, it cracks me up every time I look at it.

 I tried to mimic it with Bauer, he couldn't do the same expression.

So all in all Miami was a success. It was really nice to get to know the city and see they amazing architecture, scenery, people, water, boats, mansions and yachts.

back to life now, loads of laundry, grocery shopping, cleaning the house, finishing all the homework we didn't finish on vacation oh and YARDWORK! major weeds.....sigh........  I am SO glad to be sleeping in my own bed, that is one thing the hotel really lacked was a nice bed. My back is killing me! 

Now to start planning the next vacation......:) ok maybe not for a few months......