Cotton Candy for Dinner

Last weekend Tanner and Landon went to Bryce Canyon for youth conference. Chloe, Bryce, and I decided to have a little bit of fun at home. I came down with a pretty horrible cold that weekend, so we kept it pretty low key. Also Chloe had a referee certification Friday night and most of Saturday, so we had to kind of plan around that.

Anyways Friday night we went to dinner at Golden Corral. We invited Great-Grandma and she came as well. I let the kids chose where we went and that is were they chose, because they wanted cotton candy!

Saturday night we went to the movies. We went to see the Lego Batman Movie. It was pretty funny and all Bryce wanted to do for days after was watch the movie trailers for it. Of course he got his mandatory movie theater cotton candy (they are addicted) and wanted a picture with it. ;)

It was fun sending time with these two crazies even though I was feeling pretty horrible,

Happy Birthday to Me

Last week I turned 35 years old-I'm halfway to 70 now-LOL. We didn't do anything to exciting, but the whole family did go out to dinner at Durangos. Tanner whipped me up a jello no bake cheesecake for desert and we had that instead of cake. It was delicious! I'm just glad I got to spend the day with my family and that I didn't have to cook dinner :)

Hair Do's

Bryce and I got haircuts. Chloe got some blond highlights added and a little trim. Bryce wanted his hair spiky so we went with the old faux hawk. He is so funny he makes sure throughout the day that it is still spiky-haha!

Quilt 23

Quilt #22 was the ninja turtle quilt Bryce got for his birthday. It was a joint effort between my Grandma and me. It seriously is so cute and also nice an cozy and warm. It is one of the nicest quilts I've made, and as you can tell from the pictures, it gets lots of good use and goes most everywhere with us.

I forgot to mention...

I think I forgot to mention that after having it out of commission and in the shop for about a month I finally have my car back and it is so nice. I truly am grateful that we each have our own vehicle to drive and how nice it is to have a nice reliable vehicle to drive around. 

Enterprise Tournament

Last weekend we traveled to Enterprise for a basketball tournament. Chloe had three games and only 7 players from her teams normal 12 going, so that meant she played a lot. Two of the games she didn't sit out at all. The other game she sat out some but still played for over half of it. By the time they were all over her feet and legs hurt so bad, and they hurt her for days afterwards. She was 100% on her foul shots, and made several baskets in each game. Chloe's shot is really coming along and she is starting to make more shots and also being better about taking them. Her defense is getting better and better each game. I love watching her play...basketball is my favorite-probably because I played it when I was younger.

Bryce is a good sport as he is dragged around to tournaments and ball games as long as we have the proper supplies and lots of snacks.

We had a couple of hours to waste between the first game and the second and third, so we hit up the local diner. Bryce loved his "pig" pancake and ate the entire thing. Just for the record I did spill my hot chocolate at breakfast and it went everywhere, so the nice waitress moved us to another booth. 

 Fun day out with the family. On the way home Bryce and Chloe both fell fast asleep.

Tooth Trouble

A few months ago when visiting the dentist we found out that Bryce had some cavities and stuff caused from a couple of his baby teeth that didn't develop well and which were essentially falling apart and causing lots of problems in his mouth. We didn't really know how bad it was until we took him into the pediatric dentist and they were able to get a good look and tell us that he was going to need some pretty extensive work done and this would require at least partial sedation. We set up the appointment and took him in. He ended up have four root canals, 2 cavities filled, and 7 crowns put on. It was a mess. He did so well through the procedure though and pretty much slept through the whole thing with the combination of the medicine they gave him and laughing gas. I'm so grateful for that cause I don't know how he would have sat through it otherwise. Poor little guy! I feel so bad, but really I had not clue they were that bad or what was even going on. The dentist said so many factors could have caused them to develop this way, hopefully his adult teeth will be better. This was definitely a first for us neither of our older kids have ever had a root canal or a crown put on. They each might have a time or two had a small cavity that needed to be filled, but that was it. It was something I hope to never go through again. The pocketbook felt it to as our portion after insurance for this procedure was $900-ouch.

After it was all over I stopped for some dippin dots and "paw patrol" as a reward for being so brave.

When we got home great grandma showed up with some balloons and activities. One of the balloons was one that said your #1. He asked why she had given him a #1 balloon cause he was #4. I told him that #1 didn't mean how old he was but that he was really awesome or really good at something. He thought about it for a minute and said "oh I guess I'm #1 at painting." LOL

My cousin and her little girl brought Bryce a shake. He really wanted to drink it, but his mouth was so numb he couldn't suck it out of the straw. It was the saddest thing he finally fell asleep and I put it in the freezer until he woke up and then he was able to drink it.

 Hopefully he will be feeling lots better now, and we won't need to visit the dentist for more than annual cleanings for a good long time.