Toothless

     Luke lost tooth tooth number 5 on Sept 9, 2011.

      He looked like a true hockey player for a few days until he lost the 2nd top tooth on Sept 14, 2011 the day before his birthday!

Blake Verses the Hardwood Floor

Saturday Sept 10 Blake fell off the couch and hit his 2 front teeth on the hardwood floor. He hit them so hard that one tooth went back. He didn't cry much, just for a few minutes.
I noticed later that day that his tooth was inward, figured it had to be because of him falling.
Well a week and a half after his tooth started turning gray. I called the dentist and they wanted to see him. They did x-rays and the nerve is dislocated but not fractured which is good. He wants to watch the tooth, it can do one of three things, stay the same, get worse or get better. He goes back in 4 weeks.

In this picture you can see the color difference but it looks yellow, that is because of my cell phone flash, the tooth is grayish.

Labor Day Weekend

Both boys were in hockey tournaments. Kyle played in Anaheim and Westminster and Luke was at our home rink in Ontario.
They both played Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Luke won all his games except 1 and Kyle lost all his. Early bird tournaments like this are good because it gives the teams practice on playing together for the new season.

Summer.........

Is nothing but a memory now.. Oh how I hate to see my kiddos go back to school and for summer to be over.  It makes me so sad.
August 29, 2011 was the day, Brittney headed off to start her senior year in high school.

Kyle started his 6th grade and last year of Elementary school. He got Mr. Mann as his teacher and so far likes him!

Luke started his 1st grade year and this is his 1st year being gone all day. His teacher is Mrs. Hanlon and we love her! He is loving the all day at school!

Of course Kyle didnt wanting me walking him to his class and Luke said I could only walk him the 1st day :(.

It makes for long days when 3 of them are gone all day, Brittney gets out at 1:20 since she is a senior, works out great, I can still give Blake a nap and not have to wake him to go get the boys because she is home.

Blake asks about 10 times a day "BOYS?" he misses them!

We (well at least I am) are on the count down to summer 2012!!!

Mean Bee's...

This is a little out of order, but I realized I hadn't written about this and this is something I want to remember.

The day G's dad passed away the kids and I went to the beach. At the end of the day Blake got stung by a bee on his left upper arm. He didn't cry long and the sting was a little red the next day but nothing major.
Exactly one week later he was playing outside and got stung on his right index finger. He cried and cried. He soaked it in vinegar and meat tenderizer. The next day he ran a fever all day and his hand was red and swollen, it went up onto his arm. This was 8 days after the first bee sting that was now completely gone. Well on day 11 the first bee sting swelled up and was red! I talked to my Dr about it and she is pretty sure with the fever and the delayed reaction on the 1st sting that Blake will be allergic to bees. So she prescribed him an epi pen (jr).
He still will point to the 2 areas that he got stung and say "owwee bee".

Night out with friends..

Turns scary......

My good friend Sonia who moved to Washington back in May 2010 but we are blessed that she and her family come back about 3 times a year.
We have our spot we always go to dinner, whether it be for a birthday or just because. Its called RA Sushi. We went back in may and of course had a blast, but in the middle of the night that night I woke up with a horrible burning in my throat and having trouble breathing. I chalked it up to bad heartburn, went and took tums and drank some milk, still having trouble breathing I sat next to the open window trying to take in the cool air. I feel back asleep about 30 mins later and never thought another thing about it until August 23 when we went out to enjoy time with our friend Sonia...
We always seem to order the same stuff, a bunch of stuff and all share. We had been done eating for about an hour when I felt my throat start feeling funny. I felt like I needed something cold, so i kept drinking my ice water, well it wasn't helping so I went and got a pink berry (ice cream of some sort) that made my throat feel better but now I was having  a hard time taking deep breathes. I didn't even think of an allergic reaction to something I had eaten, I mean we have eaten sushi and at RA a million times. We went home and I was up all night trying to get this to stop. Wednesday I went and got my hair done and was still having trouble taking deep breathes it lasted all day, come about 6 p.m. I was not having trouble swallowing, so I was gargling salt water every 2 minutes it seemed to help for about 30 seconds. G came home from hockey practice with the boys and I was trying to sleep, but couldn't breathe and couldn't swallow, I started pacing the house, going outside, just trying to get air, went back to bed, got up, went outside, walked around, it was getting worse, finally G came down the stairs and said get dressed were going to the ER. I am so thankful he made the call on that, I don't know if I would have woke him and told him to take me and who knows what would have happened if I would have waited.
We got to the hospital and they took me right back and did my vitals, Dr came right in and looked me over, they immediately started oxygen and a IV.

They put in about 4 different meds in the IV, then did a eprephin (epi pen) shot and a breathing treatment. They monitored me closely for hours. I was feeling a lot better! They told me to go get allergy tested to find out what I am allergic too. They said if I wouldn't have come in when I did it would have been really bad and that the next time I am exposed to whatever it is I am allergic to it could kill me as fast as it took my breathe away.
I went in to see my regular Dr who did a intense blood allergy test that takes 3 weeks for the  results. She prescribed me a epi pen shot to have with me at all times. We should know the results in about a week.
It was the worst thing I have ever experienced in my entire life! I now have a deep compassion to those who suffer from anxiety and feel like they cant breathe or are drowning.

BON FIRE!!

Saturday August 23, 2011

G got up at his normal (4:30 a.m) time he does Monday through Friday to head down to our favorite beach to save us a bon fire pit! My good friend and I have been talking about doing this all summer and this was the last weekend we could do it! He thought I was crazy when I told him that the pits are gone by 6:30.
He got there at 5:35 and was the 10th person in line waiting for them to open the beach. He called me at 7 and said "you weren't kidding, this is crazy, every pit is taken".
The boys and I meet him there around 11 (Brittney had gone to Lake Havasu with her best friend for the weekend, so she wasn't with us). Our friends got there around 1 due to having to hike it down since the parking lot was already full. Then we had another family join us around 4.

I thought this guys tattoos were very interesting.... He has a bar code on his side!? Who and were is going to be scanned?

    Luke learned to boggy board that day! He loved it!

We played in the sun, sand and water until about 7 and then the guys got the pit going while us mommy's cleaned the kids up and got them into dry clothes.

We roasted hot dogs for dinner, they sure were good! Then of course we did s'mores later.

I was excited to be able to be at the beach for the sunset and to get some pictures of the sun setting! I love the beach and love the sunset on the beach!

This is NOT our yellow tent! We are the blue easy up directly in the picture

 Blake found a balloon that was left from one of the many Birthday parties that day, he had so much fun with it!

 The kids had so much fun, they got to play on the life guard stand and thought that was really cool!

It was a fun way to end the summer! We were all so appreciative to G for being the trooper he was and getting up so early to get us a pit!