The dentist

So after ten years I finally got my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday. In high school I was suppossed to get them pulled and then my parents were switching insurance and jobs and then pretty soon I was pregnant and married. After that we were the ones switching insurance and jobs and not having any money. Well we finally bit the bullet and I got them pulled. I did it yesterday because of the holiday weekend so that I would have more time to recouperate without missing work. They put me under and that had to be the greatest thing ever. Even the IV didn't hurt! Every time I have a baby they just about kill my arm and hands trying to get an IV in me. Well apparently the needle was MUCH smaller and I seriously didn't even know that she had put it in. I had a hard time waking up after they were done and I was dizzy most of the day yesterday but the teeth themselves came right out without any problems and I feel pretty good. I thought since we had put this off for so long that they would be bad, but they wern't at all, what a relief! My mom came over last night while Josh worked and that was wonderful. Just having her here helped me a lot and she even cooked, did the dishes, and started laundry for me, I LOVE THAT! Thanks mom! I don't know if it was because Grandma Card was over but the kids were going CRAZY. I don't think I had seen them like that in a long time, but it could also be because of the rain. It has been raining here for about four days and it is suppossed to keep raining for about three more or so. I LOVE IT!!! It is coming at the perfect time of the year too. So we will be busy spending our holiday weekend doing NOTHING and hopefully healing fast!

We have created a monster!!!

Kendra is playing her third season of soccer and she loves it. To start the season she had never scored a goal. Josh gets really worked up about her playing and I have to remind him that she is in FIRST grade for goodness sake!

Kendra is VERY VERY fast, I always dreamed that my kids would inherit their dad's speed and it seems like Kendra may have, YAH!!! Anyways, she is often the first one to the ball and she will kick it and get going and then slow down and let her teamates take the ball. When we asked her about this she said that her coach told her that one of them needed to stay back a little and the other one would kick the ball to the goal. Well, being the good listener that she is and seeing that her teamate was not staying back she was the one that was falling back. What a sweet girl huh? So Josh and I had a chat with her and I told her to imagine that she was going to kick the ball and run all of the way into the goalie net as fast as she could, almost like she was going to run the goalie over. Nice mom huh? I was just trying to instill a little aggressiveness into her. The next game she played better and didn't let up so quickly, but still no goal! So Finally I figured that she just needed one more push, so I decided to bribe her. I know that this sounds horrible, but I had tried everything else and I knew that she had it in her. I told her that we would take her to build a bear if she would score a goal and go after that ball. SHE WAS SO EXCITED!

So we went to the game and right away she was like a whole different little girl out there. She finally had just a hint of intensity. She missed her first attempt, but hey, she had an acutal kick at the goal. But then she got it! We were only a few minutes into the game, I was so excited that I had tears in my eyes. Pathetic I know! She was also excited and as she went to the sidelines I heard her say numerous times, "now I get to go to build a bear." We took her to build a bear right after and she got just a little bear, nothing big, but that was enough for her. The next game we told her that we would take her to get ice cream if she scored (we were trying to tone it down a little.) Well she played even better than the last time. She scored two goals and came VERY close on two others. I keep asking her about her goals and if she is happy that she is playing so good and helping her team win and getting better at soccer. She says yes to all of that, but not like I hoped.

Yesterday she brought home a pamphlet for a soccer camp and Josh says that she was so excited about it that she didn't want to talk about anything else all afternoon, WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!

Just a few Pictures

WOW, look at that hair, I wish mine looked like that!




Here is Josh enjoying a wonderful Sunday afternoon! He hates it when I take his Picture.



Kendra LOVES to jump on the trampoline. I don't think it will be long before she is doing flips and tricks like me.



Ethan is super cool!



Preston was actually laughing at Uncle Devin, who was standing behind me. Hey, whatever it takes right?



I had Josh take this so that I had a picture of Kendra's Hair-do. I found this on a web-stite and decided to try it out on Kendra. This picture doesn't show it very well, but it was super easy and stayed really well. She went to a b-day party on Saturday and her hairdo was the talk of the party. When I went and picked her up the moms were asking me tons of questions. I love that Kendra's hair is so long and we can do so much with it.