The Lake

We decided to go for a drive and find a lake last Sunday, we ended up kind of by Delta and found a fun reservoir that we let the kids play in for the day. It was really quite a nice day, minimal wind and no bugs! Apparently we missed the microburst that roared through Salt Lake and Eagle Mountain that day.
Jade had a blast swimming around Gemma was more happy closer to the edge. I had realized that Gemma hadn't been to a lake and been old enough to remember it. We also took a scenic drive and saw Topaz mountain, and the spot that you can go hunt for geodes. So that is on my list of things to do. I have to say it is nice that Jade and Gemma are getting old enough to start doing some of these things. We are even going camping this weekend (Jade is so excited she has never camped in a tent)
I am not a hot weather person, so when it starts cooling off a bit that's when I like to get out and enjoy outdoor recreation.

4th grade

Yesterday was the first day of school for Jade she's in 4th grade this year! Her teacher is Mrs. Harper. We had a small situation where we had to have her switched from the first class she was placed in, due to a personality conflict between her and another child. i won't go into deeper specifics here, but we have had to do that before. Anyway at first Jade was a little upset because she wanted to be in the same class as her best friend Alaina but I told her we didn't have any control over that. So she went to Mrs. Harpers class and Loved it, made a new friend saw some of her other friends and ran into Alaina during recess. Also the teacher she was supposed to have was sad that she didn't get Jade in her class (Jade previously had said teacher in 2nd grade)
Well it turned out to be a good first day for Jade. Gemma however was another story LOL

sad day

So a couple of weeks ago James was coming home from work when some idiot who was texting hit him on the freeway in a construction zone. took out the whole passenger side of our/my pathfinder.
Plus side no injuries save for the car :-(
negative side the insurance opted not to fix it because my car is older (99)
So James will fix it for me to drive, until early next year then I will get a new car :-) I kind of want a sports car haha that's what the rental agency gave us to drive and I really like it (pic to come)

So it has been forever!!!!

I know it has been a very long time since I have up dated my blog. Sorry about that.

The above picture Cisco made a hut/fortress in the front room for Jade and Gemma one day.

James has had a huge project this year in rebuilding his trucks engine, for those of you who understand/know he took the engine down to the crank shaft, basically you can't go any deeper than that. Jade really enjoyed herself helping him she was out every time he was and got just as dirty as he did :-) good job guys!
Jade and Gemma wanted a purse so I found a pattern that I then modified to what I wanted, this is what we came up with :-)

My cast

So this is my pretty purple cast. I didn't break my foot... I had surgery on 4-23-2010 for those of you who didn't know I had a tendo-Achilles lengthening done on my left leg. I have been trying to fix my leg for pretty close to 2 years. Basically i had a "charly horse" all the time in my left calf, (it was constantly in spasm mode) stretching, exercise, supplements ( I was deficient in iron,calcium and vitamin D), muscle relaxers, foot doctor, regular doctor, second opinions and on and on. Nothing really was working. So the last time I went in to the Foot Dr. He suggested that this was were we were at. I could have tried orthopedics but he didn't think that would solve the problem.
So long story short I got to have surgery. Apparently it is a semi-common procedure in children and adolescents but not very common in adults, (and it's a painful recovery) mostly because it shows up earlier. It is probably something I have always had, when I was little I would get the worst cramps in my legs and that never really went away. My doctor said that he was going to go in and give the tendon a little bit of length so that it could release the muscle spasms, after surgery he said that he couldn't believe how tight my tendon was, he had to lengthen it about 2" and that was conservative. The nice thing is that I haven't had any spasms in my leg!!! yay!!
So now I am sporting the cast until June 1st.

Pretty Parlor

Gemma got to have her first experience going to the saloon right before Easter. She thought it was very fun. She got a short hair cut and we both love it. Jade was so jealous that Gemma got to have short hair that I took her the next day to get hers cut. Jade's hair was long enough to donate to locks of love again. (I need to get a better picture of Jade's to put on here.)

Princess Gemma

We have a very large basket of tea party dishes that Gemma just loves to play with she sets it up every day.
Gemma in one of her Princess Dresses. She loves to dress up like a princess every day, she calls headbands crowns and we live in a castle with towers. If I tell her she is cute she says "no I am Beautiful!" We went to Grandma Rory's the other day and Gemma told her that "We came to your castle today"
I had some fun colored sugar cookie dough in the freezer that we pulled out and had a good time making cookies one day.