Sunday, October 14, 2012

Apple Orchard

This past Wednesday (10/10) the preschool Adyson is in went on a field trip to an apple orchard in Soap Lake. The lady there dresses up as a big apple (Annie Apple) and takes the kids in the orchard, lets them pick an apple off the tree and shows them the equipment. At the end the kids get to pick an apple from the apple stand they have set up. Adyson had a lot of fun. She loved to pick the apple and she loved eating one at the end. They were so good! You can buy apples for 60 cents a pound or 90 cents for honeycrisp (our favorite!) Of course we bought some, because the store prices are crazy! It was so pretty there, maybe they will let us take some pictures there some day.








Big girl bed!

Harper is now in a toddler bed and has been for about a week! She is so excited and for the most part has done really well. She hasn't fallen out, and she will usually stay in the bed when we put her in it. She is getting molars right now so she gets out of bed almost every night and finds me, which I really wish she had a crib at those times!! But, she has to grow up sometime. Heres some picturess of her new bed (thanks crystal for the frame) and some of the decorations in their room.
  I was worried so I took her crib bumper and put in on the floor just in case. Didn't want her to fall on the hardwood. Turns out she didn't need it
can you tell this is a little girls room? lol not in the picture is a disney princess castle for their barbies and a disney princess kitchen. 
 my sister in law laska made the names, porters had the flowers on sale for a $1,my mother in law cathy  bought the cinderella picture, and my mom bought the butterfly and flower sun catchers.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

September happenings

Well, not too much has been going on here in the King House. 
Spencer is still working at the paper, doing what he does best, making ads and working with the website. He is such a pro! He just recently looked at his BYU-Idaho email and it no longer said student. Kinda hit him a little bit, hes done! I mean he got his diploma, but we are usually home around this time for his off track, still doesn't seem real yet. Maybe in January when we would have headed back to ID.

 Adyson started up a preschool (joy school-moms take turn teaching) with her cousin Kamaile and a few girls from around town. She goes once a week and loves it! Especially since she can go with Kamaile. Adyson is so smart! She pics up on everything. She loves to dance, sing, go to primary, and cook. As you can see in the picture above, her favorite toy is still Grandpa bear. Her birthday is coming up fast, and she has (for now) decided on butterflies, but she is wanting to change it to tinker bell. we shall see! Can't believe she is going to be 4 soon!
 (i love how Kamaile is posing for the camera, like she does for her dance class im guessing)
 Harper is just as cute and crazy as ever. These pictures are infront of the door because she saw Adyson and Kamaile take pics there, so she walked up, stood there and said "eese!" (cheese) Harper is 16 months old! I'm pretty sure I forgot to mention this, but she had her well child check at 15 months and she is 19.1 lbs, 29.25 in tall. Shes a small kid, but dont let her size fool you! She loves to dance and talk all the time. She loves to sing too and her favorite song is We Are Young by FUN. The whole fam loves their music so its fine that we may hear that song atleast 3 times a day! The only problem we have had with harper is that she falls....a lot! within a week she bit/smacked/made her lip bleed 5 times!!! the other day she smashed her finger with a chair. oh i hope she grows out of it! Harpers favorite toy is a stuffed tiger called, well Tiger. she has to have it to got to bed at night. 
^in this pic.... Spencer has taught the girls a little saying. "Best friends for ever, YEAH" and they put their hand in the air. The girls love it! he taught it to them in Portuguese too but I have no clue how to spell it,

                                                       

And as for me... well i have one of these beauties on my right foot.....


Swede-O Short Walking Cast Boot

Short version- started in april, 5 docs later, i have a 3cm tear, and some other things going on like tendinitis. hoping scar tissue will heal the tear so i wont have to have surgery

 Long Version -Back in April my foot started to swell up really bad and i could hardly walk on it. I waited to see a doc hoping would go away, but it didnt so I went in June to a doc. He thought it was just some swelling, ordered tests done to make sure it wasn't arthritis a blood clot or broken bone, and gave me a compression sock to get the swelling gone and some meds. It still hurt really bad after all that and my back and knee were starting to hurt, so in July I went back, but to a different doc.  He thought plantar fasciitis, upped the dose on my meds, and gave me excersises to get rid of it. a week later they called and asked if i wanted to do a steroid treatment (get the swelling down/gone), so i said yes, and when I started that i noticed this huge red bruise on the side of my foot. I called in and asked about it and the doc brushed it off as nothing. After I ended the steroid treatment, it started to swell again and hurt. My bro in law, a physical therapist, took a look when we came back to WA for the 4th, and thought i might have a tear. Well after we moved back I went and saw my old doctor and she said right away that it was not plantar whatever and ordered more xrays and an MRI for my foot. She said there was a 3cm tear (where the bruise is!) and set up an appointment with a specialist on Sept 5th. well i tell you the date because it was 3ish week of waiting and hurting! yep it was that long of a wait to see him! Well, the appointment finally came, and the specialist was kind of stumped. My foot hurts all over, so he couldn't exactly pin point it. The mri did reveal the tear, but it was so swollen that he couldn't really see anything else. SOOOOO..... after he examined my foot twice, he put me in that lovely boot for 7 weeks to get my foot to "calm down" aka get the swelling down and to get scar tissue to heal the tear so i wont have to have surgery. few! that was a long story. and folks, its been about 2 weeks. Oct 24th looks SO far away! I am praying it heals on its own!!!!

ok i'm done with the update. retelling that story makes me hurt. lol




Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Grant County Fair 2012!!!

I love the fair! Good (but not so healthy) food, entering things to try and get first place, seeing all the animals, going through the commercial building to get the free stuff, and lets not forget the rodeo and demo derby!

 Harper has a mini trashcan/pencil holder the ML water was giving out. best freebie ever!

 This year, Adyson rode and elephant, way over priced and she didn't even get to pet it, but she had fun!

 Looking at the animals. Harper was surprisingly fine with them all, and even pet some, including a horse! She would point to the animal and say DAH!... aka get me closer to see what this funny thing is!




 Spencer got free tickets to the rodeo from work, so we left Harper with the grandparents and took Adyson to see the cowgirls. Before the rodeo started, they were doing mutton busting, and Adyson said she would do that.... maybe next year! 





We love the fair time and all the food! We ate way too many space burgers and elephant ears! (btw- the lions club "lions ear" was SOOO good!)

Monday, August 6, 2012

Rodeback Reunion 2012


July 26-29 in Longview Wa
As usuall, it was lots of fun and I had a great time seeing family and catching up. Also as usual, i need to get the pictures from mom, so no family pics yet! will be added soon

















 ^ all the pictures above were of the photo scavenger hunt. so much fun! i am missing a few, to get those from my aunt. some of the tings we had to do were.... make a pyramid, ppl on sholders, symbol with our bodies, air guitar, act like chickens infront of kfc (pic coming soon!), planking on stairs, person in a tree, picture infront of the big squirrel, and much more ....
 Adyson got "sparkles" in her hair by my cousin Katelyn.....shiny ribbon....
 this is my cousin Kaden, one of Harper's favorite people at the reunion
 what would a reunion be without the peanut m&m toss from grandpa?!


We had so much fun! Thanks Aunt Jenny for planning a great reunion! Things we did that I don't have a pic of.... lots of crafts, family slideshow. everyones picture with their # that they came in the family (we're at 90 so far!), and the dog tags we all got, cookie contest, (I got most unique with my red velvet cheesecake cookies), eating some good home cookin, mingling with the fam and much more..... cant wait til next year! and hopefully i'll have a better camera! those reviews i looked at lied! lol