He's Moving Up

I am a little behind on my posts. Time for another catch up.

May 20th Mason had his Kindergarten Orientation. We were so excited to go. We got there and they had us all meet in the lunchroom. Mason's excitement started to turn to nervousness. As we sat there he cuddled closer and closer. Matt realized he was so scared and gave him a little pep talk. It worked. Mason was awesome. They seperated the kids into groups and they got to try out a mini kindergarten day. 1 hour full of art class, music, the library, the playground and meeting new friends. He loved it. We lucked out and won the lottery as they say, Mason got into Motechello Academy. sp? It's a charter school out in West Valley. We are very excited to see how well he does in school. He is a very smart boy and is beyond ready for school. But I do have to admit as I watched Mason's group walk away all lined up as you see in the picture above. I did tear up and as I type this I do feel like crying. My baby boy is almost officially in school. Seems like it wasn't long ago he was so tiny and didn't ever want to leave my side. Now he loves doing and trying new things. I love it though. I love his strong desire to learn new things. He's amazing.
The week after Mason had his preschool graduation. I love Mrs. Sandy's preschool. Mason has learned so much from her. He even learned part of the Gettysburg Address this year.

He's made so many friends and I am so grateful for all Mrs. Sandy has done to help Mason be so ready for Kindergarten. Can't wait for Mattix to go next year.

I can't help it.

For the record I am typing this post because, to be quite honest I need to vent.
This is to me a major shake up in my life and in order for me to grow I need to get my feelings out.
I am not posting this on facebook. Just my blog. And if people happen to read it that's ok. I am human I have feelings.
Saturday was a good day. Started out great. I had set in my mind that I was going to have a fun day. And what's the best way to have a fun day than to have a "family fun day." We first got some work out of the way. Matt took a load to the dump and we helped him load the trailer to take it another day. After we got that taken care of we took the the boys and went with Nana and Papa to my nephew's state rugby game. That was not the end of family fun day. Afterwards we surprised the boys and took them to Hollywood Connection. It was so fun. The boys surprisingly were very good at and way into the mini golfing. Matt played right along with them. It was so fun to watch him teach them how to hold the club and hit the ball right. (One of Matt's favorite pass times is golf.) We had a blast riding the rides and just having fun together. On our way home Matt had the idea to stop and get the boys pizza and dessert. We took it home, ate and had fun talking about our fun day. The boys needed to take a bath for church the next day. So Matt made them a deal. He'd quickly run to get a Redbox movie if they'd be bathed and in PJ's before he got home. He'd put out the couch bed and we'd watch Gnomeo and Juliet. Mason really wanted to go with Matt. I took him into the bathroom while Matt slipped out the door.
5 min. Later the phone rang. Mind you I still haven't gotten Mason into the bath. Matt's mom comes and tells me I need to go to Matt. He's been in an accident. I started to get my shoes on thinking I'll be right back. She say's maybe you should have Dad go with you. I am so very happy he did. I wasn't prepared for what I saw when we drove up. I saw Matt's car and for a split second didn't realize that it was his. It hit me and I jumped out of the car before Woody could even undo his seat belt. Thankfully his car looked worse than him. He couldn't remember what had happened. He kept asking me the same questions over and over. Things were very fuzzy to him. He hit his head so hard he had a concussion.
We took him to the ER. But before we did we stopped at home Matt kissed the boys and his Dad gave him a blessing. We are so thankful for the prayers that immediately went out in our behalf. Within an hour of me running out the door. I had heard from so many family members that were worried.
He was blessed after all the x rays and cat scans. To have no broken bones. But he did do damage. We need to take him to an orthapedic to find out what's causing the swelling and pain in his collar bone. And his shoulder is separated. He messed up his knee. Busted up his nose. And is in a lot of pain. This is very hard for me to sit back and watch. I hate seeing him in pain. He is hurting. He tries to say it's not that bad but he's not ok. I am MAD! Why did this have to happen? We were having such a good day. It hurts to see him not being able to do the things he loves. He is one of the best dads I know. He loves to play, wrestle, lift and just be fun with his boys. Let alone give them a hug. So yes I am Angry! I watched today as he came in the door after school. The boys ran to him and they all wanted to hug him, we love when daddy comes home and to climb on his leg and sit on his foot. He couldn't do any of it. He had to turn them away and not do those things that he loves to come home to everyday to. It hurts him. I know it hurts him more than physically. I know that time will heal him. But it sucks right now. One persons split second mistake hits my husbands car and causes this accident. I know it was an accident. I feel bad for being so mad. But right now I am hurting. I hate thinking about what could of happened. I have been having nightmares and I don't want to imagine my life how it could of been. All this has made me treasure our time we have together. I just wish this painful part would go away. Go away so we can go camping and he can play softball on Tuesday nights like he loves to do. Heck he only got to play 2 times this season. Just go away. It sucks having to be scared to drive even just the shortest distance because we've seen what could of happened.
Please don't get me wrong. I know that we have been deeply blessed. I've been told and saw myself that he was "lucky" Heavenly Father saw that it was not his time. The amount of damage to the amount of injury doesn't add up. I do thank Heavenly father that he spared my husband and the father of my boys every time I look at him or think about him. I just need to be mad for a little bit.

Green Thumbs...

The Easter Bunny brought all the boys garden tools. Nana and Papa gave the boys their own spot of dirt to make their own garden. We decided to plant some wild flower seeds. So last night for family home evening we let the boys get to work. Let's cross our fingers that something grows.

A Camping we will go!

Mother's Day weekend we packed up our awesome camping Jeep and spent a couple days with friends and some family. We took off and went to celebrate Matt finishing another semester and just down right spend some time together.

The boys were so excited to go.

Manning and Addison loved the dirt.

Hanging out chillin in their camping chairs.

Matt found some huge marshmellows at the store. Manning loved them.

Roasting our huge marshmellows. No one could wait for dark.

Our cozy and surprisingly very warm tent. Dispite how early in the season we went we didn't get cold. It was really nice weather all weekend. Considering a week or two before it was still snowing.

Groovy Manning in his cool sunglasses.

Daddy helping Mason get ready for a ride on the 4 wheelers.

You can't see it very well but Mason almost caught a fish. It was a pretty big one too. But it got away.

He stuck to it and eventually caught a fish. He was the only one to catch a fish.

He is one cute fisherman.

There was no shortage on dirt.

Mattix had no patience for fishing. He expected to drop the hook in the water and a fish would just come right to him. Due to the fact that this didn't happen as he had planned, He was done relatively quickly. But very upset when Mason caught a fish and he didn't.

Addison had so much fun in the dirt. It was so funny to see how much dirt she was able to attract.

Jimmy and Nadia came too. And of course they brought the cute little baby Brenda.

No surprise that Manning absolutely loved the 4 wheelers.

Pretending to go for a ride on the 3 wheeler.

Can you tell he had a little bit of fun?
Can't wait to go again. We love being outdoors.

I Love It!

I love seeing my boys use their imagination. Especially this kid. It is so hard to get him to do anything other than watch TV or play on the computer.

The other day he had nothing to do and no one to play with. He decided to make up his own game. I thought it was cute. He made up his own super hero. (more like a new kind of pokemon)

Working Hard

We discovered no so long ago that having the backyard so open was just not a very good idea. We have a certain little guy that sees every opportunity he can get to run as an opportunity he can not pass up. Thankfully Matt is one handy guy. And his ability to build things came in very handy this past weekend as he built what I like to call our "Manning Cage." And for an added bonus it looks so pretty too.

He didn't do it all alone though he did have some help. His brother came over and lent a hand.
And he had a couple other "little" helpers too.

Mattix loves to help his daddy any chance he can get. He came in trying to find his hat and found one of Matt's, than he grabbed a pen and tried to get it to stay behind his ear. Just like his dad. Matt ripped out all the old wood. And had tossed it aside. To make room for the new wood. Mattix was very helpful in bringing the wood back. He thought his daddy might need it.

When Matt used the noisy power tools, Mattix would cover his ears. Always right there with him no matter how noisy it got.

Manning was even there to lend a helping hand. He surprised us all and started using the drill, The correct way. Trying to fix the screws. I love watching my boys follow their daddy around. I love that they want to be just like him. Doing what he does. And in my opinion he's the perfect role model for them.

A mother's day tribute on a bad day...

I hope not!

Mason came up with his own version of Little boy blue today. It goes a little something like this...

Little boy blue has lost his shoe and doesn't know where to find it. He found a toy wrench and smacked his mom and cried because she spanked him. This unfortunatly is a true story he sang as he sat in the corner. It's been one of those days.