Father's Day and Noah's room

Here are a few pictures from Father's day. I think Garrett had a fun day. We sure are glad that he's such a good dad--we all love him so much! Here he is opening presents:

And here he is with his girls who love him to death

We rearranged all the rooms upstairs, so that we could have a room for Noah. We moved Maggie and Lydia into Bella's old room, then moved Paige and Bella into Maggie's old room. Now Noah is in Lydia's and Paige's old room. We decided that we wanted to paint his room after we found a bed set that we liked. The bed set is a sports theme, but with deep dark colors like a dark red, navy blue and dark brown and light brown. So, we painted the top part of the walls a light brown, then alternated the bottom walls navy blue and dark brown. Then we put a chair rail up around the middle of the room. We put up the valence over the window, too. We have all the bedding that goes with it and a cute little mobile and a rug, too. We won't use those until we get Bella out of her crib and get Noah out of our room and into his own room.

Getting ready to paint
The girls were dying to help paint

The finished product, minus the crib

I am in the process of making wall hangings out of the dust ruffle that came with the bed set. Hopefully I'll get those done soon. And then I'd like to put his name on the wall in big red letters to bring out more of the red in the room. I guess I can work on these things after he gets here, too. Only 3 more days!!

Catching Up

It's been awhile since I've blogged, so I thought I'd play a little catch up.

Awards
Every month at the girls school, they hand out awards for certain character traits. At the end of the year, they award them to students who best portrayed all 8 character traits. Maggie won this for her class a couple of weeks ago, so here are a few pictures of her with her award.

Doesn't she look thrilled? :)

Baby Shower

My friends Beth, Gabe and Rockelle threw a baby shower for me and another lady in my ward (Tara) that is pregant with her 2nd little boy and due a few weeks before me. It was fun with lots of good friends and conversation and good food. I got lots of good stuff for Noah, so we feel really prepared. I took my camera to take pictures, but completely forgot about it until the end of the shower. So, I had Beth's daughter Ashlee take a few pictures of the people that were still there talking. So, here are some of those pictures.

Renita

Tara (other pregnant mommy)
Sydette and Suki
Julie and Beth
Rockelle and Kate

Tonya and Cooper (Gabe's new baby)

Talent Show

Last week, the girls school had their annual end of year Talent Show. This year Maggie and Lydia tried out together and they made it into the talent show! Maggie learned a song on the piano called "Boogie Blues" and Lydia sang along with it. I was so amazed that they even tried out and was so proud of them for actually going through with it at school. Lydia said she was so nervous that her legs were shaking. They did great. For some reason, I can't get the video to post--it's from our new video camera and I just can't figure it out. I'll try again to post it later.

Last Day of School

This past Thursday was our last day of school. They only had a half day. At around 9 am, I got a call from the school saying that they had Lydia in the nurses office with an ice pack on her eye. I guess they had been signing a t-shirt in class with sharpie markers and some little girl accidentally poked Lydia in the eye. The nurse wanted me to come in and check out her eye because Lydia really wanted to go home. When I got there, she couldn't open her eye and all around it was red. So, I took her home because I figured there wasn't much else going on at school and she could come home and rest her eye. I thought that she'd be okay in an hour or so, but she still had a hard time opening it after awhile.

After Maggie got home, I took them out to lunch to celebrate and Lydia cried the whole time about how it hurt and that she couldn't handle the pain anymore. So, when we got home, I called the eye doctor and got her an appointment. When we went in, the doctor gave her some eye drops that would numb her eye and therefore let her open her eye so that he could examine it. After he looked at it, he said that it was definitely a corneal abrasion, which is a painful scrape or scratch to the clear part of the eye. It's like when you scratch your arm and the top layer of skin comes off, except its in the eye. And since there are so many nerve endings in your eye, then it is extremely painful.

He told me that kids heal themselves pretty quickly and it was already starting to mend itself. The more she kept her eye closed, the faster it would heal. He gave her some codeine for the pain and then some antibiotic ointment for her eye so that it wouldn't become infected. The next day, she didn't need the pain medicine anymore and she was doing Much better. What an awful experience!

Maggie was extremely sad when she got off the bus because she LOVES school so much that she didn't want it to end. Poor thing. I think she started to cheer up a little when I gave them a little "Welcome Summer" gift basket. But she still talks about how excited she is for 5th grade.

Ballet Recital
Paige had her ballet recital last Saturday night. She did such a good job and she looked so darn cute in her costume. She LOVES being able to wear all the stage makeup and getting her hair all fancy for her performance. Here's a video of that (not working right now--will try again later)and a few pictures of her afterwards.