Stitches...Again, Choncho's New Backpack and Valentine's Day

Yesterday about 10 minutes before I was heading out to pick up the kids from school, I received a phone call from the school nurse. I wasn't too alarmed because I either get a phone call or a note almost weekly for my daughter Alyssa. Alyssa is a tough kid at home that NEVER complains, but it seems like the littlest thing will put her nurse's office at school. When the nurse told me she was calling about Ashley, I knew something must be wrong. She told me that she had fallen off the monkey bars at recess and cut her chin. She wasn't even going to tell the teacher, the kids in the class are the one's that told. This is one tough kid!!! She never made a peep or shed one tear at the doctor's office getting her stitches...Me, on the other hand...that is another story. I should always make Rob take care of these incidents because I don't do well with blood. I did okay watching them clean out her cut, and I was even okay to watch the doctor numb her chin. But as soon as he was ready to stitch her up, I started to feel sick to my stomach...really sick! I looked away knowing that this is how I start to feel a few minutes before I faint. I kept getting sicker and sicker and the doctor said, "Are you okay?" At first I said yes, but I quickly told them I was going to pass out. I made it to the chair just as my ears started to close off and I started dripping with sweat. The nurse said, "Put your head between your knees!" I got my head down just in time to keep myself from making a fool of myself by falling to the floor. Phew!!! Next time Rob gets to go to the doctor!I bought this car backpack for Hunter to pack all of his cars in when we go to Hawaii. He LOVES it!
How cute that he fell asleep with it on his back and full of cars!
I had way too much fun making my girl's Valentine's boxes this year. My Cricut helped the "un-artistic me" to be able to come up with something cute. I actually let Brooklyn help make her's.
Poor Ashley only got to pick out the paper for her's. I tend to be a control-freak sometimes!

Alyssa picked out the theme and chose the ladybug and helped "bedazzle" the flower. Rob also helped with the bedazzling:)

All of the girls had their school parties during the same hour. Rob and I were on 20 minute shifts so that our kids would only be parentless for 20 minutes. It didn't work quite as well as I'd planned. Rob had to leave Brooklyn's class because he was paged to move his truck.

The girls were all much happier to be able to introduce Choncho to their friends. He was bummed each time I dragged him off to the next class.

Brooklyn was sooo excited to have her dad help in her class!

Rob and I went to lunch on Friday to celebrate Valentine's Day. So, Saturday we spent the evening with the kids having a fire...

and lighting sparklers.

Rob finally found the big M&M Nascar for Hunter...Sunday we were so excited to watch the Daytona 500 hoping that the car Hunter loves was going to win. We were very disappointed that he crashed and missed half the race:( Maybe next time!

Lemons are WAY Underpriced, Church Basketball and BBQ in the Rain

I never realized how hard it is to grow lemons...until now. For the last 2 years our citrus trees have been completely unproductive. We have used Miracle Grow, but we still didn't get anything. The first and second years that we had our Mexican Lime trees, we got bunches of limes. What are we doing wrong? We only got 1 lemon this year...that is right, one. Ashley was the lucky one that got to pick it off the tree. It was sad to pick this lonely lemon that we have spent so many hours admiring. :( We are now trying to deep water as well as continue watering with our sprinklers (thanks to the tip from Derek Richey). If anyone has any other tips, please give them to me!!!

Our orange tree gave us 6 oranges this year. Alyssa was the lucky one that got to pick the last orange. I will say, these were the juiciest oranges I have ever eaten. I don't know if it is because we grow incredible oranges, or if we were just so proud of ourselves for growing fruit on our tree this year, that we would've loved them no matter how they tasted.

For church basketball this week, our new ward played the ward that we were just split from. Rob took a little heat for having his wife also cheering for the opposing team. This is all I got of Rob's free throw shots because of a noisy man on the other team distracting Rob (and I) during his shot. The man is pictured below this picture...Many of you may recognize him:) He kept yelling to Rob while he was trying to concentrate on his free throw, "Hey Rob, look at your wife...she is trying to take your picture!"...over and over again.
That's right...the noisy man was Pete Malo. I want to know why the ref didn't call a technical?!!!When it wasn't Pete distracting Rob, then it was our dentist, Eric...Come on guys! Don't you know I have a blog?!!! I have to take pictures of EVERYTHING!
In the end, our new ward lost big time to our old ward:( At least it was entertaining to watch!
Yesterday we decided to BBQ hamburgers before church. As soon as Rob fired up the grill, it began to rain and hail. I had to take this picture through the window in the kitchen because I thought he looked kind of silly barbecuing with an umbrella:) Whenever Rob makes his yummy hamburgers (and they are very yummy), he always makes an extra one in case "something happens". I have always laughed at the logic behind that, and maybe this is why yesterday was the first time he made only enough for each of us...no extras. Well, since it was raining, our newly stained and sealed sidewalk was very slippery. Rob sent Ashley (my 5 year old) in the house carrying my hamburger. As she was running in the house, she slipped on the wet sidewalk, and my yummy burger fell off the plate she was carrying, and landed on the wet sidewalk that was covered in bird droppings that had just washed off the roof due to all of the rain. (Anyone have any ideas on getting rid of birds?) Seriously, why my hamburger?!!! So, since we didn't have an extra one (the only time that we haven't), Rob and I had to share our "Sunday dinner" with each other. I imagine next time Rob will revert back to his old ways of always preparing for the unexpected. Lucky for me our meal was something that was "splittable" for my germaphobe husband!:)

Super Bowl and More Football

How 'bout those Cardinals?!!! Brooklyn told me this morning that she is now a life-long Cardinals fan. I think we all are now! They almost pulled it off! My kids were all proud to be wearing a Fitzgerald jersey last night. Maybe next year!We went to Rob's brother's house for a Super Bowl party. I found a football cookie cutter at Walmart and so I made these cute football cookies. I spent 2 hours Sunday morning making and decorating 3 1/2 dozen of these things...
On Saturday Rob had another football game and this time I actually got some good pictures...You're welcome Rob! We have to get there an hour early every week so that Rob can warm up and practice (or strategize...I'm not sure). The kids enjoyed watching:)
Hunter...picking his nose...yuck!

My in-laws were in town for the Super Bowl party, so my father-in-law played catch with the girls while we waited for the game to start.

Alyssa catching the ball

Drum roll please.....Here are Rob's "action" shots that he has been begging me to get on camera...

He really is the best player on the team!!!

In the end, all of these awesome moves by Rob, weren't enough. The dreaded "purple team" beat them 12-0 (I think). Maybe next time guys!