"If I were President..."

I guess this is what Adam said at Preschool today:)
HAPPY VOTING!

Guess who they Are

 

 HULK

  

BATMAN

Our LITTLE BUTTERFLY

Like mother like daughter and sister... I guess we like to dress up:)

I got David to dress up this year for a party, because costumes were MANDATORY!

COUSINS ALL DRESSED UP

Hope you had a HAPPY HALLOWEEN too!

View at Your Own Risk

So my little Brandon is turning out to be my accident prone child! (Not even 3 yet and he's had stitches twice!)

 We were just getting settled into our condo up at Bear Lake the night before David's Half Iron Man, and the kids were running around the room.  David's mom brought a quilt to work on and had tucked her bag away behind the couch.  We were in the kitchen putting things away when I heard Brandon start crying, which happens regularly, so I took my time making it over to him.  When I went over to him, I picked him up and all of the sudden saw this thing sticking out of him!  I didn't even know what was in his foot.  Luckily David's mom is a nurse, so we grabbed her.  She kept everyone calm, and said she would not be able to get it out and we would have to take him in.

 So what is it?  Yes, that is a crochet hook... how it got impaled on the top of his foot?  I have no idea!  It was a resume builder for the doctor too, who had to drive from Idaho to meet us in Garden City to get it out and stitch him up.  We had to wait an hour and a half before she could get there.  Quite traumatic for this little guy, let me tell you!  We are just grateful we were able to receive the care we needed being so far out though.  

  

She could not get it out, so had to keep cutting and digging deeper. 

 

  Luckily, it didn't tear any tendons, so he was able to still walk and run around afterwards.

Multiple internal stitches and 8 outer stitches later!  He had to go on an antibiotic for 10 days and when we went in to get his stitches out, it had not healed, so he had to get some super glue and go a little longer.  We are happy to now have them out, although he still thinks his foot is hurt when it is convenient for him:) 

The Windy City

While we were out in Wisconsin, we took a trip down to Chicago.  At first we were a little overwhelmed by the busyness and enormity of the city, but once we settled in and pretended to fit in with 4 kids and strollers, H/H, it was so much FUN!!! 

On this trip we WALKED AND WALKED AND WALKED.  

David tracked us on his phone, and the one day we were there, we walked a little over 8 miles!  Adam walked the whole way without complaining.  He is such a trooper.  All the kids did amazingly well for the humidity, heat, and long days.  I am so glad they did, because we got to do so much!  

"The Bean"

I'm not really sure what it is called, but it was a pretty cool piece of art in the middle of the city.  We had a lot fun taking different kinds of pictures with it.

Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza

Oh so yummy!

Field Museum of Natural History

We were able to use our museum passes here and at the Planetarium, so we tried to pack both in.  We wished we had more time at each place, but thought it was cool we could even see both!

Can you find Adam??

Adler Planetarium 

This place had so many interactive fun things for the kids!

Sadly, Adam thought you were supposed to put your head through the hole.  Needless to say, we had a pretty hard time getting his head back out!  Poor Kid.

There were so many different things going on for one day in one place, it was crazy!  The Taste of Chicago was going on, protesters were out for and against abortion, they had concerts going on all over the city, a Children's Festival was happening, and they had fireworks that night for something else.  People and police were everywhere, families begging for money, city performers, horns honking, trains flying by... Those were just a few things we happened to run into on our walk around the city.  I had forgotten what big cities were like.   

Children's Festival

This was crazy.  While we were at the Children's Festival, we just happened to run into an old friend from the BYU Track Team that both Amber and I knew.  Such a small world.  It was fun to visit with her and just so funny because she didn't know Amber and I knew each other and just thought we all happened to be in the same place at the same time:)  

Yes Adam got wet.  Really, Really wet!

We didn't go up Willis Tower, but stood outside it.

We went to this outdoor amphitheatre and heard a live orchestra perform, "The Planet Earth".  They had nature pictures on a huge screen and it was all FREE:)  It was pretty cool.

Ashley enjoying the show

Of course we had to stop by the Ghiradelli shop.  We got free chocolate and got some yummy, yummy ice cream:)

On our way to Chicago, we went out of the way to hit the state Michigan, so just had to get that in there, H/H!

We pretty much booked it all the way home, but had some stops along the way.

We were pretty exhausted after this trip, but had a blast!

EPIC: An Inter-Galactic Society

On our trip, we visited Jordan's work, Epic, in Verona. WI.  We spent 4 1/2 hours touring, and there was still so much more we didn't see!  It was quite the impressive facility and our kids had a grand ol' time.  Epic has a unique culture and campus.  Each building has its own theme and is decked out.  They really try to make it a fun atmosphere for their employees and customers.  We ate lunch there one day and they have gourmet chefs, but you only pay the "at cost" for the food, so it is really cheap.  We could have taken so many pictures in each building, they were all like museums, but here are a few!

The Tree House      

 Heaven

 One building had funny mirrors and a slide

They buy local art which is pretty cool 

 Jordan's building is themed, "Dungeons and Dragons", so in their Conference Room, they have this massive dragon.

This was a view from one of their buildings.  They had these awesome hammock swinging chairs out on a deck.  Oh it was so beautiful and peaceful.  I could have stayed there all day!

  

 It's hard to explain the uniqueness and enormity of this campus, but it definitely is a world of its own and was a lot of fun to visit.