There's Good news, and Bad news

So it's been quite a week. Our family seems to be passing one illness or another around and around and around. Jody, Kaden, and I have all had sinus infections. Kaden's being this week. I had the stomach flu on Saturday, and Ali is down with it for her second day now. I'm working on getting over my third cold in 4 weeks, and Tyce started coughing again last night. Thankfully, we have not had too much fever with all the illnesses, because that would mean we were probably getting the swine flu that's going around Preston SOOOOO bad! We've had people in our ward get it, along with kids and the teacher in Paige's class. Who knows how many other of my children have been exposed as well. So, all in all I am counting my blessings. I thought I better get Paige's third cast picture posted before she gets it off next Wednesday. She will have owned this one for 3 weeks. It was one week longer than planned, but she did not have enough bone growing on one of the broken bones to help it heal, so hopefully the next X-rays will be better. If there's still not enough bone there I'm not sure what the Dr. will say, so we're just praying for NO MORE CASTS!

I'm also finally getting around to posting my boys soccer pictures. This one is Tyce coming off the field after he had been the goalie. He has turned into quite the little player as long as he doesn't have to play defense. He can be a little boring to just stand there, so he dances, cart wheels, runs into other players, or just jumps and runs around in his own little area. Paying attention is extra hard for him to do. At our last game, he had played defense twice, and goalie once. He was having a little bit of a boring game I guess because when the coach said to go in as defense for the third time, Tyce told him that he wasn't going in unless he got to be a forward. I think the coach knew he would be fighting a losing battle, so Tyce went in as a forward. I was happy too, because he gets in there and goes after the ball even though he's one of the youngest on the team. It's been fun to watch him play.

This is Kaden, who at his last game scored a GOAL! We were all sooo excited for him. He was quite a ways back, so I wasn't expecting it, but he just booted it, and it went straight into the goal. He had been to the dr. the day before for his sinus infection, so I was worried about him playing anyway since it was FREEZING at Wednesday's game, but he did really well, and we are so proud of him.

Now a little about Danica. She is walking every where now. She started the night of her birthday which made her turning one even harder on her mother. She sure is busy too. She says things like moo, baa, bye-bye, mom, dad, meow, and a lot of jabbering that is understood only by herself. She loves to fake laugh when ever she thinks she's being funny, or we're laughing and she wants to be involved. She sure keeps us all happy, and the kids love to maul her most all of the time. Paige and Ali have sure been good to help out with her this last month while I've been sick or busy, busy, busy.

Last but, definately not least, is the update on the house. We are completely sheet rocked. They finished this week, so now it really looks like a house on the inside as well as the outside. They still have to tape and mud, but that should be done next week. Before we know it, we will be painting walls, and putting down flooring. It's getting very exciting.

Yesterday they also put up one side of the siding. We are waiting on the majority of it to be ordered because they didn't have enough of the green color that we wanted, but what we do have sure looks good. I don't have a picture of it, and it would be hard to tell the color on the computer I'm sure, but when I do get an updated picture I will put it on.

I guess that's it for now. A little good news, and a little bad news, but all of it is just LIFE!

My baby is 1

My beautiful little girl is one today. (I guess it's today, It's 1:15am) She let go of the couch and walked across the room to me yesterday. That's the farthest she's gone so far. I can't believe how big she is. I just want to tell her how much I love her, and how special she is to all of her family. She always has a smile for us, and she truly makes us all so happy. We love you sweet baby girl! Happy Birthday! I wanted to update a little on the house as well. We have got the electrical and heating and air ready for insulation. Tomorrow the plumber is suppose to finish up and Friday we get the insulation going. I guess after that it's on to sheet rock!

This is Tyce posing with one of our new tubs. We're so excited to see some of these things start to come in. Yesterday we got all of our outside doors hung. If we could just get the last three windows to get here, we would be all closed in.

Our brick is also going up. They should have it done today I think. I love the way it looks. It's a little hard to see from this picture all the colorings in it, but I'm very excited about it. My builder told me yesterday that our siding should be here by the end of the week as well. It's coming right along.

The boys soccer games have been fun. They both won their games last Saturday. I would post pictures, but just to get the 3 pictures on here takes me computer an eternity, so we might save that for the next post. However, we are still very proud of them both.

How Much Can a Mother Take?

I feel like everything always happens at once. Danica turns one this month, and she has just started to take her first steps. Tyce started preschool the other day, and it hit me a little harder than I thought it would. And last, but certainly not the least, Kaden has a GIRLFRIEND! He had only been in school about 8 days when the new girl at school asked him if he'd be her boyfriend. He seems like he even likes her too!
I just don't know if this is okay with me. It's too much on this old mom anyway!

So this picture below is my 3 oldest ready for school. I didn't get their pictures on the first day because my camera batteries were dead, and it took me until this week to remember to get a picture. Danica is looking so cute too isn't she??? She had 2 pigtails the day before, and this is what that looks like the morning after. It doesn't matter though because she's still soooo cute.
This was Wednesday. Tyce's first day of preschool. He had a lot of fun and is so excited to be going to school. Tonight is his first soccer game which he is equally excited about. I will try to be more diligent in posting pictures of it sooner than later.

Tonight would also be Kaden's first game, but he has scout camp so he has to miss it. We'll get pictures of him next week. Guess that's the update for now.

Catch Up Time

I can't believe how busy life can be sometimes. Now that the kids have started school, hopefully I can keep up on the blog a little better. I have had mixed emotions about school starting. I was NOT ready to go back to home work and early bedtimes. It just seems like it shouldn't be here already. I do have to admit though, having the kids back in school has made the days a little less hectic. (Evenings are another story, with soccer, cheer, and clogging.)

Before the kids went back to school we did take them on a weekend get away to SLC. We had a lot of fun. We did Lagoon on Friday, Miller motor race track on Saturday morning, and Temple Square Saturday afternoon. We also enjoyed some good eating, and swimming at the hotel.

This first picture is Jody and the kids at Temple Square. We took them on a tour of the Beehive House and they thought that was pretty neat. We also went to the Joseph Smith movie, and they all really loved it. Paige is a little like her mother, and we both cried. She's told me several times that that is her favorite movie EVER! This next picture is of the crew taking a break from the heat with some shade, water, and flavored ice. It was sooo hot at Lagoon that the kids drug their feet most of the the day. By the time Jody and I were ready to go, it had cooled down, and the kids no longer had bricks for feet. They wanted to go on lots of rides. We all had a good time, and I think the favorite ride over all was the good old white roller coaster! Gotta love it!

Now a little house update as well. We now have a roof and are very excited about it. I guess now the changes won't seem as obvious to everyone, because they will mostly be inside. Although we will still have the shingles, siding, and brick to do outside. The other thing we got a while back that I got pictures of but did not post was our staircase. We were all very excited to have them in, especially since our builder almost fell through the hole in the floor where they were suppose to go. Much safer now for everyone.

Well, I guess that does it for catch up now. I can't believe it is already September. Time flies. Especially when you just had a baby, and all of a sudden she's going to be one! I don't know how it happens, but I do know it makes me sad!

A new look

This is the new look to our house, and oh how lovely it is. This is the back side of the house. All the outside walls are up, and tomorrow they start on the inside. Last night Jody and I had to try to decide on all the doors to put everywhere. I can't believe how many decisions we're going to have to make and agree on. Could be interesting. This is the new look for Paige. She went from a pink cast to a red one. The orthopedic doctor told us that after she's in this one for 4 weeks they will take it off to x-ray it, and then put cast #3 on for 2 more weeks. The sad thing is that all of them have to be above the elbow, and that just doesn't seem to allow the freedom I was hoping she'd have for school to start.

She practice writing with her left hand today while making a card for Jody's birthday, and she wrote Love-evoL. Things will be very confusing for awhile.

And Yes, today is my sweet husbands 35th birthday. Just wanted to tell you how much I love you Jo. Happy Birthday!

Never a dull moment

So guess what you get if you do a front hand spring on the trampoline and land on the springs before falling off to the ground... On Saturday afternoon, I heard a very loud yell from outside followed by Kaden running in the house yelling that Paige's arm was broke. I ran outside, and sure enough, you could tell instantly that her arm was broken. As Kaden put it, "I knew it was broken because it wasn't straight like mine." We ran her to the Preston hospital, where they did X-Rays, and sent us to Logan because they don't put bones back into place in Preston, they send you to an orthopedic specialist. Anyway, after a long and interesting day, we got back home and all crashed.

During the night I kept going and checking on Paige, and her fingers were always SO cold. In the morning they were swolen so big, and were cold and purple. I called back down to Logan, and they told us to come back down. It was the same doctor that casted it, and he told us he was going to cut a slit down both sides the day before, but it just didn't look that swolen. Of course now he wished he just would have done it then, but oh-well. He cut the cast down both sides to relieve some pressure, and instantly her fingers looked much better.

Tomorrow we go and see the actual orthopedic doctor to see what he thinks. We are hoping that the bones are set back into place enough that we don't have to do anymore adjusting. In the mean time, we are just trying to sooth her worries of having to write left handed at school, not riding a bike, and how am I suppose to do cheer? Poor little thing.

Service with a Smile

Last week I told my kids (except for Ali who was vacationing with a friend in McCall) that if they would help me weed the flower beds, I would take them to rent some movies. We did pretty well during the morning, but still had 2 left to go. While I was getting Danica to sleep, the kids asked if they could go out and play. After a while they came and got me to show me some sort of a surprise. I went outside to see that they had weeded the bigger of the last 2 flower beds. What FABULOUS children. I was so happy with them, that we left the other flower bed for another day. How blessed could one mom be?

This is my house as of today. They put up the bearing walls in the basement, and today they got the supports for the floor which will go in tomorrow. We are very happy with the progress. It looks a lot more like a house now and that makes me happy. A little funny thing Tyce said today. We had gone out to see the progress being made, and our builder, Sheldon, picked up his nail gun (which is a pretty big one) and Tyce said, "Whoa Sheldon, you better be careful with that!" Sheldon got a huge kick out of it.
Now, upcoming events for the Shumway's include, a vacation to Salt Lake with a possible trip to Lagoon, and whatever other fun things we can find. A friend of Jody's thinks he can get us discount tickets to Lagoon. I sure hope so, because it's so expensive without them. We are all looking forward to a little FUN together before school starts.

We also have back to school nights and Jr. High orientation coming up. I can't believe that school is already here. I'm not sure I'm ready for it this year.

The Saturday after school starts, our ward is going to Bear Lake for a ward party. My kids are SO EXCITED that they get to go to Bear Lake twice in one summer! Should be fun.

Finally, I entered Danica into the Baby Contest that Preston does at their fair every year. That will be on Saturday. Paige was in it when she was a baby, and they are kind of fun. So thats it for now. More later I'm sure!