fun day with the kids

We have another nutella fan:

The kids and I did a 5K in Springville this morning.

5K finishers:

Porter and Marlee got some face painting.

Tonight we watched a movie and had popcorn:

Carter was too busy eating pop pop to look at the camera.

proud mom

At Clayton’s track meet tonight he came and got Carter from me. He walked him over to his friends. My heart was so happy to see him proudly show his friends his baby brother, that means more to me than any track achievements. I’m so proud of Clayton for so many reasons. He’s done so many new things this year…new state, new home, new school, new ward, new sport (track), etc. He’s also helped out so much this year, since Carter and I both had hip surgeries. I’m proud of the young man he’s becoming.

so this happened today…

Our baby got his body cast off!

Sometimes suckers can help, a little.

Removing a body cast is quite the process:

He’s free and he’s not sure what to think about being able to touch his leg again.

He won’t let go of his sucker.

It’s crazy how much dead skin there is under a cast.

He got an x-ray, cast free.

His x-ray looks good, considering all that’s going on. That’s the plate and 4 screws you see.

He almost always gets a blanket when he visits Shriners, this time it’s robots. He’s all wrapped up and eating lunch in mamma’s arms.

I think he’s pretty happy to have free legs.

His scars are bigger than I thought they’d be.

Most of them are covered by the diaper. I can’t wait to get him home and bathe him and get all that dead skin off.

He’s pretty happy about his new car, that’s another thing he comes home from Shriner’s with, a wooden car toy.

So he’s cast free, but he has to wear a brace for 18-20 hours a day, for a couple months. At least he has more wiggle room and can take baths.

I have to convince the kids to leave Shriners, they love the huge play room.

On the way home Carter kept trying to rub off the dead skin.

He was kind of grumpy, I’m sure his muscles were going crazy.

We stopped by Banbury Cross to get him his favorite, donuts.

He’s not letting the brace slow him down.

bath time

He’s had not one, but two baths today.

I love that he can wear pants now!

My clean babies-

Payson Temple

A pan of potatoes like this means one thing, I’m making Grandma Hall’s yummy potato salad. I’m making it for our dinner with the Norris clan tonight. And Carter is “helping me” on the computer. That is why there’s two keyboards out, so we both have one.

We met up with the Norris family for the Payson, Utah temple tour.

The group-

Nancy & Allen and their kids David, Angela and Charlene’s families were there.

Me & my baby

It’s such a neat experience to take your kids through a temple tour, if you haven’t gone to one before, go!

Laun was working, so he missed the tour, but he met up with all of us for dinner at Dwain’s house.