New Members of the (motorcycle) Family

We have a few new members in the family.  The motorcycle family, that is.  Thanks to Clair, now everyone has a bike to ride, in just the right size!  It is so fun to ride and the kids really gain a lot from it.  We cannot thank Clair enough for providing this for our family.

The red Hondas are new.  Clair found a Honda 70 not far from us, so we picked it up.  He found a Honda 100 a few days before, so it was waiting for us when we got there.  Kate graduated from Charley to the 70, and Joe moved up from the Kawasaki 110 to the Honda 100.  The 100 is a lot taller and has a clutch.  Allen and Joe "figured out" that they have the same top speed but the 100 is faster off the start (because of the clutch).  Ali is loving having Charley all to herself.  I had to remind her to slow it down a little.  The only dilema now is what to name them (Kate is working on it).

Kate on the new 70.

Mini Vans, who know?!

Joe on the new 100.

Ali and Charley (50)

Mixing it up!

This is going up on the living room wall!

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This Made Me Laugh

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Josiah's First Stitches

WARNING:  Graphic images below (Seriously- it's gross).

So I got "the call" again on Wednesday.  I get it at least once a year for Josiah and every other year for Kate.  It goes something like this:  "Hello. This is the school.  We got the bleeding stopped but we think you need to come and see this."  Really?  He doesn't even have recess anymore.  Ah, but he does have P.E. and they play hockey.  I really should not have been surprised.  They were just were warming up and he got hit in the head WITH A HOCKEY STICK (not even close to the goal OR THE PUCK!).  Freak accident.  In his own words (spoken pretty sarcastically) "It was pretty heroic".  Actually he was pretty heroic because he tried not to get any blood on the ice.  Which was his friends first question to him "Did you get any blood on the ice?".  Well, second question actually.  The first question was "What happened?". He was headed to the bathroom to clean himself up when the skate guards "tackled him".  He said they pretty much picked him up, carried him to a bench and layed him down.  Then (Josiah's words) "had at it with band aids, scissors and not sure what else they used".  Head wounds bleed a lot.  Josiah said he was covered with blood.  He said it took a while to clean up.  He still looked pretty messy when I saw him.  When I got there, he had a rather large band aid across his head.  They told me he needed stitches.  I asked if I could look at it first. Our Pediatrician was able to stitch him back together.  It was a first for us.  Our Doctor asked how he had made it this long without getting stitches.  Josiah answered "Streri-strips and Butterfly bandages".  In fact, on the way to the doctors office Josiah asked if Uncle William was around to day.  Will has patched him up before and has done a very good job (minimal scarring).  All in all, it was quite the day- 5 stitches.  At least I got to spend some quality time with Josiah while we waited for his head to go numb!



BEFORE

 It doesn't look too bad but it was pretty deep.  I used my phone so you can't see the gruesome details.  I forgot my camera.  What kind of mom am I?  I guess I just heard "head wound" and didn't think about the camera.  I did call the pediatricians office and my sister, Vicki, on my way out the door though.




AFTER



Kates horse riding lessons

We have found a great riding lesson for Kate.  She has been a few times and is really enjoying it.

This is the indoor arean where she rides.  It is a really nice facility.  The open door off to the left is where the stables are. 

Stables

They have these cute miniture ponies.  Kate doesn't ride them.

This is the horse Kate rides.  He is a sixteen year old quarter horse.  His name is Skiz.  He has been great!

Yesterday was Kates first time roping.  She really liked it and picked it up pretty quick.

Boots

These are Kates new boots. 

One of the ironies of my blog is that the more I have to blog about, the less time I have to blog.  We have done so much this summer that I haven't had a lot of time to write about it.  I'm going to try to write about all we have done, but it won't be in chronological order.

Last weekend, the kids and I went to Mom and Dads.  It was a great weekend!  Kate "had to" get in the river because she had ants "all over her".  The kids stayed up late every night playing tag and ghost in the graveyard with Tyler.  We all got together for dinner and laughed a lot!  It was the typical weekend at Grandma's and Grandpa's.  Of course we all missed having G'ma and G'pa there. 

Vicki made the best birthday card for Mom and Cody on smilebox.  The movie (below) is when we were taking the pictures for the card.  (I thought you would like a "behind-the-scenes" look, Mom.  Love ya!)