Marissa gotta love her.........

Marissa is an interesting child. You either love her or hate her. The problem is when Marissa loves you too much. Just ask the new boy on the block. Marissa calls him Shane "Kiss me" Jackson. Her Book of Mormon has I love Shane written on the outside.

Last night she told Nicole that she kissed him.
Nicole said "where did you kiss him?"
Marissa said "at the church party"
Nicole "No where"
Marissa " at the party Friday"
Nicole "what part of his body?"
Marissa "Oh, on his neck while he was running away"

Poor Shane he doesn't have a chance. He only moved in last month and he is painfully shy. He now has the most out going girl chasing him.

Last week as I was getting ready for pack meeting i walked past the toy room and found Leo our 5lb dog on the top bunk. I quickly yelled get that dog down from there. My mistake was not telling her how to get him down. She figured he would love to jump onto the pillows like the rest of the kids. She picked him and tossed him onto the pillows on the floor. Needless to say Leo broke his leg. He is doing well and only slightly limps after almost two weeks.

Have you met my baby?

This is the new addition to our family. The kids are starting to call him Mom's baby. His name is Leo. We looked for weeks online looking for a dog. We were not looking to buy a Yorkie, but when a friend said they knew of a great dog we got excited. We fell in love with him and have not had one regret.

Last week My sister had a baby and when I told Derek Aunt Lolly has a new baby he said "Like Leo?" Nope Lolly has a real Baby. He is almost as cute as Leo.

Another visit to the insta care.

Monday night Dallen was petting a cat and a dog started to attack the cat. Dallen got bitten by the cat. For you information cats have sharp teeth and their mouths are full of bacteria. 80% of all cat bites get infected. You need to clean the wound well then be put on antibiotics.

At 8 pm the cat bite Dallen. By 8:30 David had done an Internet search to find that 3 out of 4 websites said you need to get on Antibiotics within 8 hours. I started to take Dallen to the Highland insta care but of course it closed at 8. I remembered that Alpine pediatrics had after hours so David called to tell them we were coming. I made the mistake of Driving by the temple and going over the speed limit. The police officer was not influenced by my crying son and took his time writing the ticket.

The good news was that Alpine peds was not busy and got us right in. The Dr. was very nice and took good care of Dallen. She even got us to the one pharmacy that was open past 9pm.

We started today with Dallens Birthday party. The party started at 9:30 am we went to a kids movie at the cinamark. It is nice to have it over by noon and still have the whole day ahead of us.

Dallen still has cub camp on Thursday. They are shooting bb guns and bow and arrows, so there is still a chance that we could end up in the insta care again.

What a Saturday

It all started out simple enough. Mom and I went to our quilt block of the month class at Just Sew. Then we went home and got ready to leave for Woods Cross and Emily's Baptism. We left in plenty of time and avoided The freeway mess by taking 215. We spent our time getting lost trying to find the stake center and walked in just as the meeting was starting. It was a nice Baptism. The talks we so fast I didn't even have time to get board.

After the Baptism Danny took us to Moochies. This restaurant is a Dive on 8th south 2nd east. They have amazing sandwiches. Philli cheese steak and meatball are there specialty. I walked in and it was a small house converted to a restaurant is was so small that you had to go out the door and eat in the house next door. It reminded me of San Francisco and made me a bit homesick.

Nicole went Home with Danny and Natalie to play games and I took the little kids home and a sandwich for David. I made plans to pick up Nicole from Danny later. Just as I was walking out the door at 7:45 to get Nicole. Dallen comes in crying. He ran over his middle finger on his rip stick. I put Dallen in the car and headed to the highland instacare. It closed at 5pm. I called Danny to find out where the Riverton one was and just my luck it was just a few blocks from him. I figured that with the drive I could figure out if Dallen was really hurt. If he stop ed crying I could pick up Nicole and we could head home. He didn't stop crying during the 30 minute car ride. He didn't stop crying the hour wait. He even shook like he was in shock. 2 and a half hours after the accident and 3 xrays later we found it wasn't broken and he ended up with a splint. I am glad I took him because of his anxiety I think he needed to hear that from the Doctor before he could calm down. He was a little concerned about having a splint on his finger because it is his middle finger and he doesn't want to flip anyone off.

We got Nicole from Danny's and headed home. We made it home by 10:30. We were all so tired that there was no trouble getting anyone to go to bed.

I think we are going to find someone to give Dallen some Rip Stick lessons because you shouldn't be able to run over your own finger on a Rip Stick. Someone Else's yes, but not yours. Leave it to Dallen.

My first SVG

I know I am a Jill of all trades but a master of none. My new hobby has been making SVGs to cut things on my Cricut. I have the program SCAL that alows me to cut things without buying all the expensive cartridges that Cricut tries to sell. With the help of my friend Tylynn we converted a jpeg to this file that can be cut and used on a card or Scrapbook page. Here is a link to the file if you have SCAL.

Sorry, I can't figure out how to post a link to the file sharing so until then If you want it email me. (I guess that is what I will have to master next)

New Chapter in the Shumway home.

I thought this day would never come. I have been hoping for it. I have been planning for it. Last night no one wet the bed. This is huge. In April I had 3 kids in diapers at night. I knew one of them was just being lazy but I was not sure the other 2 were ready. I figured that I would let the older 2 just wet the bed and hopefully they would figure it out. They did. It took a little longer for Dallen. HE would wet the bed get up change his jammies and get in bed with Derek. It has been over a week sense Dallen wet the bed last.

Last Night Derek noticed that Dallen doesn't wear a diaper anymore and said he did not need one anymore. I figured at the worst I would have to get up and change his bed but he got up this morning and was dry. He was also very happy that he had done it. I have bought diapers for 15 of the last 17 years. I can't wait to see where I can spend that money now.

Mountain Ridge Jr high art show.

Courtney took first place at Mountain Ridge JR high art show. She won in Photography. She was given $100 gift card to Allen's Camera.
She also gets to be in the Alpine School District JR High art show. Her photo was on display at the SCERA Center for the arts. The exhibition ran March 20-31.

This is the Second time Courtney has entered a photo in a contest and won. In sixth grade she made to to district with a photo of her favorite place. Her Photography teacher has enjoyed teaching her and talked her into using the photo she won with.

When asked about her inspiration she said "I was asleep and woke up at 130 am and realised i had an assignment due the next day. So I went down to the fridge and got an apple. I took it up and Marissa was asleep so i set it on my nightstand. The lighting was bad so I put my lamp by it. She noticed the crumbs but thought they would make a nice contrast to the apple." She calls it inspiration, I call it desperation, but what ever works.

Courtney and Grandma went to Allen"s cameras with her $100 gift card. Courtney picked out a nice 10mp camera and for her birthday Grandma paid the difference so she got a new camera now I can have mine back.

Jill