I tell you what...

This month has been crazy with our dog! He's putting us through the rounds. It all started 2 weeks ago when I found a little post-it note from Kayley that said, "I think you're dog has worms. He's got white rice looking stuff near his bum. You should check his poop for more rice looking stuff, that's a good indicator."

I TOTALLY FREAKED OUT! GROSS!!!!!!!! Carson never had worms that I knew about, so this is new territory for me. I did my online research and we got some drugs at Petco which seemed to help. So, crisis averted.

Then, about 2 days after the worm issue, I find another post-it note from Kayley that said, "Your dog has a weird lesion on his front right paw." Awesome! I thought. So, I go grab the dog and low-and-behold, there's a chickpea sized wound that's really swollen with a slice down the center. Great. We couldn't afford to take Hinckley to the vet before, and I still can't take him in, so we're just waiting and hope it heals itself...

So, now it's been about a week and a half. Yesterday evening we took Kayley and James for a drive to see Zion, and when we got home Hinckley runs out to me like usual, but his tail whipped my leg and I felt something wet. I asked Matt why his tail was wet and Matt looked around in the house and says, "Maybe it's because there's a huge pile of diarrhea in here."

Yeah, GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and the smell............

I can't believe Matt didn't catch a wiff right away because I could smell it before I got to the doorway. UGH! So we mopped up the juice spots all over the tile and Kayley and James broke out their carpet cleaner..... Needless to say, it was disgusting!!!!!!

So, Hinckley's been banned to the backyard until Matt gets home from work and gives him a bath. I can't muscle him well enough to do it myself. I just hope and pray this is the end of Hinckley's issues for the year.... knock on wood.

Haircut Day

It was totally past due date for Haircut Day! Matt was a shaggy dude, and Beau's hair was sticking out over his ears. James and I worked together to give these studmuffins a new do. Matt wanted his ultra short and Beau got a mohawk. Sweet! I'm gonna leave it for a while. He's too cute with it!

Here's the 3 boys after Beau's cut was done.

Kayley and I decided we wanted in on the action, so we went online and got virtual cuts. Yep, we're dorks. :)

I think Kayley looks like a celebrity with this hairstyle. Jerk. I'm the fatty in the other pic.

The Demo Derby

Beau started to get excited once the cars came out. I don't blame him, we sat in the crowd for over an hour before the festivities started. Kayley and James met up with us and we saw some pretty awesome stuff.


Kayley caught some video of a van "jumping" some rocks. It rocked! (guffaw!)

Van jumping rocks

Free Lawn Care, Baby!

Matt and James Campbell outside maintaining the lawn for us. Thanks boys! Thanks to Kayley as well for keeping them in line... ;)

Not quite 16 candles, Babe, sorry... ;)

It's 26 candles, actually.

One year older and wiser too! And cuter, and stronger, and funnier, and friendlier, and hunkier if you ask me. But I'm biased. :) Happy Birthday hubby!

We had a blast at his parent's only Lego party! We played "Pin the flag on the Lego Castle", had a "Lego Tower Building Contest", a "Guess How Many Lego's are in the Jar Contest", and we even did a "Lego Birthday Wordsearch". And, to wrap it all up, we had a Lego cake and Lego fruit snacks. Whoo! I'm Lego'd out!

If you'd like to see more pics from the party feel free to watch this slideshow! :)

That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. -Wm Shakespeare

Sonnet 18
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date."

-William Shakespeare

These beautiful flowers grew in our yard this summer. Just wanted to share.

The LIED children's museum in Vegas

Rachelle, Connie, and I all travelled to Las Vegas on July 29th to visit the LIED children's museum. It was a very interesting experience besides Connie getting a little lost and me directing her to us over the phone. The museum wasn't too exciting. They had some neat exhibits, but it's not a draw to go back again. Here's a bunch of pics I took of Beau and some of the group.

At first, all Beau wanted to do was climb on the bleachers.

Beau and cousin, Geraldine, in the playhouse.

The climbing/sliding contraption (that's truly the only explanation for it,) was a BIG hit for Beau.

Of course he was all over anything that had wheels. Here they had wheel barrows for collecting "rocks" that were to be used in the mining exhibit.

One little monkey jumping on the bed....

Smith's Grocery had a store exhibit where kids could shop and buy and sale goods. The apron was a bit too big for Beau. Oh well.

Rachelle and Geraldine, The Daredevil, in the hurricane chamber. I took Beau in it and he totally flipped out. It went up to like 70mph wind. A very strange feeling altogether if you ask me.

The special exhibit was about refugee's. We constructed a refugee tent together. I have no idea how anyone could live like that. We are so blessed!

Beau was totally engaged by this particular toy house. He kept telling me what some of the items were, i.e. "chair, momma!" or "dat door!", etc. And he kept bouncing in glee, thus the tippy toe position.

Behind the above toy house was a step that the kids could climb on to look inside the other side of the house. It was SO ornate! Anyway, suddenly Beau recognized his reflection in the glass and went in for a smooch. I was lucky to get this pic. I thought it was so cute!