WHAT A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!

Well we had a great weekend. I have posted a bunch of photos, but most were taken with my phone, so they are not real good pictures of good quality, sorry. Well Thom did start to feel a little bit better, as you can tell by this picture, actually this picture was taken before it got real bad, this is a pretty mild picture. It looks a lot worse then this pictre, but the swelling is beginning to go down, and he is able to walk around more.

So on Firday I was able to go out with my girlfreind and play for a bit. I took the baby with me, my mom and school had Kaiden and kayla, and Thom took Nic and Ry to work with him and they played there while he sat in his office(with his foot elevated) and worked on packets. I went shopping all day, and then my best friend took Will home with her while I went and got my nails and hair done:) So things turned out okay after all:) We got our taxes back and payed off all of our debt(our credit cards and personal loans)and then decided to go play a little bit. So first thing Saturday morning we drove to Mesquite, it is only a 45 minute drive into Nevada, but it seems like a lot further, and it is fun to just go there and 'chill', we try to go at least once a month, and during the spring, summer, and fall, we try to go at least once every other month for at least 2 nights, just two get away and play. So we took my parents to breakfast there on Saturday morning. We always go to the Virgin River for breakfast, they have a real nice 'cowboy restruarnt', as my kids call it, and the breakfast is fairly cheap but real good. And they have a fountain out front that the kids love to play in, it was not as fun this time cause it was only like 52 degrees, but the kids genreally leave there SOAKED! This was Will's first experience to really play in it. Here are those photos.

Grandpa and Will
Kaiden, Nic, and Kayla, trying to decide if they are brave enough to get wet in these cold temperatures:)
Grandma and a wounded Thom(see his 'cane', LOL)
All four of them decide to just put a hand in and test it out. But Will was arms deep in it, he loved it:)

The we headed to Lee's. And we stocked up on alcohol! Now this is a bad parent picture but Will LOVED riding in the cart with Grandpa puching him, he just stood there and laughed the whole time. Now that looks like a lot of alcohol, but we only stock up like this every few months, and we have lots of parties at our house.

Then we drove home, and then it was time to go out with our good friends, the Herpins and Hirschi's, to Fiesta Fun. Fiesta Fun is a indoor/outdoor, activity land. It is very ghetto, but the kids have a blast, and you just gotta watch your kids, which you normally would anyway, so we don't mind going here that much. The kids love it. We played in the soft play first, Will loved this, they hada little slide just his size.

Kayla and Will going down the slide
Nic 'helping' Will down the slideWill and his 'little' friend Ezra playing together on the slide.Ezra made it up, but Will is still struggling:)Finally made it to the top with Dad's help, and is LOVIN it!Will had so much fun in the soft play land!

Then we decided to brave the weather outdoors(the wind was picking up in antcipation for the storm that would hit us on Sunday). And we went on the go-carts. Now none of our children were tall enough to be the 'driver', so Thom had to take each one of them on their own turn, which of course being the kid that he is, he had no problem with:)

Daddy going with Kaiden.




You can not tell in this picture, but coming down the lane, there is Thom and Nic in the lead, followed by Maria and kayla, Greg and Ziggy, followed by Mike and Bella.

Coming around the bend.

Time for the second teams to go, this is Kayla with our friend Maria. She was nice enough to go with both girls, cause they begged her, they just love her so much!:) I was on baby patrol, I had Will and Ezra, the whole time.

So we had a great day playing on Saturday.

Sunday was another story! We woke up to the pouring rain, and it was beginning to turn slushy as we drove to church that morning. But being in southern Utah, we just assumed it would pass over us and clear up. But by Superbowl time, it was a snow storm! We went to our freinds, Jeff and Kathie's for a Superbowl party, and they live up near the mountain, actually on the side going up it, and the snow was really coming down there, by the end of the first quater there was probably 2 inches on the ground, which is not a lot but for where we live it is A LOT! And then it happend, half way through the second quarter, the cable went out! Needless to say, the guys were very angry:) They went outside to try to clean off the dish and try to get it working again, but to no avail. So we all decided to head to our house, we only live about 4 miles away, but supposedly on that side of town the cable was still working. So we load up the kids and head out. All but Jeff and Kathie and Cory, cause the guys are firemen, and were on call, so they could not be that far away from the fire station, which was only 1/4 mile from where we were at originally. So we got to our house, and the cable did not work, but Thom hobbled outside and cleaned off our dish and it turned back on:), but by this time it was half time, and the score was still the same, so we did not miss much! The snow kept coming down and the kdis were playing in the front yard as the adults watched the game.

Building their snowman
Tiara, Kayla, Nic and Ry and their snowman.

After the AMAZING victory for the Giants!!! WAHOOOO!!!!!! We had a huge snowball fight, it was so much fun!

Charlie geeting Casey good!
But looks like she recovered alright:)

Yep lots of fun!

So we had an amazingly wonderful weekend, even though it looked like it was going to be a rough one. I guess amazing things CAN happen when you let go and let God!:)