Going on a trip

We went on a trip to visit family and to go for a special event. I'm so glad we could go and be there for that.

This was my nieces Birthday party.  It was at a really cool park that was surrounded by landing stripes where airplanes and helicoptors were taking off and landing the whole time it was so cool! *This post is purposely being kept unspecific*

Silly Alyssa

This post really has no purpose other then to show my adorable little Sissy! She was being so cute at dinner one night and was being silly! Love that little cutie!

Easter

Easter Sunday is always a great day to spend with family. We had some of my family over for lunch and then we headed over to the hakes for dinner. We had an egg hunt at both places! (This year we decided to try to do more meaningful Easter type of things that would help the kids think about Easter for what it really is and focus on Jesus in a memorable way for little kids. So I worked off some posts from pinterest and they were the best ever! Most of them focused on one verse in the scriptures that was easy to follow and had something hands on for them to do. We recreated the Storm that surrounded Jesus' boat and tried to instantly make it stop, we blind folded the kids and let them walk around to see what it was like to be "Blind" and then talked about Jesus healing the blind man, Had the kids break and share a tiny Swedish fish and a cracker and ask them if they were full (talked about Jesus feeding the multitude), we also made Resurrection rolls. You take a large marshmallow (represents Jesus body) roll in butter and then roll in cinnamon sugar (cleansing the body and I think putting spices and herbs, I cant remember something like that) Then you roll them up in a crescent roll (the tomb) and bake and when the rolls come out they are hallow, the tomb is empty. I'm probably forgetting something but we had a lot of fun with these activities and my kids talked and talked about Jesus so much. Very sweet and it definitely brought it to there level! We'll be doing it again next year! Love Easter!

Easter Sunday over at the Hakes!

White Sands for Spring Break

Over spring break I tried my best to keep my little my munchkins busy so we decided to go to white sands on day. We also invited my mom and any of Connie's kids that wanted to come. So it was Cindy, Sarah and Anna that came along. So I want to say that I checked the weather ahead of time and it looked like perfect weather. It was I think like high 70's low 80's with a slight breeze sounded perfect to me. I'll admit though that it was definitely on the warm side. We still has fun we played for a few hours and had lunch and headed home around lunch time. I think White sands in my favorite in the evening but we still had a lot of fun!

We got the FLU!

We got the flu, yeah, you know the flu you get vaccined against every year, which yes we did all recieve. It started with Alyssa, then Troy and lastly Hailey. We got what is called "Flu A" It is different then the flu you may be thinking of. There is no vomiting involved but it does invovle a very high fever for many days and lathgick sad kids for many days. My poor kiddos! At least they took turns so I could just focuse on the sick one! Since Alyssa got it the Doctor persribed a medicine that could be taken if you had it or if you were exposed to is. So she wrote one up for each of my kids. Come to find out each one was over $100 even with our insurance. So we decided to just get them as we needed but that turned out to be a be mistake because we could have avoided the others being sick all together if we had started them on the medicine right away. The other sad thing that happen with this was Troy was taking a nap with josh under thick blankets and after a bit Josh was yelling for me to come and I came in to find him with his eyes rolled back in his head and his body wierdly twitching. Super scary. We quick checked his temp and it was 106.?? Who can remember the rest just that 106 is crazy freakish high. He was having a ferviabal seasure. We called 911 but I was not calm enough to talk to them so Josh took over, I ran him over to the neighbors house as they are pedatric nurses but they were not home. Luckily having him out in the cool breeze was probably the best thing I could have done for him. He started to come around and the firemen showed up to check him out. He was down to 103 by the time they got there and so we decided to stay on top of the Tylnol/Ibprophen and never miss to keep them over lapping eachother and keep a VERY close eye on him at home. WE didn't have anymore porblems but that was very scary! Really hope we don't ever get the flu again!

Hailey's birthday party

Hailey had her birthday party at Cruces gymnastics. She invited a lot of her girl friends and all the girls in her class. Of course Troy and Alyssa had a lot of fun with this too! We also did a family party at our home the Sunday after her Birthday! It was really fun for her! Happy Birthday Hailey!