Good Food, Good Friends, and Good Times...

Tonight we had some friends over for dinner...It's was kinda a last minute thing we started planning last night at my pampered chef party...Arah and Matt came over with their 2 kiddos and Lindsey and Sam came over with their 4 kiddos...Then you add Jeff's brother Mike, Jeff and I and our 4 kiddos that makes a lot of people in our little house...The adults were out numbered by the kids but I think we all had a great time...The Girls played Littlest Pet Shop and had a little musical group going...The boys ran around crazy and just had a good time...Jeff and the guys watched Top Gear on the big screen while Arah, Lindsey and I watched Love Comes Softly up stairs...We had a great dinner that went off great with little planning...Lindsey made amazing brownies...All in All it was Good Food, Good Friends, and Good Times...

the joys of childhood illness

All 3 of the boys are dealing with some kind of illness and there isn't a whole lot we can do...At our house we have had Fifths Disease, Moleska Warts, and Impetigo all this week...Hayden and Xander both woke up Tuesday morning with Fifths Disease...for those of you that haven't had the joy of having it, it is a rash all over your body with a low grade fever...very contagous but not dangerous unless you are pregnant...Tuesday i took Skyler to the doctor because he had a few open sores...one on his back and 2 on his legs...We covered them with band aids because i had a feeling they were Impetigo (it's a staf infection on your skin)...Tuesday when we took the band aids off at the doctor's office he had had a really bad reaction to the band aid also...the sore on his back was indeed Impetigo but the 2 on his legs were infected Moleska Warts...We knew he had these warts but have been waiting to treat them until his dry skin cleared up...The doctor decided to freeze all his warts off, most of witch were in hid little butt crack...he had over 25...poor kid he was crying and screaming so hard...The doctor put him on antibiotics and we got a new cream for his skin and told us NO more band aids...now Hayden and Xander have little spots of impetigo...AHHHH...It's like a never ending circle...luckily we have lots of meds to cover them all...The Fifths Disease is gone now and the warts are starting to scab up...the Impetigo is looking better....its just a good thing we have already had Chicken Pox here...oh well i guess ill just take it a day at a time...

Here is Xan Tuesday morning...his little face is covered in rash...

Haydens face was just as bad...and his chest...

this is Skyler's back..the spot in the middle is Impetigo...the spots on the side are from the band aid...this is after they had started to heal...the band aid marks on his leg are really bad...sorry no pics of his warts except the one on his lower back in this picture...

cute senior

"It's Like learning to ride a bike."

Yesterday we went to Healthy Kids Day at the YMCA...The kids got T-shirts and Free Bike Helmets...So of course they wanted to ride their bikes as soon as we got home...Hayden doesn't have a bike yet but he has a scooter that Jeff transformed from a princess scooter to a cool boy scooter with a little spray paint...Hayden loves to ride it like a big boy in the street...

Here is Hayden putting his scooter away...(that's why he doesn't have his helmet on)

Skyler got this bike about 2 years ago but has only ridden it about 4 times...last summer our road was under construction so the kids never got to ride their bikes...He is still a little wobbly on 2 wheels...

Ashlynn has been wanting to ride without training wheels for sometime now but hasn't been brave enough to try on the street...Yesterday she ventured out onto the road and taught herself how to ride...NOT with our a few scrapes though...

She is ready to get back out there tomorrow and try again...(wearing long pants and long sleeves of course)...

Easter

We had a great Easter...After Church we went to Jeff's Moms house for a rainy Easter egg hunt and dinner...they kids had a great time...The food was wonderful..

Here is a quick picture of the kids before we changed them into their Easter egg hunting clothes...We are getting family pics taking with these same outfits so you will be seeing more soon...

happy Keester......

I tryed to get Jeff to let me take a picture of his butt for my easter card but had no luck...any ways Happy Keester to all....