Tyler's 911 call and 1st Ambulance Ride

As you can see we had quite the scare yesterday. It was just after 7pm, and I was sitting on the patio watching the boys play. Tyler was up walking on the ledge on our patio and he fell off landing straight on his head. I screamed and then ran and picked him up and noticed the deep gash in his head. I knew it was going to get real bad since with head injuries you have a lot of blood. I grabbed the phone and called 911 to get an ambulance out, and there was blood everywhere, it was just running out all over him and me. Carter got our next door neighbor Keith who is a police officer and he helped me get him laying on his side and what to do. I didn't realize that we have a 10 minute response time. They made it in about 7 min. That was scary. The paramedics and fire dept got his carseat out of the van and they strapped that to the gurney and then took us to the closest hospital. Good old Hemet Valley Medical Center. It was busy there, and I kid you not, they took him off the gurney in his carseat and placed him on a chair in the GENERAL WAITING ROOM where we stayed for almost 3 hours. Unbelieveable. That's a story in itself. He got 4 staples in his head and he has been a real trooper. He's home with us now taking it easy.

Incriminating Photo of Brian #3

As many of you know, Brian says that he can fall asleep practically anywhere. So I have had fun over the years documenting this incriminating yet funny evidence. There was the famous falling asleep on the ottoman, falling asleep on the wood floor - and this one gets both - he fell asleep on the wood floor with his feet ON the ottoman last night. I had to threaten him with pulling his ankles across the wood floor to our bedroom before he would get up.

This is SO fun to do! Now I guess I better show Brian what I did. :-)

Tyler's New Body Art

This is why I believe in ONLY washable markers for kids! I was going through real estate paperwork and catching up on email at the kitchen table when lo and behold, Tyler emerged from my craft room with some pretty cool artwork.... on himself. I THOUGHT (first mistake) he was watching Derek play a computer game. As much as I believe in only having washable markers which are SO worth the extra buck, I must admit we do have sharpies from Brian's work around the house, all of which SHOULD be out of reach. Emily Watts, a popular book author states that parents who have Sharpies in the house deserve whatever they get. I hope we never have to post that one on a blog... "knock on wood"....

Twister with Grandma!

Derek showing off his cool moves





My mom came down to our place on Sunday on their way from Utah to San Diego to say hi to us and the grandkids. Kristin and my mom were making a trip to get the rest of Kristin's stuff moved up to Utah. Grandma was a great sport and accepted an invitation by Carter to play Twister.





Kristin played "airplane" with the boys too. Brian came home just in time from another church meeting in time to say hello and visit with my mom and kristin too.





It made for a fun Sunday afternoon!

Little Boys + Dirt = Lots of MUD

While we were outside organizing the garage, carter and derek decided to make "waterfalls" in the dirt.... aka a muddy mess. Of course Derek always takes it a step further and really got into it. The poor kid got a cold hose clean-off before he was allowed into the house, but hey, that's what you get when you're in the mud! Boys will be boys....

Honey... Repair the sink please!

Well, our faucet bit the dust, it decided that it would only spray out the back and drain underneath, so Brian went out and did his "man job" and exchanged it at lowes for another and reinstalled another one. He hates any kind of plumbing jobs, but he was flying out to the Bay area for a work conference and we would of been without a sink for about 4 days. Tyler decided he would be the "light man" and would help daddy see better with a glowstick. I thought it was so cute!