In other news . . .

There were fireworks going off, so the kids climbed up on the roof to watch.  See, we allow kids on the roof, but only if you can jump off on to the trampoline to get down.

Yeah, we are awesome like that.  

The fireworks were wonderful.  That is Annie, Cassie, James, Jason, and Thomas.  Note that Becca is missing.  One time she jumped off and kept going and she landed on a metal lawn chair, so she stayed off and sat on the driveway with me.  There is no way I will jump off the roof, no way.  Sadly for her, after the fireworks, she was walking off the trampoline so the kids could get off.  Notice I said walking, not even jumping or flipping, or twisting.  She stepped on her ankle bone instead of the bottom of her foot.  Yep, we spent the rest of this night in the ER.  It was just a severe sprain.  The ER was super busy so we spent our time talking to someone who lived in our house last and Aunt Megan. Thank heavens for Aunt Megan, she is the reason Becca got any ice.  We were there for 4 hours and never even got a room.  Anyway, here is Becca's poor ankle.  It got much bluer and ickier than this.  

She was on crutches and had no ankle bones for days.  She is a trooper and doing a lot better now.  

Have a great night, and be careful walking off the trampoline.  

Oh and by the way, no children were hurt jumping off the roof, this time.  

Here is the main reason I became horrible at blogging.

These 2 babies are my little demon handfuls.  

Yes, they look sweet and innocent.  But this is during naptime.  (By the way, Cassie had given them old men hairstyles.  They are in an awkward growing out hair phase.  Josh has a horribly high forehead and I think Jonah will look cute with a Jason haircut.  So we are struggling a bit here.)

  

This is what is going on.  

So, there you go.  I am exhausted.  If I try to make them stay in bed, I spend 5 hours and 25 mins between naps and bedtime doing the super nanny tricks.  Now, I just give up and let them play.  They sleep when it gets too dark to play.  They fall asleep on the floor.  They wake up at the butt crack of dawn.  They are tired and ornery all day. 

Motherhood is awesome.      

Ok, so I got in trouble.

I got an email from my sister getting after me for not blogging.  My daughter asked me if I was looking something up and I said "no, I'm blogging."  She said "yeah".  So I guess I should get back to blogging.  I didn't know if anyone even read this, I guess 2 do.  ha ha.  Oh, but I did lose 2 followers after my last mormon post.  So I guess I should be thanking the 25 that stayed.  

So to say thank you, here is a photo.  We watched woman in black with my niece and nephew, Spencer and Kylie.  

How is that for creepy woman in black outfit???  

Oh wait, it's just James.