Last nights trick - Back End Splits

This was my first attempt at this catch. It's called "legs" and it is more of a catcher's trick than a flyer's trick. It was a little weird having someone hanging onto your legs while you were flying out into the apron, totally a different sensation that being caught by your hands.

New helmet

He's all set to go now. And he tells me "Mom, this helmet has cool flames, and they will help me go fast." Great...just what I needed to hear.

Thanks, Sonnet

So, last weekend, we went to Tiernan's 4th birthday party. I had to leave early because I had to work, so Gregg stayed with the boys til the party was over and then brought them home. Apparently, some good bags were given at the end of the party. Apparently, said goodie bags had markers in them. Apparently, said markers are NOT washable. No, not apparently, said marker ARE NOT washable, period. Apparently, a certain 2 year old managed to find the ONE that I had not found yet to put up and he decided he need some extra decoration. Babywipes and 2 baths later, the kid is still decorated.

Apparently, he could tell I was less than happy with his decorations (of course while trying not to laugh at him, look at that face, how could you not laugh!)

Gibson's Birthday Dinner

Per our tradition, we took Gibson out to dinner at Red Robin for his birthday. The kids look forward to this and love it!

We opened presents there before coming home for cupcakes. I know, I know, your thinking, "what the sundae they give you is not enough?" Well, no not for my kids, because they don't really eat them. Especially Gibson. He doesn't even TRY it. At least the other kids will eat a couple of bites. I'm not sure how these are Gregg's children since he LOVES dessert. They must be mine, since I can take it or leave it.

Hero Factory from mom and dad. We also got him some Legos that he got to go to the store and pick out.

Lego helicopter from Aunt Wanda and Uncle Steve!

The sundae that Gregg ate.

Cupcakes at HOME! Gibson specifically request *I* make them with neon frosting. So, I did.



Yes, Gibson, another picture, can you at least look like you care? Oh, and where are all the smiles? Sheesh.

Happy Birthday, Gibson!

Happy Birthday, Gibson

Happy 6th Birthday to my sweet baby boy, Gibson! You are such a blessing to our lives. We love your zest for life and your energy and your fun presence! Its never dull when you are around. We love you lots and lots and can't imagine our lives without you.

Couple more trapeze videos from this week

I worked on my back end straddle whip some more this week and it looked so much better!

I'm not exactly sure why this video is blurry but you get the idea. My swing is getting better each week even though its discouraging to not "get it". I will "get it" at some point, I just know! It seems that just as I perfect one thing, something else is wrong or I forget, then I fix that and it is something else. I have to just remind myself that I have only been doing this for 6 weeks and not for years like the other people in my class!

Wook a me, mommy

He was thrilled with himself that he fit on the stairs perfectly!

Early Birthday Present

One of my sisters sent Gibson a birthday present and it arrived yesterday. He couldn't wait to open it, so I had him call her and ask if she would allow him to open it early. Since this was only part of his gift, she said that he could open this one that had arrived, but he had to wait on anything else that arrived until his birthday. She had on condition. I had to take pictures and he had to make sure I took them :). No problem, he was more than happy to go along with this deal.

So, after he got off the phone with her, he opened his present and I took the requested pictures!



G3 really loves presents and so he got in on the action and "helped" Gibson.

You can still see Gibson's face is bothering him and is a bit swollen. He says it hurts to open his mouth too wide or to smile. But, he was THRILLED with his Megazoid that Auntie Kelli sent!


Thanks, Auntie Kelli!

And this, my friends, is why we wear our helmet!

So generally, on a daily basis as long as there is no rain, the boys and I head up to the top of the street to play and ride bikes. I usually hang with the other mommas while the kids are tearin' it up. This is nothing new...but today, we were the only ones out there and Gibson was riding around on his bike like normal and was about 10 feet from me, when he went down, and went down hard. I'm still not quite sure how it happened. I *think* his foot slipped or somehow got caught because he fell over sideways and landed on his face/side of his head. His head actually bounced. By the time I got him untwined from his bike, he was screaming. I have never heard him scream like that before. I asked him what hurt and he was screaming about his head. He was bleeding from the road rash and his mouth had some blood in it and his nose was running and it had some blood in it, so, I grabbed all our stuff, yelled at the 2 littler boys to head to the neighbor's house so that I didn't have to take them to the ER with me. I got Gibson's helmet off and him in the car and we headed out.

We got to the ER which is thankfully only about 10 minutes away and we went right back to a room. They checked him out and the doctor ordered a CT Scan to make sure that there was no bleeding in his head. He didn't feel that they would find any, but since he cracked his helmet (in 2 places! eeek) he wanted to be certain. So, we waited to do that.

You can see that Gibson wasn't feeling well in the picture below. He kept saying his head hurt. He also told me he was really tired so we were worried about concussion. Thankfully, there was no bleeding in his head and everything seemed to be ok. The doctor told me he probably had a very mild concussion and to watch him for the next 24 hours and wake him every 3-4 hours during the night. The paperwork we were sent home with said that he just had a head injury and not a concussion, so I'm not exactly sure if he had a mild concussion or not but, I'm not taking any chances and I am still going to watch him and wake him in the night.

Of course, pictures never do owies justice, but you can see it has started to really look worse and I do think he might have a black eye once the bruising starts to set in.


These are not great pictures but you can kinda see where he cracked/dented the helmet. We will be buying a new one and will be getting the same brand/kind because I feel that this helmet really did its job in protecting my kids noggin and taking the brunt of his impact. I can't imagine what would have happened if he didn't have his helmet on. This is reason #1 that all of my children wear their helmets *at all times* when they are riding bikes or scooters and any other kid riding on *my* bikes or scooters are required to also wear a helmet.

Kindergarten Graduation

Today my oldest G-Man graduated from Kindergarten. I can't believe I am going to have a 1st grader next year. It seriously seems like I JUST had him. Who said he could be so big and grow up so fast?

Not all the teachers do a graduation. Luckily, Gibson's teacher did something :) He has had a great year this year and we couldn't have asked for a better teacher. She was so wonderful with Gibson and all the kids.

Gibson getting his certificate.


a little bit of boredom started to set in.

One of the moms put together a memory book from the year. It is really nice and a great thing to have.

Gibson and his teacher, Ms. England.


They also sang 2 cute songs, so, here is the video of those!

Trapeze Videos

Here are a few of my most recent videos from my trapeze class. I am really really loving doing this every week. It's a total blast! I can't wait to learn even more stuff and get better at things.

This is my swing. This is the single hardest thing to learn in trapeze. My swing is so very far from perfect but each week it gets better, so that is good.

This trick is called back end straddle whip

This is me doing the back end straddle whip for a catch!

More Cama Beach

These pictures are from Su's camera and are in totally random order :)

Fixing the fishing pole for probably the 187th time.

Gregg and Josh did some fly fishing while we were there!










Gregg and Josh telling fish tales.

Cama Beach

Last weekend our friends, The Gows were camping up at Cama Beach and so a few weeks back they invited us to spend the day with them on Saturday. We (mostly me) really needed some downtime after a particular crazy week. I hadn't seen much of Gregg and was just running running running, so I was really happy we were going to do this and get to just veg! Su had texted me that morning that it was chilly, so I dressed for colder weather and was very pleasantly surprised when the sun came out and I was actually HOT and over dressed. Go figure.

The boys thought they were in heaven getting to run up and down the beach and play with their fishing poles.


Garrison, however, stayed behind the break wall and hung out with Su and I. He's still a bit too young for my comfort level with the water. Grady is borderline, but he doesn't get it in and has a healthy fear so I let him walk down there as long as I could see him.


Su gave G3 a squirt bottle to keep him entertained. Best.idea.ever. He was running around squirting everything and saying "squirt squirt squirt" so cute.

The view...This ones for you, Dennis ;)


Su and I hanging out and chatting.






Gibson and Heather playing on the logs. I love how they are holding hands. So sweet.



The boys watching H & G1

"squirt squirt squirt momma"

Gibson lost his float off the end of his fishing pole and so the guys were trying to find it. Gregg spotted it but there was no getting it back.

Even though there was much discussion about it.



Grady had some serious sagging going on.

The whole lot of us.

Walking out of the campground. You can't drive down there so you either have to take the shuttle or hike in and out. The shuttle stopped running at 5:30pm this day and it was about 7:00pm, so we were hiking up and out. I carried Grady the whole way on my back while G3 walked the entire thing. Someone worked themself a really good deal and it wasn't me.

Gibson stayed the night with Josh, Su and Heather, so he didn't have to hike out with us. I have some pictures from Su, I just need to download them, those will be in the next post :)