Major catch-up!! September, 2012

September 24 we celebrated Kara's birthday and also the birth of Kade and Jessica's baby boy Mac!

He has turned into the sweetest baby and I hope he stays that way.  Molly is thrilled to be a big sister and is especially good with him.

 

New toy

I don't really know if anyone really reads my blog much, but I guess it really doesn't  matter since this is mostly a journal for me.   I have found this to be a perfect way for me to journal and then at the end of the year, make a book. Of course I can't put everything out here for all to read but it really works well for me.  I have much to blog about and to catch up on, but right now I'm enjoying my birthday present from my kids and husband.  They gave me an iPad and I can't stay away from it! I love it!

Catch up!

It's time to catch up on the Tarbet happenings.  Since this is a journal of sorts for us, I need to do a little better job of posting.

We had another fun 4th of July in Lewiston this year.  I think my kids love Lewiston 4th celebrations almost more than Christmas.  The park had the bounce houses up but this is the only picture I got.  You can see Bo just behind Molly. 

This is a picture of Grandma and Grandpa Tarbet with all of the grandchildren and great grandchildren.  (minus Kent's family)

Baines birthday is also in July.  Baine turned two this year.  He seems older than that to me.  Maybe because he's so smart.  I know, we all think our grandchildren are the smartest.  Well, it's true in my case!

Baine is opening the gift that Brooks and I gave to him.  He handled this birthday quite a bit better than last year.

Kelsey goes to the nursing home to cut my dads hair when he needs it.  This last time, she took a picture of Baine with my dad.  My dad totally loves the little grandchildren and he talks about Baine all the time.  It's kind of funny, he doesn't remember alot of things.  Most of the time he is quite confused, but he always LOVES the grand kids and talks about most of them often.

Last Saturday we reserved the pavilion at the church next to the nursing home and brought my dad over and had a family party.  We missed a couple of families that couldn't be there but I think my dad really enjoyed himself.  He didn't eat much.  That's another funny thing, he loves the nursing home food and he didn't like what we brought for him to eat that day.  I can tell you that a year ago he would not have even taken a sniff of the nursing home food!  Not that it's bad food, he just felt that way about it.

We wanted to get a picture of Mom and Dad with as many of the great grand kids as possible that day.  I love these next two pictures.  I love how my dad has his arm around Jaxon.  I love how Brynly is always the little mother.  Notice her holding Baines hand and her arm around Bo.  I love how Molly was so happy to be with her cousins from daycare.

Julie's baby was crying and notice everyone looking at her except Molly (still cheesing for the camera) and Jaxon. (not interested in babies).

It was fun and easy to do and I hope we can do it again.

May Recap

Time has certainly flown by.  I have not blogged much lately.  I've had a hard time coming up with things to blog about.  I have been quite busy so I'm not sure why I can't think of anything to write about. 

We had some warmer weather and so Kara, Kelsey and I took the kids to the park.  Jessica was working and I was tending Molly that day.  I guess I only took this one picture that day.

We celebrated Grandpa Del's birthday again at Maddox this year.  Everyone was there except our niece Raquel and Kara and Bryn.  Bryn was sick that day.

Jaxon took one look at the kids menu and asked if that was the only choices he had!  He ended up ordering from the regular menu and really enjoyed his dinner.

We also enjoyed another Spring soccer season with some fairly nice weather.  Jax was invited to play on a new team and they finished their season competing in and winning the Kohl's Cup.  Jax has wanted to do this since he started playing.

We also found that Kade and Jessica are having a baby boy and we can hardly wait!  I pray every day that this one will be calm and easy for them.  This is nothing new for me.  I pray for all my kids to have healthy, happy babies. I'm not sure the calm part has ever worked yet.

30

My baby boy turned 30 today!  I stole this idea from my niece Tami. (thanks for the idea Tami)  I'm sorry to say that I should have done this for Kara also because 30 is a pretty big milestone.  I have a 31 year old daughter. (sorry Kara, maybe I'll do it for 32)

So yes, my baby boy turned 30 today.  I, like Tami with her son, have the right to still call him this since I brought him into this world.  Kade was a dream baby.  He was a good eater, He napped great and slept all night from about two to three months of age.  He only fussed if he was hungry or tired.  He was adorable and we loved him to death!  Still do but it's just really hard to get him on my lap to snuggle anymore. (just kidding if you happen to read this Kade)  He was a pretty good kid to raise.  Not always perfect, I know, but I really don't want to find out about it all now.  We missed him terribly while he was serving his mission but also knew he was doing the Lords work.  Now I get to see him almost everyday and he has brought a wonderful wife into our family and a very special granddaughter into our lives as well.  I have enjoyed being his mom the past 30 years and look forward to more

Update!

Quick update on my arm.  I'm sorry to only post about IT but IT has been my main focus for the past (too many) weeks.  This will be the last I post about it.  (I think)  I am happy to say that I am doing much better.  I was finally able to do my own hair!!! I did it all from start to finish!  This accomplishment has been what I have measured getting better on.  I am finally independent!  Kelsey has done more than she should have had to and I'm sure she is happy to be done with it also.  Baine is probably more excited than I am.  He hates it when I go and take his time with his mom away from him.  I still have a little healing to do but I am able to do most of what I was doing before.  I still have soreness but it is getting better daily.  I am so very happy!  done, done, done!!!

explanation

It's been four weeks since I broke my arm.  I thought I'd be a lot better by now.  I guess I am but not as better as I'd like to be.

I was at work when this happened.  I was coming out of a patients room, trying to step over visitors and all of their stuff on the floor, when I realized my foot was caught in the vital machine cord.  I took a quick hop with my free foot (since I was already straddling the "stuff") thinking I could somehow get my back foot free.  No such luck.  I was airborne when I went down.  My hands landed first.  I knew I would probably break something when I landed but I didn't have much choice.  It was either my hands or my face.  When I landed, the noise was so loud that my other co-workers heard it and came running.  I felt quite a bit of pain but I could still move my wrists so I thought the pain would soon subside.  No one in the patients room said a word.  Not even a "are you alright?".  I guess they were too busy taking a picture with their cell phones to post on utube.  The pain didn't go away so I went to the ER and had Xrays and found that I had fractured my distal radius on my right arm. 

The fracture has been nothing compared to the sprained left arm and right wrist.  In the beginning it would take me one hour just to shower and get myself dried off.  Everything has been challenging.  Think about what you need your hands for.  Kelsey has been washing my hair and fixing it for me.  I can comb and kind of style it on off days but it isn't easy.  Cooking has been hard.  I empty the dishwasher one dish at a time.  My mom and my girls came and cleaned for me.  It was all kind of comical at first but now I'm just plain sick and tired of it all.  I want to be done with this.  I'm not a good patient.  It is baby steps and I can't measure it by days, I have to measure by weeks.  I am back at work.  Workman's comp and all of the paperwork is for the birds so I went back after taking a week off.  I can do most things, I just have a weight limit.  I am behaving because it hurts if I don't.