Crazy weekend

So this weekend I went up to my parents house we went up Saturday after Jared got of work at about 4:oo but that morning my brother Troy ran at West Park it is a park near Sheridan's house. Troy runs cross country for Eastern Oregon state since it was so close we went to watch him and he got second place and his best time ever I was really excited for him. But before his race I was upstairs trying to get some stuff out of storage it really needs to be organized better anyway I set our baby carseat on something just so I could get to something else and it fell of right onto Emery I didn't even know he was up there with me because of it he got a really nasty scrape on his face and a scratch just below his eye luckily he wasn't hurt too bad but he did look pretty beat up. But my story only gets better, at the race while we were walking into the park Emery started fussing a little and rubbing his ear he stopped really quick so I didn't think anything of it until a lady said "oh he really got beat up, referring to his previous bruises, even his ear" now I knew that his ear hadn't been hurt so I immediately looked at his ear and it had what looked to be a thorn sticking out of it. It actually turned out to be a stinger from a bee or maybe a wasp I didn't see any so I am not sure about a minute after I took it out his poor little ear swelled up it didn't affect him any other way and he didn't even cry about it. My little boy is tough. Luckily no other injuries occurred. We finally got some pictures of the kids in the clothes they got for my sister's wedding for some reason we forgot to take pictures of just the kids we did get lots of family pictures but none of just the kids what can I say it was a crazy day. For those of you who have tried to get thirteen kids to pose and smile at the same time you know that it isn't easy there are some better ones but it was really hard to get them to smile together and for the little ones to hold still.

The Three little boys are Harlan and his cousins Gibson and Carter they are all born within two months of each other and we call them the last name boys because all their names sound like they could be last names. You aren't imaging thing Harlan is that much bigger than them he is bigger than his 6 year-old cousins too.


I also took a picture of me and my brother Chad who is reporting into the MTC on Wednesday I am going to miss the stinker alot and stinker is using a mild term. He and my older brother Jay are quite the jokesters and together the are even worse than alone. I know he will really enjoy his mission but he is my little brother so I worry for him he has grown up alot though especially in the past year. While we were at my parents we took advantage of all the free produce and bounty that they have and dug up two five gallon buckets of red potatoes from my dads field and picked blackberries and got a grocery sack of onions also from my dad's field and got two grocery sacks of tomatoes and a few peppers from my mom's gardenand 4 watermelon two of which are almost bigger than Emery. We also brought home 12 quarts of tomato soup, 4 pints of salsa, 3 pints of jelly, and 3 quarts of pickles oh and a sack of lamb meat which my parents raise as well. It was really nice to have all my family together and it was even nicer to have Jared

their because he can't always come because of work so I have to go by myself.