Feeling a little Lightheaded!

This is going to be the latest new trend in childrens bedroom furniture.  A lightheaded bed is the bed your child will never outgrow. Dan has started a new business venture with a few other people in Parkcity.  The company is called LightHeaded beds.  We just set up three for each of our kids (Jence is still in a crib).  The concept is based on being able to give your child a bed that can change with them as they grow up.  I still remember the day Kate came home from school in first grade and announced that she "wasn't into princesses anymore".  My heart broke I realized my little girl wasn't so little anymore.  The nice thing about these beds is that they celebrate your child's young interests, but are changeable when the inevitably out grow those "little" girl or "little" boy heroes.  The images are so easy and inexpensive to change out and you can change them as many times as you want.  The website has literally thousands of different images to choose from.  The creativity for these beds are endless.  Whether your child is into princesses or pirates, superheroes or snowboarding, there's is an image for you.  The other great feature about these beds is that there's a built in light with a dimmer and timer.  We don't have to leave on the bathroom light anymore and  our kids aren't afraid of the dark anymore.  They also love reading in bed with the bright back lit headboard. If you are interested in checking the beds out visit the website at

www.lightheadedbeds.com

Sweets Candy factory tour

The kids had school off for a couple of days this week so we went and did the Sweets candy factory tour.  The tour was something that I've been wanting to do with the kids for awhile. I thought it sounded like a lot of fun.  One of my favorite movies as a kids was Charlie and the Chocolate factory.  What kid wouldn't enjoy a tour of a real candy making factory?  I quickly found out that Benjamin was one kid who wouldn't.  He was excited and talked about the tour all day, then just as we were ready to start the tour he freaked out about having to wear a hairnet.  I guess we all looked a little scary with them on, and he completely lost it. There was no convincing him to wear it so........ I missed the tour.  I sent my two oldest kiddos along with my good friend and her children (thank goodness they came along or we would have all missed it completely).  I imagine it was fun, maybe when Benjamin is a bit older we'll try again.  One fun thing we did do however was buy a lot of candy in their candy shoppe.  I had an especially long time to browse while the kids did the tour.  As you can see from the photo one of their sweet concoction's consist of taffy.  Lots and lots of taffy.  They also make a family favorite, orange sticks and raspberry sticks.  We love those.  We also bought some gummy worms, and chocolate cinnamon bears.  There goes my diet right out the window (still working on baby number four weight).  It was a nice inexpensive way to spend a school free afternoon.  The up side was that we a got a lot of candy for Valentine's day for a sweet deal.  

Christmas update

Wow, what a wonderful Christmas we have had this year.  It has come and gone so quickly it almost feels like a dream.  It is nice however, now that the kids are back to school.  I loved having the break from homework, and not getting them off to school in in the mornings..... but it is nice to have my routine back.    But it really was a wonderful month, and we did a lot of fun activities with the kids.  As you can see from the photo one of the favorite Christmas traditions is visiting Santa.  I work really hard each year trying to get a photo op with this guy.  I know we can always catch him at the mall, but lets face it, the mall is one place I try my hardest to avoid at this time of year.  So, I decided to take the kids to the tree house museum for their cookies with Santa night.  What I didn't realize is that there are just to many kids at this event to get to individually meet Santa, so instead they just let the kids ask questions in a big group setting.  So then we got this invite from our old realtor to come to this "Meet Santa and Movie Night" at the theatres. I talked Dan into going.  We waited in a short line to see Santa and just when it was our turn Benjamin refused to even go near Santa.  I really don't blame him, Santa would seem pretty intimidating to me if I were three.  I got a great photo with the three other kids, and then photoshoped Benjamin into the picture.  Honestly what would I do with out photoshop!  I don't know how my parents ever got decent pictures of us.  It turned out to be super fun.  I got my elusive Santa photo, and the kids got to see a darling movie "Wreck it Ralph".  Looks like Santa got to see the kids once again this year, we will have to wait and see if he brings them what they asked for!

Jence's little christmas surprise!

Okay we have had a super fun Christmas this year.  I can't believe that it's come and gone so soon.  Still as much fun as the Christmas break was, it is nice to be back into my routine again.  We had one major accident this month, and that was that Jence broke his leg. 

Yes Jence is our little dare devil.  He has been so active and crawls everywhere including our stairs.  I haven't blocked our stairway because he learned to become quite the little pro at going up and down them.  In fact he does this all day long.  A few weeks ago though he took a big spill down them.  Dan was watching him going down the stairs on his tummy, when he got to our landing he turns around and goes forward on the flat part, then when he comes to the rest of the stairs he turns backwards again to finish the last set.  Well I guess he didn't get quite all the way turned around and sorta rolled down them.  Needless to say we were worried, but figured that babies were pretty flexible and he'd be okay.  He was a bit more fussy than usual, but he was still crawling around all over the place, so I didn't think he'd broken anything.  It wasn't till Sunday that I realized when he stood up on the church bench he was putting all of his weight on one leg and none of his weight on the one that was hurt.  We asked a Doctor in our ward to take a look, and he suggested we x-ray it.  I took him in the next day.  Our doctor said that he doubted it was broken but we could x-ray it to be on the safe side.  I"m sure glad we x-rayed it because sure enough it was fractured in two places.  His tibia, and fibia were both broken.  I decided to take him to a specialist for the cast.  I"m so glad that I did. Jence got great care from Dr. Bryan.  He has about one more week to have it on for a total of four weeks.  We are lucky he is little and still growing.  The Dr. told me that if an adult had the same break they'd have to have surgery.  I'm so grateful that we were able to get him the care that he needed.  We have felt so blessed in so many ways.  From having a wonderful ward member who was a Dr. look at it in church, to being able to be worked into the schedule to see the specialist late in the day after we had the x-rays.  I feel so grateful for good Dr. who have the power to heal so many peoples lives.  I'm glad that he will be better soon and didn't require complicated treatment.  Strangely Dan's brother Robbie also broke his leg just two days after Jence did.  Sadly his brake was more serious and required surgery.  His leg will take longer to heal, but we are hoping for a complete recovery for Robbie too.