Jenna, The Gymnast (she thinks)

Here is Jenna at Rylee's gymnastic show jumping off one mat to another. She wants to do everything Rylee does. Poor Rylee puts up with a lot. She is a great big sister.

Rylee, The Gymnast

TA_DA!

Her "Vault"

Oh, No!

On the balance beam.

Tuesday evening Rylee had her gymanstics show. They perform 1 routine in each of 5 areas (bars, balance beam, the floor, trampoline, and vault). She did really good except trying to dismount from the beam. She was trying a round off and is not sure what happened. I was just glad she didn't get hurt (I think her ego was a little bruised though). Her favorite is the bars and I videod her on that, but I have to figure out how to put it on the blog. Anyway, she loves gymnastics and is doing really good. She started at level A. They moved her to level B after 1 month and now 2 months later she is advancing again to level C. She is definitley built for it, I only wish I would have put her in sooner.

Jacque's Wedding

Rylee with her Aunt Cheryl (mike's sister from CA)

Jacque and Mike (her Mike) VanOrman

My Mike and his little princess, Jenna

3 of my monsters: Noah, Jenna, Cole

Friday was Mike's neice Jacque's wedding. It was a nice day and a fun filled few days with lots of family in town that we don't see often enough. It was actually the first time Mike's whole family (parents, siblings, spouses, and kids) were all together in like 7 years. Now we have another Mike in the family. My husband Mike's sister Wendy is married to a Mike. Jacque is their daughter and married a Mike. All a little confusing. Anyway, we all like the new Mike. He is a great guy and him and Jacque seem exstatic.

Our Wild Pets

This is a picture of the bird bath and bird feeder in our front yard. ( do you see the little bird on the ground?) I couldn't get a good picture of birds actually in the bath even though they use it quite a bit. We have a number of different kinds of birds that come and use it. (Mom you would love it! I don't think we have as many birds as you do though) I have to keep refilling the bird seed every couple of days. We love watching them out our front windows. Jenna especially gets so excited when she sees a bird out there. I will try to get a better picture, it just seems like everytime I grab the camera and get out there they fly off. This has been a really nice spring and we have had a lot of visitors and we really enjoy it.

Poor Truman

Here is Jenna trying to comfort our dog Truman. He was attacked on Saturday by a neighbors dog. His back left leg is were he was injured. He has been favoring it since then and that day he didn't move much at all. Luckily the kids who were right there were not attacked as well. They were pretty scared though.

Jenna's Little Accidents

Can you see the bump at the back of her head?

Another picture of the bump, sorry it's hard to see in a picture.

So a week ago Jenna was playing with her "boyfriend" Cooper or Coop as she calls him. (she use to call him Poocer) I heard a huge crash and then 2 screaming kids. I had to find the key to my bedroom since they had locked themselves in and then found them in my bathroom still screaming. Jenna likes to hang on the towel bar in there and it was lying on the floor. This time she decided to hang on it with Cooper. They weigh about 60 pounds between them and it must have been too much for the bar. Jenna hit her head on the tile floor and had a golfball size bump on the back of her little head. I called the Dr and they said if she didn't lose conciousness and wasn't throwing up and acting strange to just ice it, give her motrin and watch her. If anything changed they said go immediatley to the emergency room. Luckily within 15 minutes she was running around, playing like normal. She still has a little bump, but seems fine. The story gets even better. Yesterday I had Cooper and his sister Savannah here and Cooper hit Jenna in the nose with a toy and she had a major bloody nose. It wash gushing and I started getting scared when I couldn't get it to stop. It did stop and as usual she was fine and playing again within minutes. She and Cooper are both crazy, fun little monsters. I love them both, but I don't know if they should play together anytime soon for Jenna's sake. (Just kidding Katie!)

Slacker!

Sorry, I have been such a slacker on updating our blog. What can I say...?
Things around here have been busy as usual but are going to be even crazier the next few weeks. This Friday our neice Jacque is getting married here in Bountiful which is very exciting. Lots of Mike's family will be coming into town including his sisters, Cheryl and Shellie. We are looking forward to seeing everyone and catching up a little. Next week Rylee has her gymnastic recital, the boys have a field trip and I get to go too. Jenna has her first dance recital on the 20th wich I will miss because I will be in Dallas for my little brother Devin's wedding. I am going to head there for a couple days by myself and then a day after I return the girls (Ry & Jenna) and I are heading to NC for the openhouse and some time with my parents and more family. After we get back there will only be one more week of school and then summer and the fun starts! We got season passes again to Cherry Hill (local waterpark) and have a playgroup once a week where we go somewhere fun around the valley. I will for sure be putting lots of pictures of all this fun and craziness on the blog so watch for it. I will try not to slack to much. Enjoy!!!!