Black Eye, Round Two

  Believe it or not I got a call from the school 10 days out from Kabree breaking her nose to tell me there was an incident at the school.  Apparently, Kabee was playing soccer and she tripped over a kindergartner, the little boy fell on her and hit her top eye bone with the back of his head.  The office said it looked awful and they were worried a little bit.  But she wasn't crying or complaining at all.  That's our Kabree she is the toughest kid I know!!  We decided to let her stay at school but after school she said it had hurt all day and her eye was pretty bad already; swollen and dark.  We decided to walk down to the Walkers and have Brad take a look at it!  He checked her nose and her eye bone and said her nose cartilage was still swollen but considering everything she looked good.
  The next morning Kabree's eye was half way swollen shut and BLACK!!!  She did not want to go to school but we eventually we convinced her.  We have decided we might need to bubble wrap this girl for the next year!!

This is the picture I got from the school right after it happened

 These are 3 hours later right after school

 This was the next day, she was embarrassed to show how her eye couldn't open all the way.

This is a few days in, the swelling went down but her eye stayed purple and black for over a week!

Magic Tree House

  Kabree has to do 2 book reports a month based on certain topics.  This month was your favorite author.  Kabree's favorite books are The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne.  For one of her book reports she took an AR test and for the other one she decided she wanted to make a tree house.  She had great ideas and got to work; she did have to have some help with the cutting of the popsicle sticks and  the hot glue gun but it turned out great!

Broken Bones

  Who ever said boys aren't for the faint of heart never met our Kabree!!!  This kid is so tuff and active that she is beating us all with stitches and broken bones.  So you would think that gymnastics or playing goalie in soccer is where Kabree would break her nose, nope in our own backyard!
  The kids were playing dodge ball on the trampoline and Kabree came down with the ball hard and hit her nose right into someones forehead.  They hit so hard that the other kid had a bruise and a bump where her nose hit them.  Her nose swelled up and wouldn't stop bleeding so Zach took her in. I was on the way to Utah with my siblings and parents for a funeral and Zach was getting ready to go sing in his Quartet for the Saturday session of Stake Conference.  Luckily our babysitters were able to run over 20 minutes early so Zach could run Kab to the doctor.  She lucked out because it was a up and down break and not a right to left break so hopefully, fingers crossed her nose will heal with no bumps and will heal straight.  So far things look great!
  The hardest thing for Kabree was no outside recess, no soccer and no gymnastics, or exercise for 7 days!!!  She did try to find a loop hole, the one day her teacher left for lunch so she asked another teacher if she could go outside for recess and they let her and she ran the track!!!  But after I talked with the office, everyone was aware and kept little Miss inside the rest of the week!
  Kabree didn't want people to know she had broke her nose except for her close friends so when people would look at her and ask her why her nose was green colored she would just look at them and tell them they were weird lol.  By the end of the first week her eyes and face were all pretty crazy colored so she had to confess she broke her nose by then ;)
  Kab was such a trooper and would only say her nose was sore but never complained about pain, having to ice her face or not being able to do her normal activities.  We sure love this tuff nut of ours and are grateful she has healed so well!

Keagan's 1st Day of Kindergarten

  Keagan had her first day Kindergarten!  She was so excited and nervous all at the same time!  She is excited to have Mrs. Rowe for her teacher and her friend Harper in her class.  She said her first day was so fun and she wishes she could go everyday!

Down On The Farm

    We made a quick trip to Arbon to let the girls ride the combine with Grandpa and to enjoy lunch and cupcakes with Grandma JoAnn as an early birthday celebration.  Kabree got to ride with Kooper and Keagan with Grandpa Vance.  Kabree had so much fun riding with Kooper she said they told jokes and made up stories the whole time.  We love visiting Grandpa and Grandma and are so grateful they are just a short car ride away.

 They wanted to pack lunches

 Eating the grain

 Zach and the girls fed a spider a grasshopper

Taxing to the other combine

Back in the swing of things

  Summer went WAY to fast this year!  I can't believe our Kabree is in 3rd grade already!  She was nervous and exited all at the same time!  She is excited to be in Mrs. Vaughans and that she has a couple friends in there too.  This will be the first year we haven't been with the boy crew; they all got a different teacher this year, but Mae and Lainey are with her so she will do great!

 

Eclipse 2017

  Matt and Heather hosted an Eclipse party.  We set up the lawn chairs and had a BBQ.  It was amazing to watch!  Keagan LOVED it, she was so nervous about it the night before (she was scared it was going to burn her eyes, we watched a youtube video for kids that was way too intense about eye safety) so when she got to Heathers and was excited and loving it we were so happy!  Seriously our kids LOVED it!  After the eclipse we decided to make a day of it and head over to Geronimo's and the Soda Barn.  It was the perfect way to end the summer!

 Whitney and Jordan

Justice, Heather, Jessi, Hanna, Keagan and Kabree

 Cayleb, Addie and Jordan

 Whitney and Addie

The whole crew

(except Chase who took the picture and Libby and her friend literally got there the last minute;)