"Everything is Awesome!"

If you haven't seen the new Lego movie, you will not get the title of this post. But look it up on youtube. It's one of the worst "stuck in your head" songs of all time, and my kids sing it all the time! :) Good thing it's a positive song!
Anyway, a few more things from this week...
Tuesday was New Beginnings. Part of my calling is to be in charge of it. All of it. I'm not a fan of planning parties/events. I am not very good at it, I don't have cute "style" and I don't really know what looks good. I guess I don't care too much about those things. But I got to work planning, and I was excited about doing tissue pom-poms. I saw a lot of pictures online, so I figured it must be a cute and cool thing to do. The theme was Come Unto Christ (since that's the mutual theme for 2014). I wish I had taken even one picture of the evening, but there was too much going on. But for part of the decorations we had hung up 7 white tissue pom poms from the ceiling. We used scotch tape because I read online that it held up just fine for lots of people. Well all throughout the evening as people were speaking and singing, etc. they would fall off one by one. It was rather embarrassing. I was so excited to have done something cute, and it didn't even work! Haha. Oh well. We were joking that they were like an hour glass, and when the last one fell, it meant everyone had to go home. We started with 7, and by the time we were cleaning up there was only one left. So don't use scotch tape on the ceiling of the Relief Society room, it won't work :). But the rest of the evening was a success, and I'm glad to have it over with.

 I'm not the only one who loves the sun. This morning when we went to church it was LIGHT outside. Things are looking up, folks.

Tyler got a Lego set from Grandma W. for his birthday too and put it all together the same day it arrived. He loves it!

 On Thursday I took the kids swimming at the Y. (Tyler was in the boys locker room, so not pictured) We used to go every week, but hadn't been in a while. I was worried my swim suit wouldn't fit. I still squeezed into it, but it wasn't pretty. Tyler's swimming has improved a lot, but they all really love it. Kelsey doesn't want me to hold onto her at all (she does wear a life jacket) but she really wants to be independent, and so it's like a battle the whole time. She loves to jump off the edge too, but she doesn't jump far enough, so I have to be right by her, and reach up very quickly to pull her in far enough at the last second. If I touch her too soon, she gets upset and goes away to another spot...you get the idea. Anyway I wish I could take pictures of them swimming because it's so much fun and great memories to capture, but it's pretty much impossible.

On Friday night, we were going to go to the temple and do a babysitting swap with the Sponsellers again. Well a few hours before the session, I picked Kelsey up by her wrist (which we've done a million times before) but it popped her elbow out. We didn't know what it was at first. She kept pointing to her wrist, saying her wrist hurt. Kenny thought I must have dislocated her shoulder. I called our pediatrician and was going to take her in half an hour later. But Kenny had me call and cancel it, saying that we could work it out on our own. I was very skeptical. I told Carmin I couldn't leave her when she was in so much pain. She has a brother who's an orthopedic surgeon so she called him, and he let us know it is referred to as "nurse's elbow". He said he could walk us through it on the phone, or we needed to take her in. Kenny said he wanted to look it up online (youtube is very helpful) so that he could SEE how it works. Unsure of how easy it would be to follow verbal directions over a phone. I was so nervous we were going to make it worse and just hurt her a lot, instead of fix it. But Kenny watched one video and very confidently went over to her. He took off her shirt and said, "Okay, you ready?" I said "No! Just let me call him and make sure we're going to do everything right!" But he went ahead and did it. Right as he said "I felt it pop" she started crying hard, and then stopped after a couple seconds. I was expecting it to be sore for a couple days or something. But she was immediately better and climbing around, picking things up with it, etc. ALL better. Just like that. It was a very easy fix, now that we know what to do. I'm surprised we've gotten this far in parenthood without it happening. It seems like everyone I talk to says it's happened to their kids multiple times. Anyway, we learned something new as parents that night. I was still able to go to the temple that night, too. I am always grateful for some "me time" and especially have some quiet time to think in the temple. I'm very grateful we live so close to one.