David is on the right

9 Pin Tournament

David was in a National Juniors 9 Pin No Tap Tournament for bowling Saturday. He did great! Because his average is so high, 116, he was put in a division against 12 and 13 year olds. He bowled 4 games and his lowest game was a 152!! He held his own against the older kids, even beating three of the 5 he was against in 2 games.



He is on the right in this one


This one he is on the left

SNOW!!!!

When it snowed earlier this week it didn't stick at our house. Today was a different story! Right now we have about 7 inches and it is still coming down strong!! And the best part...school was cancelled tomorrow for a SNOW DAY!!!

movie trivia....stuck stuck stuck

Tommy absolutely loved the snow! Especially watching the snowballs fly!

David's snow angel

No school Thursday due to bad weather
Wednesday December 17, 2008 - General
Due to weather conditions and for the safety of students, all Clark County School District schools will be closed tomorrow (Thursday). Students should not report to campus. All administrators, 12-month employees, and office staff should report to work as usual. Teachers and other classroom employees are not expected to report to work since a makeup day may be scheduled later in the year.

Another surgery for Tommy

Tommy had another surgery yesterday. When the doctor did his surgery in November for the intussuseption, he found a hernia on Tommy's right side. So, we went in yesterday to have that taken care of. Tommy went through it like a champ, had a little harder time coming out of the anesthetic, but either way did great! Today he is back to his regular self, running around and being silly!

Progress!!

We have an outlet and it works!! Yeah!!! Thanks to some great neighbors. Next week we are doing the drywall with the help of some friends!

David got...

Straight A's this trimester!!

I think we have a problem over here!!

That is exactly what David calmly said last night, in his pajamas playing his ds, as smoke is coming out from behind the couch he is sitting on! I had just gotten Tommy out of the bath, and was getting a diaper for him when David let us know that there was smoke coming from behind the couch. I immediately told him to go to Sharon's (our neighbor) and he quickly and obediently left, I quickly put a diaper on Tommy and grabbed jammies for him, my keys and cell phone and went with him outside while calling 911. As I was getting the kids out, Keith pulled the couch away from the wall, and ran outside and turned off the power. Henderson Fire Department got here within minutes! Two engines with lights and sirens!!

They came in with all their fire gear on and used their axes to make this hole in my wall.

Our plug had a crack in it causing it to start on fire! It started sparking and smoking then the flames came! The flames went out when Keith turned off the power, luckily the flames didn't have a chance to ignite the insulation in the walls!!This is one of the firemen checking out the wall after they hosed it out.

Keith called our bishop and he along with two other men in the ward(one being an electrician) came over to help. They got the burned up area safe and the wires tied up so they wouldn't be a problem overnight and got our power turned back on. Keith slept on the couch last night with his flashlight, cell phone and fully dressed! I took the boys to my mom's house for the night, I was not comfortable with them staying at our house. After church today we came home and all is well. We cleaned up the mess from the wall being torn up, and arranged furniture so the hole won't be so appealing to little boys that like to get into things! We are staying at home tonight though. We were really lucky, had it been half hour later, we all would have been in bed and wouldn't have seen the smoke or realized that there was a fire until it would have been to late and would have ended up having to get out of the house through the window! As bad as it is, it could have been a whole lot worse. So, between the fire, Tommy's surgery and Tommy's infections I am done with my 3 bad things....who's next!!

BTW~ these pics were taken with my cell phone so the firemen wouldn't think i was crazy taking pictures for my blog!!