The Bees

Ethan's fascination with the Bees Baseball started in April when his Aunt Desi went to a baseball game with some friends. Thinking she was a huge fan, he would call her first thing in the morning the day after each game and tell her if the bees won and the score of the game. Because of his obsession with the Bees we decided it would be fun to take him to some games.

Last night we went to the Bees Baseball game with Grandpa Monson, Dave and Natalie's family and our friends Tim and Lithia and their family. The kids had a really fun time eating concessions, watching the game, and playing at the playground. They even got to meet "Bumble" the team mascot and have their hands autographed! It was an awesome game. The Bees ended up winning 12-1 and there was even a grand slam home run.

Here is Grandpa, Taylor, and Ethan at the game. Taylor brought his baseball mitt hoping to catch a baseball and Ethan begged for a baseball bat the whole game!

Emma with Sara getting their hands signed by Bumble. This was the highlight of the evening for Emma. When we walked into the stadium the first thing that Emma wanted to do was see the bee.

Here is Eliza watching the game with mom. She has done amazingly well at the games thank to the Heumann children for taking her on walks!



Finally proof that we were really at the game. . . our family picture with the baseball diamond as the backdrop!

Breaking Dawn

I belong to a really fun book club. Yesterday we meet and briefly discussed two books that I didn't read and had a yummy dinner. Afterwards a bunch of us went and saw the movie Mamma Mia. It was definitely a chick flick with a cute story and fun music. This coming month we are reading Breaking Dawn the sequel to the "vampire books" by Stephanie Meyer. Last week I put the book on hold at the library and am number 2,738 in line. I figure I will probably get the book in 2-3 months. But no, my really sweet husband went and bought it for me and surprised me with it when I came home last night. Thank you Micah for being so thoughtful. I love you!

Much Needed Update

It has been awhile since I last posted so I wanted to give an update on our children.

Ethan with Aunt Desi showing off his blue cast. He chose to have a blue cast because the green cast was too tight and it's also the same color as his favorite basketball team!

On July 24th we went on a fishing trip to the Uintah's. Micah was excited to take Ethan fishing and show him how it's done!

Ethan fishing at Lake Bonnie!

Ethan and Taylor showing off their fish!

Emma celebrated her 3rd birthday on July 2nd. Here she is showing off some of her new birthday Princess apparel.

The next week our little Princess received a "fancy" haircut from her brother Ethan. He decided to shorten some of her bangs and randomly take chunks out of the back of her hair.

Luckily my friend Hailey came to the rescue and was able to work wonders on her hair!

Thank goodness for her beautiful curls! I am still getting compliments on her haircut!

Emma had a fun time at "Magoon" with her cousin Sara!

Eliza is now 11 months old and finally got her first tooth last week!
Here she is chilling with Grandpa Monson on our fishing trip.

Much More Broken

This week has been a very exciting one for our family. On Wednesday Ethan graduated from Preschool and on Thursday he had a green cast put on his arm. Unfortunately the green cast lasted about 36 hours before he took a fall at Chick Fil-A and broke his arm again. We spent all day Saturday at Primary Children's Medical Center in surgery having pins put in his arm to hold the bone in place. This was the first time the surgeon at Primary Chilren's had seen someone break their arm with the cast on. Only Ethan!!!



Here is Ethan posing at his graduation.




One of the only pictures we have of Ethan's green cast and swollen purple fingers!

Brave Ethan with Micah waiting to have surgery on his arm.

Ethan with his cousin Taylor who made cookies for him.

Ethan with Aunt Desi eating Snoobies!

More Broken

Saturday was a busy day for our family. We were able to go to the Gateway for a book fair that was put on by Fidelity and see where Micah works. Ethan's favorite part was running through the water fountains and commented that it was the most fun that he had in his entire life. We raced back home from the Gateway to attend our wards Scouting Dutch Oven Dinner at a nearby park. While playing at the park Ethan and Emma both got hurt. Emma got hit with a swing causing her nose to badly bleed and Ethan fell off the monkey bars onto his right arm.

We decided to take Ethan in to have his arm X-rayed just to be safe because he wasn't acting himself. Here is a picture of him laying in the van in pain.

He ended up fracturing the lateral condyle of his humerus and a soft cast was put on his arm until he sees an orthopedic specialist this coming week.

The Emma and Ethan broken bone fashion show!

Our whirlwind day ended with a reading of some of the books we got at the book fair.

Broken

Our computer is broken and has been for almost two weeks, so I am at the library catching up on my e-mail and blog. Ethan signed up for a library card so he could have internet access and catch up on the JAZZ and the latest NBA happenings. My little boy is growing up, I am surprised they give 5 year olds library cards. I brought our portable DVD player in so Emma could watch movies while we are on the computer. It seems to be working out pretty good.

While we are on the topic of broken things our computer isn't the only thing that is broken. On Sunday we went to my parents to celebrate my dads birthday. After dinner my dad took Ethan and Emma to the Provo temple grounds while they were there Emma got her fingers slammed in a gate. On Monday morning I decided to go and have her purple swollen fingers looked out by the doctor and after having them x-rayed we found out that her ring finger was broken. The doctor then put a splint on it and wrapped in up in a bandage, which she had taken off by the time we got home. Over the past two days I think I rewrapped her hand more than twenty times before I figured out that if I put a sock over the bandage she wouldn't take it off. Yeah! I have a feeling this will be a long two weeks.

Emma's black and blue fingers and broken ring finger.

Sweet Emma hiding behind her bandaged hand.

Emma using her bandaged hand to try to go outside.

My sister Desi wants to be on my blog so we took a picture last week of the two of us together in our new matching glasses. Desi looking cute and me, well not looking so cute.

Basketball Ethan

This year has been fun for our family to follow the Utah Jazz Basketball team, especially since Ethan has developed an obsession with basketball. He pretty much eats sleeps and drinks basketball. The first thing he does when he gets up in the morning is gets our newspaper to "read" the sports section. He has figured out how to tell if the Jazz are playing that night and if so if the game is on KJZZ or cable. If there happens to be a Jazz game that night he is pretty much asking me all day if the game is going to be starting soon.

When the Jazz beat Houston in the first round, Ethan was so happy he taped the paper to our front door. Good thing he used painters tape to do it!

He also likes to log on the internet and follow the games on Yahoo Sports and check the scores of all the NBA teams. Because his favorite color is green is has also taken a liking to the Boston Celtics.

Ethan has a little baskeball hoops that he is constantly shooting hoops on. He likes to change into his basketball shorts and a t-shirt and shoot baskets while he watches cartoons and basketball games. He is really cute when he plays because he acts like he is various Jazz players when he is shooting. We ended up buying him a Kirelinko jersey that he pretty much wears all the time.

When we were at my parents house for mothers day my sister Ann was there and she painted everyone's toe nails. Later that night Ethan got into the nail polish and painted his arms. We asked him why he painted his arms and he said he did it because Boozer and D Will had paint on their arms!

Ethan in his Kirelinko jersey in front of his basketball hoop sporting his new tattoos!

My sister Ann decided to have a little fun and give him a personalize tattoo!

Here are a few of my favorite Ethan basketball quotes.

"Kirelinko for three, oh and he makes it!"

"Boozer for the lay up and it is good!"

"Memo for a deep three. Yes!"

"The Jazz won the first "Korver"(he obviously means the first quarter but says it like he is talking about Kyle Korver:).

"The Jazz won the game because they played defense."

Micah plays basketball every Tuesday night with the guys in our ward and Ethan has to tag along with him. He tries to keep score of all their games and between games will take his little ball onto the court and keep track of all the baskets he is making.

Ethan in St. George shooting hoops with his cousin Taylor and his Uncles Russell and Alan.

Last week Micah and I were talking about how great it would be if Micah could take Ethan to one of the last two remaining Jazz games. Last Monday, Micah went to the ticket office to see if he could get tickets to the game on Saturday against the Denver Nuggets. The only tickets they had left were single seats so we decided to bag the idea of taking him to a basketball game. Because we had been talking about Ethan going to a Jazz game, he was already talking about going to the Denver game. The next day Micah's dad called asking Micah if he and Ethan wanted to go to the game. Well they went and had a great time.

Ethan cheering on the Jazz!

Ethan at the game with Grandma and Grandpa Monson.

*This post was edited on May 18,2008