Homecoming

This past weekend Mt. View celebrated their homecoming.  Wesley usually avoids events like these due to things like dresscodes, lame music, and "girls who used to stalk him" (don't ask me. The story goes, there was this one girl and blah, blah, blah. I'm sure stalking is all in your perception), anyway, somehow his "friend" Katlyn convinced him that it would be fun and not at all like Sixteen Candles.

Here's Wesley asking me if I plan to take "thousands" of pictures, as I take the FIRST picture. He is truly delightful. It's no wonder girls stalk him.

Putting on the corsage.....

...posing for picture #85....

You are NEVER going to believe this, but Jase is old enough to go on dates!!! How did this happen? It seems like only yesterday Wesley and Jase were just a couple of little chubby cheeked little boys. Now they are big boys with chubby cheeks.

Aren't they so cute? (Jase's date totally thought I was some kind of crazy lady for making her come into my house so I could take picutres of her. I didn't tell her I was going to post them on the internet, maybe I should have had her sign a waiver)

Turns out the dance was LAME. The music was all "poppy" and there were a bunch of weird kids. They did play some Journey though, so that was cool. (Sounds like every dance I ever went to.)

Per Scott's request

Like I was saying,

Wesley broke his wrist. Easter weekend he went to the Dunes with a friend (and the friend's parents). The first night there he had an accident on a quad and broke his wrist.

The x-rays revealed that he had broken it in two places and the breaks were very close to the growth plate in his wrist. Which could be a bad thing since Wesley is not quite done growing.

The following Monday he saw an orthopedic surgeon who decided to take Wesley to surgery to see what he could do to repair the damage.

Here we are arriving at the hospital. Not even being on lots of pain medication can make Wesley willing to be photographed.

Here he is saying something like "It's bad enough that I might DIE in surgery, can't you just leave me alone?"

He's soo dramatic. (I think he gets it from Ivy)

When we got inside Wes got to change into one of those super cool hospital gowns. I thought for certain he would want me to take his picture then, but no dice.

He did however get a nice shot of the "collection cups". It must be a man thing, just the sight of them was hilarious to him.

This is as close as I could get to a picture of him in his fancy hospital dress.

When it was all over a small incision had been made and a few pins inserted. His Dr. was able to set the arm without disturbing the growth plate, which means Wesley's arm should continue to grow as scheduled. It's in a splint for now, he will probably get a hard cast in about a week. All in all, not fun, but it could have been much worse. Wesley's Dunes days might over for a while.

Finally, an update!

On Monday Scott and Heather and the girls came over for family home evening. As usual it was kid crazy and of course Heather made the best salad EVER, again.

Don't you love her hair?

Annie, who loves classic rock and roll. I believe last time she was wearing her Rolling Stones shirt.

Here she attempts the dangerous "crawling under Nates legs" stunt. She's a real daredevil.

This news worthy feat, brought to you by Nate, was photographed about 10 times, then a video was made, so you could SEE the action of a can tilted to the side. I'm only giving you the one shot. You can thank me later.

Ivy brings me a lovey bunch of flowers everyday on her way home from school. Soon we are going to have to have a talk about trespassing, but for now, aren't they lovely?

Vandals.

Friday we finally put up our Halloween decorations. Brandon and Ella came over, we couldn't have done it without them. Luckily no one argued and boys and girls were on the same side all day! (Insert evil ironic Halloween laughter here)

Wesley was so happy to help us. It was touching.

This is my favorite display. Do you like the jar of skulls? They're from rats, I've been saving them for months.

Ivy used to think this was a fortune telling crystal ball. I told her that it whispered to me that she should let me pick out her clothes for the rest of the year. She told me she doesn't believe in magic anymore.

When we when out to decorate these two fine actresses found that a giant spider had already visited the tree out front.

And had laid this giant purple egg. I think Johnny Depp is inside.

Okay, your turn. What have you all been up to? If you have a blog update!! If you don't (Utah Lunt's) what are you waiting for?

more video!!!

Wes got new shoes. Now he can do this.

Almost.

He's in school from 7 to 3

I would run my errands during those hours if I were you.

Wesley got his permit today.  He would like to make it known that he only had to take the test once.

I can't even tell you

how much work it takes to maintain this level of coolness.