We Made It!!!

So we are done with the babysitting! Yeah! No really it was not very bad at all. The hardest part about the whole thing was that there were SO many kids, which meant SO MANY activities. Someone had something going on everyday! You know Volleyball, Chorus, Yearbook club, Swim meets, Beauty school, Mutual, all kinds of things. It was hard to get EVERYONE to school, but we were late to school only one day! YAHOO! I made it. My brother has 6 kids, the youngest is a 1 year old and the oldest is 16. It was kinda nice watching the Morgan, the teenager; me and Chad have found out new rules that we will DEFINITELY have with our kids when they are teenagers. Teenagers are pretty stressful! All in all we had a fun time. Those kids are such good kids. They all take such good care of each other. It was so awesome to see. When it is time to leave for school Garrett, the 14 year old boy calls everyone to say prayer. They did this every morning with no reminder from me. They all came to the front room before bed to read scriptures. They have not missed a night of reading scriptures in SEVEN years! The Farley kids are such a good example to me. I can only hope that my family can be as strong and have as good of spirit as they all do. I did have a good time babysitting them! I miss them right now, especially baby Hayden! I did not get any pictures while we were babysitting, I wish that I would have! Oh well! It was fun, not so bad!


This is the most recent picture that we have of them...one is missing...Hayden! We miss you guys!!! We had a fun time!


Done with the babysitting
Carter and Anna have been in school for one month now. We have not liked Carters school AT ALL. They go to different schools, Anna goes to Crown Charter School, because her birthday is later. And Carter goes to the public school. Our plan when school started was to switch Anna as soon as we could, it did not go that way. I have not liked Carters school. He is not learning anything at all. In fact he is forgetting stuff he learned in Kindergarten because he is not doing anything! Carter has not had any home work yet. I asked his teacher if he is going to be getting some any time soon. She said they are STILL going over rules and procedures...FOR A MONTH! she said that he will not get any homework until October?!?!?!? School started August 4th! Anna comes home every day with homework and already has her first spelling test! She is doing so good and loves school! Any way, also Carter has not been his normal self since school started. He is not as happy. He have been stressing about him since school started! So we decided to switch him to Anna's school! It was the best decision EVER! He started on Thursday, so he has only been there 2 days but he says he likes it more than his other school! We feel so good about this decision! Here are some pictures of his first day of school, he now has to wear a uniform...






















































So Carter is back to his happy self! He was so excited to go to school on Friday!

Babysitting!

So we are off to babysit. My oldest brother and his wife are going to Isreal. We are babysitting there 6 kids. Plus my 3 kids! I will have 9 kids for 10 days! YEAH! No it is not that hard or that bad! I am mostly worried about getting their kids to school and then my kids to school. They live kinda far from my house. I will tell you all how it goes!

See ya later!
Wish me luck!

NO MORE CAST!!!

Here is Gracie right before we went to the Doctor!

Gracie had her Doctors appointment on Friday. Her arm is FINALLY healed! It has been almost 3 months in that cast! So Gracie has been so cute just me and her! She LOVES to play house. She keeps coming to me and pretending she is the mommy. She loves the one on one time as much as I do. I love my Gracie Girl!

Back to School!

So now everyone is back to school. It is just me and Gracie home all day now. It is fun to get some one on one time with Gracie. She is so fun to be around! So what have we been doing? I am starting my running again! YEAH! I love to run! Well here are a few pictures of the first day for Carter and the first real day for Anna!

Anna's First day of Kindergarten!!

Friday was Anna's First day of school. It was just a short day. Monday is the real first full day. She was so excited and super cute. she is going to a school that she has to wear a uniform. She looked so cute in it. She loved the playground. Anna's favorite thing to do is swing. I just cant believe my Anna is in KINDERGARTEN!!!! That is so weird. It will just be me and Gracie! (Gracie goes on Friday for new x-rays on her hopefully healed arm!) Carter starts school on Monday! Here are a few cute pictures of Anna's FUN day!






















































So BY THE WAY WHO IS READING BREAKING DAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!
We went to a Barnes and Noble Midnight party for the book release it was so much fun!!! So what do you guys think of the book?!?!?!? SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!

Summer fun!

So Summer is almost over! Carter and Anna both start school in 11 days (and counting)! I cant believe my Anna Banana is getting ready to start Kindergarten, and I am going to have a FIRST GRADER! That is so weird! Gracie is going to go so crazy with just me and her. Luckily I am not a Mom that likes to stay home much... I like to play too! So summer is almost over, we have a had a very hectic and CRAZY summer, but still had a few fun times. Here are some of our Summer highlights...

Here we put our sprinkler in the driveway..It was the first day of Summer!

NOTICE THERE IS NO BROKEN ARMS YET

We love to go to the water parks! It is so fun!

And we just had some fun being together!

And our FAVORITE PLACE.....The Science Center!























































Then the move and the arms...
And Now we are back to school!!!

UPDATE:
Chad went back to work TODAY! We all missed him so much! The Dr. Said that his radial head moved a little, and it wasnt supposed to. So he goes back in 4 weeks. He was to keep doing to exercises that still hurt like crazy! So in 4 weeks the Dr. will decide if he need to put it back into place. So I guess it is good news?!?

Update on Chad

We have seen an orthopedic surgeon, here is what we learned. Chad broke his Radial Head of the elbow.

Definition: A radial head fracture is most commonly caused by a fall onto an outstretched hand. Radial head fractures cause pain and swelling around the elbow.

Why is the radial head important?
The radial head is shaped like a round disc and is important in motion of the elbow. The radial head moves both in flexion and extension (bending) of the elbow joint, as well as rotation of the forearm. Therefore, injury to the radial head can affect all movements of the elbow.

What is the treatment?
For now the Dr. has given Chad some exercises that he needs to do every hour. The exercises include straightening his elbow and rotating the wrist. Everyday he can get it straighter and rotate it further.
Chad goes back to the Dr. on Wed, the 23rd. They will do more X-rays and decide if his exercises are doing well or if they are not as far along as the Dr. wanted they will have to do a surgery to fix it. They have told us the worst recovery with out the surgery is better than the best recovery with the surgery. They have also told us that he will never get full range of motion back on his arm or be able to rotate his wrist all the way.
Chad is still out of work. The Dr. doesn't want him to go back until after the reevaluation. I dont think Chad could get his hand to face downward to type anyway. Any way we are really hoping that they do not have to do the surgery, hoping his exercises will be good enough.

On the other arm he chipped his wrist. But because of the location of the chip it also did not need to be casted. He wears a brace sometimes on it though. It is still very tender but healing quickly.

Gracie's arm is still broken...

We have settled pretty good in our new house. We love it! When Chad does go back to work it is so much closer. It will be nice.

A Fresh Start

So I realize it has been a really long time since I updated my blog. This post is going to be super long, we have had ALOT happen to us since Carter lost his first tooth! So I am going to start at the beginning! Lets see...I guess that would be May 28th.

May 28th

This was a day that I knew was going to be really hectic when I woke up I was already dreading this day. It all began at 9 am, Anna Graduated Preschool! She was so cute with her very best friend Sunny. Sunny and Anna were in the same preschool class. They loved that! For the graduation they sang a few songs and it was really cute. The teacher had them each come up one by one and told something nice about each kid. For Anna she said Anna smile for all of us, And she did. Her teacher Mrs. Tracy said that sums up Anna her cute freckled face smile brightens up the room and makes everyone around her happy! I agree!
So from the preschool graduation, we had to rush rush rush to swim lessons. Swim lessons were great for my kids. They are all very scared of the water. Any way...they loved it!

So after swim lessons were over we called my mom to meet us at McDonald's for lunch. McDonald's is always fun for everyone. I can sit there and talk to my mom and just let the kids play. That is what we were doing when Gracie started to scream, by the way Gracie is the toughest kid EVER and she NEVER screams. I ran over to her, she fell off the slide. She would not stop crying and she never cries like that. we noticed she was holding her arm crazy and it was really hurting her. My mom knew it was broken, I said ah no it isn't. Lets get her some ice cream and distract her. She was not distracted. My mom took Carter and Anna home and I took Gracie to urgent care where we found out yes her arm was indeed broken!!!!! From falling not even a foot off the McDonald's slide!

After a few days we got a real cast on..... she wanted purple...it was water proof!


So yeah...that was a really fun day for me!

Let me think what has happened next..

After that the month of June was all a big blur. We were getting ready to move, packing the old house, painting the new house! It was a lot of work but we love it! Moving is always so much fun...

So the night before the big move Carter lost his 2nd tooth in the middle of the night! I am glad he didnt swallow it. So he thought would be so awesome to have the tooth fairy come to our new house our VERY FIRST NIGHT THERE!! It did not exactly happen that way though...this was the day our world turned upside down.

Here goes...

July 3rd the big moving day! Yeah! We rented a big 26 foot Penske truck. We had asked ahead if a few of my brothers could come and help us load and unload the truck. So We were loading the truck...
That looks like it was fun...

So chad, my Dad, my brother Ryan and chads friend were there. Chad was on the truck and started to turn around to see what he should pack next, he missed the ramp and he fell of the back of the truck!!!!!!!!! He just laid there for a little bit, when he got up he was so so pale. He told me he though he broke his arm. I was like oh great, here we go again with the broken arm thing! So he was done packing the truck. Thanks so much for our wonderful help! So as time went on chad was in more and more pain...in BOTH OF HIS ARMS! So the truck was loaded, I took Chad to an urgent care and our wonderful helpers went to unload. Sure enough they said chad broke his wrist(s) !!! Holy cow. So we went home. Chad was in so much pain and went straight to bed. So here I was trying to put together everyones beds so we could all sleep. The next day, the fourth of July, We had people going in and out all day. My mom and sister Linsey came and seriously unpacked my ENTIRE house!!! Serious! My brother Brett came and hooked our dryer up and did yard work, My Dad was helping my lift heavier stuff and put a little order to all the boxes. My brother in law Ryan put up all of the blinds, and so much more. Anyway, I can not believe how much every one just came to the rescue when we needed help the most ever. THANK YOU SO MUCH GUYS! So as the day went on Chad was in more and more pain. My mom and dad and sister got really worried about him, they thought he was going into shock. His eyes were glassy, had a blank stare, kind of really out of it. So I took him to the ER. The kids slept at Chad parents....THANK YOU! So it ended up being even worse than we thought. He shattered his left elbow, and broke both wrists!!!!!! He can not do ANYTHING, he can make a fist to eat food, he cant do ANYTHING at all. but sleep because of all the pain pills!
So here is a picture with my two handicapped "kids"


So THEN today..........
Gracie had her appointment to get her cast off...it has been 6 weeks already! So yeah..take that dirty thing off!!! Here is a picture with her last day in her cute purple cast!
So here she is with her cast off!!!!!!


But wait....
IT'S STILL BROKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4 weeks in the cast this time! AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
So we left with a dirty purple cast and came home with a clean pink cast.....

So sorry for the super long blog...I will better at keeping everyone up to date on the Johnsons. For now I will tell you in my family we have 10 arms...3 of the 10 arms are broken!! That is 1/3 of my families arms are broken!