Fishing is Fun

I love this picture! Like father like son.

Lorin promised the kids he would take them fishing this last weekend. So Saturday morning we headed up to Vivian Park. The kids had a lot of fun and each caught one fish. Logan snagged two other fish but they got away. He also snagged Cassidy. He is a little crazy with a fishing pole. We managed to get the hook out of her shirt without too much trouble. It is so fun to be together as a family (minus the wind)!

Cassidy is all smiles!

Logan has forgotten how to smile for a camera.

Megan wasn't quite sure what to do with this crazy fish!

Logan reeling is his fish.

Track Club

Megan wanted to join the Orem City Track Club so we signed her up. Her first practice was on the 22nd. She really enjoys it and gets right in and participates. They practice twice a week. The first meet is on Thurs. We are proud of Megan and I am glad she is a lot braver than I ever was. It didn't bother her at all that she might not know anyone there. After the first practice we decided we needed to invest in some higher quality running shoes since Meg's feet hurt.

She did a lot of jumping exercises.

She did a lot of relays.

The kids enjoyed the little bit of nice weather we had this week. They even played together in the backyard without too much bickering.

Spring Break in review

Spring Break being a whole week long I imagined all the wonderful things I could do with the kids. So on Monday Lorin managed to leave work early and we headed to the zoo. We arrived at about 4 and stayed until the grounds closed at 6:30. It was perfect weather and we had a lot of fun seeing all the animals. Logan only tried to climb through a few fences. The kids love to eat at Cracker Barrel so we had dinner there. It was a lot of fun to be together as a family which we don't often get to do.
When we got home Lorin felt like he needed to go back to work for a little while and a little while turned into 6:00 am. Poor guy works so hard. We love him so much.
Well the rest of the week the weather didn't cooperate and I heard a lot of "I'm bored", "what can I do?", "why don't we ever go on a trip?" ect. So all my great intentions kind of fell through the cracks.
Friday was nice and we were going to take the kids fishing or do something fun. Lorin came home early but he was feeling aweful. He doesn't go to the doctor very often so when he decides he needs to go you know he is very sick. He went to the urgent care center and I took the kids on a bike ride. Well the doctor said Lorin probably had the flu but the test was neg. I spent the evening trying to get him a prescption to help his symptoms.
Lorin chilled all night and woke up worse than ever. Terrible sore throat. I took one look at it and told him he needed to go back to the Dr. So back again and yes he has strep. The Dr. hardly looked at it last night and was all appologies but of course you still have to pay twice. Sigh.
The kids enjoy being out side and we finally charged Logan's "truckter" so they had fun riding that around the yard. Such was our spring break.

Wishing for Summer

Last night Megan had a late over with her cousin Elisabeth. They had so much fun playing in the back yard. Lorin and I watched them out the window and had to chuckle at what they were pretending. As you can see they have a pile of sticks which is their camp fire. They both are holding a stick with a leaf poked on the end. They were pretending to roast marshmallows. They even blew on the leaves on the ends as if they were hot. It was so cute. I only wish I had that much imagination and creativity.

Cassidy's Doctor Appointment

Cassidy had another followup appt. with her nephrologist yesterday. Her kidney function is stable at about 30%. They want her to start taking iron since her hematacrit is a little low. Now she will be on 4 meds. for kidney disease and 1 for seizure control. I hope I can keep track of all I have to give her. Her potassium was back up again which is frustrating since 3 months ago we had it back in normal range. It is so hard because there is so many foods she isn't supposed to eat because of high potassium and phosphorus as well as protein. Such a balancing act.
Cassidy is so brave to have to get a poke every three months. She always has a big smile for the doctors. We saw the nurse practitioner and she was asking the dr. when he thought she should be seen again and he said in 3 months. She asked if he was sure because she wanted to see her sooner because she is so cute. Cassidy does brighten peoples day.
It was actually a pretty emotional drive up to Primary Children's yesterday for me. But I am so grateful that it is there.

Scripture Power

I had to post this picture 1. to show that Logan really does stop running long enough to sleep 2. Logan does a lot of sweet things that are sometimes overlooked because he is so busy. Yesterday he carried around his Book of Mormon a lot of the day. When he went to bed he had to have the book, opened the pages, pretended to read it with his toy magnifying glass then he went to sleep. Hopefully in the future he can put all his high energy and love of the scriptures to good use as a missionary.