Consultation

Today, Carson had his consultation with Dr. Grosso, a plastic surgeon, in Billings. We have decided to have his birthmark removed this summer and this was the first step. The Dr. was super nice and said he felt like the surgery would take about and hour and that they would probably be able to remove everything in one appointment. So, Carson is scheduled for surgery June 25th to have his birthmark removed. I think he is excited to have it gone, but nervous to have surgery. It sounds like the recovery time will be minimal and won't interfere with his sports and summer activities hardly at all (minus waiting for some glue to wear off so that he can swim). Who would have thought that my 9 year old would be the one to have plastic surgery?

Two thumbs up from this guy. And, we are hoping for warmer weather SOON so we can be done with the apparent flood pants and wear shorts! YIKES...when did he decide to grow so much?

Last week

Well, it's official...we are boring! We had a beautiful week last week! It was in the 50's and 60's every day last week and we LOVED every last minute of it. We even had our first weenie roast of the season. We built a fire in our pit and roasted hot dogs and then marshmallows for dessert. It was great and makes me excited for summer to come!

 

 

 

 

Most of our evenings last week took place in the wrestling room. The boys are in the middle of their pup wrestling camp and are excited about their tournament this Friday. It's fun to watch them learn and improve each practice!

Carson and Travis wrestling (towards the back wall)

Carson practicing some of his moves.

Doing the duck walk race for warm up.

UPdate!

I have been a looser blogger lately. It seems that we haven't been up to much due to being sick. I think (fingers crossed) that we are all finally on the mend! Here are some things we have caught with our phone cameras recently!

 

We went to dinner at  a new pizza place in Cody with grandpa and grandma Foulger. The pizza was really good and the kids LOVED the arcade games that they were able to get tickets at and then turn in for prizes.

We made a trip to Billings this weekend to purchase a tub and a few other things for our basement project. We borrowed my dad's truck to make the trip and apparently, tub shopping is hard on little boys! All three fell asleep on the way home. Not having a tv in the truck may have had something to do with it too!

 A few weeks ago, the elementary school had breakfast with buddies. We got to visit each of the boys classrooms and have muffins and juice and read books. Christian was out of town and we missed having him there with us.

 

The last week of February, the Co-op did their annual customer appreciation luncheon in each of their locations. We went over to Powell when they had theirs and had lunch with Christian. This year, his job was to hand out chips and he did a pretty good job.

The boys got to help grandpa Asay bottle feed a calf one night after school. It was pretty dark and cold, but they enjoyed it!

 This Saturday, we went to an 80th birthday party for Christian's grandpa Monk. We met at his uncle Dave's house for pie and ice cream and family fun.

Grandpa Monk and his girls: Diane, Jan, Renee and Sherie (sister-in-law)

With the grandkids that were there: Christian and Charlie, Matthew, Grandpa Monk, Lauren and Peyton.

And with most of the great grandkids!

Christian's mom and grandpa!

Our whole group! Not too bad of a picture for just taking a video and then cutting it down for a picture!

 

They had a movie from some time in the 1960's of Christian's grandpa and some of his friends that we watched.

Watching the old movie.

Carson and Peyton playing marbles. These two became pretty good friends last summer when we went to Bear Lake together. I'm so glad that they are friends even though they don't get to see each other very often.

One week at school, they had Dr. Seuss day at school and could dress up like a Dr. Seuss character. Carson and Travis decided to go as thing 1 and thing 2. They were really excited to get to go to school with blue hair that day!

 

Taking shape

After a year hiatus, we started working on our basement again. We spent the last three nights framing in a bathroom, laundry room, big ol'closet/storage room, and room where our furnace and such is. We ran out of studs last night around 8 so, we didn't get to frame in the bedroom closets...the last thing we have to frame in. It has been so exciting to see the basement take some shape and think that it will be just a few more months until it is all done! It's looking like the sheet rocker/taper/texture guy will be here in a couple of months so that will give us ample amount of time to finish the wiring, plumbing and putting in a sound system! YAY for progress! We are planning to try and finish up the framing Monday and Tuesday evening!

Christian and Michael Hendershot working away Friday night.

Finishing up Friday night with a some photobombing from Michael.

 A look at the bathroom.

The huge closet/storage area. It will have two doors with lots of shelving for storage all our stuff.

The laundry room/craft room. It will have lots of cabinets and a counter top for doing crafty things.

The furnace area that will also have some storage also.

A panoramic view (which is why it is kind of distorted)

 

For the first part of the week, this is how we spent most of our time...sick. Travis has been sick off and on for over a week now. It started with a yucky cough then added a low grade fever for several days and then woke up this morning with some tummy troubles. Landon started a few days ago with the cough had a fever Friday and now has a runny nose and eyes! I'm just hoping that no one else gets it! Here's to healthier days!

 

 

Update

I have been slacking lots lately in the blogging department. Here are some things we have been up to for the last couple of weeks through pictures from our phones.

 

Landon went in for a well-child check up last week and I promised him that if he was good, we could go get ice cream after. He is growing well and was really good so we picked up ice cream on our way out of town back home. About half way home, I looked in the rear view mirror and found that he had fallen asleep and hadn't even finished his cone!

 

Two weeks ago, it was really foggy outside but it was kind of a neat sight!

 

I love each night as we sit and read scriptures as a family!

Last week we went out to take some feed out to grandpa and grandma Asay. Landon insisted on wearing his spider man sweatshirt. I felt very safe knowing that spider man was in the car with us on our ride!

It has been an usually warm February melting our snow  pretty fast. Landon and the other boys have had a blast playing in the mud and puddles.

 

 

We have been gearing up for Valentine's Day this last week. The boys put their class valentine's together over the weekend and had parties today (Friday) at school.

Travis with one of his mustaches for his valentines.

The library had a Valentine's activity after school for the elementary school kids. They played games, read books and made crafts. There weren't very many kids that attended, so they all three got some fun prizes!

 

Travis won a book and pez dispenser and Carson won a monkey and some candy.

 

On Wednesday, we went over to Kasi's to decorate valentine cookies with our cousins.

Landon got a little carried away with the red sprinkles and his fingers were red the rest of the day.

Landon really enjoyed his cookies.

 

Our group decorating away!

I went to Billings on Thursday with my mom and did some shopping. Landon was a really good sport the whole day but crashed hard in the shopping cart in Target!

When did he get so big?

The boys got to get balloons for Valentine's Day from their mom and dad. It's the only day during the year that they allow balloons to be sent to the school.

Pinewood Derby

Last night was our ward pinewood derby. Christian and Carson have been working on Carson's car on and off for the last week. Carson designed his car, they cut it out at a friend's house, sanded and sanded and sanded, painted and sanded (repeated 3 times), put on wheels, graphited, ran in on the treadmill, put on the weights and then put the decals on. It was quite the process! Christian was going to be gone again for the races this year so he made sure it was all ready to go before he left so I wouldn't have to worry about it since I was in charge of the pinewood derby.

 

Carson spray painting his car.

We bought the other two boys their own kits this year also so they could have on to race.

Getting the wheels in place.

Running the car on the treadmill. Someone told us this was a good idea to do, so we tried it out and Carson thinks this is why his car did so well.

 

 Their finished products!

Landon made a gold one.

 

Travis wanted a shark shaped car. It turned out really cool and was actually quite fast when he raced it!

Carson wanted Sea Hawk colors this year for his car.

 

 

 This year for our Derby, we held official weigh-ins the night before our races. Our youth had standards night that night also, so we had many parents that needed to be done before 7 to make it to that. It worked out really well for us and made race day a lot less stressful for us leaders and not so long for our spectators! This year, we had 23 racers: 17 from our own ward and 6 from Byron. We had well over 100 people there to support our scouts. Also different, we had separate brackets for each den (wolves raced wolves, bears raced bears, ets) and then we took the top two from each of the three brackets and had a championship bracket. Carson ended up taking 2nd in the bears bracket and 4th in the championship bracket. He did really good and it was so fun to watch his face as he would race. He was so excited and nervous all at the same time! After all the races were complete, we had refreshments and then anyone who wanted to race their cars could, so Travis and Landon got a chance to race their cars too. A big thank you to my mom and dad to came and took care of the boys during the derby while I was busy running around doing stuff. That was the only thing I missed about last year is that I didn't really get to sit and enjoy the races, but I got to be right next to the track the whole night so that was fun too.

 

 

Here's a look at all the weighed-in cars before the race. It's always fun to see the differences between the cars and which ones the boys really did and which ones the dads "helped" do!

Carson was part of the opening ceremony. They were a little nervous doing it in front of so many people.

 

Carson's first race! Winner!

My mom was snapping pictures for me while I was getting things ready.

Winner.

Grandpa Foulger, Landon and Travis watching some races.

Carson watching nervously as his car heads down the track.

Landon was really into the racing thing for the first bit and then he found it was more fun to play with the kids instead.

His face after a close race with one of his buddies.

 

 Race for 1st and 2nd:

I focused in on the wrong thing but it's a good picture of my dad in the background!

Cheering on his car!

 

2nd place: bears bracket and most futuristic looking car award. (It took me and my fellow committee members an hour to think up awards for each car the night before the race. I'm just glad we did it then and not during the races!)

It was a great derby! As I serve in different positions in the church, I am made more and more aware of how grateful I am for the people that have done those same callings before me and for all their hard work. I don't always realize how much some people do, until I'm in that position. I'm grateful for good people to work with that are always willing to help out and have great ideas for improvement!