What a day!

Well today started out pretty good. I went to a luncheon at a friends house and had a great time. However just before we left Jared was playing and got his finger slammed in a door. I am not so good with the whole blood and gore stuff so I didn't want to look. Just a glance made it clear that he needed to go to the hospital. One of the sisters that were there helped get his hand cleaned up and put a paper towel and tape around his finger so that I wouldn't have to look at it. Remember or for those of you who don't know when he had to get stitches in November I wound up getting 3 myself because I passed out. Not a good track record when I had to drive him to the hospital. Anyway I start driving and being the concerned mother that I was a was going faster than a should have and got pulled over by a police officer. I stuck my head out of the window and said "Excuse me sir but my son has been hurt and I am taking him to the hospital. Can you please come up here and look at it so that I can get on my way. He stuck his head in the window and saw the bloody bandage and Jared crying and told me to put on my flashers and the go. So I put them on and off we go again. This time I was trying not to go so fast that a police officer might think it neccary to stop me. Well then we get to the area where the hopital is and I had to figure out how to get to the emergency room. (Whoever made that plan did a lousy job because there are a lot of one ways and not a lot of ER this way signs) I stopped in the middle of the road and rolled my window down and spoke to a nice elderly gentleman and he helped me get to where I needed to be. We finally made it to the ER and the nurse at the desk wanted to see Jareds cut so I had to take of the paper and Jared was not happy about that. We were sent to sit in the waiting room and he was called in shortly. They weighed him, took his temp, blood oxygen and blood pressure and then had us in a room very quickly. The doctor came in and said that he would need to have an x-ray to check for broken bones and then they would be able to see what needed to be done. When he came back i was informed that he had broken the tip of his finger (left middle) and that they would have to stitch it back together and the bone would be held in place by his skin and a splint. YUCK!! The cut on his finger was very deep and it was kind of only hanging on so they had to do a lot of tugging while they stitched, poor Jared cried the whole time he was being stitched and the Dr kept saying that there was no way that he was feeling anything but I could tell that he was feeling something when he screamed and held out his arms and cried MOMMa. There were two nurses helping me hold him down and he was very perturbed that I would allow someone to hurt him. With everyone around I held him and sang to him while the Dr worked on his finger. Jared and I were both relieved when he was finally done. He kept telling me that he wanted to go home. Anyway he got 7 stitches on the tip on his finger and they splinted it so that he wouldn't damage it further. He is now drugged up and doing well but boy was it a hard thing to deal with. No mom wants to see there precious babies hurting. Oh well these are the things that we must deal with and no child gets to make it to be an adult without something happening. He is doing well and the bandage is not causing him to stop playing. The rest of the day went fine. We picked up his pain meds and antibiotics at the pharmacy and I took him to Wendy's for a burger and a frosty. All well that ends well

One of Alecia's many Poems!

A Child's Innocent Love
By Alecia Alford

A Child's small, tender hand
rests in a woman's calloused palm.
The pink hand of the child
is unworried, and trusting;
the worn hand of the mother is weary and loving.
Her hand is not that of a rich woman in the monetary field;
but, in the area of love,
she is exceedingly blessed.
The child's hand, so innocently bestows
that blessing upon her mother.
In temporal standards,
She is poor, and must work hard for what she has;
In eternal standards,
she is by no efforts of her own, rich indeed!
Her home is small but filled with love,
her car is old and falling apart,
but her loved ones don't complain!!
The food is simple, but made with love.
All this is portrayed, by the simple scene,
of a child's hand,
resting in her mother's palm!

Alecia's Awards

Alecia did really well in school this year. On May 19 she went to an awards ceremony where she was honored for having the A/B honor roll all year, being in the top 10 percent of her class, and making an advanced score on her English and Social Studies Leap test. The leap test is a test that the kids take in the 4th and 8th grades and must pass. Advanced is the highest score (but like an A where there are many levels) Alecia is very smart and loves to write. She wants to be an author when she grows up and plans to go to college for a double major in English Literature and English Education and a minor in history. She feels that she will be able to get the best educational background this way. I know that she can do what ever she puts her mind to.



Alecia and one of her friends were having a great time at the ceremony.

Alecia getting one of her many awards. She and her friend were in the top 10 percent and they also had the exact same GPA. They thought that was cool.

Alecia getting another award. We are so proud of our little scholar.

Swimming with Grandma

When we got home from Tennessee on Monday we took the kids to the pool with my mom. They all had a great time.
David went swimming with them. The kids love it when their Daddy is able to take time off to play with them. What fun that he was able to come!



Brandon loves to jump from the diving boards (Especially the high dive)!


Katie can't let Brandon out do her so here she goes too. Boy does she love to jump!

Bethany enjoys the time in the pool.

Alecia decided that I needed to be in the pics too.

Jared took a moment to "help" Jessica go under! Oh boy. They really enjoyed the kiddy pool.

Thank you Grandma for taking us to have soooo much fun. We love you!

Nashville, Tennessee Temple

The temple was beautiful. I love to look up at the Moroni Statue on all the temples. It always gives me such a feeling of wonder and awe.



Michelle and Robert were so happy. We took pictures outside of the temple. I really enjoyed my time there. It has such a peaceful feeling inside the temple. We enjoyed it so much that we didn't want to leave.

There was a beautiful fountain in front of the temple!

And some very colorful, gorgeous flowers all over the place.

Here is a picture of David, me, Michelle, and Robert outside after we had gone in. We were so Happy! It was Awesome!!! Thank you Michelle for inviting us we had a great time.

Opps! I messed up!

Opps, I tried to go back to the post and edit but I'm not sure how to edit. Somehow I lost the pics for the last post so here they are.

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We all went to a restarant when we got into Nashville. We had a lot of fun and loved looking at the many fish in the aquariums. However....[Photo]
At first David and Robert got some bad meat!! Eww


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Then the manager had a fillet made for them and they really enjoyed it!



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David looking through a window so that we could take a picture with the fish! How fun"