Sunday Pictures

Sunday I took the kids out and did some pictures of them. Neither kid was really wanting to do pictures, and getting them to both look at me at the same time was not easy. I ended up going to my parents house where my dad tried to help out a little bit by making the kids at least smile for the camera. Here are my results. I think that I will maybe try and do this again in a few days, and take a change of clothes for them as well so that we have some options.

Two Front Teeth*

One of Ellie's top front teeth has been loose fro a couple of weeks now. Well on Monday she bumped the front of her mouth on the shopping cart, and made the other front tooth a bit loose. Well she has been really working on one of her teeth, but did not realize just how loose the other one was getting with no help from her. This morning she came up to me excited to show me that her tooth was almost ready to come out. I looked at a tooth that was really loose and about to fall out, and commented that it was just hanging there. She quickly informed me that the tooth I was touching wasn't the tooth she was talking about. So we went into the bathroom to check out both teeth. Well, a few minutes later she came out with such a panic, yet excited look on her face holding her tooth (the tooth that she had no clue was loose). She quickly grabbed the phone and called daddy to let him know her tooth came out. We then snapped a few pictures of her new toothless smile, and headed upstairs to get ready for the day. I got ready, then it was Jake's turn, and then Ellie came into the bathroom and while I was doing her hair she kept rubbing her tongue along her tooth that was still in her mouth. A few minutes later she got another surprised look on her face as she opened her mouth to show me that her tooth was just hanging in her mouth. I asked if she wanted help pulling it, but she said she wanted to pull it by herself just like the one she'd pulled earlier. So with toilet paper in hand she yanked it out. She looked in the mirror, got a big toothless smile on her face and then grabbed the phone to call daddy to yet again tell him her tooth had come out. We snapped more pictures, and then headed out the door to run errands, and show everyone her new beautiful smile. So, without further a-due, I give you my toothless princess. ; )

We've *MOVED*

At the beginning of this month Ray and I, after much thought and discussion decided to move back to Southern Utah. He sent the kids and I down to find a place to live, and he stayed in Tremonton. We decided that with all the trouble Ellie has been having with kids both at school, and in our own neighborhood/ward, that it would be wise to move closer to family where our kids could feel accepted and loved. I was able to find a 3 bedroom town home that we live in here in LaVerkin, and Ray will stay in the house in Tremonton. We don't want to sell the house up North, but have thought instead that we might rent it out. He is going to keep his job in Brigham for the time being and we will see him every other week. (He works the seven on/ seven off shift). I miss him like crazy when he is gone, and enjoy every minute with him while he is here with me. Our lease on this place will run out the same time Ellie finishes with school, and then we will decide what we want to do. We may decide to move to Brigham, and Ray keep his job. Or, we may decide to sell our home up North, and buy a home in Cedar City and Ray would get a job at the hospital in Cedar. A friend of mine up in Tremonton called me to let me know that the rumor going around is that Ray and I are separated and getting divorced. She told me she has been very quick to tell people that our marriage is fine, it is the people we live near that are not fine, and that mothers in our ward should be ashamed of themselves for raising the kinds of girls they are raising. This is the friend who is not really religious, and does not think to highly of Mormons. Anyway, it kind of made me feel a bit bad that instead of calling my cell and asking if everything was OK, or if there was anything they could do for us, some of these young moms chose to start rumors. Well, enough of the story, here is our short term address if any of you care to add it in pencil to your address books. Ray and Mickie Westfall 723 North 195 West
LaVerkin, UT 84745. Our cell numbers will remain the same for right now.

1 Broken Arm = 1 Pink Cast

We went to Mike and Karen's Sunday for dinner, and after we were done eating, Ellie & Jake went downstairs to play. A few minutes later she came upstairs crying quite hard, and complaining of her wrist and hand hurting. When we had asked her what had happened she said climbed on Mike's treadmill, and then turned it on and it knocked her off where she landed on her arm. I gave her some children's Tylenol, and then we put an ice pack on it. Through the night she did not sleep well, and woke up several times crying that her hand was really hurting her bad. Monday morning we sent her off to school with her hand and wrist wrapped and told her we would make her an appointment if it still hurt her after school. While she was at school we made her the appointment, and then picked her up after school and I took her to the Dr. They did an x-ray, and sure enough it was broken. The doc then took us across the room and let Ellie pick her color of cast. She of course being the pink lover she is quickly chose a pink cast. When we left he told me to watch for swelling, and said to keep ice on it for the rest of the evening. Well by the time we got home to show her dad, her hand was swollen, and her fingers were turning purple, so it was back to the doctor to have the cast cut on both sides to loosen it and then he wrapped co ban around it for 3 days and sent us on our way. We will go in on Thursday and if the swelling is completely gone he will put a new cast on it and she will wear it for 2 to 4 weeks and then she will go in for another Dr's visit.