Alyssa

Poor Alyssa... She's been sick again (still). We had to spend several hours in the ER at Primary Children's Hospital Thursday night. She seems to be feeling better though. We have to follow up with our doctor next week so they can make sure she's all better. She has to have medicine every day and we have to keep a close eye on her diet. She's such a sweet girl, it's sad she's always sick.

My other blog

Because of other crazy stuff we are doing this summer, my website is taking a little longer than we thought to get it up and running. I set up a blog that is a preview. I'm starting to post on it every day, whether its a recipe, a thought or whatever. Check it out :) http://theamericanhomemaker.blogspot.com

Family Goal

We decided to make a family goal to participate in the 5K walk/run that our school is doing in August. We went to the gym tonight. Alyssa walked/ran 8 laps (one mile), I did 10 laps, Nina did 12 and Caleb was the winner with 13. He ran 11 and walk 2. I'm so proud of them. Especially Alyssa. She hates exercise and had been sick all day (again). After we got home, she puked and then ate a bowl of oatmeal and went to bed. Poor girl. She did it though. I lapped her a couple of times and then stayed with her. I told her we had to run part of every lap, and we did. Hopefully we can work her up to the 5K in a month. I'm not worried about the rest of us.

In the Kids Club magazine you pick up at Associated Food stores there is a chart where kids keep track of their healthy eating, exercise and TV/computer time. The kids decided we should make copies of it and they want to keep track. Hopefully we'll all be healthier in a month :) I keep track of my eating etc on a blog.

Yummy Lemonade

I made some really yummy lemonade today... I wanted to make a flavored lemonade and I had frozen mango in the freezer. It turned out really good. Ken thought it needed to be more sour, but I thought it was perfect. I don't like to pucker all up when I drink lemonade :)

about 1 c. frozen mango
1 c. lemon juice
1 c. sugar

Blend together in a blender. (I use a smoothie maker.)

Add to:

4-5 c. cold water
ice

yum yum

Sunday

Ken went home today. It's very sad. He should be back in about 3 weeks with his kids. My kids will come home tonight, so right now it's very quiet and lonely.

We had a long tiring week this week. We spent the evening of the 3rd and all day on the 4th painting kids faces at the Freedom Festival in Provo. I have to say that spending several hours with Ken painting kids' faces made me love him even more. He was talking to people about our events, painting crazy things like dragons and the Superman symbol and spending the whole day in the hot sun on the 4th of July doing something that wasn't exactly a blast, just to spend the time with me. I appreciate him so much. The 5th we had a Kid Time event at work. I'm extremely worn out.

Here's my lovely volunteer, Ken.

We made a giant American flag at our event with sidewalk chalk. It was pretty cool. It's too bad my kids weren't there to help out. They love the events.