Pics.....

We had a pretty good 4th of July weekend. On Thursday we took the kids to an indoor waterpark in Idaho and they had a blast, didn't take my camera though. That night when we got home I ended up having to take Hunter into the ER. Hunter had his 4 year old checkup on Tuesday (I know a little late but we didn't have insurance on his actual birthday.) Anyhow, he checked out good for the most part. He did fail his eye exam, although I'm not sure if he was fully cooperating, and his iron test came back low. He recieved his 4 year booster shots, two in each arm, no big deal. Well Thursday when we got to the waterpark it looked like he had a mosquito bite on his arm, by the time we were leaving it was the size of an egg, really hard, dark red, and really hot. Great. So I called his doctors when we got back in they tried to send us to an urgent care clinic but it was already closed so they sent us down to the ER. It went really quick. They said that they have seen this before, for some reason the 4 year old Tetanus booster can do this sometime, the doc said for whatever reason it is only the 4 year old booster that does this. But they treat it like it is infected just in case because it looks the same. So they gave us a script for antibiotics.
Friday we mostly just hung around the house, we attempted to go to the park downtown and were there for about an hour but it was hot and the kids were cranky so we headed home.
Saturday we drove around for 7 hours and looked for a new used car for Chris, he ended up getting a Dodge Neon. It was the only car we found with relatively low miles. Let me tell ya with gas the way it is there are a TON of trucks and SUV's out there, but not so many cars.
Sunday we were supposed to have a picnic at the park with our Down syndrome family network. Only my friend Mary and I showed up. So pathetic. Not the first time this has happened. So, we decided we would go to a different park, more fun for the older boys and Mary called a friend of hers and had them meet us out there. We officially have our own Down syndrome support group!!!! Here is Ella, Elliot and Riley























Here are a few more I took at the park.


Ella drinking out of her
baby doll's bottle.












Walking away from Grandpa.














Just being pretty.














Ella is so happy to be sitting by
her boyfriend Riley. He on the
otherhand is annoyed because
we moved him away from his
Goldfish crackers : )






Later that day we headed to Mary's (Riley's mom) house for a BBQ!! Thanks so much for having us over!! The older boys, Rex and Hunter, had a blast together and Hunter got to try the slip and slide for the first time.












Look at that beautiful little girl
peaking up at me.






















My best attempt at a group shot.











Hunter and Rex.










Oh the bubbles.