I don't like how blogger posts the last picture first and the first one last. Anyway, this is our day today. Rachel just loves any picture of herself.

Well, nobody guessed the right kids in my little guess who. Some of you got one right, but nobody got two. Preston and Jackson were the two that cried because I pulled them away from the treasure box and Preston is the one that cried from Bountiful to Kaysville. It was such a lovely ride home. Better luck next time.

We got the results back from the lab yesterday and it turns out that Lucas has strep in his nose. Weird huh. So we are back on antibiotics (the same thing we had a couple of weeks ago) and we will just wait and see if this takes care of it. If not I guess we will have to look into other options. But at least he is happy while he is on the antibiotics. So there you have it. As for the guessing game, I will wait a few more days to see if anybody else wants to give it a shot. Good luck to all of you. I love being the one that knows the answer. Ha Ha Ha!

So I did my last post a day to soon. Lucas' booger nose came back. So I called the doctor this last Monday and he wanted to have a nasel culture done on Lucas. So yesterday I packed up all of the kids and headed to Bountiful for a 5 minute trip to the lab. Poor Lucas had to have a 4 inch swab stuck up his nose. He for some reason didn't like this much. In the meantime, the nurse was nice and let the other four kids pick something out of the treasure box. Two kids picked theirs out and were ready to go. The other two couldn't decide what they wanted and not wanting to stay their all day I gave them to the count of 5 to pick something. They still couldn't decide so I grabbed them by the arms and pulled them away. They both cried all the way to the car. One I had to drag behind me the whole way while carrying Lucas in the other arm. We made it to the car and one of the two cryers cried all of the way from Bountiful to Kaysville. I love my little ones. Now we have to wait for the lab results to find out if anything is wrong with Lucas. Now for a little quess who. Who were the two that were crying and which one cryed halfway home? Leave me a coment with your guesses and I might have a prize for anyone that gets it right. For anyone that wants to guess and doesn't know all of the kids names (there is only a few!) we have Jackson, Zackery, Preston, Rachel, and Lucas.

Tonight we received an Emergency handbook (I'm guessing from the emergency response coordinator in the area) so I started reading it and I am very excited about it. Usually when I hear about emergency prepardness there is so much information that I don't know where to start. But this packet has forms to fill out, checklists to follow, what to do and when to do it. I'm excited to get all of this put together and talk to the kids about all of this and to jump start it we decided to have a fire drill (We didn't think to check the weather outside first, but it was snowing. Or raining. I guess a fire wouldn't really care what the weather was.). I'm embarrassed to say that we have never really discussed this with the kids so I didn't quite know what they would do. We thought they were asleep so we thought it would be a good time to see if they woke up to the smoke alarms. Turns out the only one that was asleep was Lucas. Jackson heard the alarm so he came running up the stairs and I told him to get his shoes and coat on and he thought I was joking. I told him to get his brothers and get shoes and coats on. Then he got excited and took of to get Zack and Preston and they were up the stairs quicker than I have ever seen them go. Then I heard Rachel's door open. I don't know if she heard the alarm or if she just heard me tell the boys to get shoes and coats on. She came out and asked me where we were going. I told her it was a fire alarm and we had to run outside to the mail box fast. She actually got a little scared. Anyway, we all got outside safely. Dave even got Lucas out of bed which I wasn't planning on. So over the next couple of weeks and months and hopefully on a regular basis we can talk to the kids about emergency situations and get things put together and in order so we can be a little bit better prepared if anything should happen.

I love my kids but it was oh so nice to send two of them back to school this week. The noise level is so much lower with only three at home. I realize some of you are probably thinking that three at home is alot but three is less than five. And since Lucas takes a nap from 9:30 to 11:30 I really just have two to play with in the morning. You may ask what I do with my free time in the morning? The last two mornings I got to color with Preston and Rachel. If anyone needs artwork for their walls we have quite a selection to choose from. And today my morning was spent in the bathroom trying to convince a child that he needed to go #2. I think we were in their for about 3o minutes and he wasn't going to even try which is what he has done for days now so I finally pulled out the enima (not sure if that is spoeeled right but that is how it sounds). He didn't think that was a good idea but oh well. Anyway about 10 minutes later we had success. The job was done for at least today. If you call me tomorrow morning I may be doing the same thing. Don't you wish you could come over?! This might all be TMI but at least I will have it to remember.