1st day of summer break

Grandma wiser got the boys set up and let them paint the shed, she figured 10 minutes maybe 30 minutes top they would paint. Instead they painted for 3 hours and painted 3 of the 4 sides of the shed. The next day we got out the scaffoling and they contintued to paint up to as high as they could reach. It was amazing. When we get back from all of our trips we will let them take turns on the ladder to get the very top.

They love to paint and they loved having so much to paint. Once
started using a roller the painting went much faster and they really enjoyed themselves.

Jesse's Graduation from Kindergarten

Here is Jesse in the back row getting ready to start the program.
He was quite nervous and wasn't sure if he was going to say his
Nursery rhyme or not, but he calmed himself and did it great.


Phil, Hunter, Katie and Grandma Wiser were there to watch him.




It was so cute, his class met in an auditorium for 1/2 hour and let each child recite a nursery rhyme, then presented them each with a certificate of completion from Kindergarten. Jesse was quite nervous but he stood up there, held his teachers hand and recited eensy wincy spider. Then he got his certificate and came down and sat with us. It was very cute.

Baby Gracie is home

Today June 4th, 2008 Baby Gracie made it home at 2pm. As you can imagine the whole family is soooo excited. She got to see her cute pink nursery today for the first time. She will be 11 weeks old tomorrow. We have been waiting a long time for her to make it home.

I have been negligent on my blog. A lot has happened the last two months, and I will spend some time this week and make a few posts. I do like to blog but with the selling of our house, baby Gracie, Grandpa Evans, Phil and his work and most time spent is on my children. So enough said as to why I am not blogging and I will get caught up this week.
Katie

Reece's in town

Tuesday was a fun day. Jesse, Hunter and I went to Grandma Evans and picked up Tyler and Deb and went to Carl's Jr. The kids played for about 2 hours and Deb and I had a chance to visit. It's hard to keep up on events when you live out of town, so it was fun to have time to visit. Later Melissa, her boys and Kristin, Deb and Cindy came to my house for dinner. Fun time.
Gramps got home from the hospital today and slept the afternoon away. Grams was pretty tired herself.

Friday will be a big day for Baby Gracie. That is the day they plan on closing her chest cavity. Right now with it being open, they can remove the patch and change things, tighten, clean, remove swelling basically do what ever it takes to keep her stable, but on Friday they close that cavity and then it won't be easy to manage her heart.

When it rains it pours

Baby Gracie is getting stronger every hour, it seems that she is now breathing on her own without much help. Michele said "Gracie is down to 30% oxygen and her chest x-ray today looks better than yesterday." We are not out of the woods, but she is improving.

On a sadder note, Phil's dad, Larry, suffered a heart attack last night. He is in the hospital and is in stable condition for the time being. I will post again as new information becomes available.

I am still sick and Larry's condition doesn't help my stress level go down; and it is raining in Boise right now. Conference is good, God is good and we are grateful for life.

Gracie made it through the night.

I just heard the great news. Baby Gracie made it through the night. Of course there are still concerns about her lungs, but she made it through the night. We are so happy at our house.

What a day April 4th has been

Here's the quilt I have been working on as I wait to hear the

outcome of baby Gracie. I spent a few hours peacing the quilt together. I don't have a definate pattern, other than one quilt block will be plad, the next one will be plain. I have ended up getting sick. I have a bad sore throat and very conjested probably because of the stress of baby Gracie. I was going to run errands Friday but the not knowing what was going to happen kept me home quilting and being physically sick. I still don't know how Gracie did during the night, but I will post again when I know something.