Today is Monday and the sickness continues. ... We are still in Idaho unable to leave. Brandon started throwing up this afternoon, so we are going to try to go to Boise on Tuesday, then try to make it to Moses Lake early Wednesday morning for me to teach kindergarten in the afternoon. Oh, I can't wait to travel with sick children! Korbi you keep that baby inside until I get home OK???? We do not want to miss this!

Wow! I'm blogging after a month! We spent a quick weekend in Burley going to see family. Brandon's brother Dusty and his new wife Joycelyn were blessing their baby Fallon-the girls only girl cousin so far....Korbi's baby is coming soon-another girl! We also saw another new cousin, Broxton, and had two birthday parties for Hanna! The first picture is of Hanna blowing out her candles at her "surprise" birthday party at the Becks. The second picture is of Great Grandma Mimi-who by the way was very stingy with holding the new baby!! Hanna is hugging her and thanking her for the money for science camp that she gave her for the birthday. The third picture is of Brandon, the girls (Alizah is sleeping and very sick-HIGH fever), and Great Grandma Bowen. The last picture is of the three girls and the TINY little thing who is falling over is the seven pound new baby Broxton. Piper is Broxton's new body guard, not letting anyone else near him when she is holding him. She is quite the mother and my first girl who truely likes to play with babies, bottles, diapers, etc. Hanna scored in the present department. Her main objective was to get enough money to pay for her half of science camp this summer. I told her I would pay for half, but she had to earn the other half. Well at 25 cents a job, she's only earned 14 dollars, and only 1.68 from saving dad's pop cans, so she asked for money from her birthday and she's already at 130 dollars. I think she might have to pay for my half too!! She's so excited for science camp which isn't until June. She's such a patient child. She's been waiting since Christmas to go to High School Musical play which is finally next month!! As Hanna is turning seven I reflect back to the day she was born. She has always been such a good baby and now a good girl, so patient, loving, and basically good to the core. There are times when she will sneak a hit or scratch at her sisters, but her goodness usually prevails. My biggest tear moment is when she opens her cards and reads the messages inside. She can read just about anything and writes so expressively! I am very proud of her and am excited to celebrate her birth which we are 5 times....not my idea, but I didn't know we were traveling to family so close to her birthday, so after planning a friend party we also had to add two Idaho family parties, 1 school celebration, and one true "birthday" family party. AHHH! I think we MIGHT get enough cake for the month. I guess I gotta hit the gym more in the next week, because I never pass up cake!

So the question of the day is.....HOW CLEAN IS TOILET WATER??? We were done with dinner and I was doing the dishes when I thought to myself...."it's a little too quiet around here!" I proceeded to find all of the kids and found Piper with the door shut in the bathroom. I heard a splash against the door. I opened the door to find her scooping toilet water up with a scoop bucket and throwing it against the door. The floor was covered along with the door, walls, sink, and shower curtain soaked! And again, I can't find my camera to take a picture. Piper is still furious with me for taking her away from her fun and making her take another bath in the other bathroom while I sanitized the bathroom from ceiling to floor. So another day tommorrow might bring more fun!!

Thanks Aunt Kiki for coming to watch Hanna and video taping her!! Hanna had her best meet ever with another qualifying score for sectionals. She was one of two teammates out of 13 that didn't fall off the beam...AHHH!! (AIM Team had a rough meet!) After our last event-vault-one of the girls asked if we went to bars next....that tells me what I thought was true-that they were REALLY asleep on bars as their scores showed!! It was pretty funny. Hopefully our Spokane meet next weekend won't be so early (8:00 a.m.) and we will be more awake!! It was a fun weekend with staying in a hotel-with breakfast-which was Hanna's fav part and a little shopping before heading back to Moses Lake. We only had a few hours to cover the whole mall and we were actually running from store to store at one point. These were the actions of people who don't get out of town much!! It was also a big week with the birth of our new cousin Broxton from Burley. We are excited to have him here safely even though it's a month early....again for Aunt Britni! We can't talk about it much though because discussion brings upon tantrums from Alizah because we can't go see him. She doesn't understand why we can't go see him because "but, we know where his house is" she says. And if anyone knows her tantrums you would know we try to avoid them at all cost. Which actually we are listening/watching one now over the fact that mom didn't buy oreos at target last night. Which did I know she wanted oreos???...NO! Another tantrum we saw this morning was from Piper who literally 5 minutes before church this morning we found Piper with a Bingo dabber "painting" her body and whatever else she could find. So when we took the paint away-a tantrum progressed into actual rolling and kicking down the hallway....into the tub the kicking child went and I tried to scrub the red paint off. Her church teachers were surprised to see a child with pink hands and arms show up for class! Oh the joys of parenthood. I just wished I would have gotten a picture of the red dotted two year old to share with everyone!

Hanna practicing on Bars at Pasco meet