Kota's dance recital

Kota had her dance recital at the end of May. Since we moved at the beginning of April she missed quite a few of the practices. I practiced and practiced at home, she's 3 and her attention span is short and she only wanted to practice when she wanted to. Since we had already paid for her costume and the recital fee, we decided to go back for it. By the time the recital came, both Oakley and Camden had the dance memorized, we hoped that Kota did too. Kota did awesome!!! She was the cutest little bumblebee. I think that she had a good time. When we picked her up after it was all over, she was beat! She looked so tired, but was really excited that her daddy gave her flowers. She also got flowers from her teacher, which she gave to Camden (Camden got two set of flowers at her last recital and gave one to Kota, it is rubbing off.) Anyway, she did so good and we were so proud of her! What a cute kid!

I hate ticks!

I appoligize for the strong language, but this is one time when I think that the word is appropriate. We love Colorado, and our new area. It is amazing, despite the trampoline tradegdy (which we were able to salvage by the way). There are so many fun things to do around here, that we can be at in no time at all.

A couple of weeks ago some of our friends were here and we went hiking with them. Later that day, Darrick found a tick dining on his leg. This past weekend we were out doing some hiking. Friday after hiking we got in the car and I saw a tick on my leg. So we got out to check everyone and Darrick had one on his pants too. Luckily the kids were clean. Monday we went hiking with some friends. During the hike Darrick found a tick on him and later we found one on Oakley's sweatshirt. Yikes! Well we got home and checked everyone over extra good. This morning I got up to turn the sprinklers on and when I came in there was a tick on my sock. I don't know if I picked it up in the yard, or if it was there before. After that I was extra paranoid, and I decided to check all of the kids again. When I checked Kota, sure enough, a tick! Feasting along her hair line. Unfortunately Darrick had already left for work, so I had to take it out. I decided to take her and the tick in to be checked out just in case. I was able to get all of it out luckily and the doctor said that it is not the kind that carry Lyme disease. Thank Goodness! I think that we will just hang out indoors for the next little while until things dry up a bit. Ticks or not, we absolutely love it here! I just hope that I can stop itching and having the heeby jeebies sometime soon!

Trampoline Troubles!

We finally broke down and bought a trampoline. We have wanted one for sometime, but haven't had a yard or place for it really. Well we do here. Darrick did all kinds of research on the best trampolines. He checked out consumer reports, watched a bunch of YouTube trampoline videos, etc. We were trying to find the best one that the kids would be safe on. Well we looked and looked and finally I just went to Wally World and got an inexpensive one. They are little. Right!?And it still had the net. They have loved it! They have been out on it at least an hour a day since, sometimes the whole day. We felt like it was a great purchase.

Well last night I was sitting in bed reading and I kept hearing something outside the window, so I went out to check and see what it was. The Trampoline was gone! Was I imagining this? So I got Darrick and we went out with flashlights to check things out? Would someone have stolen it? Surely not in this neighborhood. There is a big pond behind a few houses down that has gotten pretty deep this time of year. I went down to walk around it and sure enough. I found a piece of the trampoline. I thought for sure our tramp was down in the bottom of the pond. The winds here pick up in the afternoon and evenings during the spring. A lady then came out of her house with a few of the pieces of our tramp. She said that the wind had gotten so bad it just blew by and that it was down behind a house a couple of doors down. We decided to wait until morning to find it. Sure enough. We found it this morning. We're not sure how salvageable it is at this point, yet we don't know if we want to put it up again until the winds die down. Thank goodness we got the least expensive trampoline, or this would even hurt a lot more! I am not excited about having to tell the girls about it. I guess that we all have a good lesson to learn.