Long Time No Post

Well its been a long time since I have posted anything here so I thought I would do a over veiw of the last month or so. After the week we spent in st george/disneyland for spring break we spent the next week going up to the hospital in murray to spend time with larrys dad while he was in the hospital. We are very greatful that everything turned out so amazingly well. He had his surgery to remove his tumor and though it was a tough recovery for him he is getting better. They ended up sending the tumor to harvard to have them test it and the results came back that the tumor was not malignant! HOORAY!! He did have a bit of a rough week last week, he was having kidney issues and the flu. We cant wait for him to really get back on his feet so that he can do the things that he wants to do! We love you Papa! Here is a picture of his tumor, the ruler is a 6" ruler

The next 12 days we spent living in springville babysitting for my brother and sister in law while they went on a vacation to hawaii. It was alot of fun to get to spend an extended amount time with my neice and nephews (tyler, witney, spencer, and ethan) and to be able to get to know them even better. One funny thing that happened while there is that my brother just bought a house that has a pool in the backyard and the people who owned it before didnt close down the pool for the winter and so there was a process to get it up and going for spring, well just before Kelly(my bro) left for his trip found out that springville would double their water prices for the summer while they were on their trip so he scheduled appts for people to come fix things, well they weren't showing up and then when they finally did the city was supposed to fill the pool from the fire hydrant and when I called to tell them what time to come they told me that they actually dont do that. Funny how they can tell two different stories..anyways, so I put the hose into the pool on wednesday at about 2pm to fill it hoping it would be filled before friday when the price doubled. Well on thursday morning it was about 1/4 of the way filled, there was no way! I did some thinking and here is what I came up with



Yep call it redneck but it worked, I put two hoses in the tub out the back, down to the pool and siphoned them, now we were getting somewhere!!! Well as the night went on it still wasnt looking like it was going to make it so in an all out effort we all spent about an hour working together and filling soup pots and bowls in the tub and then out the back window and larry and I would carry them to the pool and pour them in...




It was actually really fun and everyone worked together! You can see how close we were, we didnt completely finish before friday but we didnt have to do too much that day.
On Friday the kids came home from school ready to get into the pool however when the pool guy came to set it up they told me that the heater needed some repairs so it wouldnt be heated, everything else was ready just no heat...thus creating the 1st annual penquin plunge!!! Yep the water was a chilly 58 degrees! I will add a picture later it is on the other computer. That was a blast all the kids (even the biggest one larry) went down the slide and jumped off the diving board, it didnt last more that 15 minutes but it was hilarious watching their faces come up out of the water!
That saturday ty had a soccer game and witney had gymnastics and wit's was up in SLC so we picked up ty, then went to wit's meet and they had finished early so we didnt even get to see her perform. While we were in downtown we went over to capitol theater where Wicked was playing and since we had the kids we got an additional 3 entrys into the lottery for tickets. (we had tried to win the whole week larrys dad was in the hospital so that larry could take his mom to it and we had no luck) Well they only draw 10 names and if you get drawn to can buy 2 tickets for $25 each, 8 had already been drawn when number 9 was drawn they yelled out "witney" and of course stumbled over the last name, but I looked at her jumped up and down and scream and we ran up to the front to get the tickets. I couldnt believe it!! I called my mom and she came up switched us cars and took all five kids home for us and babysat so that larry and I could see wicked(larry had not seen it yet) It was the best, our seats were on the 4th row! It was amazing to be so close to the actors. I could see that play over and over again and never get tired of it. I cant wait until october for the arko girls trip to denver, we are going to go see wicked there!
When we finished babysitting we came home and it was like going to a place that you love that you havent been to forever! I felt like we had been gone for years not weeks. It was so nice to be home! Thanks to our great neighbors who mowed our lawn, got our mail, took care of primary stuff for us etc, etc, etc. We missed our great neighborhood so much!!!
We got home on thursday and on friday it was on the road again, this time out to roosevelt for a going away party for larry sister and her family who were moving to St. Louis for school. We are sad that they had to leave and we will miss them so much but its only for a couple years. Thank goodness for Skype!
The next 2 weeks were just filled with the catch up process of being gone so long, working and doing hair appts and then two more quick trips to roosevelt, one for larry's little brothers seminary graduation and being ordained an elder, and the other for his high school graduation

Congratulations Pat!!! We are so proud of you!!!
Well that brings us up to this week, again filled with just working and doing hair appts and getting some projects done around the house. Cayman has had a big change in her life today

Cayman has moved up to the big girl bed! She loves it! I just hope that she doesnt fall out or get out in the middle of the night. She is such a sweet little girl, in all the craziness of the past month she has been so flexible just to do whatever we need her to. A couple of funny things that she has done this month.
She got two butter knives out of the silverware drawer, brought one to me and said "I'm captain hook, lets fight!" I said "ok well then I am peter pan" and we would hit the knives together and after a minute or two cayman says to me "you old codfish!" All I could do was stop and hug her, it was sooo cute!
I found two crayon tips up her nose, she obviously didnt learn her lesson with the rocks, poured her own sippy cup of milk then says "mom I'm a big girl!", loves to sing and knows every word to the loathing song from wicked, apparently we have been listening to that alot around here, and requesting ketchup on her waffles, cayman has been Kenzified! I love it!! Well sorry that was a very long update, hopefully I can do a better job at keeping this up!