Everyday around 3:30 I think, Oh crap, what am I going to fix for dinner? I am tired of all of our regulars (and I am pretty positive my family is too)! So, my question to all of you is what's for dinner?  What are your family's favorite meals?  I can follow a recipe, but I am not very good at looking at one and knowing that the combination of ingredients work well together. This is not my talent. My poor family has suffered enough. Please, send me a recipe or three...

Ethan was so excited to get his cast off!  Three weeks and the thing was pretty flimsy..the part that went around his thumb hadn't even been on for about five days. So the other night Erick got out the tin snips and some scissors and started cutting. Izzie was fascinated by the entire process!

Ethan was playing on the monkey bars, actually, the twisty bars at school yesterday and jumped from the bridge to the second twisty bar and was ricocheted off. He fell on his left arm and we found out this morning at Instacare that he has a buckle fracture. I just love those twisty bars. You would think that as many broken arms that kids get at school they would just take them off the playground all together! Hmm...well, chalk it up to the first broken bone in our family. Pretty good for 7 years, I would say. Ethan gets to wear a splint and sling until Tuesday when he gets his cast. Before we went to get the X-rays this morning I think Ethan was pretty excited of the possibility of a cast. After we were done with the Dr. and driving back to school, Ethan realized that having a broken arm limits him with his recess activities, and he was no longer excited... If you are going to play hard, the consequences are going to be hard. He will have to wear that cast for 3 or 4 weeks, and most of that will be off track time, which is good. The crazy part of all of this is he really didn't complain much about pain and he had a great range of motion. The nurse said that this is the best kind of break to have, easy to fix. So that must be the silver lining in this adventure!

Ethan started his first day of 2nd grade on Monday.  We have a 2nd Grader! Crazy! I actually can't believe that our summer break is over, but is it nice to be getting back into a routine again!  Ethan is loving school. He has made some new friends, which is always fun.  His teacher this year is Mrs. Beckstead.  She is new to Foothills, but has been teaching for a few years.  She is really cute and creative!  We are excited she is our teacher!