Peres Family Adventures: August 2010

First Day of School, August 9th

Scott started 3rd grade, Noah started 1st grade, and Joshua started Kindergarten!!!

Joshua lines up for Kindergarten.

Mrs. Moffit welcomes Joshua. He was so happy she remembered his name since she had Noah last year and talked to Joshua several times.

Joshua holds two fingers up to show he is ready to listen!

Joshua fell asleep on the floor in his room after school. Kindergarten is exhausting!

Happy Birthday Noah and Joshua!!!

We ended up celebrating both boys' birthdays with Steve's family on August 7th, the day after Steve's trip to the ER. Aunt Teresa and Uncle Deron, Grandpa Peres, and Phyllis came to celebrate. We had a BBQ, a pinata, and ate cake and ice cream. Good times!

Noah

Scott

Uncle Deron

Joshua

Joshua (5) and Noah (7)

A new gun from Teresa and Deron.

New Bakugans from Teresa and Deron.

Joshua, Noah, Phyllis, Scott, Teresa, Deron, and Grandpa Peres.

Daddy relaxes in front of the TV with his broken shoulder.

The boys teach everyone how to play Bakugan.

Steve's Scary Adventure--August 6th

Steve and I went for what was supposed to be a quick bike ride before the kids' birthday party. However, about 15 minutes into the ride Steve blindly hit a big divot in the road going about 21-22 mph and went down hard. I only heard it because he was behind me. I slammed on my brakes and turned around to see him sprawled on the ground, lying on his back with his head on the curb. He was in bad shape. He was all scraped up and was complaining of his right shoulder hurting. I got him up and off to the side of the road where he could sit in the shade. I tried calling some friends to come and get us, but no one was answering. It was probably best, though, because he was awfully pale and in a lot of pain. I called an ambulance and within about 15-20 minutes we had an ambulance and fire truck to help us out. They loaded him up on the ambulance and off he went. The guys on the fire truck kindly loaded his bike on their truck and took it home for us while I rode as fast as I could back home to get the kids and head off to the hospital.

It turns out he broke his helmet in two places. He would either be dead or a vegetable if he wasn't wearing that helmet. We are so grateful for helmets! Let this be a lesson to all of you!!!
He also broke his collarbone and scapula and separated his shoulder. He finally saw the orthopedist two weeks later and in that time the clavicle fracture had moved more and was so bad that his shoulder was just hanging there with nothing attached. He ended up having surgery August 23rd to have a plate put in to reattach his collarbone. Now it's just a matter of healing up. It'll take a while because of the scapula fracture. He won't be back on the bike for a good long while. Poor guy. We are just so grateful it wasn't worse!

More Hairy Adventures--August 5th

We found Hairy peaking out from under the eaves on the roof. This became her new "hangout".

However, it took Hairy quite a while to figure out how to get back down.

Joshua Turns 5 August 5th!

I took the boys to play at Bouncetown to celebrate Joshua's 5th birthday. We opened presents and a few days later had a combined birthday party for Joshua and Noah with Daddy's family.

Bakugan and Dungeons and Dragons movie.

New shorts...boring.

New cool jammies...exciting.

Remote control truck...awesome!

A new Calvin and Hobbes reader is born.

What a guy!

Joshua's First Soccer Practice Ever!

Joshua got to start playing soccer this year and his first practice was August 2nd. He was a bit shy at first and would just watch everyone do their jumping jacks and such, but once I gave him the okay and told him to do what everyone else was doing he did great!

Our Utah Trip Highlights

July 23-August 1st the boys and I headed to Cedar City, Utah, leaving Steve at home again (sad), and spent a super fun-filled week with Grandpa and Grandma Turner, Jonathan and his 4 kids, Heather and her 4 kids, and Christina and Keith (briefly) and their 2 kids. We really missed Angela and her family, though. It was a house full, but we had so much fun and the kids loved playing with their cousins. Most of the kids slept outside in a big tent. We had a big birthday party for those who were having a birthday around that time, went to church, played at the park and the "beach", went to the temple, played and rode horses at Aunt Rebecca's house, went swimming at the water park in Washington, played fun games like kickball and red rover at the park, had a big water balloon fight, went hiking and fishing, went mountain biking and rock crawling, and, and, and...I was exhausted and ready for another vacation when I got home.

The boys' cake: Noah, Stratton, Hudson, Keith, and Joshua.

The girls' cake: Amy and Jessica.

Michael, Amy, Jessica, April, Noah, and Hudson are ready for cake.

Amy (3) and Jessica (5).

Grant with Uncle Jonathan.

Noah (7), Keith, Joshua (5), Hudson (7), and Stratton who didn't want to be in the picture (5).

Jessica and Grandpa Turner ready for church.

Naiya, Jonathan, Michael, and Hudson.

Kaden (13)

Stratton

Tyler

The beauty parlor before church.

Birthday party with fun presents.

Stratton and Hudson.

Noah's presents.

Joshua's presents.

Joshua playing at the beach in Cedar City.

Michael, Naiya, Noah, and Hudson.

Jessica and Hudson.

Amy

Grandpa Turner

April getting splashed by Noah.

Naiya and Michael

Jonathan and Hudson

Tyler

Stratton

Grant and Heather

Kaden

Joshua

Michael and Noah

Christina and Amy

Grandpa controls the pinata. Amy and Christina swing first.

Jessica

Kids waiting in line.

Joshua

Kaden and Jonathan. Jonathan was trying to see how long he could grow his hair, but he let it go unruly like this most of the time. It was driving us all crazy, and eventually drove Jonathan crazy enough that he let my dad cut it. He looked great. Picture later?