Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Emery's 7th Birthday

Our sweet Emery is 7 years old!
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We LOVE this girl!

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Pasta with candles.

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Corn on the cob with candles...

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Emery decided to invite the neighborhood families over for cake.

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(This is my favorite cake too!)

The next weekend- Emery had a fun backyard party- with the favorite 
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whipped cream and bubblegum game

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 Some fun swimming and diving... watch Emery's cannonball!
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Emery wanted a beach cake and it turned out so cute!

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Emery has some wonderful friends.
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Emery and Lilah (her favorite preschool and kindergarten friend)

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Ember and Emery (her favorite new first grade friend)

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and Emery and Makall- these girls will share their baptism day next year!

Happy Birthday Em!





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Labor Day Olympics 2012!

A LONG time ago, when we lived in Canada- we started the Labor Day Olympics.  At first, it was only our family that was involved- but over the years we added neighbor kids and this year we decided to make it a neighborhood competition.  We had SO much fun!
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The McBrides were the Crazy Cougars

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The Merrills were the Merrill Muscles (anti- McCarrers)

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The Bethers were the Water Warriors

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Bryson was VERY excited

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 and we were the KICK BUTT CARRELLS!

Each family was in charge of one event...
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The Marshmallow Toss

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The Razor Race

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 (LOVE Mike's expression)

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AND Mark's

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Clipboard Ping Pong

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AND the Tug of War

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Plus there was the Water Balloon Toss

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 And the diving contest

The Bethers are DEFINITELY the most competitive family of the bunch.  So we will say that they won...

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Love these ladies.

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AND it was Carson's 7th Birthday and we were happy to celebrate it with him!  Long live the Labor Day Olympics!


Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Scouts and a NASTY burn

Jake and Danny went on a boy scout trip to Carolina Beach. (August 2012)
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Jake with the boys...

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Wake Boarding in the waves

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The boys and the dads

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The Whole Crew!

They had a great time.

However, there was a little accident involving hot grease and Danny's leg.  ***WARNING!!!*** These photos are nasty!  Don't look if you are easily nauseated.

Danny called me in the evening (after the second day of fun) and told me that he was sending me some pictures.  I was thrilled because I had wanted to see what they were doing.  He told me that they weren't "those kind of pictures."  He told me that they had been making hamburgers and that he had poured the hot grease into another frying pan on the ground.  He went to go grab the sliced cheese for the burgers, forgot about the pan of grease and accidentally stepped on the pan.  The hot grease flipped up the back of his leg.

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Right after...

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The view by candlelight

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SO thankful he had on his runners.

They did everything wrong.  They submerged his leg in ice water (you want to cool down the burn slowly to avoid any added damage to the burned skin).  Then they tried to scrub off the grease.  The good thing is that Danny was able to get a priesthood blessing.

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This was the view the next morning.

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Now THAT is a blister!

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The side view.

After Danny got home the following day- we went to urgent care and got him some antibiotics, a tetanus shot and some silvadene creme.  I thought we were good!  But a few days later, his leg was really hurting.  This is what is tricky with burns.  With most injuries, after a few days- things should be getting better!  But with burns- 5 days later things can be much worse.  The skin was so tight that Danny couldn't straighten his leg.  I was afraid that he needed it debrided so I got him an appointment at the UNC Burn Clinic.  When I called, and told the receptionist his symptoms she got him RIGHT in!  I warned Danny that they suggested that he take his pain meds before he went in.

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This is the picture he sent me from his phone after they cleaned this area.  The caption he included was "OUCH."

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So- we started dressing changes twice a day. (They were really concerned about the area on his ankle.)

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Then it started to heal... we are so very thankful!

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Moral of the story- enjoy time with the scouts but REMEMBER where you put the grease pan!