Boys Sick Day

Since Braden and Jon both woke up with hacking coughs, I kept them home today. However, even though they are coughing, they are acting like their normal exuberant selves, so we had to come up with some educational entertainment ideas.

We got out the "Big Loader" and the even bigger "BIG, BIG, Loader."

Today's News

News from the medical front is that Braden has a broken thumb. He was playing football with his cousin at the family party on Saturday and caught the ball wrong. X-Rays today show two breaks. The good news is that the bone is stable, and the breaks didn't occur on the growth plates. He even avoided a cast by promising to be really cautious with the splint instead. I think that the doctor preferred not to cast it since it's on his dominate hand (right). This the first broken bone for the Ferrin family. Adam has the first (and second) set of stitches, and Jon gets the award for the scariest emergency surgery with the mouth surgery of last year. I'm just so glad to have great medical care and adequate insurance to cover all of these incidences.

Pictures from Fall Break

Fall Break

Our fall break has been great. We started Wednesday night by eating hamburgers on the family room floor while watching movies. We watched "Dora and the Crystal Castle," "Bedtime Stories," and Eric and I watched "17 Again."

Thursday, we went to the the Springville Museum of Art. We ate out and then went to the BYU Museum of Art to view the Victorian collection. We met up with Grandma and Grandpa Ferrin and Grandma walked us around the HFAC (Harris Fine Arts Center) and showed us where she goes to class. Thursday night, we actually sat down and watched TV. I know, crazy behavior for us. We watched BYU women's soccer and the World Champion Gymnastic competition. (The only sport options for the pathetic people who don't have cable or satellite.)

Today, we cleaned the van. After that, we drove to Lehi and had lunch at Downtown Philly. YUMMMY! The best part of lunch was when about 10 members of the Lehi Fire Department came into get lunch. Adam had just had a unit on public safety, so policemen and firemen are his current favorites. After lunch, I took Adam over to meet the firemen. They all introduced themselves, and then one fireman looked at Adam and said, "Would you like to go and see our big red firetruck." Adam about died of excitement. I was so glad to have brought my camera.

After lunch, we went to Thanksgiving Point to the Scarecrow Festival. It was so much fun. They had several inflatables, and mini haunted house, lots of activities and entertainment. I took some great pictures. I will post them soon. One standout moment at the Scarecrow Festival occurred while we were waiting in line to ride the "Spider Speedway." The ride operator told us that the ride was temporarily closed because there was a helicopter that was going to be landing in the field right next to us. We decided to come back to that ride later. Four hours later, we were in line for the "Spider Speedway" when we were told that the ride was temporarily closing for the helicopter to take off and another helicopter to land. The kids couldn't believe our luck.

We came home, and then Eric and I went to the temple. YEAH! We stopped by the Art City Trolley on the way home for a delicious "Sweet Sensations Salad" (a ginormous salad made of romaine lettuce, fresh blueberries, apple slices, craisins, gorgonzola cheese, chicken chunks and covered with a vermont maple syrup dressing. YUMMY!) Now I am blogging it all so that I don't forget.

Tomorrow we will clean house, detail Eric's car and go to the October Ferrin Family Party. We have discovered that we though we didn't go anywhere for our Fall break, we could still have a great time at home.

The Gentleman

We were at the BYU bookstore today. As we were getting ready to leave, Adam noticed that there was a lady coming into the store, so he ran over and pressed the handicap button which makes both sets of doors open. He was very proud of himself and ran back saying. "Mommy, I was a good boy. I opened the door for that little girl." The little girl laughed because she was 6 feet tall. She mentioned that it had been a long time since anyone had called her little.

Weekend Away

Eric had a CUWP (Central Utah Writing Project)conference at Daniel's Summit Lodge in Heber Valley this weekend. I got to come along. There is nothing like sleep in, eating breakfast in bed, and watching a long BBC adaptation all morning, without children interfering.

Check out this site to see where I stayed.

Daniel's Summit Lodge

Updates on our life

Adam gets glasses.



Emma and her friend at the 4th grade Dinosaur Museum.




Puzzles are Jon's new favorite thing. He'll work on this Care Bear puzzle for hours at a time.



Lastly, pictures from the two soccer stars. Braden had a great season. He scored a couple of goals and assisted on several of the others. Anytime Adam kicked the ball was a success. He even dribbled the ball down the field once, until it was taken away, by an impatient member of his own team. *sigh*