As the title suggests, things got a bit busy around our house at the end of May. One day I picked King up from the childcare at the YMCA and they told me that he had tripped and hurt his foot. Now King trips all the time, but he usually walks it off no problem, so I was a bit alarmed at how much he was crying. So, after he refused to even step on his foot for the rest of the day and it as swollen and warm, we decided he needed to get it checked out. After EZ's cast we learned to just go straight to the orthopedic doctor and so we did and it saved us so much time and money. It turns out he fractured the base of his big toe and he would have to have the cast on for 3 weeks. Of course this happened less then a week before we would be leaving for Virginia Beach. Luckily, the doctor said that the cast is water proof and King could swim in the pool. The downside is that it isn't sand proof so we would have to get creative if he wanted to go to the beach.
This year we were actually close enough to drive to the beach. It was 14 hours and luckily on the way down we were able to break the drive up over 2 days. We weren't so lucky on the way back and that was a long long day. We were all extra excited to get to meet the 2 newest additions to my side of the family. My sister Katie's new daughter Kaelyn and my sister Meghan's new son Timmy. John kept joking that maybe I would change my mind and want another kid after seeing the babies, but nope I am perfectly content with the kids we have.
This was also a big year for the family, because for the first time the 4 boys born in 2012 were all together! We tried our best to get a picture of them all together, but it was like herding cats.
EZ's 8th birthday was on May 26th. We are so proud that he decided to be baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and to make it extra exciting, we were able to have it on his birthday and in Virginia Beach so he could have a ton of family there to support him. King however was not super excited about the baptism and spent the entire time moping on the floor. That's my King.
I asked EZ how he felt about getting baptized and he said he felt good, but shy. It was a lot of attention on him, which he is never quite comfortable with, but we couldn't be happier with his decision. I still can't believe I have a kid old enough to be baptized!
After the baptism we went back to the beach house to celebrate his birthday. Since he loves super heroes and it was Memorial Day, we went with a Captain American cake. Unfortunately, it was a made at Walmart, so it came out a bit wonky, but EZ still loved it.
Conrad especially loved the cake, as evident by the icing allover his body.
While trying to get this picture of Conrad, Timmy ran by and tripped and while it looks like Conrad took him down, I promise he didn't and they like each other.
There seems to always be one rainy day at the beach and we like to use that as a chance to go the aquarium. This year my family went with Sarah's family and Grace. Uncle Casey got took all of these sweet pictures for us.
Of course we spent a lot of time in the pool and at the beach. I have no pool pictures, but that is probably because John and I were both just trying to keep everyone alive. King got to swim a couple of times, but that cast was not nearly as water proof as advertised and trying to wrap it and keep things out was nearly impossible. So, we kind of restricted his activities a bit. Luckily, he was not all that interested in the beach. The other kids however loved the beach and had a blast touching disgusting little fish that washed ashore and digging holes. Kids will be kids!
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