Diaper Dog Days of Summer

Well, It is that time of the six months again for Ory. I know that is a little too much info for most of you and kinda weird to post about. But she looks so funny in her depends diapers that I had to post.

She looks so embarrassed in this one.

Ben Update

So do you want and update on Ben? Here it is anyways. He went in this last Thursday and was given a shot of steroids and other stuff as a way to make sure they know where the pain is and what is causing it. The doctor said that since the shoulder has sat in the wrong position for so long, his bones have adjusted to that position and now that it is sitting in the right position, he is rubbing bone together. So he needs a surgery to go in and shave some bone. The doctor here has done this surgery 5 times and 2 of the times the person came out of it with no pain and the other people 3 came out with the same or worse pain. I think Ben wants to do the surgery. One, to see if it will help and two, because he thinks that if he was to go to the med board to get out then they would ask if everything that could be done was done and the doctor would say that there is still this surgery that could be done. My feeling is that I want to get out and I am afraid that this will only make it worse. However, Ben is right in that, even if we did try to med board out now they would want him to do the surgery anyways. So either he will come out of it fixed and we stay in till 2011 or still in pain or possible more pain and we get out. It has been no secret that I want to get out but not at the cost of him in pain his whole life so we are hoping it works. He goes in on the 1st of August to set up the surgery and we don't know what the recovery time will be this time. Since it isn't dealing with muscle and more with bone Ben hopes it will be shorter this time. But he will still get one month off for leave to recover.

Family Reunions

The Cox and Brown family Reunions were a ton of fun this year and I got just a few photos because my camera ran out of batteries. I wish I could have gotten some of the Brown family reunion. Well, I learned my lesson. At both reunions we had pork sandwiches which were good but I was glad to have something else after I got back home. All the salads were delicious and I could not decide so I ending up with a plate full of salads and not much room for anything else. At the Brown family reunion we play a game of baseball with the older cousin's verses the younger cousins. The older cousins won, of course. It really was no contest, but Joel did hit both Isaac and I for outs that stung quite a bit. We each got a turn at revenge. Then a game of croquette started up and I was called over to look at some of Grandma's old cake decorating stuff. I took home a few things and some pictures and am excited to have a little bit of Grandma Brown in my home. It was a lot of fun and even though it was short, it was so good to see both sides of the family. The pictures below are what I was able to take at the Cox family reunion.

Candy Game

This is the candy game for the little ones. There was candy buried under the sawdust and one kid from each team had 30 seconds to try and get as much candy as they could. The team with the most candy in the end won! Johnny and the rest of the yellow team took the approach of scooping up as much as their arms could hold including saw dust .In the picture below we see him there with Emma in the background casually picking out what she wanted while resting her head on her hand.

After a while they just decided to jump on in and really get into it

Soccer? (i don't know what it was called)

This game was a ton of fun. We basically had to play a game of soccer while in the crab position with a huge ball. It was hot and hard but there were a lot of laughs. Mom decided she would just hang out in the back when our team was up, but then the ball kept coming her way and she was the only thing between the ball and the goal. I almost wanted to get up and yell at her to stop playing since she had just gotten out of the hospital but she was fine and had fun.

The Rockets

The last competition was to build a rocket and see whose went the highest. It was a lot of fun. Ours did good but Joel's rocket won in the end. This is about the time my camera ran out of batteries.

China Town

These are not recent but I thought I should still post them. While visiting last summer I took a trip with Sadie and the kids to China town and the whole way Johnny thought we were going to actual China. He would look outside and say, " I can see it! I can see China!" They are pretty cute and I thought I would post them no matter my tardiness. And I know, I know what you all are thinking but no, I am not a professional photographer but they are pretty good.

Johnny looking in the water at the fishes

You can't see us very well and we wouldn't get Johnny and Emma to look up at the camera.

Johnny exploring in his own little world

I love this one! Look at how beautiful Mirium is!

My camera didn't work to well in this room, but I love the face Johnny is making and Emma with her monkey backpack that she fought us on the whole time. We had a really good time here and I thought the Sadie and mom and dad would like to see them. Sorry it took me so long to get them to you~ Love you all!

Ben's Birthday Cake

My friend Lori always does fun cakes for her families birthday's and she know how much I enjoy it too, so when I am at her house she shows me some ideas she gets out of a magazine she receives. She had this one (not knowing just how much Ben and I love sushi) and it was perfect! Ben really liked it and thought I put way too much effort into it as usual. It was so fun to make and way easy too! I thought it was a perfect amount of cake for just the two of us. Usually birthday cake ends up in the garbage because we can't eat it all. If you wanted it to feed more people, I am sure you could make the plate out of cake as well.