Roth Randoms - June

Random pics from our month of June

Sleep eating

I just love this boy

Can you tell?

Aunt Grace did Madison's hair while she was here and I was at Girls Camp

McKinley is our crazy girl!

 Jordan read a book about "Miracle Mornings" and convinced me to get up at 5:30 every morning with him to study. This was the result. We've since compromised at 6 am, which I actually really like. It gives me a good solid half hour to study scriptures before the kids wake up, which always makes my day go better.

Their fort/pirate ship/castle

We made it to exactly one summer movie

Cuteness

And more cuteness

 Madison made this wagon as part of her pioneer unit at school

The girls put on a patriotic show for us with their cousin Mayli

My youngest sister left for her mission to Barbados on June 27. We were supposed to meet everyone in Utah to say goodbye to her but our plans got derailed with my Grandma's medical stuff. I'm so sad I didn't get to see her but she will be a FANTASTIC missionary!!!

We Broke Great Grandma

We had a lot of fun at Uptown Jungle, but unfortunately, the fun came crashing down, literally, as we were leaving. My Grandma, who was still staying with us, came with us but was just hanging out in the lounge area reading a book. As we were putting our shoes back on, Madison ran to tell her that we were ready to leave. As my Grandma stood up, she lost her balance and fell onto the floor. Madison ran back to me screaming that something had happened and I quickly ran to the lounge and found her on the floor writhing in pain and screaming. We knew the damage must be bad and someone had already called 911. Thankfully, it just so happened that another family from our ward was there that day as well and I happened to see the husband, who is the 1st counselor in our ward and is someone I know very well from working with him in YW, out of the corner of my eye as I ran to the lounge. I immediately yelled for him to come and he and Jordan were able to give my Grandma a blessing. After a time, she was loaded into an ambulance and I rode with her to the hospital while Jordan took the kids home.

The end of the story is that she broke her arm in two places, two bones in one ankle and a bone in the other foot. She ended up having to have surgery on the ankle and was in the hospital and then a skilled nursing facility for the next 5 weeks. Because she was here in Arizona with no other family or friends, this meant that the kids and I spent A LOT of time with her at the facility so she wouldn't get lonely. I'm so grateful to many friends here who watched my kids at times so I could take her to the doctor and be with her as much as possible. I'm also grateful to my kids for being so good while spending most of their summer cooped up in a hospital room. I'm also extremely grateful to my Mom and sister, who flew down for a week to take care of everyone so I could still go to girls camp. Eventually, we were able to get her transferred home so that Jordan and I could still go on our cruise, which was a huge blessing. The whole thing definitely made for a rough ride for me and our family (not to mention my Grandma haha!) but I'm grateful I was able to be there for her. She has been there for my through lots of tough times in my life and I loved being able to return the favor!

Yiker diker

All busted up but still smiling

More bruising

Once she was transferred to the skilled nursing facility and we knew she'd be there several weeks, I made a little kids corner with a blanket and tons of stuff for the kids to do while we visited Grandma. It worked out really well

All the kids drew LOTS of pictures for Great Grandma ... they covered all the walls and all the staff commented on them when they came into the room

Rocking physical therapy

Usually our routine went something like this - I brought the kids over for a couple hours each morning and then went home for lunch and Dirk's nap. Then we came back once Jordan got home and brought dinner (Grandma wasn't a fan of the facility's food). We stayed until bedtime, which included reading our Fablehaven chapter with Grandma each evening.

At first, everyone was worried about the arm. But as time went on, the ankle became more of a concern ...

 Dirk loved going for rides in the wheel chair

Post surgery - yummy

 Cute girls trying out Great Grandma's ride

The Great Flood

Just in case life wasn't crazy enough around here, our house flooded!!! Seriously, we have had more water problems in the last three years than I've ever heard of. We're cursed. And this time, I did everything right and still ended up !! And of course, it had to happen the day after my Grandma took her tumble so life is already cray cray.

Anyway, we were rushing around trying to get ready to go visit my Grandma in the hospital on Thursday morning. I was heading up the stairs and all three girls were in their bathroom brushing hair and teeth. Evidently someone had just gone potty and flushed the toilet. As I came up the stairs, Madison started screaming that water was coming out of the toilet. I immediately rushed in there and turned off the water at the wall behind the toilet (huge shout out to Vanessa Servoss for teaching me how to do that years earlier when she happened to be over visiting me when a similar incident happened in Mississippi). Despite only leaking for maybe 15 seconds before I ran in and shut it off, enough water had come out to wet the whole bathroom floor. But it wasn't a huge deal, and I ran downstairs to get towels to soak up the water so we could get on our way.

However, as I did that, all the smoke alarms in the house suddenly started going off. What the heck??? I knew there wasn't a fire anywhere so after getting the kids calmed down, I started hunting for the problem. I found it in the downstairs bedroom, where the water from the bathroom above had evidently leaked through the ceiling and was pooling right where the fire alarm was, causing it to short out. I didn't dare touch it for fear of getting shocked so I went outside to turn off the breakers first. The kids were major troopers during all this as the alarms were still wailing and they were trying to plug the ears and listen to my instructions. I eventually had to take down every single alarm in the house until I could get the original offender to stop. Thankfully it did, and I quickly threw the kids in the car and headed to the hospital, calling Jordan on the way to tell him what had happened.

We decided to call Jordan's cousin, who owns one of those water damage recovery companies, to come take a look and see what needed to be done. What started as a little water on the floor quickly turned into a $3000 adventure involving huge loud blowing fans in our house for three days, new carpet in the upstairs hallway and Dirk's room, new dry wall in the bathroom and a new ceiling in the guest room. My Grandma was so upset that she couldn't come home from the hospital but I told her she couldn't come to my house anyway because her bedroom was a disaster from the ceiling mess!! In the end we got it taken care of and Jordan's cousin was awesome, but I could really use a break from water in my house for a while!!

Hallway. The bathroom was actually quarantined for three days while they dried it out and treated for mold

Dirk's room. Poor boy had to sleep in our closet

More hallway

Downstairs ceiling