Popcorn

These kids love popcorn, but I do not like the mess that it makes. Today we are at Grandma Jenson's house and she has the perfect place for eating popcorn. This table is part of her swing set. So the kids were taking turns playing on the swings and slide while the others ate popcorn. I was able to snap this picture while they were all up to the table. We are having a great day without making to much of a mess. What a great day.

Priesthood Commemoration

We went to the Father's and Son's camp out this last weekend.  Grandpa Jenson went with us.  We went with our ward to Staker Springs.    

The first thing we did was hike down to the spring and Grandpa showed us how it fills an old cattle trough.

We got to the camp and set up our tent.  Everyone was very jealous of our BYU tent.  Someone asked me where I bought that tent.  I told them, "You don't buy these,  you earn them."

Seth had fun playing with a neighbor's dog.  That dog could play fetch all day and all night.  Seth had a lot of fun throwing sticks and balls.  We played some horse shoes.  Grandpa and I won every game we played.  Others wanted to sign up for lessons.

We had tin foil dinners.  Then I cooked a pizza in a frying pan.  The other brothers laughed a bit, but they were really jealous.  Everyone came in close to see how it turned out.  It worked well, except for the smoke in my eyes.

Meet our Elephant

  

Carter woke up Sunday morning with a barking kind of cough. After about an hour it was gone so I did not think to much about it. The next day he had a slight fever and the cough was back. I treated the symptoms and he was happy. Then that night he was coughing again and Grandpa Jenson was worried that it might turn into pneumonia, so we rubbed him down with Vicks and bought a humidifier. 

He kept sounding worse. Wednesday morning I got him a doctors appointment. His lungs did not sound good and he still had a fever. They gave us an antibiotic and breathing treatments with a nebulizer. They also sent us to the hospital to have a chest x-ray to check for pneumonia.

A few hours later that doctor called to confirm that he does have pneumonia.  

  

When we got home I did not know how to put the nebulizer together so I called a lady in my ward  who has to do them with her children who had bad allergies. She is an expert. She knows all the tricks to making the experience more enjoyable. She brought us an elephant mask. Carter does not like to wear it during the breathing treatment but love being an elephant other wise. 

He is doing much better but still has to do breath treatment two or three times a day for two weeks. Usually during the night after laying down for awhile. Which is great for me because he does not put up much of a fight and falls back  asleep during the treatment which helps it go faster. 

Seth also loves to be part of the action. He is a good helper.

Ice Cream Maker

Yesterday Price city did a city wide clean up. Each of the wards in our stake were assigned to clean the gutters and sidewalks  in our ward boundaries. Thomas and I cleaned along 8th north. Clara was driving past on her way home from helping Ray with setting up chairs for the stake baptisms. She helped us for about a block then went to look for her ward to join in their clean up. 

While she was with us a member of our bishopric came by passing out raffle tickets for prices at the city BBQ after the clean up. He gave us each a ticket and one for Clara. 

It took us about 2 hours to finish our assigned streets. Then we headed to the BBQ.   There were a few small prizes, but the biggest prize was a home made ice cream maker.  There were actually three of them.  Thomas commented to me, "I better win one of those. I've got my name in 5 times, right?"  I put his phone number on all the tickets, but I did not put his name on all the tickets because if they drew his name more then once they would not let him win twice. I put Seth, Carter, Clara and my self on the other tickets so that we could possible all win. 

After the BBQ we picked up Clara and went and bought vegetable plants for our gardens. On the way back to    Clara's house, Thomas' phone rang.  They said Clara Jenson had won an ice cream maker and that they would be bring it to her. We had not told her that we put her name in the drawing. She was so tickled, "I have never won anything!" Thomas said "That should have been my name".

Clara and I hurried to the store to get the things needed for a batch of Homemade Ice Cream. 

A few hours later we went back to our house to work on our back fence and when we walked into the car port there was another ice cream maker. It had my name on it.  Thomas again said "That should have been my name".  

We whipped up a batch with Clara's and it was delicious.  We will absolutely have to have home made ice cream at the Jenson family reunion.  

It was a very rewarding day of service.

Carter's Song

Carter has started to sing.  He does not say any words.  He just makes the "O" sound.  He only knows one note.  I'm not sure what note that is.  It would take a fine tuned ear to tell us exactly what note he is hitting.  He might even be stuck between notes.  He laughs a lot too while he sings.  In church he was singing during the sacrament hymn.  A lady in front of us turned around and told him that his singing was beautiful.  He lowered his eyebrows and frowned at her as if to say, "Don't listen to my singing.  You are embarrassing me."  He pulls some funny faces.

Last night while we were reading the scriptures, Carter decided it was time to sing.  Click the link below to see Carter sing.

Carter's Song