Our Life On The Hill

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day this year just didn't turn out like we had planned.  That morning, Ashton was really wheezing and coughing.  His inhaler didn't help him and we also did a back to back treatment with his nebulizer and that didn't work either.  We ended up taking him to the ER.   They took a chest x-ray, gave him an hour long breathing treatment and they tested him for influenza.  The chest x-ray came back okay and he was negative for the flu.  When we left, he was still a little wheezy and they said if he got bad again, to come back.  We continued the breathing treatments at home and I took him to his Dr. the next day.  We had to do round the clock every 3 hour breathing treatments.  He finally went back to school on Thursday for part of the day.  We had a check up during the day too.  He went back on Friday for a full day.  He's doing much better!  

So, since we didn't get to make our homemade pizzas on Valentine's Day, we had them on Monday.  They did get a few gifts from us and my parents.  We got Ashton and Sawyer some Transformers that they wanted and Hadleigh got some zhu zhu pets.  They also got a little bit of candy.  We didn't go overboard though.  They had a good day, despite the ER visit cutting into our day.  

This is the only picture we took that day.  Jerry actually took it, because it summed up how exhausted we all were. 

 

Valentine's Class Parties

On February 12th, the elementary school had their classroom Valentine's parties.  I helped in Sawyer's class, but snuck out to drop in on Hadleigh's and Ashton's parties. 

I stopped in Hadleigh's room first

A funny kid in her class

funny girls

I popped into Ashton's classroom next.  This was bittersweet because it was his last classroom party ever.  I can't believe that, because it feels like he just started Kindergarten.  Next year, he'll be in 6th grade and in middle school and they don't have classroom parties, so this is the end of the road for him.  One last year of writing out and folding the Valentine's.  We had so much fun each year picking them out. 

For his craft, they decorated a wooden picture frame.  My good friend took each child's picture at the party.  I love that because we did it when they (the 5th graders) were in Kindergarten and now I'll have a photo of him at his Kindergarten and 1st Valentine's party and his 5th grade and last Valentine's Party.  

Hadleigh also had the picture with the decorated frame for her Kindergarten Valentine's Party and I did the same with Sawyer's class.  I'll have to make sure that we do that for their 5th grade party as well. 

Back to Sawyer's class for all of the fun

This is the picture I took of him for his frame

getting a little spin before he pinned the arrow on the heart

             

Another game going on

Sawyer's turn

  

Sawyer and his best bud

passing out valentines

    

blowing up a balloon that came with a Valentine

 

ready to head home