star of the week

A few weeks back Harper was Star Student for the week.  Not totally sure what the perks were for her in school, but I do know she worked really hard on this poster.

My personal favorite...  "What are you really going at?"  "Making people happy."  Ain't that the truth.

a broken arm

This poor kid.  Apparently she had broken her arm sometime in the last week or so and we had no idea.  She only complained when she was getting dressed, and I assumed it was just her being an opinionated 2 year old who didn't want to stop and get dressed.  But I finally called the doctor and the nurse said it sounded like a popped elbow and to bring her in the next day to have it popped back in, no big deal.  Except when we went to the pediatrician his words were "Hmmm, I'm stumped."  They sent us for an x-ray that showed she had a broken humerus up near her shoulder.  So they sent us to orthopedics and they said it was a clean break that would heal nicely in the next 3 weeks.  Because the break was so high on her arm she wouldn't need a cast and a sling would do.  As for when she can stop wearing the sling?  "Oh, whenever she decides she doesn't need it anymore."  Umm, she is 2 years old??  Hahaha.  So we shall see.  She hates the sling and tells us "I'm all better now, I don't need this."  She told the radiologist she "was all better and was ready to go home."  It was a long (and probably really expensive) day but she is a total trooper.

she really is a special snowflake

Its a shame she lacks personality and spunk.  Hahaha, yeah right.

scuba steve's sister

Scuba Steve's sister really knows how to party.  Check out her getup...

polar plunge 2016

We went to the beach for the weekend of New Years.  Jim wanted to take part in the Polar Plunge, since he goes in the ocean every time we go anyway.  It was an absolute mob scene and practically 4th of July crowded.  We froze to death just standing on the beach, so who knows how he pulled off swimming in the ocean.

The big kids were showing how cold they were by covering all exposed skin.


This section of the beach is being worked on so they had this monstrous pile of sand that the kids climbed up.  When they came back down they both seemed surprised at the fact that they had sand on their hands and in their shoes.  Seriously??  These pictures don't do this pile justice, it was so enormous.






They are standing where there is normally a boardwalk.  They took the entire block worth of boardwalk down to repair and replace it.  So come summer time this section will be covered again.






Emerson making her creepy face...




Everyone showing their "I'm frozen" faces...




On Saturday we hit up the park in the morning and then in the afternoon we rode our bike down the boardwalk to meet up with our cousins to play at the arcade.  They spent most of their time just sitting on stuff and not even needing money.






When we were riding back home we were passing the fishing pier just as the sun was setting.  I could NOT turn down the opportunity to take a few pictures here.















Oh wait, here is a cell phone picture of the sand pile. Maybe this shows how huge it was?!?