Kyler's Surgery

My poor baby boy had to have surgery. My aunt put it very well...he had to have his "plumbing" fixed. The technical name for it is "hypospadius repair". They told me it was going to be an easy sugery. Well, if that was an easy surgery then I NEVER want to have a hard one. It was awful! These are pictures of my cute, happy boy that went into surgery: And this is how they brought him back to me: He cried and cried when he woke up and with his i.v. hooked up to him it was hard to hold him and very hard to take care of him. But he's all better now and here's him a couple of days later: (He's now discovered his belly button. What a fun age!!)

Kenzi's Song

I think this is so cute of Kenzi. She told me one day that she could sing "I Love to See the Temple" so I decided to record her. She did pretty good for a 3 year-old:

End of Summer & Starting School

Katelyn started kindergarten today. Maybe they teach kindergarteners how to smile for pictures. lol She wasn't sad at all that she had to leave me...when I went to go pick her up she didn't want to come with me, she wanted to ride the bus home, so at least I don't have to worry about her adjusting to school. Nikosha started 3rd grade today. They are both going to a new school this year. This will be Nikosha's 3rd school she's been at. She's handled it very well for how shy she is.

We made a quick trip down to Utah because Nate loves the parade of homes in Salt Lake. My brothers baby-sat for us so we took them out to dinner at The Mayan. This is the cool statue that was outside.

I just had to throw this picture in. We got home from swimming one day and I went inside to put some stuff away and by the time I got back outside this is what Kyler looked like. It only took him about 3 minutes to completely cover himself in dirt:

Nikosha was baptized on August 1 by her daddy. We are so proud of her!! Her cousin, Grant, was also baptized the same day by his dad.

This is all of the cousins on the Loftus side.

Grant & Nikosha

This is me with all of my brothers and sisters (from left to right: Eric, Cindy, Jenny, me, Kristi, and Tyler)

This is all of my mom and dad's posterity up to this point. It's quite a crew!

Cancun

As you can probably tell by the pictures...we had a blast in Cancun! We got to go with all of my brothers and sisters and my sisters' husbands and my mom and dad. (i.e. no little kids) But we all acted like a bunch of little kids anyway.

Eric, Nate, and Cindy decided to see how many pieces of bubble gum they could chew at once.

I stepped on a sea urchan (sp?) while snorkeling and couldn't walk that night. The natives there told us just to put vinegar on it and it would swell up, but be fine. We went to the doctor at our hotel and he said he would remove them for $70, but Jenny (my sister) and Nate decided they would remove them for free. So this is them cutting into me. Just so everyone knows you can't really just pull them out because it's more like ink and it just dissolves, so I let them work on me for about 15 minutes and made them stop. By the next day they felt fine. (It really didn't hurt that bad...I was just putting on an act for the camera.) This is a real shark that a kid caught on the beach.

Do you see the iguanas in the last two pictures. They were all over and didn't really care if we came close to them.

We are covered in sand in this picture because we were playing a serious game with frisbees. My brother, Eric, and brother-in-law, Blake, didn't let us rest too much. There was lots of frisbee, football, volleyball, tennis, etc.

So let's note this next picture...we stayed up late the night before and everyone else got to sleep in the car, but these are the drivers who didn't get to sleep until we got to the beach. (The guy sleeping on the left is my brother-in-law, Blake. You'll notice if he's not going, going, going then he crashes.) Okay...this picture is really funny. My brother, Eric, stayed up all night the night before we left, so this is him asleep at the airport. This gum on the side of his mouth isn't his, but is my sister's. We put it right on the edge then when he started to wake up, he moved it into his mouth and fell back asleep. We had everyone sitting near us laughing so hard. Eric didn't appreciate it very much. This is a picture of me and my daddy. We all did a lot of eating while we were there. This is us in a cenote, which is an underground cave with water. They were a nice cool change from the heat outside.

Hiking to the top of Coba ruins.

At the top of Coba

This is our rental car. I had to take a picture with Nate by it because it's quite a big difference than his HUGE truck he drives here.

On Sunday we got to go to church where Tyler served part of his mission. A family in the ward invited us over for dinner. They fed us a yummy true Mexican dinner and we taught them a fun American game. Although there were only about 4 people in this big crowd that could speak both English and Spanish, we all had such a great time! (Besides the family that fed us, the bishop and his family came over and the missionaries, which one of them Tyler trained.)

This is us mocking my mom (the photographer) when she tells us to get closer together.

We were all pretty proud of ourselves for hiking the Coba ruins.

Kyler Walking

Kyler finally decided to start walking last Sunday at Kristi's house. He'd walk before if we made him, but all of the sudden he decided he wanted to walk everywhere. (I guess I can't hold the camera sideways when I'm doing video.lol)

I let my girls get on hair websites to pick how they want me to do their hair sometimes, so one day they decided that we need to have a hair blog. I told them I was not creative or good enough to have my own hair blog, but maybe one day I could take pictures of their hair. They decided we needed to do it right then, so here's their hair pictures (nothing spectacular, but I love Kenzi's stance against the wall where she looks like she's going to be frisked):

I also decided since Kristi doesn't have time to update her blog that I would post pictures of her beautiful new house:

We were all at Kristi and Stan's for Grant's 8th birthday party. He got this suit for his birthday. Isn't he so cute!! He's going to be one handsome missionary!!