Hailey and Hannah's room

So the girl's room was this boring color that the majority of the house is painted. However, the ceiling, trim, and inside doors are white. I was very excited when I found that out because I was losing motivation quickly. As a side note, I still had Rachel with me and painted with her on my back most of the time.

 So I painted their room pink!

 I also got this end table from my parents and painted it yellow.

 I love this vanity area. I ended up making two more hair bow ribbon holders and spray painted the mirror's frame white.

I did not paint the closet white though. My goal is to not have dressers in the kids room. I tried having the dresses hanging up and then using the shelves for everything else but that system failed. Now where I have the purple clothes holder, is all of Hailey's dresses. Both girls now have the outfits hanging up (shirts and pants on one hanger). This has worked out great except that Hailey can't actually reach her clothes yet.

Robert's and Rachel's Room

Here is the before picture. Nathan does not like this room red at all! This was used as an office by the previous owners.

So I painted the ceiling, trim and doors white. Painted the rest of the room green with a tan accent spot. Though this is both Robert and Rachel's room it is still geared to Robert because eventually Rachel will be too old to share with a boy and will be kicked out.

I also painted the closet white too but it took three hours so I stopped doing closets after this one.

I have put up some art work and more trains and will show off the finished look a little later.

Playroom

Nathan needed to go to a Math conference in Wisconsin, so I decided it would be a great time to visit my parents. However, his conference was less then a week long and he needed to go back to WY and get ready for the university to start. Since Hailey's school doesn't start until September, I drove Nathan back with Rachel while mom and dad kept the other three kids. I stayed at home for a week to get some painting and organizing done.

The first room I tackled was the playroom. We have all 5 bedrooms upstairs together. Luckily we only live in three so we have a playroom and a craft room. The room was originally blue and for now I am going to keep it that way.

 My first project was to paint the closet white. It was not a fun project and very time consuming but I do like the result.

 

 Most of the toys fit in the closet which is perfect! We even can hang up the dress up clothes which is way better than shoving them into a box.

 In the playroom we have a train table, an air hockey table, a doll/stuff animal corner, and a reading corner. This picture isn't up to date but I still want to put art work up so we don't have a finished look yet.  This is a very big room and I am happy with the space.

Summer outdoors

While we were in the rental house, there wasn't much to do since we were not unpacking anything. Nathan and I walked around the park in the morning before the kids woke up and most meal times were eaten outside.

After almost a week, we are able to get a rental car from Cherie and Stan. However, we still had a week before we closed on our house and before we needed to leave for Iowa. So, Grandma Cherie took Hailey and Robert for a week back to Utah. When they came back we finally were able to close on our house, so they once again helped us move and watch the kids. It was a pretty crazy day because the next morning after we moved our stuff in, we left for Iowa.

Wyoming Territorial Prison

While Grandma Cherie and Papa Stan were with us, we visited the Territorial Prison. I really liked it and thought it was neat. It was good that we had four adults to tag team while they ran around. I though the history of the prison, the inmates, and the system back then was fascinating. We spent about 3 hours there.

 They also has some homes and stores in the same time period as the jail. Here is Robert working an old washer machine.

Seizure in the water (July 19th)

I'm so glad that Nate's parents helped us move. I enjoyed talking more with my mother-in-law in the car. Unfortunately (for them), we got them stranded in Wyoming. We thought that there would be no problem to rent a car so we planned on that without reserving one. It happened to be Frontier Days in Cheyenne and all the cars were already rented out.

So we made the most out of it and went on dates and walks as a couple. Rachel was still a handful and very attached to me, I'm thankful for Grandma Cherie's patience with her to give us time alone.

Also, I really like doing freezer meals and now I had someone to watch the kids. So, on Thursday (we moved Wednesday), I had Grandma Cherie take the three kids to the wadding pool while I went to Walmart. Hannah would not take a nap that day though we tried to put her down. So I dropped them off at 3:00pm and said I would be there by 4:30pm (when the pool closed) to pick them up.

I had a good time shopping. It felt nice to be doing something familiar. I went to the pool a little after 4:30pm and no one was at the park. I figured that they just walked home. I got to the house and Stan said Hannah was with Grandma at the hospital, that they needed to take her to the ER. That's when I finally realized that I didn't have my phone with me. It was still charging inside. I quickly went to the hospital to find out the whole story.

Shortly after I left, the kids were playing in the pool. A lady came and sat by Cherie. By the time she turned back around towards the kids, Hannah was face down under the water in a seizure. The life guard was watching but saw a kid swimming like that just a couple of days earlier and since she was "moving" was counting to 10 before she got her. (She got to 5 I think) Grandma ran and pulled her out of the water. Her seizure didn't last long at all. However, her breathing slows down a lot in a seizure and since it started in the water, Hannah stopped breathing. 

Grandma did a lot of life guarding growing up and pulled from that knowledge to gave Hannah CPR. According to Grandma the life guard wasn't much help.  The ambulance was called. (The ENTs cut off her swimsuit which was a little disappointing but I understand the reason). Somehow in conversation, Grandma Cherie was telling the people there that we just moved in and said our address. Luckily three ladies from our new ward was there and one recognized the address because her husband helped moved us in. She took Robert and Hailey back home to Papa Stan while Grandma went with Hannah to the hospital.

I went to the hospital and found that someone got a hold of Nathan also (his phone was also charging at home and he was at his office for the day). Hannah was still groaning and very out of it but not peacefully sleeping. She didn't start resting well until 7:30pm which is a long time to be in the after seizure out of sorts stage. This was a sign on how big of an ordeal she went through. Thankfully she was able to sleep it off and by the time she woke up in the morning she was back to normal. Just to make sure she was going to be okay, she slept in the front room with Rachel and I, while Nathan slept with Hailey and Robert.

I'm thankful that overall things went smoothly. Women from the ward were there to help with Hailey and Robert. Grandma Cherie had the skills and fast reaction to help Hannah breath. Due to cutting her head open in Laramie, she has already been to the hospital so they had some medical records on her. A lot of people from the ward reached out to us and the Bishop even stopped by that night. It was a rough seizure for her but I know that God was watching over us.