Franklins first official BOOBOO and truly BAD/whitetrash parenting.

It happened! Franklin was playing with a frame on a table and it fell and caught his finger in between the frame and the table. This resulted in a BAD BOO BOO! I of course freaked out inside but was calm on the outside, Thank you, for your applause! It was masterful acting on my part! Now comes the part of the story I am awfully embarrassed about....upon looking for bandaids Jake and I realized that we were not good parents and had NO bandaids. Truth is we had just never needed them and therefore didn't even notice we were such bad parents. Jake was very inventive and constructed this beautiful make shift bandage out of toilet paper and tape.
Awesome...that is the part where our parenting went from bad to WHITE TRASH. Hooray for problems and an even bigger hooray for solutions in a pinch.

Mort Family Reunion

Here is Jake sporting our family T-shirts. It was sport themed so we were the referees!

This year my family was in charge of the Mortimer Family Reunion. Now for anyone who doesn't know this family reunion is not your average family reunion. I have 71 first cousins (my mom will probably comment with a more accurate number:) and they all have multiple children, in fact, I think my little Addy was the 165th great grandchild born. So as you can tell this reunion is HUGE and it is also taken VERY seriously! There are games, raffles, mingling and eating. It has been judged by the elders (My Uncles and Aunts) That this reunion has to be at least 2 nights and 3 days. So this year was my families turn to be in charge and make it THE BEST REUNION EVER! If you also don't know my immediate family love to plan parties and we take pride in being AWESOME at it. So the verdict....the reunion was AWESOME! We had Mortimer money issued for cleaning or participating in activities that could then be used at the family concessions. Hello, we had a popcorn maker and snow cones!

Franklin wanted nothing to do with anyone or anything that wasn't in the sand box. I think he spent the entire 3 days in there. I pushed through even though I was 8 months pregnant and we all had a great time. This was also the last reunion my Grandma Mortimer was at. She passed away in aug. She was an incredible woman and an amazing example to her family.

Day at the Museum

With Jake being in school it isn't very often that we get to go and do fun stuff as a family. However this day was a special day. This day we got to go to the museum at Thanksgiving Point, it was awesome. Aunt Suzy and Aunt Mckell and all the Cousins came too which made it even better! We watched a reptile show upstairs and were lucky enough to watch the giant snake PEE all over the guy doing the show. Frank hadn't found his love for dinosaurs yet but he loved being with all the cousins and loved playing in the sand.