Our Family's Good Times: September 2012

I am sad our summer fun is over. We have been busy trying to get out of the house, but not over doing it to keep Ammon well. Ammon continues to be doing good as far as a Chemo/cancer standpoint, but his stomach has issues, which keeps him crying and in pain half the week. So he is still having challenges, but on good days we have enjoyed life.
Here are some fun things we did.

Coleson officially learned how to play Lacrosse at a camp. He had so much fun.

I wanted to give the kids a pioneer experience before Pioneer Day, so we toured Brigham Young's House. The missionary sisters there had never encountered someone trying to come in a wheel chair, so I had to pull Ammon up the stairs to go in. Then we could only see the bottom half because there is no way I could take him up the stairs inside. All the ornate wood carving and furniture still amazes me. It always fills me with gratitude for the sacrifices the pioneers made.

Afterward we hit the neighborhood market for ice cream. Coleson and Brynn had never had bubblegum flavor before. They were in heaven. Remember trying to save the gum in a napkin for later (Brian says the side of his cheek), when you were a kid, but by the time you went to eat it, the gum was all stuck to the napkin and just wasn't edible. Yeah, it was fun to relive that.

We made it to the Bountiful Parade, thanks to the help of my inlaws. I carried Ammon several blocks in order to be able to squeeze through the crowd. It was worth the effort to see the 2,000 stripling warriors!

We went to the Treehouse museum for Brynn. I think this was the only moment where Ammon wasn't crying.

Our garden has survived this summer and I found a great use for my unsightly chain link fence. It's hard to tell but there are several green bean plants growing up all over the fence. I think Brynn picked out the longest one.

One week I was feeling very adventurous with one of my friends and we decided to go to Thanksgiving Point's dinosaur museum on $2 Tuesday because I had never been there before. Ahhh! That was the worst idea ever. Trying to go through thousands of people with a wheelchair is not my favorite thing to do. I actually avoid going anywhere with a crowd. Ammon was crying within 15 min(probably from all the noise) and so I thought I will just keep walking and make my way through the museum while Coleson and Brynn soak up everything they have ever wanted to know about prehistoric creatures as fast as they can. At one point I could not see Coleson and figured he was lost. I am glad he is not afraid to talk to adults and figure out how to get help. I was trying to get through the mass and find my way out, when I get a call on my cell phone saying they have my son. After that, I was ready to go, but the kids begged me to at least go to the end where you can dig for bones. I was trying to figure out where I could sit and pull Ammon out to hold him when I saw this wheelchair sign. I thought oh this is where you park wheelchairs. So I put his wheelchair there and then the light clicked on. There was a counter with sand on it and you push your wheelchair up to it so then Ammon could sit and put his hands in the sand. It made my whole day. All the crying kids and yelling in the background faded and I helped Ammon brush off the sand to find a bone. As I left I told the old lady at the exit that it had made my day. She just smiled. I don't think she could hear me above the noise, but it made the hour of chaos worth it.