Stewart 1: Death 0

Stewart was at the mechanics this last week waiting for them to put a new windshield on our car, when an older man who was talking to a mechanic at the counter collapsed.  Stewart looked up when he heard the mechanic yelling over and over "Boyd, Boyd, are you okay?".   Stewart went over and asked if anyone checked to see if he had a pulse?  And the two guys standing there, just looked at him blankly.  So he checked to see if there was a pulse, and the man didn't have one.  He asked if anyone knew CPR?  And again the two guys just looked at him with blank stares.  So with no other options, Stewart started to preform CPR on the man.  Stewart said with the first couple of compressions he felt the guys ribs break. (Which later that night, Stewart would have slight PTS about. I don't blame him. I was pretty grossed out just hearing the details.)   After 30 compressions he asked the other guy to check to see if he had a pulse... but the other guy was still and shock and said he didn't know how to check the pulse. So Stewart was a one man show.  He was able to get a faint pulse and the old man gulped for air a couple of times. After about 5 minutes, the paramedics showed up but they had Stewart continue with compressions while they set up their electrodes and stuff.  After the paramedics zapped the guy he gained consciousness and they whisked him off to the hospital.

The following day, Stewart had to go back into the mechanics for something and the wife of the old man had come in and said that her husband was going to be fine and wanted to thank Stewart for helping with saving her husband's life.  He had had a heart attack but was expected to make a full recovery.  Yay!

We're all very proud of you Stewart!!!

Ryan is 2

Ryan turned two this last week.  

 We made him open presents before Evie left for school.  He didn't mind.  :) 

 Later he helped me make his birthday cake.  He wanted pink strawberry frosting.  So it looked a little girlie when we were done.  But it tasted good.

 Ryan attempting to blow out his candle.  (I could only find one candle in the house.)

I think he liked his cake.

TOP 5

1. Opening the window at night to sleep.  

2. Getting a new bread recipe from a relief society activity.  I made it a couple of days later and it turned out great.

3. Sitting in a very long meeting for church, but then the Primary president sitting next to me got the giggles during a very boisterous hymn... and of course that made me giggle as well.  The meeting was totally redeemed after that.

4. My mom cutting all of my kids hair.  Hooray!  

5. My sister, Livy, telling me a story about how a lady in her ward wanted to pay for babysitting with a ham.

BOTTOM 5

1. Ryan stealing my mascara out of my makeup drawer and I can't find it anywhere.  

2. Having a very real, very intense zombie dream.  After telling Stewart about it, he said he thought it would make a good movie.  

3. All of a sudden having issues putting Ryan to sleep at night again.  We've had to start letting him cry it out again.  Sorry neighbors.  

4. One of my kids is back to wiping boogers on walls.  I can't figure out which one is doing it. No one is owning up to it.

5.  A lady who was late picking her kids up from school deciding that she could double park and block two of us in trying to get out.  She even looked at me and I raised my eyebrows at her and she pretended not to see me.  

2nd Day of School - 1st Day of Preschool

I forgot to take a picture of Evie on her first day of school, so here is the second day of school picture.  (And she started school 3 weeks ago.)  

Stew missed the cut off to go to Kindergarten this year since his birthday is in October.  He was bummed, but we got him in a preschool in the neighborhood with his buddies, so he's a happy little dude.  

This Week's :

TOP 5

1. Having the missionaries over for dinner and one of the Elder's is 18 and has only been out for 21 days.  He seemed really young.

2.  Loving Evie's 2nd Grade teacher.  She has been teaching for 15 years and she won't be having a baby this year. Wahoo!

3. Going into Evie's room at night to tell her it's time for lights out and for her saying, "Ah, mom, let me just get to the end of this chapter."  She is my daughter.  :)

4.  Finding Stew the preschool at the last minute. Yay!

5.  Livy putting in a valiant effort to get us to move to AZ.  (I would love it down there.)

BOTTOM 5

1. Getting conned into a Kirby vacuum demonstration at our house.  He was suppose to shampoo our front room carpet.... and two hours later... I had to leave and it never happened.  Lame.  (Although, I would buy a Kirby vacuum in a heartbeat if they weren't ridiculously overpriced.

2. Forgetting my wallet at home and not realizing it until I went to swipe my card at the checkout.  Luckily, it wasn't a huge shopping trip and the lady just kept the bags at her station while I ran home. 

3. Watching a neighbor's kids and the 3 yr old pooping 30 minutes after arriving and he wouldn't let me change him.  We suffered for 2 hours with the smell, even with windows open.

4. Bringing home the 2nd book in a series from the library and then realizing that I never actually read the first book.  oops.

5.  Dry heaving for 5 minutes and then eventually throwing up in the bushes from the stench in a sister's house in my ward.  We were sent to clean her home while she was in the hospital and it was like a home of a hoarder.   But I'm happy to say, with 25 sisters working nonstop for 6-7 hours, her home is now sparkling clean.