Swimming Lessons

I signed Victoria up for Private lesson with Chelsea. She is a great instructor and Victoria needed one on one attention. Within 2 classes she was putting her head under the water. She had 6 classes with Chelsea and by the end she was floating on her back by herself and totally immersion ofher body. She was getting really good at jumping in and pushing herself to the top. She was great with her pushing off the wall on her tummy and swimming to Chelsea. I was so proud of her.

Instructor Chelsea

Swimming towards to Chelsea

Jumped in and totally submerged

Elizabeth and I took a class together and she was happy to start off and then once she had to put her head under the water she wanted nothing to do with that. By the end of classes she was blowing bubbles and putting her mouth in the water. She was really good with her tummy float and almost doing it by herself. She would kick her legs and move her arms while on her tummy. I was very proud of her from going to not blowing bubbles to do it and loving it.

Instructor Gavin

Tummy float with blowing bubbles

Aviary and Liberty Park

In Utah there is a huge park in Downtown Salt Lake City, called Liberty Park. They have an Aviary, swimming pool, tennis courts, lake with boats, birds to feed, rides, food, play grounds and water falls that you can play in. We finally bought a years pass to the Aviary.

My girls are being eaten by a pelican

My little owls

Flying the planes

Girls night with one boy

Great friends of ours and us decided that we were going to have a girls' night, and Jonah, and have fun. I made a nacho to eat and brought rootbeer floats. Annie made YUMMY cucakes. We ate some late night food and then I decided that we would have a race with the kids. They had to clean up the house and Annie and I had to clean the kitchen, whoever won got to frost the losers' faces. Well, Annie and I lost but that is ok. The kids LOVED painting our faces with frosting. It was so much fun to just let loose and have fun. We had a puzzle race and my girls won. Then we sat and watched a movie and just talked. It was so good to be with great friends. Love the Palmer family.

Before the 'fun"

Annie and her kids

Me and my girls

Saving Endangered Animals

The end of 2010 Victoria saw a commercial about saving endangered animals. She came to me and told me all about saving them. I told her that she needed to save her money and she could send it to them. So, she got her Sister involved too and started to ask me, Papa and Mamaw for all our change. Then I asked them this year if they wanted to do a bake sale to raise money for the animals. Of course they did. Victoria was asking people if they wanted to buy cookies, fudge or lemonade to save the animals. They have had 3 fundraisers so far and have made $384 so far. Victoria set a goal of $700 and they are ovr half way there. They have sold cupcakes, brownies, cookies, fudge and homemade lemonade. I am just so proud of the both of them for thinking of others when they are so young. They love to tell people of what they are doing and they are proud of what they are doing too.

If you would like to help them they have a website set up where you can donate any amount.

wwf.worldwildlife.org/goto/quintanagirls

A close call

The girls were running around the house. I kept telling them to stop running in the house. I was trying to make dinner and I heard a loud thud and Elizabeth let out a blood curdling cry. I grabbed her and she was bleeding very badly from her mouth. I gave her a cold wash cloth and then some water to wash away the blood so I could see where it was coming from. She had a big gash in her bottom lip and her upper tooth was bleeding at the gum line. I ran her to Dr.Mike to have her checked out. He said that if I wanted to stitch her lip I could but he would not and it will close up but she was on a very thin line of needing a few stitches had it been any deeper. He x-rayed her tooth to look for fractures and luckily there were none. Her tooth had some mobility but it would tighten back up. He did not think that there was enough trama to it to turn it dark. I was so stressed that she would lose her tooth and need stitches. This girl is going to kill me. She just had an accident a week ago and now this. AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!

This is her lip but it is a lot worse in person. It is all purple and black from blood. She had to go to bed without sucking her thumb in fear that she may move the tooth. She had to eat dinner on the side of her mouth and she did so good doing it. Could not brush it tonight and just lightly tomorrow and Wed good to go I hope. I will have it checked again probably Wed. We are so blessed to have Dr.Mike in our life and I don't know what we would do without him.

Spring School Program

Miss Adina

Miss Kim

Victoria had her Spring program at school and she sang so well. She was not quite like her Winter program and she had a lot of fun. They sang about 20 songs and then showed off some skills with numbers and logic. It was fun to watch her. One of their songs they danced with partners. After the program she took her Sister to all her friends and introduced her to them. She is such a little social butterfly and I love it.

Mother's Day Weekend

Saturday I taught the girls to slide down the stairs in a laundry basket and on a silky blanket. They were having so much fun and laughing so hard. I went to take a video of them but they saw me. I wanted it to be candid so I did not take it. I continued to do laundry and then I heard...thud thud thud followed by screaming. I was afraid to look at what had happened in fear of seeing tangled bodies and broken bones. But I did look and Elizabeth had blood coming from both nostrils and her mouth. I was panicing and called Dr.Mike. In the process of all this poor Victoria said that I did not care about her because I was not paying attention to her. I told her I am worried about her but she was not bleeding. We saw Dr.Mike and he said her nose was not broke and that she took a chunk out of her cheek and bite her lip. Later that day she had carpet burn on her nose and she hurt.

The next day was Mother's Day and my girls woke me up telling me Happy Mother's Day. Victoria made me a beautiful card at school that made me cry. Papa and the girls bought me matching necklace, earrings and a ring. They have 2 garents and 1 pink sapphire. We went to brunch at Gardner Village and ate some great food. It was a wonderful day.