A (un)Typical Sunday Night

We get to live in the same town as my Mom and Dad, along with my two teenage siblings who live at home, and my Sister Lindy and her family. (Carly and Alyson are far away in Utah). Anyway, sometimes we see eachother a lot, and other times we get busy and it'll be a couple weeks between. Same with Sunday night dinners. There have been phases with my Dad bbq-ing at my parents' house, there have been phases of having dinner at my house, and there have been phases where we all do our own thing.

So tonight was a "bbq at the parents' house" night. The girls LOVE it when we get to go to Grandma and Grandpa's. Between Lindy's two and my three little ones, we create quite the ruckuss when we come over. Here's a sneak peak into our evening....along with a dramatic ending:

Dad's really got the barbequing down! Yummy!

Its hard not to bite this one!

Lindy and little weeble-wobble Paxton

Tucker playing with the kids. This was a nice, calm game of "throwing the pillow AT the kids"!

And a little game of Bingo

Kristy was quite focused and worked out while we all pigged out to dinner!

Grandma gave Peyton a great variety of food! Here's some chicken & veggie soup.....

....her OWN bowl of mashed potatoes!

.....and even her own chocolate ice cream cone!


Ryan and Tucker chatted a bit


and then the nice calm evening came to a screeching hault. Or I should say "screaming" hault! We were in the living room chatting and suddenly Jordyn came screaming and crying in the house "Lexi's getting hurt! Lexi's getting hurt!". My heart dropped and I immediately knew what had happened.



They were playing in the garage and found the key to the treadmill and turned it on. Lexi was caught between the treadmill and the garage door....and couldn't get out. We all ran out there, Tucker grabbed her and brought her in. And she screamed bloody murder for about 40 minutes while we tried EVERYthing we could think of to calm her burns. She had a big one on her leg, and then 10 smaller burns all over her body (elbows, fingers, legs, ankles, wrists...). It was so sad!!!! She was hysterical. We sprayed antiseptic spray, and held cold towels on her. I gave her tylenol and we tried to get her in a cold bath. After about 30-40 minutes, she had realized that the spray did take the edge off the burn (and the Tylenol kicked in) and let us spray a ton more. Then our wonderful friend "doctor Dane" came over with some stronger topical solution and ointment. How could we be so lucky to have a house call from Dane every time we're in crisis mode like this????


Poor, poor Lexi. She was so tired and so worn out from being so upset. Lyric and Jordyn were quite distraught...really everyone was. Its so sad to see your child in pain and not really be able to take it away. We all learned a good lesson, especially me. We got her all wrapped up and feeling a little better.

Whew! What a night! And THAT is a peek into a typical family get together....with a little twist at the end!