Rachel Fuhriman: June 2013

Carolina turns 4

I can't believe that my darling baby Carolina is now 4 years old. It doesn't seem possible that she is that old. I have enjoyed every minute of having her in our family. She is such a good little girl, everyone loves her and I have to admit she is a bit spoiled being the youngest. (We are working on that). She loves to read books, write her name, recite the alphabet, play with her friends (especiallly Kate), eat potatoe chips and sleep anywhere but her own bed. (Every night she asks if she can sleep with Mitch, Treyton, Savanna or Mom & Dad.) She doesn't like to sleep alone. She is such a joy. This year for her birthday we celebrated with a night out at Leo's with the Fuhriman family, and a Sunday evening birthday party with the SArgent family. She got lots of fun gifts and got very spoiled, I think her favorite thing was the dollar store bubbles we got her- I must learn that she doesn't need big gifts!

Popper!

I finally broke down and we got a dog. Reid has wanted one since we got married, and my excuse was always not while we have babies in diapers. Well dang I can't use that excuse anymore! Reid did a ton of research about what kind of dog would be the best for little kids and a wife with allergies. We decided on this cute little dog Popper. So far the kids are in love, the wife is tring to be happy and Popper is adjusting! If we are going to have a dog, he is a great one. I just hope that after the newness of having a dog wears off that the kids continue to want to take care of it.

Memorial Day Camping at Sandcreek

For Memorial Day Weekend we took off to Sandcreek and went fishing for the weekend. We haven't really taken our kids fishing before and thought this would be great. Reid grew up going to Sandcreek fishing with his Grandparents so he wanted to take the kids and give them that same opportunity. We went with his parents and Danny. We were having such a great and relaxing time. We did have one major problem. Poor Carolina got a fish hook in her eyelid. Poor Treyton was casting his line and didn't realize Carolina was behind him and he got her. It was very scary, we couldn't tell if it had gone in her eyeball, so Reid and I jumped into the truck and headed off to the emergency room. Thankfully we got their quick and they got us right in, and found that the hook hadn't gone all the way through the eyelid it was just on the top layer of the lid. They had to put an IV in her to sedate her, that is the only time she cried was when they put it in her arm. (except for the initial hit). She was so brave and just kept all the way still the whole way to Rexburg. She was so cute when she was coming out of anestesia, her words were all slurred and she kept asking funny questions. One thing she kept saying was "Mom, where is Dad?' He was in the room with us until they got the hook out and then he went outside to fix our truck. We feel like we had angels watching out for us because not only did the hook not penetrate her eyeball, but our truck died, all the way as soon as we pulled up to the emergency room doors. Somehow the battery terminals came loose on the drive, but by some miracle it didn't die until we made it to the hospital. Thankfully it was an easy fix! After all was said and done Carolina wanted to go back to camp, you could barely tell anything had happened and her eye is perfectly fine.

Add caption

Perks of my job

Whenever I get frustrated with my job I just need to remember how lucky I am that I work where I do. I got to go with Carolina and her class to the zoo on their field trip. We were a little short staffed and they needed an extra person to go and so I got to go. Not very many people get to take their daughter and niece to the zoo and get paid for it!

It was so fun to watch Carolina and Kate having fun at the zoo!

Kindergarten Graduation

Treyton had a great year in Kindergarten. He has Mrs. Davenport as his teacher. He did so good in school this year and learned so much.
We went to his Kindergarten graduation and it makes me sad to see that my little boy is growing up too fast!

Happy Parents!

Treyton and Mrs. Davenport

Proud Treyton!

Savanna's 4th Grade Idaho History Project

This year Savanna was in 4th Grade. She had a great school year and as part of 4th grade they study Idaho History. She had to do an end of year project. She chose to do a cabin, she did a report that went along with it. She learned about the settlement of Ozone, Idaho. This is where Great-Grandparents settled and did dry-farming. The community started to thrive and grow, but eventually due to drought and severe winters it didn't last and became a ghost town. Savanna and her Dad worked on the cabin, it turned out really good! It was fun to see her take it so seriously! The night of the Idaho History project night was lots of fun, we got to see all the projects and see them show us the square dancing that she learned, it was really cute!

Alburquerque Training

Reid had the opportunity to go to Alburquerque for 8 weeks for a training for work. It was a really good experience for him. A lot of it was a refresher course for him, but he did learn a lot of great things. He did really well and in fact got the "Top Shot" award for his class. Here are a few pictures. He got to live the Bachelor life for 7 out of the 8 weeks there. I am afraid he enjoyed it a bit much! Although I think he did miss us a little!