new toy

My hubby got a new toy! He wanted to start making professional t shirts for his employees to wear at every inflatable/rental/photobooth event. So, he found this U-DO screen printing machine for a pretty good price and he's been madly printing professional t shirts all weekend. Gone are the cheap iron ons that peal off or fade after one wash! These shirts look so nice! We are proud to have our guys wear them when they work with the public. The girls wanted a "Destination Events" shirt also so he made each of them one. The great thing about this machine is that we can now do shirts for our family reunions or vacations. Pretty exciting stuff!




Lydia has worn her shirt 3 days in a row. (We've washed it in between of course) She just loves her "bounce house" shirt.

Here is another week's worth of happiness at the Westover home. Enjoy!

Week 32

Hey everyone! Here is another entry into my Project 365 book. Not much too blog about this week. It's been pretty ordinary. (Ordinary is always good!)

Does school start soon?

Hello everyone! Are we all ready for summer to be over? We are! I think even my kids are ready to go back to school. I am getting so tired of hearing, "What should I do now?" Their rooms are filled with toys, books and games and yet, they can't seem to find anything to do. Swimming lessons have been keeping us very busy. We've had friends over, seen a few movies, been to Chuck E Cheese and the last weekend of August, we're going camping. (only for one night, thank goodness!!) It's been a great summer...I'm just ready for school.

I've gotten way behind on my project 365 but I finally did some catching up today. Here's last week's adventures.

Sick

We've had quite a horrendous couple of days. On Tuesday night, Charlotte wasn't feeling too well. She called us on our cell phones ( we were at Grandma Walburger's visiting with Matt and Kristen Walburger and their kids) to tell us that she had thrown up. A few minutes later, Jillian announced that she wasn't feeling good so Casey took her home. Once everyone was settled for the night, Jillian started throwing up. Charlotte was puking every 10 minutes. At about 11:00, Allison comes running out of her room, launching vomit down the hall. That's 3...how much worse can it get? At midnight, Charlotte was vomiting so hard that blood was coming up. We decided to take a drive to Urgent care. When we got there, it was standing room only and they told us it would be many hours before she could be seen. So, thinking she'd be more comfortable throwing up in her own bathroom than the hospital waiting room, we took her home. By 1:30 a.m., Maggie came in and annonced that she had thrown up on the couch. (where she was sleeping). That's 4 kids sick at the same time. Needless to say, our house was carnage. Comforters were filthy, floors and carpets were gross, and I was exhausted! The next day improved a bit and I was able to get the floors shampooed and the bedspreads and sheets washed and dryed. We have never in the history of having children, had 4 kids sick at the same time. I'm not sure what's better...having them all get it at once and getting it over with or having them get it one at a time and sparing a few bedspreads. Anyway, sorry for the gross post...just keeping it real!

I've been scrapbooking like mad...

Here are the family pictures that were taken at the Westover reunion. My parents have a beautiful water feature in their backyard that makes for a great picture.

Reunions 2010 come to an end

Our travels are over for the summer! We just returned from our second trip to Utah for our Westover family reunion...just two weeks since we last went to Utah for the Millar family reunion. We had an amazing time at both reunions. In between, we left Charlotte to stay with her grandparents. It was kind of like her turning 12 celebration. (She turns 12 in 7 weeks!!) Her grandparents spoiled her rotten with school shopping, a trip to Lagoon, Seven Peaks water park and numerous lunches at Cafe Rio. The biggest change in Charlotte over those two weeks was that she seemed to magically age a few years in that short time. She seemed so much older to us when we picked her up. Part of the transformation was her very adult haircut. Here's a picture of the final product. We took her to church at our ward last Sunday and quite a few people commented on how grown up she is looking. It made her feel good, I think! She needed a self confidence boost before starting middle school next month.

The Westover reunion was tons of fun! It was held in Heber (just like the Millar reunion) so it was nice to stay in my parents' house again. We sure were comfortable! Below is the whole Westover gang (minus cousin Jordan). Each family had a different color shirt so we could make a rainbow of Westovers. (We are in green)

The homes we stayed in were very grand. For a family that usually likes to camp, this reunion was pretty swanky. I HATE camping and much prefer a nice, soft bed with air conditioning! :) Kudos to Byce and Niel who put the whole thing together.

Grandma Walburger always has a craft for the kids to complete.

This was my favorite part of the reunion. We are so proud of our Uncle Niel!! What a talented guy!