Smiles and Frowns

Mari just smiling at her #1.  Sometimes I think she likes Brodie more then me...

Especially when I try to get her to smile and all she does is this:

Little stinker! 

I still love her though!  For the most part she is a pretty happy baby.  This last week she has had her moments... a lot of moments... but I'm not going crazy yet, so it's all good.  It hasn't helped that my body has felt super sore the last couple days.  I wish I could say it was soreness from working out or something, but instead it was from being hit by a piece of plywood, and then tripped by a second piece of plywood and then falling to my bum on the concrete driveway.  

You see, the wind here in South Eastern Idaho is ridiculous.  I tried to get a good picture of how windy it actually was, but this picture does not do it justice.  The trees were like half way bent over from the wind at times. 

This is what happened:  The kids and I were outside because it was a breezy day and the field next to us is full of those giant dandelions, so there were seeds flying everywhere and it looked like snow.  Then all of a sudden tornado like winds approached us and our trampoline started to fly... even with a cinder block on it!

Brodie screeched and I ran over to hold it down and try to secure it with the cinder block a little better.  Then, simultaneously, every garbage can on the block fell over and started to blow away.  I started to take a couple of steps across the driveway to retrieve the garbage can to find myself getting smacked by one of these 10' by 5' plywood boards that were laying in the driveway.  It hit my left arm so hard that the wood broke.  Thank goodness it wasn't the other way around, resulting in a broken arm.  Since the top piece of plywood was no longer holding down the bottom piece of plywood, the second board popped up and flew at my legs, tripping me and causing me to land flat on my bum on the hard concrete.  Brodie and Ryker were freaking out and started to run to my rescue, but I yelled at them to get in the house immediately.  I ran to the car, opened the garage, and drug the boards into it, then grabbed our garbage can and put it away, and then took refuge inside as well.

The next day I felt like I had been hit by a giant board.  Oh wait, I was!  Two of them!  My body is still sore today, but at least I don't feel like I have to physically pick my legs up to step on the gas or brake pedals in my car anymore.  Frown.