Brendan loves the eye of Sauron from The Lord of the Rings, especially the one that was in ‘The Lego Batman Movie’. If you ever hear Brendan saying “Shaka-Laka-Loooooow”, that is where he heard it. We sat and created our own Tower of Barad Dur and eye of Sauron out of Lego. He was very proud. He even made a label for it.

February 4th –

The boys really loved the road trip to the Sycamore Creek and wanted to do it again but we wanted a little less driving time. We decided to go to the Salt River instead and they brought their friend Blake. Hanging out under the road in the shade was perfect.

The water was cold, but Trevor didn’t care!

Trevor loves his navy hat that he got at the military vehicle show. He wears it any time he can.

Trevor found a shoelace and a stick in the river and made himself a “fishing pole”. The other boys were green with envy, so I went to the car and got anything else we could use to make more. Brendan’s is made out of a piece of oxygen tubing and I made one for Blake out of a twill tape trach tie. (Ah, the stuff we keep in the car)

It did not matter that there was no chance of catching anything. The boys all fished and fished and fished.

February 10th –

Earlier in the week, Brendan got a cold. He had one scary night where is saturation dropped to the 70’s and he was so tired and wheezy. Lots of breathing treatments and sleeping with some oxygen helped tremendously. He felt so much better the next morning, but we saw the doctor anyway and Brendan was put on antibiotics.

We were so worried he would have to miss the “Hopekids Fun Day” but he was better! It was hosted by Scottsdale Bible Church. (more like a small city than a church, the place is amazing) Look at the slide they have! See the boys at the top?!

Volunteers set up so many little carnival games and everyone got little prizes

Then some dinosaurs showed up

Trevor got to climb a rock wall – or at least try to. He is just barely big enough to use the harness. The grips were far apart for him.

There were a number of bounce houses

There was a delicious lunch followed by a Lego building room where they were playing ‘The Lego Batman Movie”. Shaka-laka-loooooooow!!

We listened to a very young girl speak about losing her leg in her fight with cancer. She was a great speaker for someone so young. The church really provided such an awesome day for all of the families.