Friday, August 31, 2012

Life is Good

Thomas is a busy man who makes appearances occasionally to say hello or eat a meal. One of his time suckers: scouts. Scouts involves camping which I think he likes, even if I don't. What we do like about Scouts/camping however is when he comes home. There are always fun leftover treats that I would never buy to munch on and playing in the trailer is a load of fun.


Plus all the work that goes into helping dad clean up and put away his goods:






When Thomas is home all the boys get hair cuts from him. The baby LOVES getting his hair cut. How weird is that. Henry cries and cries but the baby just wants to hold the clippers.

My smart book-loving babies.

Life's pretty peachy now that we are living the life with a kitchen and all. Don't worry though, remodeling will be kicked into high gear come October. I already have anxiety about it, but it's got to get done. Wish us luck.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Utah's Best Decision Ever

One of the best decisions Utah has ever made was making Pioneer Day (July 24th) a state holiday. That means within 20 days we essentially have two major holidays. I love it!

Monroe throws a killer party for the 24th and it starts the day before - the 23rd, also know as Little Miss's Birthday.

We had a fun day planned and had a simple celebration of cupcakes and presents for Macey. She feels like all of the other festivities are in her honor, so she doesn't mind a birthday/holiday combo.


She wanted binoculars...

She also got Tangled (fun for us all!)

After cake there was a children't parade in town that we took the kids to. The theme was "Their past, Our future  so I dressed the kids up according to what they would be in the future.

Future Cowboy:

Future Marine Biologist (I just wanted to use the octopus I made for her party...):

Future Mom:  When I first asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up she told me "in the BYU Marching band!". I had no idea how to dress her up as that so I asked her what else she wanted to be and she said a mom. Cute!

After the parade we went to a block party our neighbors had. The actually closed off the street and had a band. It was awesome.

Thomas was in a basketball tournament that night with friends from church. They close Main Street in town and play right in the middle of the street! How cool is that? It's a night tourney that lasts until almost 3am if you keep winning.

The next morning, which is the actual holiday, we went back to main street to watch the parade.

Embarrasing story: we were sitting on the sidewalk behind some people who were sitting on the curb. The baby spilled a bottle of water that rushed down the sidewalk and got the bum of the lady in front of us all wet (and really dirty). She was NOT happy and we were so embarrassed. Good thing we didn't know her!


After naps we went to dinner at the football field with a band and drawings. CJ won HUGE and was excited about it. The evening wrapped up with awesome fireworks with our friends.

See, pretty great holiday!

On a side note, my baby is a climber.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

The Busiest Weekend Ever

I have a lot to catch up on before I get to our recent Kentucky vacation, so here it goes!

The weekend before Macey's birthday was crazy busy.

We went to Orderville on Thursday to bury our sweet baby nephew. He was only needed on Earth for a few short hours and is leaving his mom, dad, and twin brother here for us to love. It was a beautiful grave-side service and the truth of a restored gospel was there and strong. I'm so grateful for the knowledge that I have because how would something like this be ok with out it?

We hung out with family on Friday and then had Macey's swimming birthday party at the town pool Saturday night. We invited lots of people but lots of people were busy, so the few who made it had a blast and I was so grateful that they came. A party just isn't a party without guests!





After a few days in Orderville we headed home on Saturday night. Sunday Thomas wanted to go to Fish Lake to check out some camping spots for his boy scouts.

We spent hours in the car enjoying the cool mountain breeze, a picnic dinner, and a disappointing lake with a 1 million misquitoes and a dead cow in it.

Judge me if you will, but we were going 8 mph on a dirt road so we let the kids out of their seat belts. There were in heaven!

Beautiful Fish Lake

Dead Cow Lake -



I need a nap some Mondays to recover from the weekend :)

Thursday, August 9, 2012

A Boy and his Horse

I bought this cute horse at a garage sale for $5 a few weeks ago and it has been one of the best $5 ever spent. Henry is in love with his new pal. His name is Lucky, which Henry pronounces "yucky". And he even has to go downstairs to sleep with him at naps and bedtime. Every night Henry loving puts a blanket over his back and kisses him goodnight. Seriously, it's the cutest thing I've ever seen. Ever.




And here's a picture Macey took of me and my little goon. Love this monkey and can't believe he's almost 3! Where oh where does the time go?

Monday, August 6, 2012

Riot

My kids are hilarious and here is the proof. Macey drew this picture and I asked her to tell me about it. She is in the middle with a tu-tu on because I am picking her up from dance class. The thing to the right is a cat with cat food inside of it (the star shapes, which is definitely what our cat food looks like), and I am on the left. I asked her what the circles on my shirt were. She told me that they weren't circles, but a fruit loop, and I quote, "because you are a fruit loop!"

We had a few friends over the other day and had a dance party. The kids were hilarious and I should have taken a video. We love the Hanna Montana and Justin Bieber stations on Pandora.


Henry doing some crazy dance:

Oh yeah!

Good looking crew:

The baby just figured out how to have sword fights with his fork during dinner, serious entertainment right there.

And I'm pretty sure he's the cutest baby ever. Here he is on top of the kitchen table "helping" me make cookies.