I was in the kitchen doing something and Gavin yells out "Help Mom I'm stuck, get me out of here!" I thought maybe he was in a dangerous situation and when I rounded the corner this was what I found...a little boy with a smirk :)
Thursday, July 30, 2009
"Help Mom I'm Stuck!"
Backyard Water Bash
Today Luke's friend Owen came over to play. He recently moved back from Colorado and we haven't had the chance to hang out yet so today was an extra special treat. We decided to stay around the house and have fun here and so we turned the backyard into our own little water park and it was a hit! Gavin was fearless and the kids got creative on how they went down the slide! What a fun afternoon. Trisa, Owen's mom, and I sat in the shade and watched as the kids would occasionally soak us. It was definitely a great summer day!
Sleepless in Orlando
One thing about working in Young Womens it makes me feel OLD! Like last night we had a YW sleepover party....I forgot what it's like to be young and care free and try to stay up ALL night long! We had about 7 girls sleepover here last night and they stayed up until 5:30 AM!!!!! And then about 7:00 AM Emma came down and wanted to wake them up. I had to stay awake and stand guard :) So yes I am going off 1 1/2 hours of sleep today :) We have such great girls and we had a great time!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Luke's new look
Luke went to his friend Grant's house today and they had a little fun with his computer :)
Friday, July 24, 2009
Emma Scissorhands
This post is in NO WAY a laughing matter. With that being said I realize that I have to blog about the good, the bad, and the ugly. I think this post would qualify as the bad and the ugly....when I see Emma kind of running around quickly trying to get out of my view I KNOW something mischievous is going on. It was one of those days that she was slipping by and when I walked into her room she had given her stick horse a HAIRCUT! She had already been a stinker that day and so I LOST it! Afterward as I was evaluating my overreactedness over a simple stick horse and I thought "you know it could have been worse...it could have been HER hair or something". The next day I dressed Gavin in my favorite little shirt and looked down to notice that the bottom had been CUT up! Again I was angry. Then the next day I found my favorite pair of Gavin's shorts had been cut in the same pirate style. I was really trying to control my anger. Now she has to pay for a new shirt and shorts for Gavin out of HER money. Then the icing on the cake, my fears had come true. WHILE my family was here Emma CUT HER HAIR! ARGHHH! That little stinker! She was lucky that there were too many witnesses around and her punishment was lowered to losing her fish she just got and a long time out. So there you go there is the story of my little Emma Scissorhands!
Monday, July 20, 2009
A Fantastically Fabulous Family Reunion Full of Fun in Florida!
What a blast!!!! We had a great little family reunion, but were very sad my brother Scott and his family couldn't be with us. But with a son that is about to enter his SENIOR year of High School I can understand that a smaller immediate family vacation is needed! We will have to have them next time. And YES there has to be a next time because this was way too much fun! We had 21 of us in total including 2 babies that I hadn't met until this trip. Brayden is now 8 months and Max just 7 weeks old and they were the BEST little babies ever! Gavin couldn't get enough of them and always wanted to hold them :)
We had planned to stay the whole week in some cabins located in our church ranch, but when I was just there for girls camp there were tons of bugs and we were afraid the babies shouldn't be out there too long. So we only stayed there one night and the rest of the time my good friend Amy was going to let us use her house while she and her family are out in Utah visiting family. BUT plans changed because we were having WAY to much fun staying up talking, laughing, and watching the kids dance and no one wanted to leave! So instead we had all 21 people here in my little house! I can't believe it worked and that everyone was so gracious and flexible as they had to lay air mattresses out and then put them back up the next morning so we could walk around. It was great to have everyone here in my home. My house really felt like a home with Grandma sitting at the piano playing a duet with my niece Brynlie, Grandma reading to the grand kids, kids running around giggling and having fun. I enjoyed every minute of our time together! Here are TONS of pictures...you will feel like you were there after seeing all the pictures I posted. I actually think I did pretty good at only picking a few considering between my sisters and I we had almost 900 pictures :)
Here's some of the fun things we did....
Did I mention my family got to experience many of the Florida thunderstorms!
I couldn't believe my brave little Luke wanted to go sit on the gator!
Yes this is all the men on the slide...very funny site to see them make a HUGE splash at the bottom in the mud!
I couldn't get enough of holding my cute little nephew MAX! What a sweet little babe!
Brayden was so happy the whole day!!!!!! He always had this little grin on even when it was sweltering hot and soooo humid! What a little trooper!
I'm sooo sad it's over but glad for all the fun memories we made! We missed you Scott, Becky, Danny, Devin, Kaelie, Dallen, and Karissa! We will have to do it again!
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