Monday, August 11, 2008

Haircut Day




Well, every month the boys need to get haircuts. It seems to take a big chunk out of my day, but it needs to be done. Ethan and Jacob had wings growing over their ears, and Mike's grey hair was looking more and more noticeable because it was getting so long! I started with Jacob. He has to play with something, or he just wants to see what I'm doing with his head and doesn't sit still. He does pretty good though, for being only 1. Then Ethan had his haircut. He always asks, "When are you gonna be done?", like every 5 seconds! He doesn't like to sit still either and he's 6! He said, "Don't cut my sideburns!", referring to the back of his neck. He hates that part because I cut him once. Oooops! I had to tell him where his sideburns were, and he actually had quite the chops growing! Then it was Asia's turn. She wanted me to buzz her hair like the boys'! I said no, of course! I just trimmed her hair a bit to even out the little haircut she gave herself that was finally growing out. Then on to Mike. He sits very still and actually almost falls asleep! It's just so relaxing, I guess, until I accidentally cut him or something! That didn't happen this time, though! Now who's gonna cut my hair?!

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Scrabble Pendants.... Sooo Cool!



So, my friend and her husband just started up a new business together. They make necklace pendants from old Scrabble board letters! It's so cool! Mine just came in the mail and I love them! Plus, if you order now, you can buy 2 and get 1 free! Great deal. Anyway, you can find them at www.jnsdesigns.etsy.com I hope you enjoy them as much as me. Sorry, these pics don't do them justice. I don't know why they're so blurry! Grrrr!

Friday, August 8, 2008

The "Roaring" Roaring Youth Jam










Yesterday we were able to go down to the river in town and participate in the Roaring Youth Jam. They have tons of art activities for kids, games to play, and different shows to watch. And, the best part, it's all free! It was very hot, but there were shady spots to rescue us from the heat. My kids love everything to do with art, so this is right up their alley. We go to this thing every year and the kids love everything about it. They get to do every activity and get as messy as they want. I try and put them in clothes that can get wrecked and they wear their Home Depot aprons just in case. Jacob was a little too young this year, so he just watched everything around him and was a real trooper. Next year, he'll be all about the paint and stuff. That night, we went to the free dance show that they put on. They had mostly contemporary, weird dances. The best part was the beat boxer they had perform during one of their costume changes. He was amazing! I don't know how people can do such things with their mouths. Crazy! Anyway, it was supposed to be for all ages, but I think the age limit should have been 6 and up. Ethan enjoyed it, but Asia and Jacob were done by the second number. And, again, it was stuffy and hot inside the theatre. Oh well. A little culture never hurt anyone, right!

Busy Boy!





Jacob has been quite busy for the last few days, trying to find every toilet paper roll in the house and unrolling all of them! He thinks he's so sneaky! I caught him in the act yesterday in my bathroom. He looks so proud of himself.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Pioneer Day



The wards in our building like to organize a primary pioneer day parade. They do a great job. Asia and Ethan dressed up in their best pioneer attire and they walked down the street to our neighborhood park where they played pioneer games. Thank goodness I saved all my stuff from when I went on Trek back in the day! They had popsicles for a treat when they were all done. What a fun hour!

Boating!





Well, it's already August and I need to catch up on what we did for the rest of July. We were able to go boating with our friends Jay and Janae and their kids. It was a beautiful, perfect day for boating. The kids had fun swimming in the water and Ethan and Mike got to try knee boarding. The water was freezing, but it was actually refreshing because it was so hot. Hopefully they will ask us to go with them again. We had tons of fun! :)

Friday, July 18, 2008

New Baby!

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Yes, we're having a baby girl!

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want To!




So, yesterday was my birthday. My thirtieth birthday. I don't know what it is with that number, but something about it just doesn't sit well with me. I used to make fun of those ladies that would say they were "29" even though you could obviously tell that they weren't! Now I'm starting to see why they say that. I can no longer say, "I'm in my twenties." Now it's, "I'm in my thirties", which you might as well say, "I'm almost forty." Sorry if I've offended anyone here and a lot of you are probably saying, "Thirty Shmirty, boo hoo! Get over it!" Sure, it was a great day. My husband took the day off and I had a fun, relaxing birthday with my family, but that "thirty" word was still lurking over me the whole day! Maybe those of you who are thirty and over could give me an idea of why thirty is so great. One of my friends calls it "the zone", whatever that means!! I almost grimaced when the waitress at Jakers asked me for my driver's license to prove it was, in fact, my birthday so I could get my meal for half off. Maybe she would look at it and find out my secret... that I wasn't 29, but indeed, I was the dreaded THIRTY!

Camping Adventures Part 2

For some reason, I couldn't put the words with my pics. So, here are the words that go with the pics. The first pic is where we ended up camping the first night. Here's the explanation...
Well, we decided to go camping last weekend. We always wait until the last minute to really go. I don't know if it's because we know how much work it's going to be, if we're just not the planning type, or a combination of the two. We've also been wanting to go to Bear Lake, so we thought this would be the weekend. It takes about 3 hours to get there, so we wanted to leave around 2pm to get there and set everything up. We didn't end up leaving until 6pm! We got to the campground around 9pm and it wasn't quite the campground we were looking for. So we went to another one, but the spots were all taken. We went to the next one, and the camp host said they were all reserved or taken for the night. What happened to the days when you could just roll into a campground and find any spot you wanted without caring about making a reservation? Anyway, so we ended up driving back to Montpelier to find a hotel. They were all booked as well. They blamed their busy-ness on a baseball game that night and a wedding!! I couldn't believe it was so booked! It's just a little town. Well, we tried looking for other campsites and couldn't find one. We ended up camping by the side of the road, just outside of the campground. By then it was close to midnight and the kids were all asleep. In the morning, people from inside the campground would drive by us and I felt like such an outcast! How embarrassing! It did get better though. We packed up all of our stuff and headed into the campground and found a perfect spot with shade everywhere, a little stream nearby, and flushable toilets and running water. The kids had fun exploring, throwing wood into the fire, and throwing rocks into the stream. We went to the beach at Bear Lake that afternoon, and then to the Minnetonka Caves. It was a pretty good time, after we found a camping spot. Note to self, don't go camping unless you have a reservation! Lesson learned. p.s. Sorry about all the pics. I'm a little snap happy! :)

Camping Adventures

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Monday, July 14, 2008

Little Entrepreneur





Ethan has decided that he really, really wants a PSP or Nintendo DS. Since his birthday and Christmas is quite far away, I told him that he could buy it himself if he earned enough money. He gets to do chores around the house and gets a weekly allowance, but I guess that wasn't makin' the money fast enough. He was picking the strawberries the other day and decided that he would sell them to earn some extra money. He came into the house with a bucket full of strawberries and told me his plan. He wanted to sell the strawberries for $1.00 each. I said that noone would buy a strawberry for a buck. He was wanting to rack up his money quickly! Anyway, he had me make some signs and he decided to sell lemonade also. He set up the table and chairs outside, taped his signs up, and waited for the customers to come. Pretty soon, I was making 2 and 3 more pitchers of lemonade and he had to call his neighbor friends to come help pick more strawberries. They were selling like hot cakes! At the end of about 2 hours, he had made a little over 10 dollars! I think we should go into business together! After it was all gone, he said, all excitedly, "Tomorow we're going to sell popsicles!" I think we'll take a break from peddling our wares for now!

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Comb-over







I finally figured it was about time to cut the little one's comb-over off. It would stick straight up in the wind and he seriously looked like an old man. Poor guy. Well, he looks a lot better now, and he actually sat pretty still through it all. He only almost fell out of the chair twice! What a handsome little guy!

Happy 4th of July!






Well, here is what we did for Independence Day. We were able to go to the Idaho Falls parade in the morning. We try and go every year for the kids. I don't know if we'll go anymore! It was so hot, the kids weren't really interested, and it seems like it's getting more and more political and commercial. We'll probably keep going since it has become somewhat of a tradition. After the parade, we had a BBQ at our house. I didn't get any pictures of that for some reason. Too busy I guess. After that, we went to Mike's parents' house and lit off our fireworks. We usually go down to the river to see the big fireworks show, but we didn't feel like braving the crowds and the traffic this year. The kids just wanted to light their own anyway, little pyro maniacs! We had fun and the kids had fun. Good times!

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Happy Flood er I mean Canada Day!






We went up to Lethbridge to celebrate Canada Day, July 1st. We went to the parade in Raymond and then we had a BBQ at my sister Cynthia's house. It was going just great, until about 2pm when the rain started. I don't think I've seen a rain like this in Lethbridge EVER! It downpoured for at least 2 hours. Houses were flooded, streets were impassible, and some bridges had to be closed because of flooding. Crazy. Once the rain had subsided, we decided to go out and see what fun Canada Day festivities we could partake in. Turns out, the city had declared an emergency and was advising people to not go out or even drive anywhere. Since my sister didn't have any flooding at her house, we assumed everything was ok everywhere else. I guess we should've watched the news or something! Needless to say, the fireworks were cancelled and no more activitied for the day. Bummer!