Quote of the Day

Ty and I took Lincoln in to get his 2 month shots today.  He was feeling bad for Lincoln having to get shots...

Ty (to Lincoln): I don't like shots.  I have to get more shots pretty soon too."
Me: "You do?"
Ty: "yep when I'm 15 I have to get a Tennis shot?"
Me: "a tennis shot?"
Ty: "Ya"
Me: "Um I think it's a tetnus shot!"
Ty...laughing " oh ya a tetnus shot!"

And I was thinking...soon? you won't be 15 for 6 more years! I hope it goes by a little slower than soon

Quote of the Day

I haven't done one of these in forever!

Jesse: "Two fries isn't big enough to block out the sun"
Me: huh?
Jesse "Two fries isn't big enough to block out the sun"
Me:  Um ok (apparently I heard him right the first time...still don't know what he's talking about)

We went to the pool yesterday.  Tyler was playing with Tracen in the kiddie pool.
"Tyler! no no piggies!" he was getting his toes
"Ahhh, eesgungehmee!" (Ah he's going to get me!)

Smiles

Lincoln has started smiling in response to people, especially me!  I love it, it totally makes my day.  He's especially smiley in the morning when he first gets up.  I just love him so much and I'm so grateful that he's apart of our family.

And in other dpressing news, I go back to work this week.  I know its only two nights a week but I'm still not excited about it.  I love my job but I just want to stay home and kiss those cheeks.  The longest I've been away from Lincoln is 4 hours, while I had surgery, now I go to 12 hours.  I know he'll mostly sleep through it and I've been trying to prepare myself for it, but I'm sure I'll still cry. This is what Lincoln thinks about it...

See he thinks its a bad idea too.

Camping

This past weekend we went camping.  We left on Thursday I think.  We planned to leave Wednesday but didn't get out of here until Thursday afternoon.  We'd originally planned on going over to Escalante but decided on the mountain instead.  I'm so glad we did.  It was lots cooler and lots of fun.  The Guymon's and Josh's parents came too.  It rained part of almost every afternoon.  We came home Saturday night, threw in some wash, went to church on Sunday and repacked and went back up for a few more days.  Sunday through Tuesday we were on our own though.

There were tons of mosquitos and we used tons of bug spray!  Saturday we (Josh, me, Tyler, Jesse, Tracen, Lincoln, Sadie, Ann and Vaughn) went on a hike to Lowder Ponds.  It was about 5 miles.  Lincoln went with me in the front carrier, Tracen with Josh in the backpack.  Monday we decided to take a little trip to Panguitch Lake to get an ice cream and we ended up in Bryce Canyon.  Not sure how we got so off course :) but we stopped and looked around and checked out the hoodoos and drove back.  We had two different Grandmas checking out Tracen.  They were funny.  We got our ice cream on the way home.  Then we came home this morning.  Lincoln did pretty good, we had a few rough nights but they probably would have been rough at home too.  I would have never taken him or Tracen camping though without the trailer.  Especially since Tracen doesn't stay in his sleeping bag!

The boys (Ty, Jesse and Ethan) built a fort.  They did a pretty good job!

We made LOTS of smores.  In fact, Monday we had to buy more smore stuff.  I'm pretty sure I probably gained like 10 pounds eating smores.  Tracen loves "mallows"

Ty on the other hand loves grasshoppers.  Yep that's right.  I think he ate 3.  Ethan helped him grill them up in a tin can and then Ty ate them.  He is his father's child I guess.  Ew.

Dan and Megan brought this green chair with them.  Both Tracen and Addi thought it belonged to them.  Tracen really was wrong about that but try to convince him.  Sometimes they fought over it and sometimes they remembered that both their bums fit in it at the same time :)

Tracen likes to beat up Dan.  He would walk up to him and take a swing or poke him and say "poke!"  Dan had quite the group of followers, Tracen and Jerry.  They followed him everywhere.  Jerry and Dan fed eachother full of crap too.  It was funny.

Tracen and Addi picked flowers for everyone.  This bouquet is for Grandma.  It was really cute to watch him tramp across the meadow with the flowers....roots and all.

Jesse burned his finger.  I'm sure it hurt bad.  It blistered immediately.  Here he is holding the only ice we had on it

This is me and Lincoln hanging out

Bryce Canyon

Independence day/weekend

We had a lot of fun this year!  We started out on Saturday with the Parowan parade.  I love this parade!  It's short, sweet and they throw a lot of candy.  And unlike the Cedar parade not every business in town slaps a sign on the side of their pickup and drives it down the road.  There were actually a few floats and everything. Ann, Jerry, Crystal and Kurt joined us for the parade.  It was lots of fun and Ty and Jesse helped Tracen hone his candy getting skills.  Jesse even ended up with a t-shirt.  The sister missionaries were sitting next to us and they gave the boys some of their candy, so we donated them our roll of paper towels we caught that M&D were throwing!  Then we had a little bbq at our house.  Jade and Kaylynn's family joined us for that and my parents and David and Jacob stopped for a burger and to pick up their trailer to head to the family reunion.  Crystal made an awesome trifle.  It was so pretty I took a picture :)  Then we went swimming at the Jorgensen's house (Ann's neighbor) Tracen got brave and sat on the top step!  ha ha.  Jesse and Tyler had fun swimming with Jaxon, Jorgensen's son.  That night we lit off fireworks with the Guymons and watched the Parowan fireworks.  We kept thinking they were over but then they'd start up again.

Sunday we went to church.  I was supposed to go to my cousins baby blessing but I'm a loser and totally forgot that morning.  Way to go.  So instead I went to church and realized that I've ruined Tracen trying to get him to go to nursery the past few weeks.  I was alone and pretty proud of myself that I made it through sacrament meeting fairly quietly.  It took a new set of twistable crayons and a coloring book but we made it.  As soon as the closing prayer was over Tracen burst into tears and kept saying "Mom Truck!"  I went with him to nursery which lasted a whole 3.5 minutes until the primary realized they had no pianist.  So Tracen, Lincoln and I went to Primary instead.  Tracen only tried to play the piano a few times and then sat on Ty's lap and fell asleep. 

After church we went and visited Grandma Bev, it was lots of fun to see her.  Tracen tried several karate moves in her front room.  Then the boys and I drove up and found the Guymons in Brian Head and watched the fireworks there.  I have to say the Brian Head fireworks are the best ones.  But they have a pretty crazy party going on up there!  There are tons of people!  And they all stopped at the smoke shop on their way from Vegas and California.  It makes for a pretty good pre-show.  Last year Josh and I had duck and cover plans because we were next to a few intoxicated peeps with roman candles and such.  the fun never ends!

Monday we relaxed, cleaned and Lincoln had a sour belly, so we stuck pretty close to home.  Oh and Josh worked the whole weekend, so most of the time it was just me and the boys.

See more suckers!

Picking up candy

Lincoln slept through the parade

A pretty Trifle :)

Lighting fireworks

Sunday morning I caught Jesse reading Storm Testament ha ha!

Cooking

So I decided a few weeks ago that the boys needed to learn how to cook, needed to realize how much work goes into making a meal etc etc...SO I decided once a week they were going to cook.  Ty one week, Jesse the next.  Ty loves this idea and was so excited.  I got him on Our Best Bites and let him pick out the meal.  I've also decided that they can do dessert, we'll have it once a week.  Ty picked out Pork Tenderloin chimchurri, sweet potato fries and apple pie.  He loves apple pie and he's always begging to do the lattice crust on top...so we did.  Ty loved cooking and had a ton of fun.  Jesse's meal plan for this week is much more simple, as Jesse is.  But that will be another post when he cooks it.

A week or so ago we went up to the cabin at Panguitch for a little family get together and bbq. We had fun! We went for a walk, the boys went fishing and roasted smores and threw pinecones, we swung on the porch swing and listened to Grandpa tell stories about Native Americans. I'm so glad we have a place up in the mountains to run away too, even if it's just for the afternoon.

Tracen loves himself a sucker, we have LOTS of sucker pictures!

This is what Josh looks like with twins.  He did a good job taking care of them both :)

We found ourselves a few bugs

Josh caught Jesse mid throw in the pinecone fight!

Love these!

In the past few weeks I've found these videos by the church on you tube.  I love them!  They have pretty music to go with the talks and little bits of video or pretty pictures.  Here's some of my favorite:

President Uchtdorf:




Elder Holland on Mothers:


I just love these videos!  And in all honesty they make me cry.