Goodbye Hot Summer Days...

This weekend was a busy one, we are clinging on to every last warm day outside. I absolutely LOVE fall but, I despise all of winter except for on Christmas day. Our Fall season is so short here, seems like it goes from HOT to COLD from one day to the next. I am not looking forward to being stuck inside the house with 4 stir crazy kids! Every year I tell myself that I will do better and I will get out and make the best of it and every year I just hide away, in hibernation. I am going to try my hardest not to bring my poor kids down with me this year!! Until then... We will make the most of our short fall. Here is how our week went...

Last Sunday we went fly fishing in the Provo River. It was beautiful! The leaves were changing and it was still so warm! While Rory fished the kids, my mother and I went for a walk....

Jameson wanted to take this little thing home.

Ava is getting so big! She is holding her head up like a champ, especially for being so small!

She smiles at everyone and she has the BIGGEST dimples for such a little face!

Thursday we went to the ZoO to see the BABY ElePHanT!! I could have sat there for hours watching her! She must have been the cutest dang thing EVER!

Rori & Ava had their first merry go round ride!

Today Chanel went on her first field trip!! We went to the Tracy Aviary...

Hopefully we have a lot more to tell you about soon!

Score 1 for the good guys!!

Jameson is playing soccer this year and he LOVES it!! He has a permanent smile on his face every time he is playing, and to make things even better Rory is the coach!! A little while after we had signed up we got a call saying that they didn't have a coach for the team and they were wondering if we could do it. I went ahead and took it upon myself to sign up Rory and asked my neighbor if her husband would sign up as well since our boys were on the same team. That way we would have 2 guys out there that didn't know what they were doing. To my surprise Rory and Josh have done a wonderful job! We have quite the team full of strong little players! Jameson managed to make 2 of the 6 goals this game and last game he made the only 2 we got! It is so exciting to watch the kids play, I have turned into one of those TOTALLY obnoxious moms on the sidelines yelling at the top of my lungs! But don't worry, I am never mean and I am always so proud of our team, it is just too fun to see them out there to be quiet.

Jameson is #3

Labor day weekend and first day of school!!

Chanel started school yesterday! She was very excited and loves school. She especially loves Miss Lorrain, her teacher. She came home teaching me all sorts of new things and singing new songs. It is so fun to see her learning so much!

She had to take a teddy bear with her to her first day.



For Labor day weekend we went to Bear Lake with some of our friends. It was a very long dirty weekend but so much fun! By Monday I thought if I didn't get everyone home and showered, cleaned and disinfected something would start to grow on us!! We haven't played in the sand and dirt for so long. It was a blast and I think we will be going again next year for sure!!



Tweeter and Do G relaxing on the boat.

We had some pirate friend bury some treasure on the beach! All the kids got to dig it up, it was so fun!! Until it broke out into an all out brawl over who got the gold, the necklaces, the rings etc. GREED!

Jameson's favorite part... the carp.

All 3 of my girls asleep on the boat together. So cute, to bad they have to wake up!

The kids would sit on the front of the boat so Rory could go over the waves and throw them all in the air!! Scared the crap out of me!

Ava's makeshift sunshade.

This is how the locals get their boats in and out of the water because the beaches are so shallow! I loved it, they all had the EXACT same tractor, red Farmhills. Not 1 john deer!!

Jameson gettin buried by the kids!!

5 minutes NO FIGHTING!! Nice. Right after this Rori Ana threw sand at Chanel.

Jameson and Tweeter could play on the beach forever. They love it.

Sorry Chanel... God has spoken!

So I was going to write this on my "Kids' comment of the day" off to the side but I though it was too good. It was post worthy.

Yesterday was full of surprises for me, the kids were being so naughty but funny at the same time. Chanel came in that morning with the baby desitin and asked if it was for "baby's sore bums" I said yes, for babies only. She said her bum was feeling kind of sore. I told her don't even think about it and it was for babies ONLY! Well about 15 minutes later I went to go into her room to make sure she was getting dressed, when I turned the door knob I felt something all over it. Yep, desitin... It was all over the door and the door knobs on her bedroom and bathroom. I look in the bathroom and its all over the sink too! I flung open the door and there she is... COVERED in desitin!! I should have made her bum sore right then, but I couldn't. All I could do was laugh and make her clean it up and get in the bath.

After she got out Jameson started to brush her hair (not sure why, he never has before). He was trying to brush out a pretty good size tangle when I heard him say: "Chanel! What do you do to your hair??! This is crazy, lets go show mom!" They come into my room and then he said " Look at this mom! It is as big as a small dog!!!" I don't know where the heck he heard that!

Later that day I noticed one of our lamps was broken. James walked up and saw that I was messing with it trying to get it to work. He says "whats going on? Why isn't this thing working?" with a puzzled look on his face. I thought I would see if this would work, I told him "you broke it" and he looked at me with a little surprise on his face. Then he said "How?" I told him he was messing with it too much (it has a little cord you pull on to turn it on and he likes to play with it) He then said "That's not how, you weren't there! You didn't see. I was pulling it too hard." I said "so you did break it?!" He says "Do you know if I broke it? If you don't then no, if you do then yes."

THEN that night, I caught Chanel lying to me about something (I cant even remember anymore) I knew she was lying but had no proof, so I told her that even though I didn't know that God did and he wouldn't like it very much if she was lying. Jameson has always said he talks to God and he can hear when God talks back. So he says "Hold on mom... I hear something...(moment of silence)... YEP!! SHES A LIAR!!! God told me and he wants her grounded to her room for the rest of the night!" Sorry Chanel, God has spoken. Even though my kids were being naughty all day they had me laughing all day. I really shouldn't be because it probably encourages their bad behavior but, how do not when they are so funny?!