Why Heavenly Father made bodies!

So at breakfast today Logan say's, "Mom, Heav'nly Fader made bodies so R's lud (blood) doesn't come out, huh?" "Yep Logan, thats probably why"! :)

Poor, Poor Intrepid

It all started on Tues evening when I just finished taking a couple of my Young Women home from mutual and had just arrived at home myself, that I could smell someone/something BBQing, not thinking much of it I turned to go into the house. Derrick however, noticed the look on my face as I sniffed the area and started looking around and noticed a "glow" under his car and yelled "the cars on fire". It took a minute for me to register what he was saying, but luckily enough he sprung into action and put it out with the hose before to much damage was done. He came to the conclusion that when him and Logan where being mechanics a couple of weeks ago they forgot to tighten one of the bolts on the alternator, which caused a spark and started the alternator cap on fire. Even with his assurance that the fire wouldn't start up again I didn't want it parked in the garage, just in case. So he parked toward the end of the driveway, where it sat the rest of the week, until he was able to get the part and find the time to fix it. In the mean time he was taking my car to work, which kind of made it a little hard for me since it was my week to carpool kids to kindergarten (luckily I have good friends to pick up my slack). Anyways, Friday came and I was in need of the car that day so the neighbor took Derrick to work, where I would later pick him up. But that morning as I was getting the kids in the car I looked down the driveway making a special mental note of Derricks car still sitting there. I'm not sure where my mind wondered of too just after that "note to self", but where ever it went it wasn't about the car. Oops! That's right, I backed into his car. All I could say is "oh crap, oh crap," and my kids (ya gotta love 'em) laughed, laughed, laughed, and Justin said "yep mom, that's what I'm feeling right now," as Logan says "uh oh, mom's gonna be TOAST"(over and over). Thanks kids, your such a big help! I took this picture with my phone(note: the scratches on the bottom where already there, HIS FAULT, not mine) and sent it to Derrick with a txt that said "Oops! I am so, so, so sorry!" Luckily for me he was in a meeting with a few co-workers so when he called all I got was "it's okay", so I went about my busy day. Well it was time to go get Derrick from work so I packed a few goodies (daddy's Swedish fish) in the car to get ready for our 30 min drive to daddy's work. We get to his work and the first thing Logan said to Derrick was, "Daddy, we's eating you's bish". "Logan, you weren't suppose to tell him," I said. "Mommy hit you's car, she's gonna be TOAST." "THANKS LOGAN!" That kid, all tell you what, don't tell him anything unless your okay with everyone knowing it! He sure makes me laugh.....
But don't worry the brave intrepid is now up and running again. The alternator has been replaced and the headlight just needed a little packaging tape to hold it together until we can find one at a junk yard or something. I REALLY don't want to spend $200 on 1 stupid headlight. Rip off!

Let's go fly kite...

up to the highest heights....Lets go fly a kite and send it soring.

Up to the Atmosphere.

Up where the air is clear

LETS GO FLY A KITE!

Grandma helping Brady and Logan. She's a good kite flier.



Justin and Daddy weren't able to come with us to the park today,
so we just had to do a round 2 of kite flying today.
This time in the Dark.

The funny things kids say!

I asked Justin if he wanted to wear shorts to school today. "Well, let me go outside to see if it's warm enough," was his response. So he stepped out onto the front porch and I hear him holler, "Mom, I just don't feel anything. It's so weird, it's not hot or cold. I don't think we've EVER had weather like this before, it's just so..... weird." Nevertheless, not only did he wear shorts, be he also had a water fight before he went....

Can you say "Handsome"

Not only was last night Cameron's Prom night, but it was also his 1st date. And boy, that kids sure cleans up nicely. He looked so handsome. Poor kid had to deal with his parents and 3 sisters for a small portion of the night. We hope we didn't embarrass him to much. It was a lot of fun watching him do his dance he's been practicing for, for weeks now, but it was also fun being able to just hang with my parents and 2 sisters for the evening. I'm sure my dad LOVED all the girl chit chat. He was a good sport!
Derricks exact words when I asked if he wanted to come watch Cameron do his promenade dance were "I'd rather have a root canal"! Needless to say he didn't join us, however he did get left with all 3 kids, one of which that had been extremely ornery all day. He tried to get me to take her along, but I gave him an ultimatum, it was either watch her or have a root canal!
After we watched the dance my dad took us 4 girls to Leatherby's in celebration of Cameron's 1st date, did I mention he is 17 1/2, he should have been on lots of dates by now. While at the prom Cameron had expressed his suprise to dad about dinner costing $60 for just the 2 of them. So, when our bill at Leatherby's was a whopping total of $25 for 5 of us, we all just laughed. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD CAMERON!

REALLY?

When Justin and Logan woke up and looked outside today there 1st comment was "oh my gosh! Mom, I don't think spring is ever going to come!"
I'm thinkin' when a 6 year old and 3 year old are tired of the snow, it's a pretty good indication that we are ALL done with the snowy cold weather!
I NEED SOME WARMTH! Is that to much to ask?

Happy Easter!

These kids had more Easter egg hunts this Easter then all their previous Easters put together. Grandpa & Grandma H. did a hunt for the kids while we were all at their house for conference weekend (which I need to get pictures from grandma). We then went to Grandma and Grandpa C.'s house the following Monday to celebrate the Easter holiday with them. Then on Saturday Uncle Kyle came with us to the Tooele egg hunt out at Desert Peak, along with the rest of Tooele County. I've never seen a bigger mess get cleaned up so fast in my life! But the kids had fun. Kyle gave Logan a pep talk and helped him set up a strategic game plan, while I cautioned Justin to be thoughtful of the kids around him. Apparently Justin needed a game plan too, because he spent to much time just picking things up and throwing them back down looking for something in particular (don't ask me what) that he didn't get much. But that okay, it was funny to watch.

Justin had been talking all week about making carrot shaped, carrot sugar cookies for our little bunny friend, so Saturday night we made cookies and put some shredded carrots in the dough of a few of them. Justin just knew the Easter Bunny would love 'em. He had also drew and colored him a picture and left him a note with an arrow pointing to the picture and cookies that said "for the Easter bunny". He is such a funny kid! I guess it paid off, because their baskets were full the next morning.
The boys had "Martian Matter, Alien Maker" (messy play-do and goo), in their baskets, which they had been asking for, for awhile now and since our little hip hoppity friend found them on clearance for $5 vs the retail price of $17-$20 he decided they could each have there own. Justin has been attached to the thing and only lets it out of his sight when he goes to school. He was so excited about it, he felt the need to ask in the middle of the sacrament if he could go tell Conner the Easter bunny brought it to him. That idea was quickly shot down and he wasn't very happy about having to wait until after church to talk to him about it. Justin did let us know that Connor did share in the excitement with him, in Justin's words "Connor when all crrraazzzy like when I told him". So, apparently it was a big hit!


Allie was quite proud of herself when she found an egg with absolutely NO help from us. She sure moves fast when she spots something she wants. The only time she moves faster is when she is running away from the vacuum, scared to death.

Double Date

It has been nice to not have to worry about kindergarten for a week, but where did the week go? It's already Friday, now all we have left is the weekend. We didn't do anything big for the spring break, but today Kristen called me to see if Justin and I would like to accompany her and Kami on a date to see the new Hannah Montana movie. Even though Justin HATES Hannah Montana, and comes to tears if you tease him otherwise, couldn't resist the temptation of getting to go see a movie in the theaters. And to put in mildly he was even excited about it. We (even Justin) really

liked the movie. And if you ask him about her he simply comments "now I like her, so what! It doesn't even matter."

Kortney was a big help to come and watch the other 2 kids for me, so I could take this time to have some one on one time with Justin. I REALLY appreciated it! THANKS KORT! I love you!
We then took all the kids swimming. WOW, what a bunch. I h

ave always sworn I would never ever, ever take 3 kids swimming by myself without Derrick, but once again because of the help of Kortney, Katie (Kortney's friend), my mom and Kristen I was able join then for this fun event.