.: September 2011

Friday, September 23, 2011

Jimmer's All Stars

Last night we were able to go see Jimmer's All Stars Exhibition Game. It was alot of fun, and we were on the 2nd row so we had a great view.

Here the girls are posing with Brandon Davies from the BYU team.

Kelly standing in front of Jimmer's Dad.

We saw lots of these!

JIMMER!!!

Emery is Kelly's favorite!

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Utah Brazilian Festival

Mmmm, yummy food: coxhinas, sohnas, Rodizios!

The Voges' are in town so we took them downtown to the Brazilian festival for Spencer's mission prep!

We watched alot of cool capoeira.

We rode the TRAX for the first time down to the temple. We talked with Brazilian sister missionaries there, one of which has a brother that works at the Brazil MTC so Spencer might meet him. We looked for the elusive Sister Wood, but our 5th visit there still did not find her.

Mark learned how to push the button to leave the train.

The girls posed for pictures!

JUMP!

Spencer showed us where he's going!

and for the risque picture of the day......

We made Spencer pose with the dancers! I think he kept his eyes straight ahead! We cropped this picture up to their necks before forwarding it to his missionary friends.

Quotable Quips and Laughable Life

I decided that I wanted to add a small section with little things that my kids have said or done over the years that I never want to forget and I think are worth sharing. Unfortunately I was much better at writing these things down a bit late in the game....Chelsie steals the show here a bit. If only I could remember all those things I thought I'd never forget. I hope you take my challenge to write down all those things you hope to pass on one day.

When Chelsie was about 2 she had been jumping on my brand new couch, so I promptly told her to stop jumping on the nice furniture. Her response was very logical. "Then where's the mean furniture?"

While camping in the Sequoias, the entrance sign read, "1 bear incident this week...." Kelly mispronounced it as 1 bear accident....later in the bathroom, Chelsie noticed wet spots on the floor, and announced, "This must be where the bear had the accident."

We had a family home evening on choosing the right, and we thought Chelsie understood but when we asked her she said, "Yes, don't choose the left!"

When Kelly was in the 5th grade, she needed to use the classroom phone to call me. She dialed 9 to get an outside line, then she had to dial 1 because I have a long distance cell phone number, but she accidently hit the 1 twice. When the 911 dispatcher answered she was scared and just hung up. 5 minutes later the front office called the classroom stating that 3 sheriffs had arrived ready to take action and were wanting to know who called and why. Now it was by sheer coincidence that this was a morning that there was a prison breakout, so officers were on high alert. Kelly was embarrassed then, but can laugh about it now!

When Wes was about 4, he used to tell everyone that he was going to marry his friend Elizabeth, and that they were going to have 16 kids, and maybe a car.

When Chelsie was 3 1/2 we told her she needed to learn to spell her name. She responded, "I already know....A L I Z A."
(That was her best friend who taught her)

I was talking with my girls about the weather, and Kelly said, that stupid beaver was wrong, spring is not around the corner. Chelsie then chimed in, it's not a beaver, it's a warthog. Clearly I have failed them.