.: July 2012

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Skating in the rain

We love the warm summer showers in Utah!

Hogle Zoo

Shkelly

Cracking the egg

Conquering the crocodile

Ewww, Natey sneezed in there!

Gorilla sized

My girls

My sweet friend Allison

The kids

Aralie works at the zoo and was kind enough to grant us admission! Thanks for a great day Aralie!

Putting the guests to work

Natey helping Scott build the chicken run

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.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Not so fun on the boat!

Fun on the Boat!

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Things

Bounty

Sunday, July 22, 2012

a mustache and slippery slide

Snow cones

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Skating in the rain

Hogle Zoo

Trampin' in the sprinklers

Putting the guests to work

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Jumping in the rain

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