Groundhog Day

(My good friend Cathy and I often share stories about Austin and Matt's conversations because they are always hilarious! She heard this one at her house and I am posting it for you to read so that you can share in the laughter.)

Matt and his friend Austin have the absolute funniest conversations. Mostly they try to out do each other with their far fetched stories. I love to eaves drop and listen in, sometimes I set the record straight, but not always. Here is a sample of one of their conversations:


Austin: You know today is Groundhog Day.


Matt: What's that?


Austin: It's when the groundhog comes out and if he sees his shadow, we can't go to school or work for six weeks.


Matt: What? We can't leave our house!?!?


Austin: No, we can play, just not go to work and school.


Matt: Wicked Sweet!! I hope that he sees his shadow!!


If Only!!!!!!

Werewolves like mom can be scary

I've always known that being a mom is the most wonderful blessing that anyone could ever have, but this morning I was reminded just how blessed I really am. The last few weeks have been kind of crazy, Austin has been sick for what seems like forever. I have had him at the doctor's 3 times in the last 2 1/2 weeks. The first time was for this nasty cough that just wouldn't go away however when we got there his ear starting hurting and Dr. Evans confirmed that he had infected ears. He didn't think however that his cough was anything other that just a cough due to the weather and smog. So... we started some antibiotics, and then we ended up back there 4 days later because he was running another fever which was due to the fact that the medication wasn't strong enough?! So we started a new regimen. Then on Monday he started with another HIGH fever and this time it is an annoying virus that has all the same symptoms as the influenza and aside from that his cough that I have complained about several times to the doctor is now Walking Pneumonia. Rob says Austin needs to stop licking the doorknobs : ). So needless to say I have been reminded lately how precious sleep really is. Aside from Austin being awake all night for the last 2 nights and several sleepless nights for the last little while, just as I had finally gotten Austin back to sleep and successfully snuck out of his bed, Trenten came running through my bedroom door (which scared the you know what out of me) really upset because he had had a dream that he was being killed by a werewolf which turned out to be me. Go figure? I guess I could have been mistaken for a werewolf these last couple of days. Sleep does do a lot for MY attitude. The reason I feel so blessed? Trenten and Kaytlin got up this morning and cleaned up all of the messes around the house so that I could catch up on some much needed sleep. Kaytlin also vacuumed and Trenten got wood from the shed and loaded up the fireplace so that Austin and I could be nice and cozy all day. They did all of this without me asking and they even let me get a little sleep before I had to take them to school. I feel really lucky to be there mom!

911

I was debating on whether or not to write this, but have since decided that now that it has been a couple of days it is now funny to me. Here goes! On Friday of last week, I had a gift certificate to get a massage down at a great place in Bountiful. Since Rob was out of town, and the kids were in school I decided that I would schedule my massage to be finishing up at around the same time that the kids would be getting out of school. This was also possible because my car pool was picking up the kids. Trenten was babysitting once they got home for a little bit until I got there. As I was talking to the girl who gave me the massage I kept hearing my phone vibrate. I waited until I got to my car to see who it was and noticed it was the kids, and that I had missed several calls. I pushed redial and hit call and at the same time answer a frantic call from Kaytlin who was sobbing hysterically because she somehow "accidentally" dialed 911! I told her to answer the phone if they called our home phone and she said that they had already called 2x and that Trent didn't answer it because he didn't know if he should? SOOO Trent got on the phone with me and said "mom there are 2 police officers parked in our driveway and they are coming to our door, should I answer it?" I said yes and this is what he said to the Officer.
Trent - " Hi we are ok my mom is on the phone do you want to talk to her?
Police officer- Yes
Trent - "Ummm this little girl (apparently Trent didn't want to claim her at that moment) accidentally called 911 but everything is ok."
Police officer - Says to me "is this young man suppose to be here babysitting for you?
Me - Yes this young man is my son!
Police officer -says to Trent - Oh, so this little girl is your sister and this is your house?
Trent - Yes.....
Kaytlin who is still sobbing, not just because she accidentally called 911 but also because her sweet little brother so lovingly said to her "great Kaytlin now the cops are here and your going to get copped and taken to jail!"
The sympathetic police officer patted Kaytlin on the head and told her it was ok that accidents happen.

Thank goodness Trent has such a cool head and reacts well to things like this. I'm proud to say he didn't panic but was very mature in his response.

Babe Magnets........

Once the little chicky doo's found out that there were two HOT babes hanging out on the floor below them Trent and Kaleb became babe magnets!

Kaytlin, Sam, and Alli swimming in the hotel pool. Such cute girls!

Austin when he was still awake, Trenten, and their cousin Andrew. They spent about an hour playing water football (Kaleb too). Nothing says I love you quite like water fooball - i've decided the funnest part about this game is slamming your younger cousin under the water so he can't get the ball from you! ( Trent and Kaleb both the older cousins were on the same team - Austin and Andrew the younger cousins on the same team sounds fair right?)

Happy New Year!

Just about every year we go to the Marriot Courtyard Hotel and spend our New Year's Eve playing games, swimmining, eating chocolate fondue, watching movies, eating more chocolate fondue, telling funny stories, laughing, and eating more chocolate fondue. It is so much fun! Austin rang in the New Year sleeping, he came into our room at about 10:00 and said very grumpily "i'm tired and there is no where for me to sleep because its to bright everywhere and there are to many people making noise!" So I told him to climb on the bed behind his daddy and go to sleep. He did just that and when I checked on him he had wrapped his blanky around his whole body and tucked his head under the pillow..... This pix is about 30 minutes later when he was dead to all the bright lights and noise.