Nit holes, and a party in your body.....

Yesterday for family night, Trenten prepared a great lesson on keeping the sabbath day holy. He was asking what kind of things you can do on Sunday to keep it holy and why it's important to rest on the 7th day like Jesus did? Austin gave several answers as did Kaytlin. Trent then said how can you tell if your doing something that is breaking the sabbath? Austin then said the Holy Ghost can help you know. I said great answer! But how does the Holy Ghost feel when your making a good choice? Austin: " It feels like a party in your body!" Ya know like all good and stuff... I love the way Austin explains it, he's so right!

Today we were riding over to the ceramics store to pick up something that Trenten needs to have for school and their was a man running on the side of the road without his shirt on. Austin says to Trenten and I, "Gosh put on a shirt guy we can see you nit holes and it's grody".

Trent: what are nit holes?

Austin: You know Trent! Those red things that boys and girls have on their chest......

Sounds sort of like the right word.... maybe I should get his ears checked?

Hug me with some meaning....

I was resting peacefully this morning until about 6:10 am when I heard Austin screeching at the top of his lungs. Apparently Trent who has deemed himself El Hefe (the boss) until I get my tired keister out of bed told him he needed to get his dirty clothes out of the bathroom. Well....Austin doesn't like to be told what to do by El Hefe or anyone else. So... Austin told Trenten what he thought of this in his highest pitched voice that he could pull out of his little lungs. This pretty much makes me laugh because I can just imagine Austin's face expression while yelling at Trent. I was however expecting Trent to get mad and do something mean back but instead I witnessed something I wondered would ever actually happen? My door was slightly cracked open and through it I saw Trent wrap his arms around Austin and say:

Trent - Come on Bubba! Do you need a hug?

Austin - Get your arms off of me!!!

Trent - Come on Bubba let's hug ( he is of course saying this with a little laugh and being a little antagonistic) I'm not letting go of you until you put you arms around me and hug me.

Austin then Hugs him very quickly and says there! Now let go of me!

Trent - That's not a very meaningful hug, try again but this time hug me and smile.

Austin - I then See Austin hug Trent with some meaning and then I heard a loud burst of laughter as Trenten started tickling him.

WOW! Trent taught me something today. Instead of wanting to hang Austin upside down from the ceiling fan every time he cops some attitude with me I guess I just need to just make him hug me and then tickle him to death instead of loosing my temper!!!

Ok, so I promissed I would blog this picture for my cute little sis Jenny. So... here you go. On another note, Life has been pretty crummy this past week. Somehow I got shingles on the roof of my mouth which is absolutely one of the worst things that I have ever experienced. Oh yeah, and I haven't been able to eat ANYTHING!!! Although it has been a yucky week I have had some great blessings by some very thoughtful people in my life. I do want to say thank you to everyone who has been so kind to check in on me, make my family dinner, grocery shop for us, and take my kids so that I could sleep the pain away! I love my ward, neighborhood, Family, friends and most of all my husband who is such a great guy! I seriously feel so blessed to know all of you and I want you all to know that I love you. Thanks!!!

Happy Halloween

I love Halloween! Mostly because I love to see how excited my kids get. This Halloween was a lot of fun, Rob went out with the kids, and I stayed home and answered the door with Trent until he left to go hang with his friends. He is so cute, he wanted to help Kate with her make up and he did a great job. After the candy was all gone, we went to our neighbors for a Halloween party, which was a lot of fun, but always is when we get together as friends! Kate as you can see was a dead cheerleader, Austin was a scary bloody skull head, Rob was a football player, and I was a tavern girl. Probably the funnest Halloween yet because my kids are at an age that they can really enjoy it.

My kids look forward to this activity all year long, unfortunately I really dislike carving pumpkins! I guess it's the smell and the slimy texture of the pumpkins insides. I would rather just paint them. However by the time we were done, I was reminded of why I still do it. My kids had a great time, Kate and Austin drew the face on their pumpkin that they wanted Rob to carve for them and it was so much fun to just watch their cute little face expressions as they did this. Trent decided to paint his after he cut his finger pretty good while trying to help me. He is such a good kid, always helping me out. Thank goodness Rob got home in time to take over. All of their pumpkins turned out really well, and it was fun enough to do that I've allready decided that we will do it again next year.

Brotherly Love

The other day I took Kaytlin to the Dentist to get her teeth cleaned and the Dentist told her she would need braces.... That was all Kaytlin needed to here, especially since this is the one thing she has always wanted to hear from her Dentist! Ever since, she has constantly been asking me if I have called yet to make her an appointment to go and see the Orthodontist? Of coarse I haven't, I told her " Braces are expensive and something that we will need to save some money for before she will actually be able to get them. So... Kaytlin decided to do a lemonade stand to sell lemonade to the other little kids in the neighborhood in hopes that she could raise some money for her braces. Four dollars and twenty five cents later she came in the house and said "Mom I'm working my butt off out there and I've only made $4.25. It's going to take me forever to earn enough money to get braces". I gave her a hug and told her it would all work out. Kaytlin and I then left Trenten and Austin home while I took her to dance to get a recording of the dance she is suppose to be learning while her foot is in a cast. When we got home Austin very proudly came up to her and handed her three more dollars that he had earned by going DOOR to DOOR in the neighborhood and telling people that kaytlin needs braces and told them that he was selling lemonade to help her earn enough money. So.... Thanks to all of my neighbors that donated .25 to help out with kate's braces. : ) And thank you Austin for being such a sweetheart. Needless to say I am a little humiliated but the sheer fact that Austin loves his sister enough to do that makes me a happy mom!

Letters S, G & W, H, and U

With summer almost over, I've felt very pressured to try and fit everything in with my kids that I possibly could. I'm really not ready for them to go back yet. We've had a great time this Summer and it's gone by way too fast! Our letter "S" activity was going to the Sweet's Candy Factory. It was a pretty interesting activity. Interesting in a good way. We got to taste some of the delicious or not so delicious candy that they make. After it was over they gave each one of us a bag of taffy, and then we shopped a little in the gift shop. I LOVE their chocolate covered cinnamon bears!

Then we went to the Gateway for the letters "G" and played in the water sprinklers for the letter "W". The first time we went with my friends Cathy and Pam. The kids had a great time as usual. The second time we went with my cousin Natalie and some of her friends. My kids had a great time then to, especially Trent because he loves to hang out with his older cousins Andrew and Colby.

On Monday we went hiking for "H" up Adams Canyon. No matter how many times I hike that canyon, my mind always fails me as to how hard it is! I swear every time you come up over a hill(and their are several) you are thinking to yourself "oh this is familiar we must almost be there", but nope! You always end up having at least another 30 or so minutes till you actually reach the waterfall. It's totally worth it though!

The last letter that we did was "U" for the Utah State Capitol. I thought that the kids might get totally bored with this one but they pleasantly surprised me. Our tour guide gave them all a bingo paper and if they were able to find all of the pictures or information on that piece of paper then at the end of the tour they won a treat. Of coarse this meant that the race was on! It was another great activity. Fun and interesting!