I was reading Noah's Ark to my boys today.

As we turned the pages I had Jack saying all the names. He was doing great, "2 hippos, 2 elephants, 2 turtles, 2 giraffes, 2 kung fu pandas, 2 tigers..." I started laughing and my mom heard from the other room,

"They have kung fu panda's in the ark, Jack?"

Yesterday during the sacrament Jack was a big responsible boy and took the sacrament from the young man all by himself. Then he let me know how good he had done: "Mom, I got 2 pieces!"

Loud enough for people several rows in any direction to hear.

Dear Far-Away Pilot Husband:

Thank you for sending me beautiful flowers from Afghanland. I love answering the door, on a regular day, thinking it is going to be a regular interchange and then...WOW... it isn't normal at all! It's some stranger giving me a gift! Awesome feeling. I really appreciate that you try to make things better, even though you are across the world .

I was thinking about it though.

When things go seriously bad, what a girl really needs is not something to smell, but something to TASTE!Kneaders make and delivers amazing gift baskets so....

just for next time :)

I love you,

Sandra

Discovery Gateway

Ever since I heard about the Discovery Gateway 'kids spot' (as we call it) I have been dying to go so Mom was gracious enough to go with me and we took Dallin and Shelby along for the fun. It is really the coolest place for kids. We played there for 2 hours and didn't want to leave! Here is chase getting blown by the wind, look at that face and hair! The wind blew the balls through these tubes all over the place.

"Where did it go?"

The water exhibit was another awesome one, and surprisingly they didn't get that wet...must be the good design of the place. I love that they both have their hands in the pipes in this pic. They were waiting for the balls to float down that they had just put in.

Beep, beep, beep...that will be $200. They loved the store!

Chase was impatient for his turn on the horse.

I loved hearing his litle voice amplified over the speakers. "Ahhh! Oooh!"

Some big shoes to fill

"I'm wearing Momma's shoes!"" Man, those shoes hurt my feet!"

Summer Fun

"Hey, whats going on in there?"

I remember swimming in my kiddy pool growning up. The water was freezing, it got all grassy, sometimes the sides would collapse, some body would slip and fall, hitting themself on a near by toy, etc. but it was still so much fun! And now that's exactly how it is for my boys:

I Love this picture of all the kids working together to help Dallin with his logrolling-walk.

The Family

I love my family. I saw this old picture of us pop up on my mom's screen saver and just had to post it. This is the last family picture we took with Dad in it. I can't believe it has been 5 years now. Anyway, so I love being in Utah with my family, you guys rock!

Made My Day

My awesome friend back in Tucson, Sara gave me a blog award! It totally made my day, not just the award but the nice things she wrote. Here is Sara and her cute little family at Mt. Rushmore. I would love to go there! (But I'm not sure there is anything else to see in South Dakota?) I would love to pass this blog on to 3 of my favorite bloggers: Kelli my awesome sister-in-law. Whose blog posts I always enjoy, whose blog design is always so chic, and whose play list I listen to on a regular basis. You are awesome Kel! Isn't my brother cute too?

And Ali my most hilarious cousin. You should be a professional blogger, is there such a thing? I laugh out loud every time I read her blog and to be honest I get excited inside when I see that there is a new Ali post to read! (Now lets see if she even checks my blog to receive this award:)

Stacey & Pierce I wouldn't be a blogger if it wasn't for Stacey telling me she checked my empty blog every couple of days waiting for a post. I love that they both post (What a great guy Pierce!) They are the most faithful bloggers (post almost every day) and they post on a wide variety of topics. Keep it up.

gifts from him and me

I love my Quinn, he deployed to no-mans land to suffer in the thousand degree heat and he sent me a gift. This little beauty:

He has good taste huh?


I do feel a little bad as I hadn't metioned that I just bought myself this lovely item in white:

Oops, I'm not sad at all though, I love watches!

I need a girl

I really hope my next one is a girl. Not just for my sake but for my boys as well.

Oh, and Quinn isn't too excited about these types of pictures either. Surprised?p.s. I love Chase's pose here, showing some leg!

Tally seems to like it too:)