Happy Birthday Kokopat!!!

Happy Birthday Kokopat!

We love you very much!

Things kids say

Just a few things the two little ones have said over the past few weeks.
9/2010
Casey:
Mom we need to lay some baby eggs.
Me:
What?
Casey:
We need to lay some baby eggs with ducks in them because baby ducks are so cute!

9/22/2010
Landon had it set in his head that he was not going into choir and mission friends tonight.  He made it LOUD and clear that he did not care to be there at all.  He was wearing his bright green mission friends shirt and his choir teacher bent over the heap on the floor that was a screaming Landon and said (while rubbing his back) "I see a mission friend."  She said he stopped crying looked up and so "NO YOU DO NOT!  I NOT A MISSION FRIEND"  Oh boy!!!  When he makes up his mind he really makes it up!

9/29/2010
Landon's choir class rides stick horses during choir some nights.  Apparently Landon finished early b/c he told his teacher that his horse was tired and needed a snack!

9/30/2010
Landon gets in trouble for throwing his clothes to us when he needs help putting them on.
Today he needed some help and threw his pants--as soon as he did this is what I heard....
"That wasn't frowing.  That was tossing with style"  Said in his best Toy Story voice.

10/3/2010
Casey: Oh great now everybody will be looking at me.  (very exasperated tone)
Me:  Why
Casey: (very matter of fact) because I look so beautiful.

10/19/2010
Last night Steve let Landon play with his tools while he was working in the garage.  This morning Landon climbed into our bed and said, "Mommy can we buy Daddy's tools?"  He knows that we have to buy the things he needs/wants.  It was so cute!

Tonight on the way home from errands, Landon was telling me that his daddy had read him a book in the store.  We then had the following conversation:
Me:  Landon, you've got the best daddy in the world.
Landon: Yea, uh no mommy I not have the best daddy in the world.  I have you--the best mommy friend in the world.
Me:  Thanks Landon but you still have the best daddy.
Landon:  Nope, I have the best friend mommy.
I figured at that point we would just leave it alone--because I know the truth!!!

Wordless Wednesday....Friday edition!!

Great fun last night with 4 of 6 kids freaking out because it sounded like our windows were going to be broken from the force of the hail hitting them.

Shelby gave us a lesson on the rings or layers in a piece of hail.  

Chop Sticks...then and now....

The View From Here....

Can you guess what we did today?

Landon hiked all but the first 10% of the mile and a half hike.

The was no stopping them--only trying to keep up with them.

 The view from the top.

I think they were worn out!

 The view was so worth it.

 2 minutes into the trip down.

 9 Tunnels

We found the light at the end of the tunnel.

Thankful.....

It's coming....cooler weather and I am thankful.  I know some of you are laughing since you know I don't like cold weather and love summer but.....I am thankful for a good change.

I am thankful that Casey is so excited about fall and the leaves changing.

I am thankful that I am home with my kids even if I do have to remind myself of that some days!!

I am thankful for the freedoms that I still have in this country and I try not to take them for granted because they can be gone in the blink of an eye.

I am thankful for the men and women  (both now and in the past) who stand in harms way to protect the freedoms I have.

I am very thankful for the men and women who have given their lives allowing me to have freedom.

I am thankful for my families health.  I see kids and families who are struggling to make it all around me.  They are battling huge monsters like cancer and sever autism.

I am thankful that at times, I can offer insight into how it feels to be the parent of a unique child to those who are making the rules!!  I can say, I know what this parents feels when you say you don't have the resources to allow their child to participate in an activity while also seeing the desire of those in charge of a program to want to include that child.  

I am thankful for great friends even when we don't get a chance to see each other or talk everyday--sometimes we don't talk for weeks or months at a time.  I know that if I need them they are there and I hope that they know the same is true.

I am thankful for a wonderful husband.

I am thankful (now) for a few major areas of struggle we have had in our marriage.  I know it sounds strange but it is very true.  There are things that we have been through that could have ripped our marriage apart but brought us closer together.
 
I am thankful that we both realize that marriage is not all fun and games but that it takes works and it's worth it!!

I am thankful for a husband who gets up at 4AM to get ready for a men's Bible study.

I am thankful for Steve's job and his boss.  We have been blessed with wonderful bosses at each job and we know that is a huge blessing.

I am thankful for parents and grandparents.

I am thankful for my mom for so many reasons I could never list them all.

I am thankful for my past--the good and the really bad.  I wouldn't want to live it again (parts of it anyway) but I am so very thankful for the relationship that it allowed my mom and I to form.

I am also thankful for a great brother.  A brother who has tons of "smarts"!!  A brother who is going to have a book published--how many of you can say that?!!!

I am thankful for my 3 sisters-in-law-love.

I am thankful for a Savior who loves you and me enough to die on a cross to pay a debt He didn't owe but that I did.  A debt I could not pay.

I am thankful and this only the tip of the ice burg....

How about you?

Just for laughs....

Just a few "things" to make you smile....

"Shot my first turkey today, scared the crap 
out of everyone in the frozen food section. I guess they are 
environmentalists or something!!"

Landon:(at 5AM)  Mommy, I got skeeetches all over me!!

Mommy:  huh?

Landon: Mommy, I got skeeetches all over me!!!

What are skeeetches you ask?  He was itching!!!  Crazy boy!!

Have a great week everyone!!