Our little Park City trip

3 comments Posted by Natalie at 8:34 PM

Last weekend, we went up to Park City for the weekend and stayed at the Westgate Resort for 2 nights. . .for FREE!!!  Ok, so while you're there you have to go and listen to their 90 minute presentation on why you should purchase their time-share blah blah blah, but I figure that is a cheap price to pay for a  2 night stay, right?  Right.  Anyhow, it was so fun to go on a mini-vacation and really just have some relaxing free time as a family.  We swam in the pool, pooped in the pool. . .that's another story altogether. . .went for a long bike ride (we borrowed nice bikes and a sweet bike trailer for the kids from some neighbors), shopped at the outlet mall, swam in a post-poop-nice-and-clean pool, and just had fun being together.  

When we went on our bike ride, we rode off the trail for a bit because we saw this awesome old truck in a field, and of course, we had to take some pictures.  We also threw some rocks into a pond, which the boys could have done for hours if we had let them!!!  So, here are way too many pictures of the truck and rock-throwing. 











I love this next little series of pictures, where dad gets in on the rock throwing!

Looking for the perfect rock.

Nice toss Evan!!!



OK!!  Time to go!!!

And proof that I was there too, being my totally normal, not posing for a picture at all, self.


Jared got out the camera when Evan was eating his chicken nuggets last week.  He had been licking the ketchup off of the plate (yum? or yuck?), hence the awesome ketchup-nose!!  So cute!!
Shoveling them in. . .Evan doesn't really know how to eat slow.  He must belong to me. 
That was some serious plate-licking!!!

And Cohen insisted on having his picture taken too.  I was showing him how to pose like a cheesy 80's JCPenny photo, and he's watching me out of the corner of his eyes!!

 

Memorial Day, 2009

2 comments Posted by Natalie at 5:40 PM

So, it's Memorial Day, and I just feel like blogging.  I don't know that I even have anything exciting to say.  Jared's been out of town for a few days, Hawaii from Friday morning to Sunday morning, and then he left for Nauvoo Sunday afternoon!!  He came home for church and a nap and then we had to drive him right back to the airport.  He'll come back from Nauvoo tomorrow, but I don't know if he's even coming home before driving up to Idaho for 2 days.  Three trips in one week!!!  Crazy!  Anyhow, he wasn't here today, and I was all bummed out  because it's a holiday, and it should be an extra day off, right? Ha!!  But luckily last night my little spanish friend Luz called me and asked if I wanted to walk in the Woods Cross 5K with her this morning.  I had wanted to run it, but I got this awful cold at the end of last week, so I didn't want to run it and just cough and cough and cough the whole way through, and I didn't want to go by myself, so I had decided not to do it.  Anyhow, Luz called and I was so happy to have someone to go with.  So we got up early and were there by 6:55 and the boys had their blankies and sippies and a granola bar, so they were all set.  We walked, and Luz is short, so we didn't walk fast, and we finished in 51 minutes.  (Last year when I ran with Raymond and Jared I made it in 30 min 36 sec.  That doesn't have anything to do with this other than I wanted you all to know that I've run a 5K in a not shabby time.)  After the race, they had a little Memorial Day presentation and a breakfast which is free if you do the race.  They had a little Fish Pond with lots of lame prizes, and a Helicopter came and landed in the baseball field so all the kids could check out the inside.  It was a lot of fun.  I really like it because of the 'small town feel' ya know?!  There's lots of people there that you know, and nothing super fancy.  It was a lot of fun.  I'm really glad that we went and did that, because that made me not mope around all day!!  I'm so thankful for Luz!  She always calls at the right time, right when I need someone to talk to.  Anyhow, the rest of the day was just normal, and Cohen got to play outside with Connor for an hour or so, and then when we came in, we decided to have a Peanut Butter Sandwich Picnic in the backyard for dinner!  The weather was perfect, and after dinner the boys wanted to swim.  It's still a little chilly for hose water, but we this awesome/weird Hot Water faucet in our backyard, so I just filled their little pool with some hot water and some cold water, and they had their own little hot tub going on!!!  Pretty fancy, eh?!  Anyhow, its been a great day, even though Jared was gone.  I still would rather have had him here of course, but I'm thankful that the Lord is watching out for me, and helps me have a great day, when I was determined to be bitter and have a bad one!!



Pretty sweet set-up, eh?!

This was from a few days before, when Evan had gotten in the pool in all of his clothes, which I then took off of him and he enjoyed the water NEKID!!!  Ah, the luxuries of being a kid. . .

 

A mud hole, and a fat lip.

0 comments Posted by Natalie at 1:35 PM

So, on a warm day last week, I was letting the boys play with the hose, and this is what it turned into.  At least they had fun, right?!


They even got Riley all muddy!!
A few days after that, we went outside to ride bikes, and Evan went cruising down the driveway on his little Clifford bike, and at the bottom, he went over that one inch lip of the driveway and went face first over the bike!  He started to cry, and I hadn't been watching him, and he crashes all the time, so I rolled my eyes and went out to give  him a hug.  I picked him up off of the pavement and blood was pouring out of his mouth!!  Aahhhh!!  Luckily the bleeding stopped and we didn't have to go the ER for stitches or anything, but he had this awesome fat lip for the next few days.  

We had a fun Family Home Evening last week.  We told the story of Noah and the Ark, showed some pictures from the Gospel Art Kit, and then dressed each of the boys up like Noah, filled a laundry basket full of animals, and tipped them around like they were on a stormy sea for a while.  No, we weren't creative enough to think of this on our own, but it was a lot of fun, and you may steal the idea for your own future FHE.  


 

How Expensive is Child Neglect?

4 comments Posted by Natalie at 12:14 PM

Well, on this particular day, it cost me $23.  

So, one day, a week or so ago, I was enjoying some sanity by 'listening' to the boys take a bath.  By this I mean that I was sick of them, so I put them in the bath because they'll stay in there for a long time and play.  I was out at the computer listening to make sure I could hear both of them, that nobody was drowning, right?  Anyhow,  I soon find myself in one of these motherly moments thinking, 'I haven't heard much noise for a while.'  Listen, listen, listen.  I can hear Cohen laughing, but not Evan, I'm not worried, but I figure I'd better go check, right?  
And this is what I find. . .


Books!!!  THREE books!!!!  Two of them are Library Books!!!!  The books were in the bathroom  because we read them every day while Cohen sits and tries to go #2.  In fact, two of them were potty training books!!!  "The Potty Train" and "The Prince and the Potty."  They are now in the bath, soaked, shredded, and strewn about the place!!!  They discovered that wet paper sticks to bathtub walls and so they had thrown it WAY higher than they could have reached!! 

Needless to say, we weren't able to return those 2 books to the library on time.  Ha!  Can you see how thick the bottom of the tub is with printed paper?!!!

Luckily, they had been in circulation long enough that I only had to pay 1/2 of what they were worth. . .oh PLUS $4 each for processing or something.  So, $23 later, we were the proud owners of books that had already left our home, and our dumpster never to be heard from again.  

 

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