K man's turn

 Last night was K's turn to stay up with me to have a late night. I love not telling our kids that we're going to do something fun. That way they don't ask all day when said event is going to happen. Not to mention if it doesn't work out, they don't feel bad because they didn't know about it in the first place. Anyway, it was M's turn to go to bed first last night. Bedtime is 15 minutes apart at our house. If they go to bed at the same time, they stay up and play. Anyway, M went to bed first. After she was asleep K asked if he was going to bed. I asked him if he wanted to stay up and watch Thomas the Train with me. I wish I had had a camera. His face was awesome! He was so so exited! To say that his Thomas the Train movie is a little odd would be generous. The movie has several ten minute movies on it. He only lasted through three before he started to fall asleep. I knew he was tired, but when he asked if he could take his patch off, I knew he was basically sleeping while sitting up. He didn't have a patch on. He hadn't had his patch on for about five hours. Even though our night was over by 9:20 it was fun while it lasted! I love this kid and I loved spending time with him. Since we're already talking about him, let me share one more picture.

When he came out the other night wearing this I thought,"pick your battles." So I didn't say anything, he wore it to bed and thankfully hasn't worn it again. I must admit that this picture makes me smile. Not really the picture, the kid in the picture. He makes me so happy and I'm so thankful that he's ours!

Girls night

Last night after I had put the kiddos to bed I was doing my nightly stuff. It takes me about an hour or so to get it done. I went in to check on them after I was done and found this one still awake. I was going to be all alone and I really don't like that, so it was probably an answer to prayer that she was awake and said she couldn't sleep. I told her to get out of bed and come out with me. We had a spur of the moment girls night! I can honestly say it's the best one I've ever been to. I have a serious addiction to the silly show, Say Yes to the Dress. It really is a dumb show. Why I LOVE to see the wedding dresses people get will forever be beyond me. But I just love it! Thankfully I knew that M would too! We watched three episodes of it. We ate chips and salsa, candy and cereal. We talked about the different styles of dresses and agreed that the one that was $6,400 was not pretty at all. We liked the front of it, just not the human sized roses that were on the back of it. Truly, the roses were awful! At one point, while being glued to the TV, she said,"This is the best night of my whole life!"  To be able to hear and see that she was loving it made it one of the best nights of my life. I love this sweet little thing and I'm so glad that she'll be mine forever!

Happy 3rd of July! (and 4th too!)

 We started the celebration of our freedom with our ward party/BBQ. There was a little relay race for the kiddos to do whilst we were waiting for the fireworks to start. M had fun and ran fast but...

 K LOVED it! He ran so fast that I couldn't get a better picture. At least you can tell that he is loving it!

 Then there was a three legged race. Our lovely offspring have never done this, so it was pretty awesome to watch them and laugh with/at them. I am a bit surprised that M didn't just pick him up and carry him. That's what she does at home. One of my favorite things about the fourth of July celebration is being able to eat hot dogs. I love hot dogs! When I eat them on the fourth of July I don't feel any guilt, tis the season for hot dogs and chips, two of my favorite things!

 We ended the ward party watching the city's fireworks. I was worried that the buildings would be in the way, but our church building has the perfect few.

 Not to mention that we were able to avoid all the traffic that is usually associated with fireworks. If you use your imagination doesn't it kind of look like a palm tree and grass?! That's exactly what I thought!

 The morning of the fourth brought hot weather and a daddy that didn't have to be to school/ free labor work until three that afternoon. So we took advantage and went swimming. How can you not laugh when you look at this picture?! K finally discovered goggles and has said more than once that,"every weekday when we go swimming, I am going to wear these goggles. That way I can see the alligators that I swim with under the water. The alligators are nice to me under the water all through these days." I'm not real sure where the phrase"all through theses days" came from, but he says it a lot.


We took B to the hospital for school because he didn't think that there would be any scheduled cases since it was the fourth of July. Of course that doesn't matter, there was one case that he had to stay and do. So, we dropped him off and then came back two hours later to get him. He was on call all night, but he decided that he was going to be really brave and risk going to the fireworks and the pier.

I think that this picture is so awesome! I love that we even got big waves for the picture!

 I am so glad that he was willing to come to the pier with us even though he was on call. We said a prayer to know if it would be ok to go. In the prayer we said that if we found a close parking spot that we were going to take that as the answer that it would be ok for B to come with us. We found a spot a block away from the pier! So we parked and went to beach! 

 There was a group pretty close to us that shot a few fireworks right before the big ones started. They were so awesome! They were big and loud and got us in the mood for even bigger and louder ones!

 Now, we love fireworks! When we lived in Utah we would go to the BYU stadium and watch the fireworks there. I honestly didn't think that BYU could be out done. Oh how wrong I was!

Seeing fireworks being shot off the pier, out over the ocean was infinitely better that BYU's fireworks. I am so glad that we braved the crowds and that we went. I don't know if we'll get the chance to see them this way again. This was the perfect way to end the fourth of July. The only thing that maybe would have made it a bit better would have been to have a hot dog or two!

Temple trip

Last week B was on call one night, so he got the next day off. That was the only day this month that would work to go to the temple. We left early enough in the morning to get up there and both be able to do what we wanted in the temple. We were just over half way there when my darling friend called. She and I were chatting when she heard B's voice in the background. She told me sorry she didn't know he was home and would let me go. I told her it was fine, we were just driving to the temple. She said,"I thought the temple was closed until the 9th?" I told her that would not be great if she was right. She told me that she would look it up and call me back. She did and it was in fact closed. Bummer! I know that it's not the bishopric's job to tell us in sacrament meeting when it's closed. But, a friendly reminder would have been really awesome! I should have looked it up before we went. being so close to the Holiday, I should have double checked. If we still lived in Utah it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but we were already almost two hours into the drive. Anyway, we decided that since we were already that far, to just keep going. Thanks again to all the rain and wind, the weather was a lot cooler that day. We were able to go to SeaWorld and not totally melt. It was still warm almost hot, but it was doable. We weren't able to do the turtle trek because the line was too long. But other than that, we were able to do it all! We were really disappointed that they temple was closed, but we're glad that we were able to go do something fun together.

Our offspring are rock stars!

So to say that it was a little rainy last week would probably be a gross understatement. It was good to get so much rain because it made the pineapple we're growing get even bigger! On Tuesday morning when I opened the garage to go running, it was a little bit drizzly. I thought that it would be ok to run in, so off I went. I made it almost a mile when the heavens opened up and it started to rain. Unless you've seen a rain storm here, you won't understand when I say rain. Within less than a minute I had water running in streams down my face. I was running through puddles that were big enough to hide an alligator. Ok that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much! It was windy too. Windy enough that as the water was being blown into me I had to say,"Ow ow ow!" By the end of mile two it had let up a little. I thought, "Oh thank you Heavenly Father! I'll finish now that I can run rather than have to swim home." As I was running I thought,"Self, since it's let up a little, keep going. It actually feels pretty good because the sun isn't showing it's lovely face." So I kept running. I was really enjoying the nice running weather. I had just started mile four when I feel like heavenly father said with a smile on his face,"I tried to  warn you and you didn't listen." It started raining hard again. I'm talking torrential downpour! It was raining hard enough that I couldn't see farther than about ten feet in front of me. I tried running faster, but the wind was working against me. I decided that it truly was time to go home.(As soon as I finished that mile!) Every time I took a step water would come out in almost streams from the netting in the toe of my shoe. As I rounded the corner to come home, the garage was open and B was looking outside. When I stopped he told me that he had woken up because of the wind and rain and that he was trying to decide if he should get in the car and come find me. It actually felt pretty nice to run in it, but the next day I decided not to risk it. Since B was home that morning we wanted to run together. We talked to M and K and asked if they would ride their scooters and let us run along side them. They were actually pretty excited about going. I didn't know how long they would last. But a little running is better than none right?! Can I just say that they did awesome! We ran for just over 2 1/2 miles and it didn't even take us all day!  M even fell, but got back on her scooter and kept going. Neither of them complained about being gone for so long. Right at the end, it started to rain. We ran/scootered a little faster and made it home before the ark had to take off. The picture was taken about 15 minutes after we got home. We tried to get the dark clouds in the picture, but clearly they didn't turn out so dark. It was awesome to be able to go as a family. It was even better that we didn't float away!