Overseen

Actually, I was shown this, so I cannot be called a creeper. Entry in a journal type book belonging to one of our daughters:
Describe your Dad:______________________

Daughters entry: Nice, Strange, Hunky!
I agree. I know she listens to me so I will keep saying, "I hope my daughters marry someone just like their dad!"

Back in the saddle again

I feel like we were just attending end of school ceremonies last week and here I sit typing with a week of the new school year under our belt! It is a shorter break than I grew up having but, even so, this summer came and went and I feel like I just blinked.

My cute school girls!


Here is my new competition:

Soft Hearts or Sore Butts

For FHE this week we had a lesson on the story of the Liahona in the Book of Mormon. I chose it because the fighting/meanness has really picked up at our house. It seems the girls really have gotten good at making snide remarks to eachother and I have had it. I related that the Liahona would not work for Lehi and his family unless they were being righteous and that in our house we cannot have the spirit if everyone has hard hearts and trying to be mean or cause contentions. I told them that soft hearts want to talk nicely and forgive and be forgiven. Just last night, as we were pulling out of the pool one of the girls went to say something mean and the other one said "Soft Heart"! Without skipping a beat Richard said, "Or sore butts!" I think if I were to ever put up vinyl words in my house it would say just that!

Mirimar '10

We managed to pull off our 2nd annual trip to Mirimar Beach a few weeks ago. Unfortunately my camera is broken, so all of my pictures have a pink streak through them and or a bunch of lines running through the pictures. The trip was wonderful though. We hadn't gotten a half hour from home without the kids asking how much longer. They were so excited to have Stephen and Jordan and our favorite party of 6, the Bolands be with us again. We spent every second soaking up the beach and digging in the sand and boogy boarding, and of course the pool at the condo. Thankfully there was no sign of the oil spill and Richard and I once again left wondering how we could come across some windfall so that we could just move there!

My Boy . . .

Porter is 21 months and here are a few of his favorite things:

Oatmeal in the morning - 2 servings
trains
Balls
Slides
dogs/cats/all animals - he usually calls them all goats, dogs or kitty cats or moos
His sisters
Daddy
Mommy

He likes to say:
That's mine
jew jew train
trampoline
Berenstein Bears
Sa (Savannah)
Sis
Mommy
Mommy watch
Mommy wait
Mommy lets go
Daddy
No No No
ball
oatmeal
wa (water)
wow
ni-night
moo
dog dog dog
goats
I do I do

Sunday Pictures . . .

A Good Day . . .

Today ends the kids being out of school for a week (Spring Break). I was so excited to have them home for the week, but I have to admit they wiped me out! It was a good rehearsal for me to get ready for summer and gave me a few ideas to be ready for some of the pitfalls of them being home all day. I do love having them with me all the time, but this week reminded me of how bored they get, and how much they want to play with somebody, and the money I spend entertaining them. Since we weren't going out of town, we just did a few little outings here and there: Monkey Joes, the park, out to the movies to see "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". They got to sleep over at the Hank's and go shopping at Charming Charlie's. Porter's week didn't go great with all the comings and goings. He is used to being on a really low key schedule and getting a nap at around the same time every day. I felt like I was either trying to get him down early for a short nap that I would have to wake him up from to go somewhere, or being gone too long and letting him take a late nap which would then mean he was up late. We are back to normal for now. Today we had a normal Saturday. Savannah's soccer game in the morning, run home feed the kids lunch, put Porter down for a nap. Richard planted the plants we have so far for our garden. I hoed by the side of the garden where we have our garlic and herbs growing. It was in such bad shape and we put a strawberry plant near the rocks. *Here's hoping the deer won't get it.* Then, we decided to pull the carpet up that was in the screened in porch. We pulled all the furniture out and got it up. Then we cleaned up for Cardyn's soccer game, woke Porter up and left for that. After her game we stopped at Home Depot for some quickcrete and came home to put up posts to pull our grape vines out. Then Richard pressure washed the porch and smoked some stuff for us to eat! It was nice to get back to normal and get some things accomplished this week. After dinner we bathed the kids and put on a movie and we all just crashed on the couch.