Other 2010 Summer Goings-on....

Hiking (this is on a boulder)... Fishing...

Following-the-leader...

Camping...

and BYU Basketball Camp...

Splash Park

The other day was a little slow, so we went to a Splash Park here in Vernal.
Mason would drink the water...



...and come spit it out on me. At LEAST 10 times. Great.

Sisters.

Wearing the moms sunglasses.

And taking a "cool" picture. :)

Nate loves Stacey

I painted a wall in our house "chalkboard black". Kinda extreme but the good news is that you can't see it from the front door, so it's all cool. :)
Here's my romantic husband:
The entire wall:

And the one who loves it the most:

Whats "in" in Mason's world:

1)Running around with only a diaper on.
2)A toy rhino we found in the clearance bin for 50 cents at Wal-greens. (He's always loved rhinos. What can I say?!)
3) Band-aids. Enough said.

Brotha's

a) Wow, my blog is still here. I kinda wasn't expecting that.
b) Wow, my uploading mechanism works. I REALLY wasn't expecting that.
c) These brothers are adorable. Earlier this morning at Wal-Mart Tyler told me that he needed an activity so he wouldn't play on the computer. (What mother doesn't like to hear that!?) So we picked out a beenie making/crochet type thingee. His first project was creating a hat for Mason. Mason LOVES it and won't take it off. The funniest sentence of the day was when Tyler said, (while crocheting the hat), "Dang my arm hurts! Sewing is a hard sport". ummm.

At the end of the day Tyler played his sport for a total of about 6 hours. No computer, no friends, no tv. Not bad!

Piano Recital!

Play, run off the stage soooooo fast Mom can't get a picture, rejoice!

FHE tonight..

Family sits.

Family sings the "The Family" (CS 194).

Kids so hyper Nathan tells them to go outside and get their screams out.

Parents close eyes and enjoy the silence for a 27.6 short seconds.

Kids clomp back in, anxious to get started.

And then Mason goes happy-berserk and starts doing weird somersault jumps off the Elmo chair and accidently drools spit streams everywhere. We laugh. And then belly laugh. And then tears-streaming-down-the-face-laugh-hysterically-until-we-don't-know-why-we-are-laughing-anymore.

20 minutes have passed and it was the best FHE ever. And we hadn't even said the opening prayer yet. :)

Tyler and Tyley

Was at the school today for Valentine parties. I did a game in Hailey's class that required a stuffed animal so I brought a cute green frog. Afterwards, while peaking in on Tyler's class, Tyler saw it and asked if he could give it to Tyley. (I was so back and forth on this decision...) but I finally said yes. I sat and watched him walk over to her, do the "hand-off", and keep walking without talking at all. She beamed. For about 5 minutes. I just watched until the teacher came and shut the door on me because I wouldn't leave. I guess I was a distraction. :)

I'm so embarrassing.

I spent the morning at the kids' school. (Hailey's class: pizza party.) Last night I asked Tyler if I could peak in and wave and he said, "No, everyone will think I'm dating a mom!". (What?!) So today instead of waving I peaked in and did the double fist hit on my chest and a peace sign. He about died. Oh. it. was. so. funny. He won't care if I only wave now!

I am not even joking I just had this conversation with Emma.

Emma: "Mom?"

Emma: "Mom?"

Emma: "Mom?"

Me: "What Emma? I am doing homework."

Emma: "But you need to answer me."

Me: "What."

Emma: "Mom?"

Me: "What."

Emma: "I love you."

Me: "I love you, too."

Geez that took long.