Kids make me laugh

These stories are for me to remember them, so you might not find them funny at all but they where for me so I am putting them down.

The other night on the way home from Grandma's Josie complains from the back seat that her tummy itches. So I try and help by thinking of what might be causing it, and since we always rely on our own experiences most I proceed to tell her that she might be itching because she is growing and her skin is stretching (my tummy always itched when I was pregnant). She looked confused so I start to explain further about growing pains and growth spurts when she cuts me off quite abruptly and says "No, I think it is just my pj's".

I felt rather silly, while laughing, because that simple thought had never crossed my mind.

Story number 2- We found Aspen standing on a chair to avoid my Mom new puppy, who also happens to love eating toes. Jon picked her up and carried her away while she layed on his shoulder and cried. Jon asked why she was crying and she sobbed back "the puppy hates me".

Story numbwer 3-I have a tendency to act like a complete goof while alone with me family. Especially if it is just my kids and I am cooking something. I sing and dance and pantomime and usually my kids laugh their little heads off. The other day I started pirouettes and singing when I see Josie lean over to Tressa and whisper "Crazy Mom is back" and so I laughed and asked "What, you think I am crazy Mom just because I act like a dork while I cook?" Well now Aspen thinks it is terribly funny to call me Dork Mom-well chant it actually. Maybe I should try being all serious and see how long it takes them to beg me to be my normal "dork"self again.

Moab

We finally took our kids camping. Jon has always been afraid to take them fearing that they wouldn't sleep. Which after listening to the babies crying in the tents around us I can now admit he might have been right. But our girls did great and loved it.

Dead Horse Point at Sunrise

Newspaper Rock

My darlings

Hiking

Aspen hiking (well sort of)

Taking the Junior Ranger oath

Aspen leading the way on the hike. She felt so cool finding the piles of rocks that showed the way on this hike.

Aspen being tough

Climbing at delicate arch

My love

Baptisms, Birthdays, Teeth and Hair

I know it is a random title but this will be a radom post. We have been having a busy couple of weeks and I am now in catch up mode.





On July 25th Tressa was baptized and became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was beautiful. Everyone who she asked to participate really went above and beyond to make it a wonderful day for her. Uncle Daryl gave a wonderful talk on the 4th article of faith and her cousin Breanna bore her testimony on baptism before she was baptized. After Uncle Dan sang the most beautiful version of I Am A Child Of God that I have ever heard to her, literally. He made her come sit up front with him while he sang to her while her cheeks went adorable red. Then our dear friend Jonas gave a talk on the Holy Ghost. Every thing was done in a way that she could understand and I know she felt very loved. She even got a cute white bear from the Primary to help her remember to bare testimony of Jesus. I think it couldn't have gone better.

Aspen turned 4 on the 4th of August, her much looked forward to Golden Birthday. She is the funnest person to give stuff to because she is always so excited and shows it.
Aspen decorating her own cake. She loves to write her name.

Tressa in hair disaster #2. As you can see she rolled her long hair up in a small rollbrush and got it stuck. In the end I had to cute the little prongs off the brush and work her hair off the end. I was so scared that I was going to have to cute her hair off.

And lastly Jocelyn has lost 2 teeth this week after months of not wiggling them. I finally got her to be brave enough to push her tooth back farther and it popped out. She was so excited to have gotten it out herself.
The next tooth was even looser and she wouldn't touch it. So during Aspen's party Grandpa Bob tied string to her tooth and knocked it out. And just like that we have a little girl who is very likely to get her 2 front teeth for Christmas.

Uncle Dan's Beautiful Song

Dance, Dance, Dance

Our Little Lady's dance recital was at the begining of June. And what else can I say then that they did a wonderful job had a great time and looked adorible.

I have been trying to upload the videos for a couple days now and can't get it. So I will post them later! Sorry Susan.

My little tree!

First off I am way behind on this blog and will hopefuly be getting it up to date soon. But for right now I just wanted to post up the pictures I took last month of our little Tree.

This is last September

And below are the ones taken in the beginning of June!

Disney Train Tour

This week we went to see the Disney Train Tour that they are hosting around the country as a promo for The Christmas Carol movie they are making. It was free so of course we had to go. And just to make it extra fun we rode the FrontRunner (our local commuter train) up to Ogden for the event, and I have to say I loved riding on the train with my kids. We talked and looked around and I even got to read. What a better use of my hour then just pushing the gas pedal down.

The line was ridiculasly long but we ran into some friends and were able to take turns in line so it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. Once we were finaly inside the train I found out that it was far more interesting to me then the kids. However they did like making themselves into caracters from the movie but I think they would have liked it more if they could have been a girl.

Renaissance Festival

On May 16th I took advantage of Jon being gone for the weekend and took my girls to the Renaissance and Fantasy Festival for some good old fashioned 16th century fun.

The main attraction was the full contact jousting by the Knights of Mayhem. Full contact jousting with a dramatized set up for fun. We where assigned to be from Scotland and were routing for Sir Killem (note how well the name makes for chanting while he chargers toward the other night in an attempt to knock him to the ground KILL-EM KILL-EM!) It was more fun then I thought it would be. But my favorite was a loud mouth audience member who kept spouting off in a Scottish accent taunting the Irish. She was not part of the show but really should have been. The only let down was the tournament ending in a draw, but I guess if you want to watch someone really joust that has to include the possibility of no one winning.

The girls dancing with some local gypsies!

The fairies who kept sneaking up on us.Old fashioned puppet show

Magicians

And what could be more 16th century then a styrofoam sword battle?This is a local group that gets together to battle for fun, and believe it or not it actually did look fun. Not the Princesses leg in the air-that is because it was cut off already. Jocelyn's favorite part was watching the archers shoot the others with arrows (again styrofoam).

It was a great day and I am so glad that Jon saw the signs for it and called to tell me I should go. It was the perfect girls activity. And I even got to dress up for the day. They even gave me a good excuse to be such a geek. 50% off!!

THE almost MIDNIGHT MASQUERADE

Josie's Princess Party
I am not sure why but I can't seem to bring myself to host a strait from your local Disney store Princess Party. Tressa's turned into a Nights and Ladies jousting tournament and Josie's ended up being a dance. Neither of which ever had a single mention of a Disney Princess. Oh well, maybe with Aspen I will be able to conquer my phobia of all things pop-culture.

With that being said, Josie's party had to be the best children's party I have ever been to. Not because of my great party planning skills but simply because the kids made it so great. The played, laughed, screamed, and generally had a ball with absolutely no tears (at least not until their rides showed up to take them home). They listened and participated, they cheered for each other and never complained about anything. About half way through the night I was began to wonder if it was the calm before the storm, but it never came. Not to say that it wasn't crazy and chaotic-but it was happy and fun craziness, which is so much fun. So to all of our little princess guests and their wonderful parents who taught them to behave so splendidly. THANK YOU!

And one more huge Thank You to Krista who stopped by to say hi and stayed to help with , well everything. I really don't think it would have gone so well without her.

And finally some pictures of our

Almost Midnight Masquerade
All the little Princesses running out to meet each new arrival.

The beautiful corsages that one of the Mom's brought for each girl Wish I had thought of it myself. They were such a hit and looked absolutely darling on their little arms.

The girls dancing

Making the masks (which they didn't get to wear because the glue wouldn't dry in time).

Aspen's mask that had so much glue it didn't dry for a week! She loves glitter glue.

Presents and Cake

The Prince

Josie reading the cards her friends made her.

Little girls screaming over presents (be glad it is a picture and not a video)

Loving Aunt Krista in her beautiful mask.

(Which I still have if you want it Krista)