Family Camp 2008

We spent this past weekend in Duck Creek, UT camping with all our friends from Grace. We had a wonderful time in the beautiful forests of Southern Nevada. The kids loved digging in the dirt. Mr. T still has a bunch of it under his fingernails. We also enjoyed getting to know more of our church family. We shared delicious meals with them, played kickball, sang songs around the campfire and ate smores. Mr. J was a hit among the preteen boys, many of whom are boy scouts, as he displayed his stellar fire building skills. Deanna and Tom also joined us for camping. On Saturday, we visited a place called Cedar Breaks in Bryan Head National park and after we broke down camp on Sunday, we drove to nearby Zion National Park. It was awesome to see God's beautiful creation.

Apparently Miss M has her daddy's fear of heights. This is the closest she would get to the railing.

Survivorman

Last weekend Mr. J was asked to do a 45 min briefing about survival stuff at a local guard units family day. It was so neat for me to see him doing what he does every day.. teach. He did an amazing job. He talked the about the 5 needs of a survivor. That includes everyones favorite... sustenance (food) and like any good survival instructor, he brought along some bugs for the crowd to enjoy. These include crickets, worms, and ants. Also, he brought along a life raft that many people enjoyed floating on in the olympic size base pool.

Ms. O's Dirt Cup

Last week, we went to one of our favorite dining spots in Vegas called Mimi's Cafe. Mr. J had received a gift card to there and so we took the family. They have a fun kid friendly meal that includes a very special dessert... the dirt cup. The girls were very excited to get theirs and dig for the gummy worm. Miss O was a bit skirmish about actually touching the worm. She just laughed and laughed.

Leaving on a jet plane...

We took my mom to the airport today to fly back home to Washington!

It is always such a fun time when she comes to visit. The kids have a blast with her. The coolest thing that happened while she was here is that she potty trained Olivia! Olivia has been going occassionally before my mom got here but Mom always remembered to take her all the time, and now she is a pro at keeping dry all day! Yay!

4th of July

Hey everyone! Sorry I have kind of been a blog slacker this week. But it's for a good reason! My mom has been in town for the last week and a half. We have been having a great time and are bummed that we have to take her to the airport tomorrow :( I will post fun pictures of us later.

Today I found my friend Amber's cool blog and she posted some pictures of us from the 4th, so I thought I would post them for you all to see. We had a great time having dinner here and then taking the kids to Freedom Fest at the base. At Freedom Fest they had fun things to keep the kids entertained until the fireworks and lots of different booths and food. One of the kids activities included those big inflatable bounce houses. The girls had a fun time jumping in one of the many they had set up. Well, as they were jumping, I heard a mother screaming at her kids in the one next to us. I thought, wow, her kids must be acting really naughty or something. Well, a couple seconds letter I heard a lot of people yelling and kids screaming. Turns out, it started to rapidly deflate with all the children in it! As you may know, the only way in and out of most of those things is a tiny flap in the front, so you can't really get in there to pull the kids out. Thanks to some fast moving guys *including my wonderful husband* they worked together and got all the kids got out of there quickly and without injury. The only damage that was done was to the Jamba Juice we had just bought. It's split open after Mr. J set it down to help hold up the jump house. Thankfully, the nice people at the Jamba booth gave him a new one! So the moral of that story is to always carefully supervise your kids in those things. The CPSC has some helpful tips as well. The fam + Miss M's preschool friend

Amber, Jason, Katey and Julia (due in Sept)

In Her Own Words

So I found this fun thing on a blog I came across. It's a bunch of questions that I asked Miss M and her responses were kind of funny. The first set are questions about mommy and then I asked her the same questions about daddy.

1. What is something mom always says to you? “Go to bed”
2. What makes mom happy? “Obeying”
3. What makes mom sad? "Doing stuff wrong”
4. How does mom make you laugh? "Tickling"
5. What was mom like as a child? "She liked snufuluckugus on Sesame Street”
6. How old is your mom? "20”
7. How tall is your mom? “8 moms”
8. What is her favorite thing to do? "cook”
9. What does your mom do when you're not around? "Go to costco"
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? Shrugs shoulder
11. What is your mom really good at? "typing”
12. What is your mom not very good at? "let me think here, reading the directions”
13. What does your mom do for her job? "fix people”
14. What is your mom's favorite food? "soup”
15. What makes you proud of your mom? "of giving me a snack”
16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? "elmo”
17. What do you and your mom do together? "go on a walk”
18. How are you and your mom the same? "We have the same bottoms (laughing) and the same hair."
19. How are you and your mom different? “I have a dress on and she has a shirt on.”
20. How do you know your mom loves you? "taking care of me"

1. What is something dad always says to you? “clean up my room”
2. What makes dad happy? “by me loving him”
3. What makes dad sad? "if daddy tells me to go to bed and I won’t”
4. How does dad make you laugh? "Tickling"
5. What was dad like as a child? "sleeping”
6. How old is your dad? "15”
7. How tall is your dad? “18”
8. What is his favorite thing to do? "building me a house with blocks when I need help”
9. What does your dad do when you're not around? "Go to best buy"
10. If your dad becomes famous, what will it be for? Shrugs shoulder
11. What is your daddy really good at? "feeding Tuffy”
12. What is your dad not very good at? "nursing”
13. What does your dad do for his job? "goes to his work and does survival. ”
14. What is your dad's favorite food? "pears”
15. What makes you proud of your dad? "of giving me candy and chocolate milk”
16. If your dad were a cartoon character, who would he be? "barney”
17. What do you and your dad do together? "go hiking. I love to go hiking.”
18. How are you and your dad the same? "by God loving us"
19. How are you and your daddy different? “we have different bottoms”
20. How do you know your daddy loves you? "by taking care of me”

one word

So here’s the rules: All of the answers must be just one word.
1. Where is your cell phone? charging
2. Your significant other? amazing
3. Your hair? ponytail
4. Your mother? fun
5. Your father? hardworker
6. Your favorite thing? people
7. Your dream last night? weird
8. Your favorite drink? coffee
9. Your dream/goal? missions
10. The room you’re in? living
11. Your church? interesting
12. Your fear? roaches
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Spokane
14. Where were you last night? bed
15. What you’re not? introvert
16. Muffins? bran
17. One of your wish list items? camera
18. Where you grew up? Washington
19. The last thing you did? cleaned
20. What are you wearing? capris
21. Your TV? neglected
22. Your pets? hamster
23. Your computer? HP
24. Your life? Exciting
25. Your mood? tired
26. Missing someone? friends
27. Your car? oilchange
28. Something you’re not wearing? shoes
29. Favorite store? Target
30. Your summer? HOT
31. Like(love) someone? Crazily
32. Your favorite color? Pink
33. Last time you laughed? Today
34. Last time you cried? June
35. Who will re post this? ???
This is harder than it looks.