Playin' at the park!

Yes, I know I did a post already today and yes, I also know that it is November 23 and the temperature was almost 80 degrees today, but I had to put on Andrew's first park experience. The kids are out of school all week so we needed something to do today. We went with some friends so that we (Monica and myself) could have a few minutes to our self while the kids played. They had fun playing on the swings and slides and the boys enjoyed throwing the football. Maybe we will have to do this another time this week before the cold front hits, unless we decide to go see the new Harry Potter movie (which we are all dying to see) while Dad is off work.




Okay, sorry back to Andrew. Emma and Grace (her friend) kept asking to take him on the swing, I kept telling them no because I was trying to keep him in the stroller for as long as possible, because once we put him in the swing I knew that would be the end of the stroller for the day. He loved it, he couldn't get enough of it. We took him out of the swing so he could go with Clark down the slide, and he SCREAMED!!! We finally got him calm enough to go down the slide and all I can say is we couldn't get him back to the top fast enough!! Needless to say he enjoyed the park. By the time we were getting ready to leave he was going down the slides by himself, Clark would take him up to the top and I would catch him at the bottom.

Pulling Clark so he could get back up to the top of the slide.

"Weeeeeeing" as he came down the slide, notice by himself. He loved it, we had the hardest time trying to leave, he wanted to stay and slide.

Youth Temple Trip :)

Last Saturday our ward had a youth temple trip. There were about seventeen youth that attended, which I thought was awesome. It was Clark's first trip to the temple, and with me being in Young Womens I was able to go and help out. It was so awesome to be able to go and help out, in the smaller temples they don't have the workers like they do in the bigger ones, so you are there to help.

Clark and a couple of his friends in the Deacons Quorum.

I have to write this down before I forget. A couple of weeks ago Clark, myself and some friends of ours were on our way to go to the temple, (the closest one is the Birmingham Temple which is about an hour and a half away). We had gone to "The Olive Garden" for dinner with what we thought we had plenty of time to eat and then be on our way. Well to start out, it took us forever to get our salad and bread sticks, then we get a phone call from another couple that was already on there way to warn us of an accident on the freeway, finally after sitting waiting for our food for an hour we had to ask for it to go. We get our food and get on our way, as we went to eat our food on the run there weren't any utensils. We finally get our forks and are on our way only to get stopped because of the accident (we figured it was cleaned up or we wouldn't have gone that way). It took us an hour and a half to go about 25 miles. By the time we got that far the session was starting in thirty minutes and we wouldn't make it. So we decided to turn around and go back on Tuesday. Out of the six of us only two of us actually made it, due to kids and business trips. We finally get there Tuesday and just as we were getting ready to go to the session the tornado sirens went off. All I could think is someone is trying to keep me from being here, but after fifteen minutes the warning was canceled and we proceeded. I was so grateful to be able to finally make it, I felt refreshed and ready to go again. Isn't it wonderful how just taking the time out of your busy schedule to go to the temple, makes you feel so much better, and things go smoother in your daily doings.

Spelling Bee!!

Ryan was in the school's spelling bee again this year. He is a wonderful speller. He was so excited when he came home to tell me that he had won his class spelling bee again. If you remember he won it last year (5th grade). I am so proud of him!!! I think I was just as nervous as he was while he was up there spelling the words. This year he made it to round four, which was really great because the words seemed a lot harder there then when we would practice. GREAT JOB RYAN!!!!!

Update on scouting: We had a Court of Honor last night and both Clark and Ryan earned at least one merit badge. Clark earned his communications and photography merit badges. Ryan earned his weather merit badge. Way to go Clark and Ryan!!!! Hopefully by the next Court of Honor both the boys will have a rank advancement. :) Isn't it great when we see our kids growing and progressing in life, they grow up way too fast, and sometimes I forget that, I need to take it one day at a time and enjoy them while they are still (kind of) young.

The tErRibLe tWo'S, already??

Andrew just passed the 16 month mark and he has already started the all out temper tantrums. Oh yes, the drop on the floor, kicking and screaming, throw the head back, that is just what we have been waiting for, NOT!!! Isn't it funny how one day they are so sweet and then the next they throw a massive fit when they don't get what they want? It makes me chuckle because he gets so mad and throws whatever he has in his hand or he looks to see what he can throw. There are times that we have to turn our heads to laugh. Oh, only if they knew how funny they look throwing their fits.

Andrew has been so funny lately, we get him dressed and he thinks he has to play/put back on what we just took off. He will walk around the house with his clothes on his head or over his shoulders. Also, if I haven't heard him and his door is open I find him sitting in the middle of his dirty laundry playing in it, he likes to move the piles around. He takes the clothes from the laundry basket to the floor and then moves them around, he is so funny how he entertains himself.



Fall is finally here. Yes, it is the middle of November and the leaves are gorgeous!!! I love this time of year, the only problem is it has been so hot for so long that I thought it was never going to come. Coming from Utah and having snow flurries (sometimes) by now, I thought fall would never get here, and just think with Thanksgiving next week, Christmas will be here before we know it. It doesn't seem like it is November, it actually feels like September (I think).


I keep passing by this area thinking I want a picture of the BEaUtiful fall colors, so today as I was passing by I actually had my camera with me, and I stopped to see if I could do it justice. Close, but it still looks better in person. I have been playing around on the internet with some pictures (on picnik.com), so let me know what you think.

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