Canada

We wet to Canada last month and LOVED it! Here are a few of our favorite moments.

Jack did a LOT of this:) LOVED THE DOGS!!!

Riley did some of this.

And some of this ( look at the little boys face, he was NOT happy, poor kid!)

Dane did a lot of this

Jack doing more of this

The twins did some of this, DANE loved riding the horse!!!

London did this WAY TOO MUCH!!!! TO be fair, so did Dane, lol;)

Riley Got on his FIRST horse, so cute!

We visited the Hooterite Colony (a lot like the Omish). I love this pic, Riley holding the twins with the CUTE little Hooterite boys behind us.

These are the little Hooterite boys, I wanted to take them home with me. So sweet and very respectful.

Ray Lamontagne Concert

Riley surprsed me and took me to my FAVORITE singer Ray Lamontagne Concert. I just have to say that he is even better in concert than on CD. LOVE HIM:) Thanks Riley, LOVED IT!!!

I have never seen so MANY interesting people in my life!!!!! I could have gone just for the entertainment of people watching.

Trunk Makeover!

I have been having so much fun planning my little kidos rooms in our new home:) This Trunk was one that my mom had down stairs in the storage room.

BEFORE

I know what your thinking, it's greta as is! BUT for my little London's room the makeover is just PERFECT!!!

AFTER

The fabric draped on it is London's bedding:) SO YUMMY!!!

In my opinion it couldn't have turned out more perfect!!! LOVE IT!!!

THis little beauty is going to be London's Night stand:)

It was easy. I simply primed, primed, primed, primed and primed and then sanded it a little to give it that old, worn out look:)

IN the next few days I'll show you the finished trunks that I did for the boys room!!!!

Jack's Good Intentions

I wen to the pool with the sisters a few days ago and had a.........interesting time, lol;) Even with 3 adults 5 kids in the pool was stressful. The drowned ratio seemed to be at a good number but it was just to much work for not enough fun. The kids on the other hand had a GREAT time!! Jack is so good in the water, he doesn't go to far away and he's like a fish:) Dane and London wanted to be by the big kids so I had to keep chasing them back to the shallow water......I know what your thinking and it's not funny;) Ok I'm sure some folks had a good time watching this "solid" lady run through the shallow water:)

Jack was standing next to London and the little MUTT just started to shove her under the water.....I know right!!! It scared the crap out of me!! I ran over there (yes funny mental image of me running) and pulled London out of the water and ordered Jack out of the water. I told him we were leaving because of the choice that he had made (we were already planning on leaving, it worked out perfect) and started to pack everything up. As I was scolding him for his bad choice he finely got two words in and said, "Your not listening to me!" "OK Jack, what were you thinking?"Jack said, "I was just bapatizeing London!!" MaRea, Angie and myself all stared at each other and started laughing so hard that I'm sure Jack was very confused. Then we all took a shot at trying to explain baptism to the cute little mutt.

Maybe yawl can lean from my Jack and teach your kids that we don't just go around "bapatizeing" people. Or not and just wait till they bapatize some unknowing person and see what happens, lol:) Cute little mutt!!!

Hopeing for an unanswered prayer

Tonight in Jack's prayer he said, "Please bless that we have 100 babies and that Griffin will come over and play with me at the Farm, Amen." I'm going to through a "Please Bless" out there that God was taking a nap when that prayer was offered up..........really I don't think Jack meant it:)

Then Jack told me that we could only cuddle for one minuet and when that one minuet was up he kicked me out......so sad but I laughed all the way up the stairs. What a MUTT:)

Favorite Day

1st things first, I slept in:)!!! I love to sleep in and my MOthers Day starting off with this first gift was perfect. When I finely did wake up Riley was standing there dressed like a weightier. He handed me a menu(one that he had made:) and asked me where I would like to be seated. I had no idea so he recommended the veranda (porch). I picked a huge meal off the menu and got dressed and headed for the veranda. I bouquet of flowers and a wine glass full of crushed ice sitting next to a diet Coke awaited me:) I must say there is nothing like a wine class with diet coke, MY FAVORITE:)

As I seated myself my weightier (Riley) came out and mentioned the wildlife that I would be seeing. The swallow, and some other birds were mentioned. Then he pointed out the other more obvious wild life. There was a silver back Rhino (DANE), a Mocking Jay (LONDON) and for added protection Mr. Incredible himself was there, (JACK.) It was quite beautiful to behold all my wildlife, they were quite delicious!

As I was sitting and enjoying my Diet Coke Mr. Incredible (I mean Jack) brought out his present he made for me. It was so stinking cute!!! It was a cook book that his teacher had put together. The students gave their favorite recipes and she typed them out for us and put them into a cook book for us. Jack receipt goes as follows

Jack: Spaghetti O's

Turn on oven, it's a square, then put circles in oven for six hours. Then you eat them.

All of the kids recipes were super cute like this:) Jacks teacher really is that wonderful!!!

My weightier then brought out my first course. French toast:)!!!! It really was so YUMMY!!! Then my second course came out, freshly squeezed OJ, eggs over easy and toast with a side of jam. WOW, it was perfect!!! This whole time he stayed in character, lol;)

Then my weightier had to run away and so some church stuff, kinda weird I know, lol;)

Later that day he said, "I forgot to ask you if you will be joining us for dinner?" YAY, I didn't have to make dinner either.

Our dinner was delicious and my weightier/cook went all out:) Pesto with Angel Hair pasta and grilled chicken. So good!!

Then my weightier/cook cleaned the kitchen and washed the dishes and THEN he out the kids all down by HIMSELF:)!!!! This guy really knows how to work for a tip, lol;) Really this was one terrific day for me!

I was totally spoiled, it was wonderful, lol;)

Being a mom is the best most hard thing I have ever done. My "wild life" make me smile every day, they make me laugh and they make me feel REAL joy:) I love you little mutts, thanks for coming into our home!!!

Changes, Changes, Changes

So we are moving. This is such a bitter sweet. My people is Eagle Mt are AMAZING and I feel like I'll never find people as good as them! I wish I could somehow take all of them with me, kinda weird I know but true.

We are on our way North, probably to Layton. Being closer to family is HUGE for us. I REALLY want my little Jack to go to Angie's Montessori School and we would be close enough for that to happen, that is one ReALLY big perk:)

So to all my Eagle Mt people, I love you, I'll miss you and I have learned so much from you!!! Thanks for being the kind of people that I could learn and grow from. LOVE you all..........OK maybe not the old man, lol;)