Day Camp

Connor and I went to day camp 1 1/2 weeks ago. I forgot to post the pictures. The scouts all had a blast. Is there anything a boy likes more than shooting bb guns and using bow and arrows. Connor bought a pocket knife at the trading post. I ok'd it for camping use only. I quickly regreted it as he cut his finger while on our camping trip. Thank goodness it wasn't deep. What would the doctor have said if he had to stitch Connor's thumb which is sticking out of a cast? It will be awhile before we get the knife out again. Anyway back to day camp. Connor had a lot of fun. We got lucky and had perfect weather. It was the only day it didn't rain all week. There were obstacle courses, nature walks, games, wrist rockets and canoeing as well as the archery and bb guns. He can't wait for next year. I was glad I could be there with him.

MMMM Smores!

We decided to go camping this past weekend. The kids wanted to go to a real campground--trees and dirt. We wanted to stay close because of the constant rain so we ended up at South Fork. It actually is one of our favorite places because the campsites are really secluded and pretty. After a downpour and hailstorm on the way up we had perfect weather. We had a great time fishing at Causey and Pineview (although we never caught anything). I say we as if I fished. Ashlyn and I plopped ourselves in the water and enjoyed the sun. Logan is our fisherman. He even had fun watching Chad fly fish on the South Fork. He was obsessed with catching a fish (hmm he might be a little like his Dad). Connor fished on and off but he spent more time skipping rocks--not the best thing to do while fishing. Connor's favorite part of the trip was shooting Chad's pellet gun. He told us he is more like Uncle Alan, a hunter rather than a fisherman. Even Ashlyn loves camping. She cried as we pulled out to come home. It always amazes me that such a girly girl princess likes to get wet and dirty. It was fun to get away. We had a great time! We can't wait to go back when Connor's cast is off so we can float the river.

1st Broken Bone

Connor is the first person in our family to break a bone. He was playing basketball downstairs with Logan Monday night. This is his story: "I tried to trip Logan (hard to believe he admitted that) and he fell on me which made me fall down." He caught his arm wrong. There was no swelling so we figured he sprained it. We even went to Lagoon on Tuesday and he seemed ok. When it was still hurting on Wednesday Chad took him in. It is a buckle fracture. The doctor made us feel better when he said that these fractures often go untreated or are caught a week or so after they happen because of the lack of swelling. It is just our luck. Whenever we rush our kids to the doctor it is nothing but when we wait it is a bigger deal than we thought. He will miss his baseball tournament and won't be able to swim for 1 month. I guess this will teach him not to trip his brother.

Phase 2

This process is taking a lot longer than we expected. We hope to enjoy our deck sometime this summer. The builder has had trouble with the trusses. The first two sets that were delivered the truss company built wrong (one with the wrong length, one with the wrong pitch). At one time we had 3 sets of trusses stacked on top of each other in our driveway. The final set are the ones pictured but if you look closely they have additional pieces of wood on top. Apparently we have some weird pitch that our builder has never seen. When he measured he thought it was a 9 pitch but I guess it it a 9 1/2 pitch. He is having to alter them by hand. The weather isn't cooperating either. We have had so much rain this past month. They are hoping to tie into our roof in the next couple of days but it can't rain or we will have a waterfall in our kitchen.

End of Kindergarten

Logan's class had a Hawaii program for the end of the year. Logan did a great job. I can't believe he is already done with Kindergarten and moving on to full day next year. He loves school so much that I thought he would be sad for it to end but he is so excited for 1st grade that he is willing to put up with summer break. He is excited for school lunch and a new school that even Connor is jealous of. We are 2 days into summer break so we'll see how long it takes for him to want to be back in school. We are hoping to start back the end of August but with the K-2nd school not looking very completed it might be a long summer.

Funny Things Ashlyn Says

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  Lately she has been calling me Mama Portia (Who knows where that came from?)
  
  She calls:
  
  • a muffin a Nuffin
  • Little Miss Muffit--Little Miss Nuffit
  • St. George--Curious George
  • The funniest one is that she calls the U of U--BYU. We thought she was teasing us at first but I am pretty sure that is what she thinks it is called. We are considering revoking the season ticket we just bought her.
  • Something that is sold or if I am sewing she says "soiled"
  • She will tell me to marry dad when she thinks I should kiss him. It has to be followed with dancing.
  • When she does something funny Chad will say "where we got you?" She always says "From Jesus."
  
  

  She is a funny one. She is so much like Connor and she has some of Logan's silliness but she adds her own sassiness to the mix. How could we not love her?

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Fun Weekend

We just got back from a fun weekend in St. George. It was our first multiple day outing in our new trailer. We went with Amy, Dave and family and a few families from their neighborhood. The kids have been looking forward to it for weeks and we all had a lot of fun--with the exception of the drive. We spent most of the time in the swimming pool--it wasn't really camping but I have to say I really enjoyed staying at the rv park. We'll definitely be doing that again. It is my kind of camping. We drove through Zion National Park one day. The rest of the group went into the park a second day but our kids were tired so we just decided to stay back and swim some more. Ashlyn and Logan learned to swim on this trip and wanted to live in the pool. I am pretty sure Ashlyn sprouted gills. She would swim the width of the pool but never bothered learning how to take a breath. I would call her a fish but she preferred Mermaid. I wish I could post pictures/video but I forgot to take my camera on the trip. We ended the trip learning how to do glitter toes pedicures--Ashlyn was in heaven!! I don't know if that was a good idea though, I am going to have to set aside a half hour every day for Ashlyn's daily manicure/pedicure instead of 5 minutes. We all had fun spending time with family and new friends.