We Put The F In Awesome: July 2008

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Beautiful Valley

We are so blessed to live in this beautiful valley. We have a park near our house that overlooks the valley and behind us are the spacious wasatch mountains. I am reminded everytime I go outside that I should never take for granted the valley here that we live in. John and the boys hiked up to a waterfall with his family the other morning. It's a beautiful hike, only a couple miles from our home. The boys love it here and never want to move. I hope we never have to. There are a lot of people who say they will never live in "happy valley" but if only they knew the secret of what makes us so happy. It is a beautiful place to be!

Happy 4th!

We had a wonderful 4th of July this year with both of our families. Enjoying the day with lots of food, laughter, and family. We enjoyed seeing Grandma Fossum who is well into her 90's and still thriving. We were lucky to see relatives who travelled far to celebrate the day and felt blessed to have wonderful conversation with those whom we love so much. It was a long day but packed with goodness! We are glad we have our freedom and had a wonderful time celebrating it!

The highlight of our day was to see our kids react with their cousins. We celebrated Peter's fifth birthday in Highland with John's family. Kurt and Noelle were out here with their kids from North Carolina. Yes, they drove the whole way! The kids had so much fun playing together, they were so exhausted the next day!

Can anyone say "cankles"? My legs were so swollen that my calves blended in to my ankles. The heat is horrible when you're pregnant.

After a fun day with John's family in Highland, we headed down to Liz and David's house for a bbq and to watch the Stadium of Fire fireworks. This year Miley Cyrus was the featured artist- a favorite to young girls everywhere.

Before watching the stadium fireworks, uncle David gave us our own show in the front yard. We were laughing at how every firework looks the same- a steaming fountain of colors. But then we realized it's not really for us that we spend our dollars on, but sheer entertainment for the kiddies. We watched the jets fly over the stadium and had a fun time watching the fireworks. The finale is always the best and this year it seemed to be an even greater show than last year. It's fun to meet at the Thompson's house every year because they are so close to the stadium!

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One of my best friends, Becky Maness, is an awesome photographer! We had a fun time when she came down from Idaho to visit the other day. She took a couple close ups of my beautiful boys. Notice, this was after the spray paint issue we had with Enoch. Now he has permanant black fingernails. But I do have to brag that these are some pretty HOT PICS.

favorite sayings of our boys

After graduating from preschool, the boys and I were walking to the car. Ben was a little sad and said, "I kind of don't want to go to Kindergarten, because most of the kids there are Chinese." (What?)
Isaac: I think Michael Jackson should be on American Idol. He would smoke everyone!
Ben: I know why it rains. Because Jesus is sad that everyone is evil so he is crying.
The twins call adults "humans". So Ben was talking to Jake saying, "When you grow up you get to be a human."
Jake's new thing is to call girl's "ladies". We were at Costa Vida and Jacob came out of the play area and said, "That lady in there is being mean." He then pointed to a little girl. The next day he woke up and said, "I had a dream that I kissed a lady."
The boys were talking about going to Cabella's. Ben said, "Is she going to be there?" John said, "What?" Ben replied, "Cabella. Is she going to be there?"
John was explaining the Law of Consecration and how we will put everything in a big pile and each take out what we need(an easy explanation). Isaac said, "Are there going to be kids in the pile? You can throw me in there!"
Ben's favorite Super Hero is now Joseph Smith. He said, "I'm going to fight all of you! Cuz I'm Joseph Smith!"
The other morning Ben was checking out my pudgy post pregnancy arms and while grabbing them he said, "You look like the Hulk!" I guess that's better than calling me fat!
The twins don't have very many friends. They are perfectly content with eachother. Ben came up to me while I was cooking dinner and said, "Can my friend eat over?" I said, "who?" he then pointed to Jake. Then he told me that Jake is his friend that wants to eat over and he will go home after dinner. I thought it was halarious. Then a couple days ago they went running through the kitchen to go play outside and one of them was calling the other "Uncle."
I always laugh at the misinterpreted words Enoch says. The other night at the dinner table he was trying to get the twins to eat by saying, "You better eat. There are starving children in Australia." I think he meant Ethiopia. John told Enoch we were going to take the newly found turtle to the pound if we couldn't find it's owner. A couple hours later Enoch says,"I don't want to take the turtle to the hound."
Ben asked,"Mommy, how come you know everything in the whole wide world? Did Jesus teach you that?" I didn't know I was so smart!
Jacob likes to bless the food at almost every meal. Lately he has been saying,"Bless mama and her baby and help her baby to get taken out." I think we are all anxious!
Upon sleeping in a tent with Grandpa Fossum and Enoch, Isaac was asked how well he slept. He said, "Not very well. Grandpa started snoring really really loud, and then Enoch started snoring and then he kicked me off the mattress. So I didn't sleep very well at all." Isaac has a sweet voice and doesn't pronounce his r's correctly yet, so you can imagine how cute that sounded!
I was talking to Enoch about the difference between girls and boys and he said,"Boys work really hard when they are young and then they grow up and buy their own car, but girls just say,'Daddy, I want a new car!"
Jake and Ben learned about Jesus healing the 10 lepers in Primary. Their teacher asked the class,"What did Jesus do to the 10 lepers?" Ben said,"He killed them!" I think he's getting confused with killed and healed!
Uncle Jacob and Ben had this conversation: Ben:Is everything alive, and does it talk? Jacob: probably we just don't understand them. Ben: Can trees talk? Jacob: maybe, we just don't know their language.Ben: a tree talked to me. .It said,'who's bike is that?' and I said, "it's mine."
Enoch says, "I need to start wearing boxers instead of tighty whities. I'm becoming a man. b-e-c-o-m-i-n-g becoming a man!"
I let Enoch watch Michael Jackson's "Bad" video. Later that night he came and told me that he got some spray paint and sprayed the word "Bad" on his wall! Woops, I guess he shouldn't have watched that one!
Ben was looking at his cousin's picture and said,"Peter is funny." I said, "yeah he's cool huh?" Ben replied,"Peter isn't black. Only black guys are cool."
Ben and I were making John a Father's day breakfast to eat in bed early in the morning. Ben saw how much attention Father's get on this day and said, "Mommy, when's Kid's day?"
I was breaking out on my face and Isaac says," Mom, why do you have all those nipples on your face?" I said, "they're not nipples, they're pimples!"
Enoch says, "I'm sick of this weather. It's always raining." Ben goes, "Yeah, my tummy feels rainsick."

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