my parents

We went on our annual "Briggs/Staten" camp out up to the Redman campground up Big Cottonwood canynon. It is the most beautiful camp site, but how on earth did we manage to hit the only cold weekend in August on our once a year camp out? we could see our breath the entire time we were there and woke up to ice water and frost. But, it was still quite fun. The boys spent time gathering rocks to throw in the water and "hemorroids" for the fire. Mason found a toy tiger that our friends had brought and carried it around everywhere. Both of them had a blast feeding the "pockets" except Ethan got a little frustrated with Mason because he'd point and make noise anytime a "pocket" came near. :) We played cards and ate bad food ... what a weekend ... it will be fun to go again ... um next year (I need a year between these camp outs to recover) lol

Little Stinker!!

Fourth of July Fun

We had a lot of fun over the 4th and 24 of july. On the 4th we went and saw the kaysville parade. Ethan had a really fun time and was very dedicated to waving so they would throw him some candy. I'm not exactly sure why he wanted their candy when I'd brought so much of our own:) Mason was a little brighter on that front and sat and ate pretty much every ounce of candy he could get his hands on. Ethan's favorite part were the planes that flew over head and the fire trucks. My least favorite part were the Oxen that slowly and stinkily trotted down the street. On the 24th we went and saw fireworks at Meuller park, just Ethan and I went with Grandma and Grandpa Bellamy and some of the Wayment girls. Ethan really really loved looking up and kept yelling his excitement. He would say "Grandma ... the fireworks say boom boom" I did however hear him tell his stuffed puppy not to be afraid, that fireworks weren't scary:) on the way back to our car from the park Ethan had to go the bathroom (he had already gone in the 3 stores we'd gone to that day, so I was not really happy that he was telling me he had to go again) Well, everyone was still out in their front yard from watching the fireworks so I didn't feel as if he could just go on their lawn. Anyway ... I had this brilliant idea to teach him to go in a cup. well, the night ended with me trying to get out of the car with this cup of pee and spilling it all over myself and the car... grrr!!
All in all though, what a great July:)

Up in the tree like a bird

When Ethan as 2/12 we were out visiting my parents and he came in and we knew he wanted something so we tried to get him to use his words and tell us what he wanted and then we all tried to figure out what he'd just said, I think it was something like "Da dan want up tree like bird" well, since that day Spencer has been putting my boys up in trees like the birds and they love it. I think it's cute too, unless the tree in question is too high (which has happened more than I'd like to think about)

TOO BIG!!

Wow! Mason is growing up so fast!!
I've been working with Ethan on his letter sounds and reading and Mason has decided that he needs to work on them too. so every time I ask Ethan to pronounce a word Mason will come over and start pointing to the page saying a phh or bhh or fff, he thinks he is soooooo funny and will laugh uproariously at himself:)

Moving?

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So house projects may be on hold until we decide if we're moving or not :-( and :)
we walked through both of these on Friday and I fell in love with #1 and Spencer really liked #2
It's such a hard decision ... we love our neighborhood sooooooooooooo much and it's so hard taking a chance on a new one when I feel we've found the perfect one here, however, we've outgrown our house by 1 child already and I can't imagine where we'd put a third if and when we decide we're ready for that 3rd.
HARD DECISIONS TO COME