Shooting Stars

A few weeks ago, Jeff and Carter went to get the mail "in the middle of the night". (Code for around 10:00---after we got home from Bear Lake) Carter came upstairs today and told me that on the mail adventure, they had seen "two shooting stars!" He followed that up with this quote: "Mom, do you know that shooting stars are so powerful? They are so powerful that when you wish, any wish you wish will come true!"

Someone is watching too much Disney. Then again, here's hoping that Disney is right..I'll keep wishing on shooting stars.

Summer Nights

Last night was one of the nights that makes me so grateful to live in this amazing valley. The Midway Arts Foundation had a great (and FREE) Peter Breinholt concert at the Midway Plaza ...AKA " the town square". It was so much fun! Carter started asking at 3:00 when we were going to the concert. He loved it. The kid has rhythm, so there was a lot of dancing. Even Jeff and I busted out our old school moves. The best part though, Spike got a treat! They had these push-pop type treats that were actually Italian ice---gluten and dairy free. Spike was squealing with joy. He had one taste, then grabbed the whole treat and covered his face. It ended up that he ate the better part of two icee-things. (How can you say no to a 17 lb baby who is frantically making the "bottle" sign...because its the only sign he knows and it usually gets him food?)He still has a slightly blue face and Jeff's clothes may become casualties of fatherhood. Big thanks to Cindy who rode her girly girl pink bike to the concert and took the kids for a walk when they started to get restless. It was so much fun to sit on the blanket with Jeff and listen to the songs we loved in college and pretend we were cool again. Long live summer!

Tag ABC

A) Attached or Single- Attached
B) Best Friend- Jeff
C) Cake or Pie-Chocolate cake with whipped cream!
D) Day- Saturday, it's the day Jeff is home and not working!
E) Essential Item- baby wipes, they clean anything.
F) Favorite Color- Red
G) Gummi Bears or Worms- Worms
H) Home Town- Garden City
I) Indulgence- Going out to eat
J) Jan. or July- July, boating, BBQ, sleeping with the window open
K) Kids-2 boys: Carter (3) Spike/Will (1 next month)
L) Life is incomplete without- My family
M) Marriage Date- May 19, 2000
N) Number of Siblings- 1
O) Oranges or Apples- Oranges
P) Phobias or Fears- Something terrible happening to my family or us ending up destitute.
Q) Quote- "The days are long, but the years are short"
R) Reason to Smile-hugs from my boys.
S) Season- Fall
T) Tag- Janelle, Amy, Monica
U) Unknown fact about me- My favorite thing is getting into clean sheets.
V) Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal- Animals! Jeff has brought me to the dark side
W) Worst Habit- imagining the worst possible scenario at all times
X) Rays or Ultrasound- neither
Y) Your favorite food- Candy
Z) Zodiac sign- Pisces

Father's Day

So I'm sure that the blog world is abuzz with sweet touching stories of Father's Day today. What do I love most about Jeff? I have so many wonderful things to say about my cute family and my wonderful husband Jeff, but today, I'm keeping it real. What I love best about Jeff right now is that when Spike choked on dirt, fell down three stairs and ate dog poo last week, Jeff laughed and helped me clean up. Yes, you read that right, choked on dirt, fell down three stairs and ate dog poo in the course of one day. The dog poo story is really too gruesome to go into, but let's suffice to say it involved a "s**t-eating smile", me having the gags while screaming and cleaning Spike up, a frantic call to the pediatrician, and husband that loves me enough to help me clean up while he was laughing hysterically.

Often I read blogs and get the impression that everyone who has a blog also has a perfect life of bliss and amazing achievement (and professional quality pics to go along with it). Well, our life may not be perfect,(and I'm glad I don't have pics of the poop), but I couldn't be more thankful. Jeff is an awesome dad who can lighten the mood in an instant, wrestle kids like crazy, calm a crazy mom, save a dog's (zoiee) life, and do it all while traveling 4 days a week and working like crazy. I love you Jeff and I can't imagine my crazy/non-perfect/wonderful life without you!

Dead Bird Soup

Yesterday Carter and I were playing one of his favorite games...restaurant. He was being "the sir" and asked what I wanted. I asked first for a salad and diet coke but he was "out of that". When I asked what he had, he offered spaghetti and bird soup. I asked what the bird soup was. He told he it was "dead birds mommy, but we take the feathers off." When I told him I'd take the dead bird soup, he reminded me that "it's bad mommy, it's dead birds." After further questioning, we determined that the soup was a mix of dead eagles and vultures. While the feathers are taken off, the beaks are left in the soup. So, if you're coming to our house for dinner, prepare for some dead bird soup complete with beaks. And please, whatever you do, don't tell the the federal government about our Eagle soup.

Mother's Day

What a great weekend! For Mother's Day we went camping at Snow Canyon. Jeff got off work early on Friday and we arrived in St. George just in time to have dinner at In and Out. I had the hungry crankies and without meaning to, ate Jeff's double double. The sad deal about the whole thing is this. I was bugged Jeff bought me a double. He was sad I was eating his double instead of the single he ordered for me but we were both trying not to complain. When I was done eating and the crankies had gone away, Jeff looked at me at with the saddest face and said, "you ate my burger." I felt so bad! Oh well, I had my first double double and he got to go back on the way out of town on Sunday for his!

While we were there we saw a lot of ants, chased some lizards and spotted 3 snakes! Okay, one was in an aquarium, but the other two were outside. Pretty much, the snake was the highlight for Carter. We also did a few short hikes, (it takes a long time to go a mile when you stop to look at every grain of sand!) It was a great trip and I'm so grateful for my cute camping boys! I couldn't have asked for a better Mother's Day than to spend the weekend outside with my favorite people.

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Spike figured out the letter E. We figure he is pretty advanced for 9 months. He only has 25 more letters to go.


In addition to his letters Spike has also started working in the audio visual industry.