Girl Trip!!!!

The most popular sentence of the trip....

"Mom, can we go swimming?!"
Sitting on a tour boat, 'The Dixie Belle' waiting for more passengers to come.
No body else came so they cancelled the trip.

Mother and Daughter in front of the London Bridge.

T in front of the London Bridge....in 107 degree weather.
Can you tell what she's thinking?! (Something like.....)
"Hurry up and take the picture so we can go get a SnoCone!"

Tucked in for the night.

Corban's Cowboy Day

Friday was Corban's Western Day at his preschool. Because of my frantically rushing around to get ready for Tarryn's and my girl trip and Brandon having work, we asked Uncle Zane to go hang out with the cowboys and girls. Zane came and picked Corban up wearing his own 10 gallon hat and Corban couldn't have been more excited.
Corban had a blast singing in a round-up, dancing in a hoe-down, story telling around the flashlight-and-tissue-paper-made-campfire, and eating flap-jacks (pancakes) for a snack. Thanks Uncle Zane for hanging out with the cowpokes at Corban's preschool you made Corban's day truly special!

That's logic for ya.

I took Tarryn to Olive Garden for a special one-on-one date. While we were waiting for the food to be brought out, Tarryn began unrolling her napkin wrapped utensils. Picking up the fork, she pondered aloud, "Hmmm...that's weird, this fork only has three pokey things instead of four."
To which I replied, "Yeah, that's a bit unusual I guess."
"Well, shouldn't it be called a threek instead of a fork then?" remarked my clever 10 year old.

Now why didn't we have logical children make up the vocabulary for the world?!

Baby Jack's Number

While Corban was holding Baby Jack today (with help of course), it was so cute to hear him coo at the infant with such sweet enthusiasm. Even cuter was his asking Jack's mom, Kayley, "What number is he?" To which she replied, "18 days old!" The look on Corban's face was priceless with the knowledge that to a 4 year old time is based on numbers only. Not increments of minutes, days, weeks, or years. To him, Jack must have sounded like he was older than him, let alone older than his own big sister!

See! Here's proof he's not evil.

While Brandon and I were tucking the boys into bed tonight, Corban asked to give me a kiss on my forehead and while doing so I said, "You are the best kids ever! Every last one of you!"
To this, Makade replied with, "And you guys are the best parents I've ever had!"

.....errr Buddy, we're the ONLY parent's you've ever had!

Super Rivals

Have you ever listened to a conversation from your kids and thought....'I could make this into a book!' ? Well my mind certainly went wandering this afternoon while in the car after hearing a comment from Tarryn in the back seat. My thoughts started drifting to some fun story where the super hero and villain happen to have been siblings. Can you hear the storyline of the arguments that would ensue as they were children before they were destined rivals?

Now; I am in NO WAY saying that Makade is going to end up a sinister evil-doer, but this is what I heard in the car that got my mind reeling...

"Mo-om! Makade is annoying me with his evil laugh again!"
*...And Makade confirms her accusation with another menacing laugh*

***Nobody steal my idea! I thought of it first!!! :)

Have you missed us?!

This household has been mighty busy the last little bit with our new guest in our home. My mother has come to stay for a while (after being released from the hospital) to re-gain her health and her mental, emotional, and spiritual drive to continue on. She's doing really well and the kids are accepting our new guest more and more each day.

To compensate for a new guest moving in on short notice, there's been a lot of rearranging of our own personal things to make Grandma feel welcome. Brandon's and my office has now been moved up into our bedroom and there is an island (more of a peninsula) of boxes protruding into the middle of the room that we have no idea what to do with. (I think purchasing some shelving units will be a must in the near future.)
...Long story, short; I now have no idea where the software is to my cameras so I still haven't been able to download any pictures. I've got birthdays and holidays and all sorts of other fun pictures I'd love to share and I am at a standstill until this mess gets organized in our room.

I miss having my outlet of logging the progress of our little family so this had better become solved soon!