Look What My Baby Boy Learned How To Do!

Even with all the crashes that come with the learning, this boy can't be discouraged. He is big grin, ear to ear, proud as punch. And you know what???? He should be!!!

Conversations With A 4 Year Old

Yesterday I had a few different conversations with my 4 year old! He is constantly making me crack up. These are things he said to me yesterday...

Me: Uh oh Damon, you better not use your toilet today, I think the wax ring must not be working and your toilet is leaking again...

Money Man: Where? Let me see....

Me: Point to the base of the toilet where it is SOPPING wet (We have already had a wax ring problem there and had to replace one, so I just assumed that was the problem again).

Money Man: Oh no Mom... I just pee'd EVERYWHERE there today. It was an accident.

(Then turns, and walks away shrugging his shoulders as I am dry-heaving cause I had just been on my hands and knees mopping it up like it was water.)

Then at dinner time we had another conversation.

Me: Damon, your room is a disaster. It looks like a tornado just blew through it. How did it get so messy and what are we going to do about it?

Money Man: It wasn't me mom. It was probably the Leprechauns!

M O A B

We went to MOAB a couple of weekends ago to have some good family fun on the 4-wheelers. Weather reports were a little 'risque' but it ended up being beautiful for 4-wheeling. We were able to go to some sand dunes in between Green River and Moab on our way down. After arriving in Moab, we went on two other trails (Gemeni Bridges, and one other that I can't for the life of me remember the name of.) Both were a good time. At certain points, Joe had to let whichever child he was riding with off of his 4-wheeler so he could attempt and master some unsafe stunts. Me, well I am a wuss, so I was pretty much safe the whole time.

Arriving at the Sand Dunes just past Green River

Hal is ready to GO!

Getting some shade after climbing on the rocks at the Dunes

I Spy with my little eye...

THUMBS UP!

Pulling up to Gemeni Bridges... Ballerina was quite ornery.

Getting these two children to look and smile at the same time is ImPoSsIbLe!

You can almost see us on top of the Bridges!

Bal, Money, and Cupholder taking a snooze!

After being rested, D-Money snuck into some pretty cool cracks.

And the kids got loves from Dad...

MOAB was a perfect weekend... Just what we needed for a family getaway!

Midway's Ice Castles

We recently (and by recently I mean at least a month ago) took a quick day trip up to Midway to see the Ice Castles that are harvested, grown and maintained at the Zermatt Resort. They were quite amazing. (Read more here.)
D-Money and Hal-Bal with the growing spikes...

Onz, Money, and Ballerina...

Brr... that's cold...

Grandma with the Cat, and Hal-Ballerina gazing at the magnificent ice!

Handsome Boys Take II

I took this (<------ Click here) picture of the guys in my life a year and a half ago. Unfortunately I can't find it anywhere on my computer to compare it to this one that was taken about a month ago.... same location, same picture of my guys... just a year and a half later... crazy to see how much Damon has grown!

The Grandpa with the Farm

My kiddo's love going to "The Grandpa with the Farm's" house. It means they get to go out to the farm and look at the llama's. Well, Grandpa with the farm also just got himself a couple of mini pony's, so we of course have had to go take a few peeks at the new pony's and go for a ride on them. We also got in some extreme sledding (being pulled on a hood of a car behind the 4-wheeler) but only documented that on the video camera... sorry, no pictures!

Playing on the big snow mound in front of Grandpa's house

Those photogenic Llamas


Going for rides on the pony

And this is my debut to try to get back to blogging... mainly so grandparents, aunts and uncles can keep updated with pics of the kids. Sorry blogging world that I have ignored you for oh so long. My bad!

Should I back track?

I haven't blogged in a LONG time but decided I might try to jump on the bandwagon again. I think for now, I will just blog about our FaBuLoUs Saturday, and then add some other things we have done over the past couple of months later.

This past Saturday, the weather was supposed to be phenomenal, so I thought it would be fun to go out on a little hike, or go see the water falls up Provo Canyon. So we did just that. Halle was a bit of a pill at first. She was so cranky and ornery, but by the time we were about done, we finally got some smiles out of that little lady.

After walking the trail for a minute, we made it to the falls, and then of course, Damon wanted nothing more than to hike up to the top... Halle was having none of that, throwing yet another tantrum, so Damon and Joe got to do the hike without us girlies. If you look very closely, you can see the rugged boys on the side of the waterfall.

And this is what PrInCeSs Halle looked like down below as I tried, unsuccessfully, to convince her that we were having fun! (Check out that tear rolling down her cheek!)

As Joe and Damon hiked back down the mountain, Halle and I walked up a small hill and met them. We "tried" to pose the kids on the rocks and get some good pictures... This is as good as it gets people! Joe was in the background throwing leaves in the air to make it look like they were falling in motion on the kiddo's... but none of those pics are the greatest darn it all!After our small hikes, we walked back along the trail which was to lead us to our truck... along the way we all played and wrestled in the leaves, and I am happy to say that Joe finally got Hal-Bal happy and hyper!And now I would just like to announce, that ornery or not, I by far have the world's cutest kids. The End!