Chuck turned 35 this year – halfway to 40! Chuck's birthday this year was extra special because he got to bless our little Isaac on his birthday. As he said during his testimony in church, this was better than any gift someone could wrap up and give him. We celebrated Isaac’s special day and Chuck’s birthday after the blessing by Chuck cooking us yummy Dutch oven. We also had Grandma Luann’s homemade ice cream and red, white and blue sprinkled cupcakes for desert.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Chuck's 35th Birthday!
Happy 4th of July!
Samuel was so excited about celebrating the 4th of July with fireworks this year. We tried to escape the heat by going to the parade with Aunt Trina in Cedar City. The kids collected so much candy - more then they got at Halloween! All through the parade they were chomping down on goodies. Amber asked Samuel what his favorite part of the parade was and he said the firetrucks, even though he had to plug his ears while they were going by. Then he said Daddy's favorite was the Queen. The funny thing was that Samuel was the one that noticed the Queen and Chuck didn’t say a thing about it. During the parade Chuck told Samuel the horses were really pretty and Samuel said the riders were pretty. He has been noticing pretty girls a lot lately!
After the parade we decided to take the kids to a mud pit in Enoch. It sounded like fun, but we drove around for an hour trying to find the place. Chuck even got directions from a cop and we still had difficulty finding it. When we finally found the location we realized this was a "Redneck" activity if we’d ever seen one! It wasn’t quite what we’d pictured! The mud was really deep and the kids were not excited about climbing in, but we’d been driving for so long Chuck decided they were getting in even if they didn’t want to! Bella braved it while Samuel screamed and threw a big fit even after Chuck sat him down. Don’t think we’ll be going back another year!
The kids really enjoyed the few fireworks we set off at Wes and Trina’s home. They go to bed before it gets dark so we are still doing fireworks during the early evening. This was the first year Samuel has not cried because of the noise. He did plug his ears once during a really noisy one. We had to keep a good watch on Bella because she isn’t afraid of anything, and even tried to grab the end of a burning sparkler several times. Poor Chuck had a little accident while lighting fireworks and got a second-degree burn on his hand. Just a word of advice - when its windy and your trying to shield the fuse with your hand don't point the end of the fuse directly into your palm. It shoots a burning hot flame straight out. Oouch – it really hurt!
Sunday, June 29, 2008
River Hike
Getting close to the river after walking along the "forbidden" road.
Go daddy! Samuel walked by himself to the river, but wasn't about to walk back. I grabbed the camera from Chuck to get a picture of him pushing the kids on this rocky dirt trail with the baby strapped on in the 100+ heat. He then said let me take a picture of you doing nothing! Which was true I had this one easy!
Poor Isaac just has to sit in his car seat while the other kids have fun splashing in the river.
Playing in the cool water!
My little dirt balls! The kids love digging in the dirt outside. The only problem is the red dirt just gets everywhere and stains everything! I can't wait until the grass is done!
Bella and Samuel both love to play in the closet. Bella gets behind Chuck's shirts and hides. They really love to pull all of daddy's shirts off the hangers and throw them on the ground.
Isaac with his big smile. He just has the best smile. Samuel loves to talk to him and try to get him to smile.
Our Week In Review - June 29, 2008
The highlite of the week was actually going on a date with Chuck on Thrusday night. We haven’t done that in a long time! Janice actually was to thank. I teach Sophie piano lessons and in exchange Janice watches Samuel and Bella. So we left them and took Isaac with us to see a sculpture exhibit at the St. George visitor’s center. There were 13 beautiful sculptures of Christ. They were all amazing, but my favorite was of Joseph Smith in the Sacred Garden with Christ and Heavenly Father. We were a little distracted during the tour, because it got started late and so it was time for Isaac to eat so he was a little fussy the entire time. Poor thing had his head buried trying to find milk and then resorted to sucking on his hand really loud. While I was bouncing him I also felt something warm running down my arm and realized he had a diaper leak. Luckily I had a black shirt on so you couldn’t see the spot on me!
On Friday evening we took the kids for a short little hike in Santa Clara to see the river. Chuck had gone on this trail before, but approached it from the backside. When we got there we saw several signs that the road was not a pulic access, but Chuck had already loaded the kids in the stroller and there was no way we could take it on the primitive trail so he talked me into walking on the "forbidden" road. And wouldn’t you know it, I was behind Chuck walking with Samuel and a lady pulls up to us and tells me the road is closed to public access etc. etc. Since we were already so close she did however let us continue. Then we got to the river and it was blazing hot no shade. We didn’t stay very long at that spot. I had gone to a better spot on the river with Janice earlier so we took the kids there instead and it was actually in the shade. The kids had a great time playing around in the water.
We had another problem with our air conditioner this week. I was washing laundry and noticed water was leaking from the ceiling. The contractor came out and realized a drain hadn’t been sealed properly. While they were working on that issue, Chuck realized they had forgot to bring down the vent in the kids bathroom. We’ve had different men here all week fixing things.
I’ve been walking early every morning before Chuck goes to work. The trail by our home is shady in the morning so it’s just perfect. I took the baby a couple of mornings, but despite the beauty was bored. So I began taking Samuel with me. He rides his bike and I help pull him along. Talking with him makes the walk not so boring for me.
* Samuel – since it’s so hot now he always asks when we leave the house if he’s going to get dehydrated. Chuck’s been working in the yard and told Samuel we have to drink lots of water to avoid dehydration so now constantly asks about it. On our hike Samuel saw power lines and said, "look mom there’s a string in the air". And we finally got Samuel to stay in nursery this week by bribing him with Jello. All Sunday morning he was telling us he wasn’t going to nursery. He said the treats at the new nursery hurt his belly. Then he said he wanted to go back to the old house so he could go to the old nursery. But a little treat goes a long way with getting Samuel to do something! He had a great time this week talking to the piano tuner and all the workers. The piano tuner said he had never seen a little kid so interested in what was going on. Samuel chats up everyone that comes to the house asking them all sorts of questions and then telling them all kinds of stories. (He reminds me of a brother of mine!)
* Bella – fell off the table twice yesterday. She climbs on the table to get into her booster seat and then climbs on the table and onto another chair to get back down. The only problem is sometimes she doesn’t hit the other seat on the way down. With her constant climbing and no sense of fear she worries me on a daily basis! On Saturday I was in the garage helping Chuck get the Jeep started and came back in the house to find that Bella had climbed up in the bassinet with Isaac. Poor guy had been sleeping until Bella decided to join him. Luckily I found her before she dumped him out or tipped them both over. She also stayed in nursery this week!
* Isaac – had a major case of cradle cap this weekend and had Chuck and I thinking he had some bad growth on the side of his head. We were so worried, but then after doing a little research realized it wasn’t serious
Sunday, June 22, 2008
The hot summer days are here! The kids were enjoying cooling off with their sprinkler. The funny thing is that Samuel was squirting Bella who just laughed, but then she began squirting Samuel and he started crying telling Bella not to squirt him!
New hair cut - it looks cute, but now I actually have to do his hair!
Grumpy old man - Isaac was not very happy the day he got his shots.
We got the kids a small trampoline this week. They love it, but can only use it in the early morning before the sun makes it too hot to use.
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