It's frustrating being 3

Sammy was making a very frustrated sound... I thought it was because of something Ada had said or done, it usually is, but this time it wasn't. 

"Boogers!  Stop getting in my nose!"

First testimony

As a Mormon, once a month we get a chance to get up in our Sunday meetings and express our feelings and our beliefs to our friends and neighbors.  I do this rarely, mostly because I'm out of the habit of baring my testimony in front of a congregation instead of just to my own family.  Jer got up yesterday.  I loved it!  Not only do I love to hear what he has to say but Ada decided to go up with him for the first time.  He said, "You just say what you know about Heavenly Father."  So she did.  She said, "Heavenly Father loves us." So sweet.

Hey cousins!

We had a fun day filled with cousins and family...

Visited my sister's quilt booth at the Highland City Farmer's Market...
Sent my kiddos to wish their cousins a happy birthday with Grandma...
And played with John and Diane's family.... we had a blast! 

Meet the Robertsons



Ruth

 Kate

 Jonny

 Adam

Rachel

Anya

Joseph

Joshua

and Arwen

Moments to live for

These are moments that moms live for:

Ada helping me fold the laundry and just chatting away... randomly telling me that she was feeling warm inside by helping me... (yes, teaching moment!)

Sammy walking by and just saying, "Mommy, I love you." and then walks by.

Evelyn sitting on my feet while I play the piano... then I feel her foot put on my foot to help press the sustain pedal.

I love these guys.

Embarrassing moment

Ever have one of those? Most of the time if something happens I just say whoops... I made a mistake...but what do you say when it's your child?  Just laugh I guess. I play the piano in relief society...usually I have volunteers holding baby while I play,occasionally I don't...usually that's just fine. She plays behind me or occasionally plunks a note on the piano. This last Sun she was busy unloading the diaper bag and I didn't think anything of it.  Then the teacher comes up to me while I'm playing and says, "You know she's unwrapping your pads right?" Well what do I do? If I stop playing more people will be curious to see why, and until I get them from her she has completely unwrapped some pads and is happily playing with the sticky parts. I guess it doesn't matter too much since we were all women anyways and most of these ladies are moms too.

Not what it was meant for mom

Evelyn is one messy kid. She insists that drawers are not to be filled, shelves are not to have books on them, toys do not go in bins, and most of all... Hand towels are not to be hung up.  After all, that's not what they were meant for.

nicknames

Discussing nicknames with my brother's twins... my mom got these answers:

Devin:  "My teacher calls me Dev"
Aubrey:  "My teacher calls me, Honey stop doing that please."

Family Pictures 2012

 While we were there we decided to try something new... family pictures while camping.  I think it worked... and while we didn't take lots of pictures... our kids decided they wanted to go play... we still got some pretty good ones... my sister Sharon and I set us up and Sharon took them while my mom and sister Janelle got them to smile.  Yay!  We actually got pictures done.  (my goal is to do a set of family pictures at once a year and a kid photo shoot once a year... so far I've been able to, but who knows?  There's still time to mess that one up.) Thanks Sharon, Janelle and Mom!

Loving parents

Robertson's and water= dams and rivers

resting with Grandma Wilcox

Ada's "Minas Tirith"

Dancing to Uncle Son's music

Daddy makes a good playmate

loving cousins

We learned to play horse shoes... a favorite past time with Grandpa Ellis.

Played with best buddies

Played Sammy's favorite, duck duck goose.

"Became chocolate"

Made friends with baby Kat.

pictures of camping

Evelyn was so daring!  She was in and out of the water all day long!

Sam, "eating" lunch

Ada is the ultimate water baby.  She was in the water from the time it was warm enough(9-10am) til I said it was too cold (6-7pm).  She loved every minute of it and when she takes off her swim suit it looks like she's still wearing a suit... great farmers tan.