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.

A goodbye to summer

As a last hoorah, we had one more camping trip up to Bear Lake for a family reunion with my moms brother and sisters.  It was a blast!  We always have fun at Bear Lake (unless it's pouring the whole time, the baby doesn't have any more dry and warm clothes, and we have to go buy some in a town an hour away, but that's another story from about two years ago... we also ended up buying some new underwear because while we were getting clothes for baby Sammy, Ada peed her pants at the store... nice).

We got there Tues night, at least a day and a half before anyone else... had another day with just my family, then another two with my cousins and their families.  I loved it!  Anyone who knows me... Bear Lake, for me, is heaven on earth... Bear Lake with the cousins and family that I've spent 31 years (my parents started taking me at 3 weeks old) of memories with at Bear Lake is amazing!  I loved catching up with cousins, missed the ones that are too far away to come, and enjoyed watching my kids make memories of their own.

Being a child nerd

Playing at the lake, Ada and Jer were making drip castles. Jer made a really tall one and Ada was still working on her castle when I went over to see how they were doing. Ada declared very firmly that daddy's was a chocolate factory and when I asked what hers was, she said, "It's Tiras Minith." It took me a second, "You mean Minas Tirith from The Lord of the Rings?" "Ya."

A mommy's story

Since everything that happens within my days falls in the scope of being a mom, I sometimes feel like I'm living in one of my little kids story books.

If Sammy drinks too much before he gets in bed he'll wake up wet.
If he wakes up wet we have to change his sheets, he'll also need a bath.
Playing in the water reminds him that he was watching a show about pirates.
Watching a show about pirates makes him want to play on my phone.
Reminding mommy about her phone reminds her to shower before her dr appt.
Going to the Dr's office reminds the kids that they can ask the receptionist for puzzles.
Seperating puzzle pieces reminds mom why we only have 5 puzzles.
Puzzles remind Sam that he has to use the potty.
To get there quicker, we go next door to the store instead of home.
Being at the store reminds mommy that she's out of vitamins.
Walking to the vitamin isle, the kids decide they want sushi and pears for lunch (sushi, really?)
Evelyn falls asleep before we get home to eat lunch.
Eating lunch reminds mommy that she didn't put new sheets on Sammy's bed
Sammy's bed reminds mommy that it's time to put the kids down for a nap and she sends them to go potty.
Getting sheets from the dryer, mommy notices that the washing machine has dumped it's water all over the floor.
Dumping the water on the floor makes mommy have to rewash half the clean laundry that was sitting unfolded in a pile.
Cleaning the floor, mommy remembers that the kids are still in the bathroom.
Going in the bathroom, mommy realizes that she should have cleaned it days ago.
Putting the toddlers to bed wakes up a hungry baby and we start lunch all over again.