Catching Up

Oh goodness we have been totally slacking on our blogging. Daniel said he would update it every week...so much for that. Well it's official girls camp is finally over and it's only taken me a week to recuperate. Well girls camp was successful, there's always the drama of when you put that many women and girls together that emotions and feelings run high and it's just drama, drama, drama and then you add priesthood and there's more drama, drama, drama. Yes I admit there were times I was frustrated with my girls and our priesthood but my leaders were great! and my baby and husband were awesome. Yes I did take McKinley up to girls camp, I had to. She's finicky, she won't take a bottle at all even if I've pumped or formula she will not have it. Then she won't take rice cereal she finds it disgusting. So I talked with the stake and my leaders and they okayed her coming and she was an angel princess. She loved being outside and didn't fuss. The last day (Saturday) we were rained out and McKinley was done (well that's what I thought) she just wanted mom and nobody else, she was fussy and she's almost never fussy...come to find out she was teething. Yep that's right she got her TWO bottom teeth. That was a rough couple of days.

Speaking of teeth Madison has a loose tooth, one of her bottom ones. She wiggles it every day. She was eating corn and started crying we thought she had bit her tongue or cheek but her tooth had jammed into the corn and made it loose, after we told her that her tooth was loose she was excited.

Daniels sister flew in right before we went to girls camp and then left today. So we missed a week with her but we did spend a few days with her and Macy. We loved it, the kids (especially Carter) LoVe Megan and Macy. Even though we were gone to camp Madison and Carter stayed with Tate's (my mom was camp director for her ward) so they spend lots of time with Megan and Macy.

The Saturday we came back we went to the Davis County Fair. We've gone to the fair every year for the past 7 years because when I worked at Michael's the floral manager, Nicole, her kids did 4H and so they had pigs and goats in the fair and we would go to encourage and support them. I was upset that I might miss the fair because of girls camp but we went Saturday since we got home early. The kids loved it. They had a petting zoo. So they saw and pet a buffalo, bull, goats, pigs, yaks, and sat on a Brahma bull.





Do you see the look of sheer terror. But I thought it was an awesome opportunity and experience :)

They also had another bull which the kids touched



This one a guy was feeling it's neck where it has really loose skin and the kids went and grabbed onto it and felt it and Madison turns to us (my mom and me and Lindsay) and says..."It's just like B's arm" I thought we were going to die laughing. B is my 89 year old grandmother who sometimes watched the kids. We haven't told her yet but later today we're having a get together and we'll tell her then.



Also a couple of weeks ago we went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house the kids really enjoyed it. But it was really hot waiting in line.



Such cute kids...Madison kept singing I Love to see the Temple.

Anyway this post is already really long and there's probably alot more to catch you up on but I'll save that for another post. Oh one more thing keep us or at least Daniel in your prayers his last day is next Friday...another hit from the economy and is being laid off from American Express, so he's been scrambling for interviews and such. Thanks.

Until the next post....

Kindergarten & Elbow pads

So hopefully everyone read how I had a hard time letting Madison go last Thursday to walk to her class alone. Well Friday we get to school and cross the street and she starts to skip off and say bye mom when she turns around and walks back to me and tells me
"Come on mom, you can walk with me."
Well we start walking around to her class and I ask her
"Are you letting me walk with you because I was sad yesterday?"
and she answers
"Yes"
Ooaaah she's taken pity on me and letting me walk with her. Now I feel better, because I'm okay now with letting her go instead of her being independent and leaving me. If that makes absolutely no sense then you're not a mom, it will make complete sense if you're a parent especially a mom.

Now on to the elbow pads...

Well I recently changed purses and in my old purse I had some...well I'm getting ahead of myself. Yesterday Madison had a fever and a cough so Daniel kept the girls home while I took Carter to church (he wanted to go as I was walking out the door) now Sacrament meeting was hard...since I am the chorister and so Carter had to sit on the stand with me. He was walking through the choir seats during the sacrament hymn, he would NoT be reverent or let alone speak quietly and he's learned this new word that we are trying to beat out of him, so during the sacrament he said "mom, we don't say Fock-a" well it sounds like a very very bad word. I could have died of embarrassment, because I think the bishopric heard him. So immediately after sacrament I took him home because I still had stuff to do at the church so back to church I went (Alone yay!) and left Daniel with the kids. So after a peaceful relief society meeting which I haven't had in years I came home. I'm met at the door be McKinley because she was starving, and as I'm feeding her Daniel informs me that our son wants elbow pads. I look at him with a confused look because he has elbow and knee pads that came with his helmet for when we got him his bike. He then shows me what elbow pads he would like.

I recently changed purses and in my old purse I had some things in case of an emergency, well I haven't had to use them since the baby was born, so I had left them in my old purse. Well while I was at church Daniel has a tendency to lose track of some children (especially when he's preoccupied with the PS2) Carter comes down stairs and tells Daniel to put these elbow pads on him and as Daniel turn to Carter to put his elbow pads on he sees the "elbow pads" which are actually pantyliners.

So yet another example of the creativity of kids....I mean really elbow pads?! Hope that gave everyone a giggle. Till next time...which may be a while since camp is next week and I am completely stressed out!!!