Personality test:

We found this display of crazy cement boxes at an art museum and we thought it would be perfect- 5 boxes- 5 kids, so Mike told them to each get in a box and show their personalities and he'd take a picture...


This is what we got:

If you know my kids, you know how funny this is...Fits them perfectly! Double click on the picture to see it bigger!

"I love my boys!"

On our trip back from Spring Break and Utah for Grandma King's funeral, I looked in the very back of our van and Addy was hugging on her brothers. I asked her if she loved the boys, and she said over and over, "I love my boys!" and kissed and hugged them. I'm sure they LOVED IT!- She was so cute...

Spring Break 2010

No time to blog about this now...I'm painting the downstairs and doing fix-ups to sell our home in California. Mike has been transferred back home and we'll build our dream home on our 10 acre lot in Manti...FUN and CRAZY at the same time. I'm sad to leave California, which is funny, since I didn't want to come here. But I LOVE the people here and the beauty and my job, and MANY other things...But here's some pictures of our spring break...

Hollywood Walk of Fame- some of our favorite stars:







La Brea Tar Pits and museum:









The Beach:

Disneyland fun... (we met up with our good friends, the Reeds)

Easter pictures

Coast trip

Mike and I went to Sebastopol in California's Northern Coast for a Couple's Conference. Although I had to leave a day early because our little one was so sick, I did enjoy some R&R and some great time with my sweety. We had some inspiring classes, nice meals, and some fun relaxing free time. We stopped at the beach before I left and enjoyed some more time together (without kiddos! Fun!). Thanks to the conference planners and thanks to the Hodnetts for hangin' with our kids for some time, even though little Addy was really sick. It broke my heart when I talked to her on the phone the first night to calm her down and she was screaming and saying, "Mom- where are you? Mom- I WANT YOU!" It was nice to get a little break, but I was also glad to get home to take care of the little sick one and get her to the doctor.

I love the things Addy says that make sense in her 2 yr old world.

Like when something is hard, like getting a shirt over her head she says,
"It's Heady"-
meaning it is heavy.

Or when I ask her if she is sleepy and she says,
"No- I'm happy!"
Like as if there is 2 phases- sleep and happy. Wish I was always happy when I'm awake...depends on how much sleep I got, I guess. She doesn't know the word awake. Not sure if I want to teach her, it's so cute to hear her say she's happy.

Or Counting..."1, 2, 9, 10! 1, 2, 9, 10!"

Or when she insists on doing everything herself now.
Or when explaining something that belongs to her, she says,
"That's myes."
Because if it belongs to you it's yours.

And how she says,
"Pish"
for fish, and when we try to get her to say it right, she says,
"FFF...Pish!:

But My favorite thing of all is when she climbs up on my lap, wraps her little arms around my neck and says, "I wuv you" or, "I missed you!" in that little tiny voice! AAH- melt my heart! You are growing up girl!

Being Positive!

So this month I had a birthday. My hubby was very thoughtful about my gifts and I loved them. But one of my favorite things was something my little Sydney made me (she's 10). I wondered what she was doing all day, then went to get a tissue and all the tissues were taken out of the box. The box was missing...So I had to laugh a little when I opened this gift. Syd gave me a

"MOM's POSITIVE BOX".

At first, I thought it was for the kids to write positive things to me, but then I read the side instructions:

"- pick out one of the papers, -write one positive thing about your day,
-put it in the box (do it every day).
-In a year, you will pick one every day and read it-
it will help you to be positive".

I guess some days I need a little help in that area. I used to be a very positive person but with all the family craziness around here sometimes, I forget. Thanks, Sydney for such a thoughtful gift!
p.s. My teenage son didn't read the instructions and misunderstood what it was too, so the other day, I looked in and found about 15 notes from him saying, "Good work", "Good job for finishing the day so peaceful and positive", "Mom is so good-looking", "Mom is nice", "Mom is a positive boxful of wonderful joy", etc. I don't think I'll tell him...

Science Fair

Nathan did a project- almost all by himself for the science fair. He was determined to do it and talked about it almost every day for 2 weeks. Then of course, the night before it was due, he did all the work. He was so excited and got a great evaluation. It truly was a 2nd grade level, especially when I went and saw some of the incredible contraptions that his classmates the parents made for the fair. Proud of my little Nathy~

Bradley's Basketball season...

Not sure if we will try the basketball and wrestling seasons again at the same time. Can we say overscheduling? It just happened. But I think we all learned some things. Way to go Bradley for sticking with it.