Fun Fun Fun in the Sun!

1)The whole family at Onion Creek, yes Jamie is sporting red gym shorts...stylin. 2)Baby G in the luxury seat in Arches National Park

3) Closeup of G eating his hat, he either ate his strap or slept most of the hike. He was an absolute angel the entire trip, especially with all the driving we did! 4)Jamie's sister Cindy and her husband Reed came with us. They were a huge help with the kids and tons of fun. This is one of the arches we visited. 5) Isabel's setup...although after the first hike we ended up ditching the stroller because most of the hikes, even the easiest ones had big rock steps to hike up. So Jamie carried her on his shoulders, and she even hobbled along by some of the arches.

Superman--Ready for Takeoff!

So Collin was in his PJ's the night before our big trip to the "Wild Wild West" (the kids watched an Elmo episode about the wild west and the desert and cacti--Collin called them castickes--so that's what we called the trip). He was so excited, he said he was gonna fly to the wild wild west and then ride some horsies and rope some cows with his "lasko" he was beyond thrilled to go where the cowboys live. He had left his cowboy suit (complete with bandana, hat, shaps, etc) at Gma and Gpa's so he insisted that we get it before we left. He's really into dressing up, as I've mentioned before. Anyway, he was sooooo excited to go!

Collin's Curiosity

So Collin has been reading a lot of books about the weather. Then Wednesday he got a dvd at the library about airplanes (kind of like Thomas the Train with faces) called Jay Jay the Airplane. The movie talked a lot about the weather. So this morning he informed me that I needed to help him make a moon and stars for his bat (a finger play he does) that only comes out at night, and that we should make a sunrise, sunset, clouds, rain, lightning, etc. So we did! Here's our masterpiece. Most of the ideas for the pictures were Collin's, I was the just the artist. While we were designing in thunder and lightning, Collin said, "Kaboom, that's the sound for a rainstorm and oh, and thunder too." Without missing a beat, he said, "Mom, do you know what rain's work is?" I asked him to enlighten me, "What does rain do for work?" He said matter of factly: "Growin' the flowers, and Makin' puddles, and Fillin' lakes and streams, oh, and vaporatin'"!

Everyone's SnuggleBug

Make sure you scroll down a bit, it was my catch-up day today. I have like 5 new posts today. Gavin sure likes to snuggle, and his brother and sister like to maul him, but it works out because he is so patient and mellow about it all. We all took turns snuggling our little hugabug...Well except for mommy. Lori, I am usually the one taking the pictures so I'm not in a lot of them...but I looked back through all the posts, and I'm actually in some of them, and I'm in the permanent pics on the right side of the blog.

Our Little Sweet Potato!

His bib says it all, "Mom-I am so not into Green Beans"! I tried beans first and he was sort of interested at first, cause it was a new taste, but not so much. Next I got out the Sweet Potatoes, this was a favorite of Collin and Isabel. He downed the entire tupperware container!!! He loved every single bite. He would literally growl at me if I didn't shovel it in fast enough, and if there was any hint of me setting down the container, he was on it...he almost grabbed it several times. He had orange goo everywhere...including his hair, eyebrows, and yes--even in his left eye. He kept grabbing the spoon and shoving his fingers in his mouth with it, and then he'd smear it everywhere. It was fun times. We sure love our little wiggler...We'll call him Wiggles number 2!

A Happier Little Princess

Now that she's gotten the hang of crawling, scooting, and yes even limping around, she is much happier, and I must say very resiliant! She is such a sweetheart. We sure love her and we're amazed at how little her temperament has changed, dispite this hardship in her life. She is just as happy and loves to play with her brothers and help mommy with cooking, vacuuming, and other projects.

Collin's latest!

When Elder Holland spoke in General Conference (this was after we had explained that President Hinckley had died and that we had a new prophet, President Monson):
Collin asked, "Who's he?"
Jamie: "That's Elder Holland."
Collin: "Is he a prophet?"
Jamie: "Yes, he's one of our prophets."
Collin: "Wow, well, if he's a prophet, that means we have a lot of prophets to follow!"

Another conversation, this time while Jamie was reading Collin one of his books about planets and stars, and in particular, the sun:

Jamie wrote:
Living Scriptures videos finally paying off...I was reading a book about the Sun with Collin, and I said, "If you look at the Sun too long, your eyes will burn out and you won't be able to see anymore."

And in a matter of fact way he said, "Well, then we'd have to get Jesus to put mud in them and then go wash in the river seven times or something..."