Just a little doting and bits of news....

It was good to have another weekend at home to get some more projects done. Joe worked in the yard and the garage most of the day while I did some work inside and prepared my lesson and music for Sunday. Joseph made the kids lunch and we left them by themselves to eat. (I know bad, bad, bad!) Things were quiet, so I stepped out of the office and looked into the kitchen to find Aaron sound asleep at the counter. Poor guy!


Joe told the kids that we will be going camping in May for the ward campout, so on Sunday afternoon he thought it would be fun to have them practice sleeping in a tent. A little excited? Yes! All three played in the tent all afternoon and then Brynn and Abby slept in it. We were surprised they lasted the whole night. Abby came to our room this morning beaming with pride that she had slept the WHOLE night in the tent.


Joe has been really busy at work with the remodel, The basement flooded twice, so he was in his suit (not his swimming suit :) he wears a suit and tie to work everyday) with rubber boots helping the maintenance supervisor and the plumber figure out the problem. Turns out both times were tile from the demolition that got caught in the drain. Frustrating!

He's had a slow couple of months, so he's working really hard to get things cranking by the end of the month. He's determined!

Our funny kids: On Sunday I made it to church late with the kids so I missed the announcements, but that's okay we have someone in our family who remembers and recalls everything that goes in her ears. We were in the van for no more than 2 seconds when Abby said at lightning speed, (read with a slight lisp and throw in a few w's for a few r's, and don't take a breat). "Mom there is an Easter Eggstravaganza at Pioneer Park on March 22. We need to bring our own eggs, we color them at home but only if you want to and then we bring them to them to the park for the rest of the kids to find theres going to be some candy eggs and theres going to be some colored eggs and theres going to be the kind of eggs you eat and you can decorate them with your family and then bring them to the park but its not tomorrow it's next week I mean next month and you need to bring your basket so you can put the eggs that you colored into your basket." She repeated this about 10 times to me throughout the afternoon and then made sure that Joe heard the word when he arrived home from meetings. It's so funny, you have to be careful when you ask her what story she read in pre-school because she will repeat the story VERBATIM back to you. We often have to stop her for times sake. I wish I had a memory like that.

Brynn is really taking off with her reading and writing (and math) it is so much fun to watch. She leaves notes all over the place, and is constantly "making books" by stapling papers together and writing a story to fill the pages. She starts a new art project before I can clean up the last one. But lately her notes have been making us laugh. A few nights ago she wrote a couple of notes on cardstock and placed them on our pillows. The notes read, "Go To Bed! Dad!" and "Go To Bed! Mom!" Last night while she was trying to sleep in the tent, she brought us both notes that read, "Dad you can't tok. but wisper!" and "Mom you can't tok. but wisper." She's learned about apostrophes but they are as big as the letters themselves. :) Her newest was the one she put on the basketball standard in Aaron's room, "don't use your feet!" she said she was worried about people kicking the balls up through the net instead of dropping them in the net. Thanks Brynn! I love her so much!

After something the kids saw today in the parking lot of the drugstore we had a chat about putting harmful things into your body and making choices that can result in not having a safe place to sleep, eat, and live. Abby said, "Yeah mom I know what it's called, they're not following God's diwections!"