Mommy Tag

I got Mommy Tagged.
I thought this was cute, Malia's answers were interesting though.
1.What is something mom always says to you? No Way
2. What makes mom happy? Us little kids
3. What makes mom sad? When daddy isn't in love with you
4. How does your mom make you laugh? By making funny words up
5. What was your mom like as a child? Did you look like me?
6. How old is your mom? 9
7. How tall is your mom? Like a mother
8. What is your moms favorite thing to do? Play with her kids
9. What does your mom do when you are not around? She watches TV
10. If your mom became famous what would she be famous for: Watching kids
11. What is your mom good at? making jewelry
12. What is your mom not good at? Nothing
13. What does your mom do for her job? the hospital
14. What is your moms favorite food? Sloppy Joes (we had that for dinner)
15. What makes you proud of your mom? Gives me whatever I want
16. If your mom was a cartoon character, who would she be? Ice cream maker
17. What do you and your mom do together? Play Go Fish
18. How are you and your mom the same? Have the same yellow and brown hair
19. How are you and your mom different? Eyes are differnt color
20. How do you know your mom loves you? I just know
I tag... Paula, ShaRee, Shemri, Shannon, and Kristen

Long Month

So it's the beginning of a long month. Ian left last night for the first day of Hunting Season. We are just hoping and praying that he gets his deer and elk soon so that we can enjoy some weekends with him. I really miss having him here at night, especially one like last night. Gunner woke up at 2:00, I think having a bad dream because he was saying "the water is getting me". Lately, if the kids do wake up, Ian is usually the first one up (which I appreciate a lot) he just puts them right back in bed and they go right back to sleep. If I ever go in, Gunner wants me to stay with him, and when I don't, he cries and cries, like last night. But last night he went from saying Momma! to Daddy Daddy! I felt bad and had to go back in. Just thank goodness for "Ma's" stories. (My mom and dad recorded telling stories on a CD for all the grandkids, and that's how they go to bed) I turned them on, and he stopped crying. The only problem with that is Gunner likes it loud! Lately he has been pulling the CD Player up on his bed so it is right next to him, and then turns it up and down until he falls asleep. Last night I was too tired to care and it was better than his crying. And then because I let them go to bed a little later last night, and he got up for a little while I was sure that he would sleep in! Nope, 6:30! So I put him back in bed with Ma's stories again and got another 45 minutes of sleep.

We're Back...Again

So we just returned from a week long camping trip. It is the last that we have planned for vacations. We have been gone so much! It's actually nice to be home now and not have any plans! I am going to try to catch up from the Family Reunion we went to 2 days after we got back from Utah. It was the Weaver Reunion on Ian's side. It was in Southeastern Oregon. So we made the almost 6 hour drive right after our 16 hour drive back from Utah! The kids were little troopers considering! We joked with all the traveling we have done these past few weeks, that Gunner (with his potty training) has left his mark all across the state of Oregon. He has perfected the find a rock on the side of the road to go on, and get right back in the carseat. Thank goodness for boys and the ease of going potty on the side of the road!
The reunion was at some of the relatives property by Silver Lake. We stayed a few miles away at Summer Lake Lodge in these cute little cabins.





It was right next to this little pond so the kids got to fish for the very first time! Malia was all over it, and loved it! Gunner on the other hand got kind of freaked out, but we finally got him to touch the fish.



We also went on a few hikes in the blistering heat I might add! :) The first was to Crack in the Ground. It was just that, a 70 foot deep 2 mile long volcanic fissure. It was so nice to be down in the crack because it was so much cooler!!








Another day we went on this wild goose chase pretty much looking for these supposed fossils, but we couldn't find them after walking really far out in the middle of nowhere in the heat and dust.

We also hiked this trail where we saw a bunch of petroglyphs, but that's how cool they were, we didn't take any pictures, or maybe we left our camera in the car. Again this was in the blistering heat. :) Gunner fell asleep in the backpack on the way back to the car, and I think we all felt like that too!
On our way home we stopped at Fort Rock.

There was this little museum (that was closed) of the Fort Rock Village. It's a collection of homestead buildings from the early 1900's moved there to preserve them from vandalism.


And the kids were just happy to get out of the car any time we stopped!

Just Tell the Truth...

Ian told me this story. It happened while I was at work. Ian let Gunner play on the swing set in his nicest pants. When he realized that he had grass stains and dirt all over them he said "Mom is going to be mad at me!" Malia came over to him and said "If you just tell her the truth then she maybe won't be so mad." Ian said "Oh is that how it works?" Malia said "Well I have never tried it, but I think that if you just tell her the truth she won't be so mad."
So she has listened to me!! Whether she has done it or not. It's nice to know she understood. I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but we have a lying problem big time in our house, and it's not just Malia! Gunner is as bad! Everything is "Lia" did it. How do you teach them not to lie?

Week 2 of Utah Trip

So It always seems that we do a lot of fun things after Ian leaves. Probably because he comes when there is a big event and we are so busy, but then has to go home, and then it is more relaxed we can just do the Enterprise things. We always have to do a trip to the reservoir, and this time we had a picnic in the campground and hiked on the honeycomb rocks. We were glad that Colten came along!













Then we went to St. George to be at the court house for my brother Rand and Shemri's adoption to be final. Braden was so cute! We are glad he is officially part of the family!
After the Courthouse, we all went to a place called Jumpin Jacks. It is this awesome building with all these blow up slides. The kids had fun, but I think the adults had more fun! Unfortunately at the courthouse Gunner did a head plant into the cement when he was racing Jake and got a huge goose egg and scrape, and that is what is on his forehead. Malia was the perfect age for this, I could not keep up with her! That is why there are hardly any pictures of her. She was a wild women going down the slides.









Then we left and got lunch and went to Tai Pan, but we didn't stay as long as I would have liked because Gunner was having issues with going to the potty. And by then I was remembering why I could not live in St. George! I am not used to the heat! I was about ready to pass out just going between the air conditioned car to the air conditioned building. But what did we do next? We went out into the heat once more! They have built this new little water park thing in St. George so we met back up with Rand and Shemri and her sister Ali for the kids to play in the water. It was a cool little place for the kids and there was even a little bit of shade. It was fun, even though I thought I was going to die of heat :)





Another day we decided to do something where it was a little more cool, and we took my Grandpa up on Cedar and Kanara Mountain. He used to work up there in a mine when he was in his early 20's before WW2. It was so interesting to hear all of his stories! I really enjoyed it, and it was amazing how much he actually remembers. We also stopped at a the lava caves where I haven't been since I was really little. And we had a picnic, which is Malia's favorite part.












My dad has an old feed tower by his store and every year there are baby owls up in the top, my dad and Colten decided to go check because they had heard them. When they got up there (it is a really high climb) they realized the owls weren't babies anymore but there were 9 I think they said up there. They caught one and dropped it down so we could see it, and then we let it fly away.









The last day we were there Rand and Shemri took Braden to the temple to be sealed to them. I was planning to go, but realized on the way down that my recommend had expired in July and it was Aug. 2. I should have just tried to go in because my grandma was in the same situation, and they let her in, but oh well. They are such a cute little family! Then they took us all out to eat at Golden Corral. We were glad that we were atleast there.






Thank you Grandpa and Grandma for letting us stay for so long! It was a fun trip!