I love to camp!

We went camping a couple weekends ago up northeast of Payson with Eliott's family!
We had such a fun time! Everybody got appropriately dirty and ate an obscene amount of sugar. So it was just like a camping trip should be. It was the first time we had gone camping as a family ever. I have taken Seth and Riley a couple times with my family when Eliott couldn't go and Eliott has taken the kids on father/son or Daddy/daughter outings. So it was fun to go as a whole family. We got there Thursday night and Riley and Seth decided they wanted to sleep in the Pop up camper trailer of Eliott's mom's. They had a blast in there. But I don't think anybody had as much fun as Lexi. She was SO EXCITED to sleep in the tent. She couldn't contain her excitement it was hilarious!! Lyddie had a good time to. she mostly walked around (still so excited she walks!) and sat in peoples laps. Although she loves camping chairs, she sat in those a fair amount of time. And the bottle in her hand is a fancy shmancy root beer bottle but it was too funny not to take a picture of! Seth enjoyed talking "nature walks" and he even got to shoot Papa Todd's BB gun! Riley played in the soft sand by the camp for a good portion of the weekend. The kids had a blast w/ Eliott's mom. She probably had almost as much fun! She would take them on little walks and feed them sugar. The kids obviously loved it!! Eliott bought me a hammock and it was OH SO NICE!!! So we both got to lay around in that for a little bit. It only took 10 minutes (no joke!) to sunburn me and give me an awesome farmers tan. So I had to plan when I could hang out it in. We had a great time and can't wait to go again!! Enjoy the pictures!

super saturday

So I am enrichment leader in my ward and we have super saturday coming up so I thought I would post our projects (email me if you want to do one and I can hook you up!!) (super saturday is October 25th and the money is due by the 15th)

Personalized soap. Teacher, Christmas, and Friend ($1.50 each)
Super cute collage frame, it will be 16X20 bring your own ribbon for $13 or we will bring ribbon for $17 there will be white brown and black paint

Glass etching, bring your own dish ($3.00)
Child size apron ($2.50)

These are paper mache letters, they come already black and stand on their own (the F needs to lean on the A) and they are 8 inches tall ($15 w/ paper and embellishments $12 w/out)

This is a cute calendar. There is vinyl on the back and your write on the front w/ a dry erase marker ($23.50)

the bottom block is about 10 inches long ($9.50)

This is a double sided decoration (one side Christmas the other Thanksgiving)($6)

Seth's B-day Bash!

So I am not gonna go and rearrange all these pictures so my story will go backwards!

Seth had a birthday a week and a halfish ago. He is 6! Crazy. Anyway we started out the day w/ 2 friends of his choice and an activity, I will go into that more at the bottom by those pictures. So he asked me for a Transformer cake for his b-day. Well let me tell you I like to think of my self as somewhat crafty but I am not artistic by any means. Whether it be a pencil, paintbrush or frosting, I can't draw. Soooo this was a job for Eliott!! He made 2 cakes and cut out the 2 guys in the middle and all the corners so it was 3-d ish. I guys the guys are the logo for the good transfomrer and the bad ones. I think he did a smashing good job (much better than anything I could have pretended to do!) and Seth absolutely loved his cake!

So after we had our morning of fun the evening was a family party and cake and presents and what not! He had a blast got tons of stuff that he doesn't need but loves and was appropriatley spoiled!
I do have to say this is the coolest thing ever! Eliott's mom and hubby made him a "treasure box" it has a lock on the front so nobody can get in but him (and of course us). She even lined the inside. Anway it is fabulous and he loves it and now he can keep all his treasures away from his sisters! Yay no more scratched cd's!!
So my new thing for b-day's is that the kid gets to pick 1 or 2 friends and then pick an activity to do. I just think the family party is the thing that will last and that way the family that wants to come, doesn't get uninvited just cuz they have friends over, and they don't have to come to a party where we do kid activities. Anyway, it worked really well this year so I think I will stick w/ it. So when I asked Seth who he wanted to invite he told me he wanted to invite Gabe and Carter since he asked Parker and Mathew last year, he thought the other 2 would like a turn! (I have such a sweet boy!) So we decided on bowling. I called the bowling alley in town and they told me they opened at 10:00 and no they weren't busy at that time on saturday mornings and no they couldn't reserve me a lane. So I figured it was fine so we went and picked up 2 VERY excited boys and get to the bowling alley only to be told that it is league time and there are no lanes. Well every lane was empty and they were still signing people up for leagues but he said we couldn't bowl until 1:00. So LaMe!! Let me tell you it put me into the worst mood! But luckily the boys were just as excited about Peter Piper. So we went and bought a ton of tokens and let them loose! They had tons of fun and got tons of cheesy prizes.

and of course they thought they were so funny to ride the tractor! It was hilarious watching them.

They all 3 picked vampire teeth and had to model them for us!

After we were done at Peter Piper we went to McDonalds and had lunch and then took the boys home. So all in all I think he had a ton of fun and was way spoiled! I can't believe my boy is 6!!

Tagorama

I am it! This tag goes like this...

7 things Jen would never say:

Scrapbooking is stupid, and I especially hate scrapbook night

I have all the patience in the world

I never need a break from my kids

I hate food!!

Whoever invented chocolate is such a moron.

I don't like crafts at all.

I hate shopping especially when I have money for clothes

7 things Eliott would never say

I love shopping, especially when Jen makes me try stuff on.

Chicken for dinner AGAIN, gross.

I love my 2+ hours of commuting time

I hate chocolate malts.

I am so stress free, it is amazing!

I hate fiddling w/ computers.

I hate when I come home and my kids all run up and grab my legs, what a pain.

Now it is your turn, everybody get ready, get set..... GO!

About time!

It is about time! Lydia has decided to act her age and start walking!! Some of you might be thinking "well, of course she walks, she's old" but oh no she doesn't! She started taking some steps wednesdayish. And now she walks I would say about 60% of the time. Little enough that all the kids still get excited when she does it! But oh man I am soooo excited! She turned 18 months a weekish ago, so yes it is about time she did it! The video is sideways, sorry!! But her little giggle as she goes is too cute!

Souvenir

Update on my nastiness. I went to Urgent Care on wednesday. I don't really care for this particular doctor. We had been in once before and I remember thinking he wasn't much help. So anyway, he looks at my nastiness and tells me it looks infected. So he decides it is a staph infection. (he didn't test it which I thought was odd) But he did say it didn't look like MRSA. When he said that I remembered getting a paper about MRSA when I was in the hospital w/ Riley. And of course I didn't read it!! So I asked him if I could have picked this up at the hospital and he told me "you most certainly could have" So there you have it folks, a lovely souvenir from the hospital!! Don't ya love it!!

He did give me antibiotics for the staph and then another one that would kill anything else I might have picked up. And can I just say one of them I have to take every 6 hours. Who can honestly do that unless it is pain meds and you NEED them? So annoying!

Any guesses?

So it started yesterday. I got a couple little blisters. No idea how or what. It is the most bizarre thing. And they don't itch but they are super tender. I think I will have them checked out tomorrow but for now, does anybody have any guesses as to what the heck they are? They are just on my arms and hands. Tops of my hands and on both sides of both arms. but none above the elbow.