Party People

We went to a ward party Saturday night. Jody was Clark Kent, I was Lois Lane, and Ammon was Superman. Poor Cohen didn't fit in with the rest of the fam in his chicken outfit. The kids had a great time running around in the gym. I lost track of Cohen for a minute and found him all alone sitting against the partition in the gym. He was happy and content because he had found some candy on the ground and had chocolate dribbling down his chin. Ammon loves the girls in are ward. He was running around with them all night long.

Ammon

Ammon talking like Uncle Alan. Make sure to check the blog post below.

Pumpkin Guts

We finally cut into our pumpkin tonight for Family Home Evening. The smell of fresh pumpkin guts bring back so many wonderful memories I had as a kid. Carving pumpkins as a family was one of my favorite traditions. I love how smells can take you back in time.
Ammon enjoyed the pumpkin carving but the one who really gets into it is Jody. He decided that when the kids get old enough to carve their own pumpkins we will still have to get one for him. I'm just glad I don't have to do it.

Last weekend Ammon went to a cowboy themed party. He got to ride a real pony. I had to post a picture from it. To hear a funny story go to my mom's blog.

Help Me!

When should you stop letting your kids see you naked? It seems like Jody has been on my case about this ever since I gave birth to Ammon. Ammon never says anything about us having different body parts and doesn't even notice when I am dressed or not. I wasn't planning on stopping this anytime soon until today. I was getting dressed and Ammon said,"Mommy my bum is not big like yours. My bum is little. Why is your bum bigger?" I just had to laugh! Now I realize that I didn't even answer him. If I am going to start getting these questions from him on a regular basis I will definitely be changing behind closed doors!

Recently my cousin Kadi posted on her blog about being bored. I have to second everything she said. Lately I just don't know what to do with myself. Yes my kids keep me busy with cleaning, bathing, changing and cooking. But they are both at the ages where they can start entertaining themselves. Cohen still takes two good naps everyday and goes to bed by 7:30. Ammon is the easiest kid and goes to preschool 4 days a week for close to 3 hours. So after I feed them breakfast, bath and dress them, and put Cohen down for his nap I have about two hours of free time. I usually clean for the first hour and the second hour I am reading blogs, talking on the phone, reading magazines or doing some other random thing. When Ammon goes to preschool I am once again putting Cohen down for a nap and have another two hours of free time. I know most of you are saying how do you have free time with two kids? What are you complaining about? But I just need something to do! I can't stand to stay home all day and I don't have money to be out shopping all day. If I had my own home I could spend the day decorating. Because of the recent boredom I have made attempts to clean out closets and reorganize things. I also have been going through cooking magazines and pulling out recipes I want to try. My next plan is to go through all of our clothes and put them on ebay. I could scrapbook, which I enjoy doing, but it is so hard to get everything out. Any ideas? I would love to take a photography or pottery class but I live in an area that doesn't have much to offer. I never thought that I would be counting down the days to go to Enrichment Night, story time with friends, Halloween parties at the church, birthday parties, and the list goes on and on! I long for having things to be at or go to. Don't get me wrong I love my life and being able to stay home with my kids but sometimes I just need something to break up the monotonous routines.

This crazy picture was taken when Alex left for college. I am suppose to be sad but I really just look insane. Ammon took the picture above.

Fall Fun

I love fall. This time of year makes me miss living in Provo. I loved Provo in the fall. Driving through the canyon and seeing the beautiful colors on the trees was one of my favorite Sunday activities. I just love to think about all of the fun holidays coming up. Especially anticipating the arrival of family and being all together again during the Christmas holidays. One of the funnest things is seeing all of our kids play together for hours and hours.

So last week ended up being beautiful. On Wednesday we drove out to the pumpkin patch in Blue Lake. We met some of our friends there and rode the tractor to the field where Ammon grabbed the first pumpkin he saw. His friends took a little more time in finding the perfect one. It must have been about 80 degrees out there but I really couldn't complain.

Thursday we went on a walk to Kmart where I let Ammon look at all of the Halloween decor for about 20 minutes. I ended up having to promise that I would get him some of the "cool" stuff he found, for his birthday. Otherwise I wouldn't have gotten him out of the store. We continued our walk to Round Table Pizza where we got lunch to go and took it to the park to eat it. That night I went to a Service Auction at the church where I won some pretty cool services. I won three hours of free babysitting, a dinner and a batch of homemade rolls. It was a fun night and a great activity. We spent this weekend hanging out with friends and relaxing.

Sunshine!

Over the summer I complained, complained and complained some more about the weather in Humboldt County. I guess mother nature heard my cries because this fall has been warm and beautiful. Two weeks ago we had 5 days of warm beautiful weather and I assumed that would be the last of it, until next year, but low and behold it is back for another week. Today the temp was 71 degrees and tomorrow it is suppose to reach 75. To most of you this probably sounds unexciting but for us it is simply unheard of! I have already tried to plan a few activities outside before we lose it again. Number one on my list is heading to the pumpkin patch.



Last weekend Jody and I drove to the Medford Temple for a youth temple trip. We drove up with four 12-13 year old boys. I have to admit I was a little disappointed because I wanted to have girls and hear about all the boys they like. Suprisingly the boys came through for me! We were about halfway into our drive when they finally turned off their ipods and started sharing all the gossip in the ward with us. It was hilarious, I had no idea young boys even cared about girls enough to talk about them for a full hour and a half. They had the future planned of who was going to marry who and who would be inlaws with who, even down to my kids!

Later that night I was able to get the gossip from the girls because I stayed with three of them in a hotel room. They too were hilarious! We stayed in a hotel that has a water slide. After a lot of work Jody coaxed Ammon into riding it. After Ammon went down the slide he was so excited. He came over to me and said, " Mommy I did it. I went on the slide with daddy!" Then Jody said, "Do you want to do it again?" Ammon said,"No!" and ran back into the hot tub. It was pretty cute. His friend Brayden was there and they enjoyed sitting on the chairs and watching the people come down the slide.

The only unfortunate part of the trip was that we all seemed to catch a cold while we were on it. As a result I have a squeaky raspy voice. Yesterday Ammon said, "Mom talk like a girl, you sound like a boy."

Deep thoughts by Ammon Joseph (SNL)

1. I was just waking up (thanks to Ammon) and Jody was in the bathroom. Ammon wanted to go downstairs but I wanted to lay in bed a few more minutes and I told Ammon to ask his dad to take him downstairs. Jody didn't want to so Ammon said, "It's okay mom he will because I'm the boss!"

2. Later that morning Jody was heading out to work and was saying goodbye to us and Ammon said, "You be a good boy at school today dad."

3. We were just sitting down to dinner and he looked at Jody and said, "SO, how was school today?"

4. We were at my parents house and Ammon said to my mom, "We brought you some jelly suckers." My mom and I did not understand what he was saying. Some kind of jelly suckers? He kept saying it over and over until I suddenly got it and burst out laughing. We had made strawberry jelly and brought some over to my parents. He was literally telling her that we had brought her some jelly and was then calling her a sucker! (If anyone knows my grandpa, he calls everyone a sucker, including Ammon!)

5. This one is for his grandparents. Yesterday we were driving in the car and he randomly said, "I miss my Grandpa Chuck, my Grandad Larry and my Grandmom Cindy." He knows how to say just the right things to make your heart melt. Later he started listing all of our family members that were here for Labor Day weekend and how much he missed them.

6. We went to a ward luau last night. When the were done doing a fire dance Ammon asked, "Are we going to open presents now?" I guess he thought it was a party. Later at home he said, "I had so much fun." I asked him where he had so much fun at and he said, "at the wedding."

These may not seem funny to some of you but he is only three and half of the humor comes from the expressions on his face.