Skyler's Birthday and Stephen's first day of School

Skyler is 3...sorry I meant to put pictures on here a week ago. He had a great birthday! So, after waiting for so long to have his first peanut butter sandwich, he didn't even like it. =( maybe it will just take time.

Stephen, Skyler and baby Kyaah.

Skyler wanted a "Raining Gumballs" cake. He really likes the movie Bedtime Stories where it rains gumballs. It didn't turn out quite like it was planned. The cake cooked crazy in the bowl, and I had to stick it all together with frosting instead of cut it to look more umbrella shaped. Oh well, he loved it. Note to self: no more mixing gumballs with cake.

Thanks to the play doh monkey, all our play doh is now a pea soup color. He loves all the gifts he received, thank you everyone, we enjoyed you coming to visit!

Stephen started preschool yesterday. Oh he is going to have a great year in school! He loves his class, and teacher. Everyone is so great. Here are some pictures from his day. (I got to go to school with him his first day.) Wahooo!!! What a cute boy!

Stephen loves his new dinosaur shirt.

Too many cute things for a kid to do at school!

ToDaY's FuN!

Ahhh, the fun and excitement! Today we took our new "Baby Van" for a little drive...

and went to feed the ducks. There was no parking at BYU on the street by the pond, so we skipped on over to the park on the West end of 500 N. (The ducks there have always been over fed, and never hungry when we have gone before.) Our luck, they were excited to see us!

The ducks ran toward us...it was so funny, the kids couldn't stop laughing.


Afterwards we played at the park, took a walk in the "forest" and took pictures of our flowers and pumpkin in front of our house. It has been a great day, and it is only noon!
Stephen's pumpkin seed from preschool grew and grew and grew...TA DA- a pumpkin!


Ah, so pretty.

The boys love their garden!

Saying our Goodbyes

Stephen kept asking when our car was coming home, and if it felt better yet...

No hun, our baby car is not coming home...

Stephen tried to hold back the tears when he reminded me he wanted to turn the car into a race car when he turned 16.

Skyler looked at the pictures of the car and said, "mine car." He just didn't quite understand that it was to badly crashed to ever come home... I wanted to cry too... my little car was my favorite in the world.

I decided that we would go visit our car one last time... the insurance company wanted us to remove the licence plates anyway. Maybe seeing the car in person, they would see it would be too hard to fix.

Stephen removed the licence plate from the front bumper while Skyler tried to fix the car...he took a toy screwdriver out to the towing yard. Cody was a good sport.

Skyler removed the licence plate from the back bumper.

The boys wanted just one last "drive" in our baby car.

We quickly fell in love with our rental truck...the only vehicle that the company had that they were sure 3 car seats would fit in the back.

My boys didn't want to give up "their" truck.

Well, we need to get some pictures...but that will come soon! We got our MINIVAN!!! Our prayers have been answered, We have had it for a while, (a few weeks) but I am still very excited about it. The kids have so much room!

We have also been blessed with a car (borrowing a car from my parents). Stephen can get to work, and I can take kids to school, and we are not rushing to get everyone everywhere all at the same time!

The Pictures

Ok, so here are the pictures you have all been waiting for...

First of all, I really am not so bad off. The extent of my injuries are not as bad as they should have been. I am really blessed. I know the Lord protected me.

My seat belt scratched up my neck...I was really red Saturday and Sunday...but really not so bad now. And most of the scratches are gone.

My head is red from where it got bumped, but no real bruise to be seen there. Just really tender.

My elbow must have taken most of the blow...it is the only bruise I have that is accident related. (I have a bruise on my leg from rescuing Stephen Friday night...when he climbed up on a table in our living room and tipped it over. I dashed to rescue him from being pinched between table and wall, and I bumped my leg on the table.)

The swelling in my elbow has really gone down a lot...

My poor car...

It did it's job in saving my life...

I will miss you baby...we have had some good times. I have owned you since Valentines Day 2000. You were a good car, I love you!

Thank You Wolf, Laura, Mike and Wind for coming to support me at the scene of the accident.

Thank you to all my friends that have helped me out...brought me dinner and movies and popcorn, pie and cookies to cheer me up, took me to take pictures of my car, took my boys so I could rest. Called or wrote to ask how I was doing. Thank you.

I love you!

Not so fun...Bumper Cars...

Today is a sad sad day, and I will have to go get pictures and post them, but I was on my way to my Taekwondo class this morning, and was hit by a guy running a stop light... (at least that is my version of the story.) There was a car ahead of me, it got through the intersection just as I was entering...and a car behind me that swerved to miss the accident, and continued through the intersection. (Neither of these cars stopped...sheesh! Now I have no witnesses that my light was green.) And neither of the gas stations on the corner have cameras that show the intersection.
I am lucky to not be as hurt as I could have been...
I am lucky that the guy wasn't hurt beyond his hand was a little scrapped up.
I am lucky that the police didn't issue any citations...at least I think that is a good thing for now...because 2 people at a yard sale said that his light was green...and the citation would have been mine because he had witnesses and I didn't.
I am lucky that my car stopped about a foot from hitting into a pole. (The impact into the curb actually made me think I had hit the pole.) Yes, I believe he was speeding...I seriously flew from middle north bound lane to West bound's right turn lane.

Anyway, we will see how sore I am tomorrow...(I am supposed to teach the RS lesson)...

4th of July

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY EVERYONE!!!

We had a great time celebrating Independence Day!

We are thankful for the opportunity to celebrate our great nation.

We are thankful for our freedom,

We love the beauty,

We love the country that brings so many opportunities to us.

Some of the fun things we did to celebrate were...

We saw Aunt Terri Perform,

We went to the parade,

and the shops on Center Street,

we saw the fireworks above the stadium...

and hot air balloons.

We woke up early and went to bed late.

It was a really great day, long but fantastic!

You know...Fireworks are great and all, we love them...

We love the bright colors flashing in the night sky.

But, the real treat is always the BALLOONS.. the HOT AIR variety that is.

Freedom Festival Provo 2009

The balloons touched...it is called a kiss, We think it is cute.

Once again... our friends Ron and Linda Dupee

Came from Las Vegas to play,

and brought their new hot air balloon.

(Only a couple of years old, I sure miss their red balloon though.)

Ron landed the Riatoh behind Smiths...just down the street from our house on the 3rd of July.

Ok...I admit, we love one Hot air balloon more than the rest.

We love the RIATOH.

Three little boys we know love them as much as we do.

Can you see the RIATOH?

We hope your 4th of July was as fantastic as ours was!

Life- with all the Toppings

I want my life with as many of the toppings I can get...

Many things in life have toppings. In my house, toppings are what make everything so special.
In my house my kids ask for...

*Ice cream with silly sauce on top...(chocolate sauce that is, not sure why my kids call it silly sauce.)
*Pancakes and waffles have to have jam on top.
*Kix with Cherrios on top.
*Cheerios with kix on top.
*Cheerios with raisins on top.
*Mac'n cheese with chopped up hot dogs on top.
*Crackers with Cheese and salsa on top.
*Toys with more toys stacked on top.


Anyway, you get the idea, my boys are quite silly.

My Favorite Toppings Are...

*Hugs with a kiss on top.
*Kisses topped with more kisses.
*Hugs with tickles on top.
*My lap full of a boy holding a boy holding a boy. (Big Pile of Boys.)
*Pictures of Stephen wearing hat on top of hat on top of hat.
*Stephen's insistence that painting is all about putting one color of paint on top of the other so they all turn black. (His creative little smirk is priceless...not so much the pretty colored paints turning black.)
*Skyler with stuffed animals on top. (He sees how many he can hold on his head at a time.)
*Cody applies kiss after kiss, and tops it off with a big bite in my cheek. (Yes his razor sharp teeth hurt, but his kisses are the sweetest thing ever.)
*Wolf and his super surprises...(never happy with just one, he has to stack a surprise on a surprise, (even if it is as simple as a movie he rented for us to watch with a candy bar on top.)

Yes, I will have life with all the toppings please...

Life's best toppings... March 2009

This is an old picture of Stephen and Skyler.

Cody is now crawling...officially on hands and knees, but still goes army crawl when he is in a hurry. He is also getting another tooth. This is #3 on the bottom. Wahoo!!! Go Baby Go!!!