Kids' say

Dexter's new favorite phrases are, "Not really," and "Stop talking."


I told Spencer (age 11) to say, "I'm a big kid now." (Those that are old enough will remember the Toys R' Us ditty.) I don't remember why I told him to say that, but he said, "No, only little kids say that."

Baby Update

Well, I can't help posting a baby update in a place where I know I won't lose it.
Trevor is growing so fast and working on his skills! He popped his first two teeth through last month. He's seven months old now and he is definitely crawling forward with purpose. He has made it from the living room into the kitchen and the bathroom.

He can say 'Ma' when he's sad and 'Da' when he's happy. He likes to make raspberry/spitting sounds, sometimes to the point of looking like he's foaming at the mouth. He also makes some pretty good snorting sounds, especially when he's laughing.

He's up to 23 pounds already. His eyes are so dark brown, you have to look closely to distinguish the pupil from the iris.

Home Improvements

This is to explain my lack of blogging during the month of August.
Before:

After:



This bathroom wasn't the only part of the house that got destroyed and rebuilt. We replaced sheetrock, along the outside walls, in all three bedrooms, because of mold, and replaced the last 5 windows in the house that weren't already double pane and removed the carpet from the kids' bedrooms, and now the outside is being re-stuccoed. I'm not even sure that is a word, but that's o.k. So, it's been pretty much an all summer long project, first cleaning out the garage and my Dad & Mom built awesome new shelves in there. Then, we cleaned out the bedrooms and living room. Well, some of the bedroom stuff got put in the cleaned out living room and garage. We almost have the kids rooms put back together, with a fresh coat of paint, too, but, they both need curtains now, and shelves, and...
It is the construction project that never ends...

I'm a Picture!

Take a picture of me!

Why I Love Ikea

Yep, this is the reason I love Ikea. I don't have to put my baby on the floor while I use the bathroom. How can I resist nibbling on those cute little toes right in front of my face!

Adventures in shopping in a small town

You also know you are in a small town when...
directions include the words, "You know that street with the stop light..."

We were looking for a bookstore.
Well, you go down Main Street and turn left on Center Street (the one with the stop light) and down a little on the left, you find:

You know you are in a small Utah town when...
the only bookstore in town sells LDS books inside an auto shop and it was closed for four days while the owners were away for a family reunion; it said so on the gate.
There is a separate Scrapbooking store in town, but we didn't go there, because we didn't think they'd have the book we were looking for; had to go an hour away to Moab instead.
However, in Monticello, we found some good books at Cindy's Seconds, a nice little thrift store and the only place we found to buy clothes in town, although I heard rumors that the Hardware store had some clothes, like swimming suits.

I love to see the Temples!

We saw three temples on this Utah trip, well, if you don't count Salt Lake and Draper and Bountiful, which we could see in the distance, but didn't drive to them and stop.
Monticello was the first. We could see it from our Inn window, (after we switched Inns on Monday).

It is a very small temple, but very beautiful.


Oquirrh Mountain Temple is currently open for the public to tour, so we did!

The Angel Moroni already got struck by lightning. I was going to ask someone what would be done to prevent that from happening again, but I guess I was too worried about keeping our large group together and not losing any small people, that it slipped my mind.

It is a smaller temple, too, but the way it is built makes it very majestic.




Logan was the last temple we saw, though we didn't really stop there either, so this isn't the best picture since it was taken from a moving car.