sorry no pictures today, I tried!

So i thought i could plug my card reader for my camera into a computer here in Idaho, but it is not gonna happen that way. Apparently i would need to install something to make it work on someone Else's computer. Anyhow I have great pictures to be seen at a later date, ha ha.

We drove to Boise and spent the night in a Marriott on Friday. It was a great hotel, very impressed. We usually just stop and ask what is the lowest rate they could give us since we are driving through and trying to decide whether to get a hotel or keep on driving. So far so good. We have gotten a great deal the last two trips through. This has been the plan ever since we booked a super 8, and it was filthy and disgusting. Surprisingly the 15 or 20 dollars more is so worth it to seek out a great hotel along the way.

We also decided to adventurous and drive through arco and see craters of the moon instead of staying on the freeway. It was definitely a good choice, the kids liked learning about volcano's. The scenery was definitely better than the stretch of I84 to pocatello.
Anyway we arrived to a yard full of swimsuit clad cousins and aunts and uncles. The kids quickly changed and joined in. I have a sweet video of the dads making waves in the pool and then jumping in them. I think the guys had more fun than the kids.

Cole gave his mission report Sunday, and of course that was awesome. He was an excellent missionary. Wyatt was up from LA , and that was fun to see him. We have a fun time when everyone is together.

Matt flew home to work this week and will be back for the 4Th of July. We are enjoying the sun, and heat. Funny thing is that it is scorching at home this week, and we are here. We spent most of the day in the pool again, can't beat that. My kids are not going to want to leave.

packing

so we have been packing the past few days, or at least trying to get things together for our trip. . . so I let the boys pick out their suitcase or bag, and started telling them what to put in the bag. We then got distracted and when i opened his suitcase today it contained some underwear, socks, both of his blankies, two pillows, a book of mormon, a ds charger(no ds), one pair of jammie bottoms, a hat, and some various toys(this is H by the way). He is cracking me up. I guess it is one way to find out what is important to your kid, eh?

Oh and I probably should add another story since this kinda works as my journal. I was putting sid in the tub yesterday when matt's mom called so i left the room and was changing laundry. . . when i returned I found kayser in the tub fully clothed, and not only that he was poopy. So that was awesome and fairly funny at the same time. I have to give myself credit for not getting upset and just laughing at the situation. . . I struggle with that at times.

I am back. . . kinda???

yah yah, I know it has been a while. I am a slacker. . not really. I got back monday from Atlanta, and it was fabulous. I had a great time with my www.girlsof94 weekend.
We have been trying to get ready all week to leave for Idaho, Cole got home tuesday from his mission in Independence missouri. I can't wait to see him, and can't wait to introduce the kiddies since they don't really remember him, ha ha.

Then we will be off to watch Taela get baptized, and to melt in the summer heat until we have to come home at the end of July. Yah, you heard me right, we are going for a lonnnnnng time. Can't wait, wish us brown skin and sunbleached hair!!!!

We are leaving this sun forsaken town, ha ha. And will be back for relief when we are tired of the heat.

Go Boston!!!

So hallelujah that the lakers got beat. I love Boston, and love the underdog! Lakers are old news, its time for some change! wahoooo!

And while I am on the topic of sports, tiger woods was crazy on Sunday, and even crazier on Monday. But I think I was secretly rooting for the other guy. How exciting would it have been for him to win his first major and againts TW. It was not to be though, he didn't have the experience to pull it out in the end.

Weather Report

Yep, it was overcast today, but didn't see much rain which was nice. Is it scary that I had to turn my heat on this mornng since it was fifty degrees inside. And if the sun isn't out it won't warm up. oh well we are headed to sunny skies soon!!!

We went to h's preschool preview tonight, he was so excited he could hardly stand it. And the poor kid was so desparate for attention he was constantly looking for praise for everything he did. He seemed alot older than the other kids. . . not size but socially. I hope this is a good fit for him, he needs a good program.

Summer was here today, but will it still be tomarrow???

What a fabulous sunny day. I think we were outside from the time kids left for school until bedtime. You know when the sun shines here you take advantage, and leave everything else behind. It comes and goes in the summer, and last summer rarely came. So we all wore ourselves out. Gotta love that feeling.
I hear it is suppose to rain tomarrow again, so I am happy i left the dishes and laundry for another day. I am sure we will get our fill of warm weather when we go to Idaho and Utah next week, that is hopefully the plan anyway.
We are bound and determined to get baked this summer one way or another so we can handle our grey skies here.
After a month visiting family we should be ready to handle being far away from them too, haha.

polka party green. . .

I know. . . I already showed one. . but we did another for squid's little friends bday. So here is the other, I am putting a pic. on painted crate.

saturday night fever

So we have been slightly insane with it being June, and still rainy and cloudy 99 percent of the time. So today was great, the kids were out playing and swinging in the backyard. At times I wonder why we worked so hard to get the backyard in because the rainy soggy grass isn't useful most times, but when they are able to get out and play it makes it all worth it.
I should have titled this spring fever, even though its June, its still spring in washington. I am not sure I will ever get used to it, but we will keep working on it. Matt keeps reminding me it is my attittude. . . I know, I know. . yadda yadda.

I got my hair cut today for the first time in like six months so I feel pretty good, a cut and color will always boost moral, I went short of course, ha ha.

She Loves Me soooo much! ooh laa laa!

We are driving in the car the other day when Hayden says "Mom, Kelsey loves me , and I don't like it"

"What do you Mean", I ask

Well she kisses me on the lips. . .

"Really", I say

"Yeah, I found her pink ball and she kissed me on the lips and told me she loved me"

hmmmmm. . .

Polka Party Pink!

I made a growth chart the other day with polka dots, and I thought it was fun so I put a picture on www.paintedcrate.blogspot.com

So, the Piano is up!

So I have been meaning to put up a picture of the piano we got on craigslist for FREE. We went to look at it monday night, and our jaws touched the ground when we saw it. There wasn't a picture in the add, but it said it was in great shape. I never ever hear someone describe a free item as great . . . so we went with the whole fam in tow. And it is perfect especially for the price, hehehe.

Our friend cam was so kind to bring his truck and come help matt load the monster and unload it.
I am excited to finally have a piano in our house, yeah!!!

This tastes like. . .

I know, I know... I am always telling gross stories, but I can't help it I have four very small children. What can I say.
We had so much to do today, and while we were out we went to my favorite Hawaiian BBQ L and L's. The kids have never been, so I thought it would be something different. Anyone who knows Hawaiian plate lunch knows that your BBQ chicken comes with rice, cabbage, and some macaroni salad. This is typical. H saw it and assumed it was mac and cheese, and was seriously stoked. So I put some on his plate, and he tasted it. .

As he spits it back out he covers the side of his mouth and leans over to me and whispers, "Mom, this tastes like private parts"

I say, "what do mean?"

H says as he points to his rear end, "this private part, that's what it tastes like"

I was so trying not to burst out laughing. First of all where does a kid learn something like that because I haven't ever heard anything of the sorts at the house. Second, I was dying to but didn't ask him, "so how would you know what private parts taste like anyway?" Thirdly isn't it hilarious that he referred to it as private parts instead of just saying it, because believe me I know that he is very familiar with all references of that area. I wonder if he thought he was being polite in a public place by controlling his potty words and by whispering. Matt would understand when I laugh also at the whispering because I don't ever recall H whispering, he is a bull in a china shop at all times. Oh how those funny little things make my day. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh