She Never....

   Our teenage daughter is really a good girl.  She spends the majority of her time at home so we rarely have to worry about where she is or what she's doing, BUT often she does little and some BIG things that really push the parental buttons.  This is one of those little things...
     Just recently she complained that her water bottle was not in the exact spot of the fridge that it should be.  I quickly pointed out that if she put it away herself this problem would be solved.  She than informed me that she ALWAYS puts it away and NEVER leaves it out, someone just moves it once it's in the fridge.  I say, "HA!"  So this is the photo I took just shortly after this conversation and this isn't the first time (and I'm positive it won't be the last) since this conversation that this has happened.

Yes, this is her water bottle left out after dinner.  Curious!  (And I just might have texted this photo to her and demanded she come home from her friends house to put it away.)

    Now I'm not really complaining because Kayli is a helper and we couldn't live without her, but I just wanted to document that she is occasionally a LIAR!  Love you Keke!!

Fire!

    It's always nice to have a fire in the back yard which we did twice over the long weekend we had.

  I thought I'd share about McClane and how cute he was being yesterday.  I already posted about it a little on Facebook yesterday but those who might not see facebook I'll share again how cute McClane can be.  He is actually quite a good little helper even though he can also be a big stinker and mess maker too.  He regularly helps me do laundry, pick up toys and throws garbage away whenever asked.  Well yesterday he decided to help scoop poop from the backyard and got the shovel and rake out that Greg uses for that chore and when he couldn't quite manage to make those two tools work together he went ahead and just picked the poop up bare handed and threw it in the shovel which was pretty darn hilarious.  Then just minutes after this, and after I thoroughly washed his hands, he was in the back of Greg's work truck, climbed up on the roof and was jumping on it like a trampoline.  Naughty but I still couldn't help but laugh.  Then while Greg was blowing all the leaves in the yard McClane insisted on taking over and was blowing the leaves himself.

He's just too cute!
 

   So that's all I've got to share for today.  It looks like some yucky weather is heading our way so I need to enjoy this fine Saturday as much as I can.

Update and Hiking

    So it's been awhile since I updated the kid's pictures in my kitchen where I have them displayed so nicely.  So I asked my kind brother-in-law, Blaine, to come with his fancy camera and take a few shots of the kids for me and he did a great and quick job of it and I think they turned out quite nicely.  I've never had pictures taken one day and then have them printed and up in their frames the very next day and total spent, $10 bucks!  Blaine really was the bomb, he even came on his one year wedding anniversary which was especially kind of him.

Brock is 4 and a 1/2 and too cute!

Handsome Carter is 7.

Isaac is nearly 10 and the sweetest boy ever.

Kayli is 15 and a one photo wonder

Mark is 12 and quite the handsome young man

And McClane is about the cutest sad 2 year old I've ever seen.

As you can see McClane was far from cooperative for the photos but he's still cute!



 So that's the update and now here are a few of the many, many photos Greg took of his recent hiking adventures.  Mark and Isaac joined him on his latest one.

Aren't the colors just spectacular!

Rosie's turning out to be a great hiking companion.

Mark and Isaac are also great hiking buddies.

It's all about the journey, not a race to the top.

Nothing like a good freeze dried dinner along the trail.

Three cute hikers.

Isaac had a blast.

   So that's our photo update and hiking adventures.  Before you know it we'll be celebrating Isaac's birthday and Halloween.  We won't discuss how NOT excited I am for the coming winter weather!

It's official!



     It's official, this little guy is now 2 and is about the cutest 2 year old I've met in a long time!  We had his birthday cake, and the like, last week, but this is him on his actual birthday.  He also had his two year checkup a couple weeks ago and weighed in at 29 lbs. and is about 35 inches tall.  The doctor's visit was a bit abnormal for me.  All my kids generally enjoy visiting the doctor and rarely cry aside from getting their shots but McClane is definitely not like his siblings.  He cried the second I put him on the scale so I had to be weighed (JOY) and then hold him and the nurse than figured out the difference.  He then continued to scream when I put him up on the table to be measured and checked out, I was holding him down nearly the whole time.  But as soon as the doctor or nurse left the room he'd be totally fine.  Then the dreaded shots came and after all four were administered he was given a sucker and immediately stopped crying and was totally fine.  I don't think the shots even bothered him but having the doctor and nurse touching him was just too much.  He checked out healthy and fine and the doctor warned that he was just going to get better at climbing, running and getting into mischief and I told the doctor I didn't think that was possible because he's already quite a professional climber and general trouble maker but I won't let my guard down yet!
     The rest of our week has been normal and well.  Greg took Mark and Isaac hiking yesterday after school and they had a great time and then Greg treated me to movie and dinner.  We saw "Taken 2" and if you haven't seen the first one I'd recommend seeing it before seeing the second but they're both great, intense movies.  Liam Nesson is AWESOME!  And dinner was at Buffalo Wild Wings in Lehi near Costco and it was loud and a definite sports bar and the food wasn't bad but a little spendy over all but it was just nice to get out for a few hours and have a nice date with my husband.