Saturday our family bike ride lasted just more than a half a mile when Isaac noticed how squishy his back tire was, he stopped and then I could hear the air leaking out of it. Glass. Bummer. Bike ride over. So we found some fun dirt to play on. They are going to turn it into a beach (beaches are all man made in Mississippi) anyway it was a blast until the reservoir police lady started screaming at us, holy cow she was a beast, but she was on her little seadoo thing and she radioed her little officer buddy on the shore. We were back at the car by the time he found us and he was really nice but said we couldn't play on it because we might get hurt?????? It was a pile of dirt, but whatever, we really couldn't play on it because that lady was a control freak. I told Isaac wearing a bright yellow shirt and trying to throw dirt clods at the geese was probably more of the problem--or at least what got us caught!

Sunday we hung out with the Sheild's, they are great, we had a great time and Liz made a delicious dinner I hope to be able to copy someday. We had a good time visiting, and I think my boys emptied every toy bin they have (and we didn't clean up--I tried but Liz insisted we not worry about it.)

The week has kind of flown by. I feel like every time I take a picture its of the boys getting into mischief. Colt's a little too proud of the messes he makes!

 

My new rule is wash a pan before I use it! (And look how many frying pans I have, they're not great any of them but I'm still so spoiled! Remember how we survived all summer with one! I read Elder Teh's -April 2014- conference talk this week about Where our Treasure is, and not getting so caught up in all the stuff the world has. It was good and I really liked it--but its nice to have a few extra pans too) Anyway--Good Read if you have a minute!

Only my little Colt man can go from getting his ear ripped off and then shirt you see on the left to sheer delight sliding down with his brother on the right! These pics were all from the same trip down the slide.

He's a trooper and the kid is fearless when it comes to slides! He loves them.
What else? One of our primary kids got baptized. We took dinner to our neighbor who had surgery. We've been to the park of few times and we got to play basketball yesterday. Bout it...
Oh and awesome fun #1 dad took the boys to the CAT dealership. He's the best!

Oh and how could I forget...we're trying to tackle reading...just a little at a time. Cannon knows a U makes a "uh" sound and P makes a "puh" sound...so we can "read" or sound out the words "up" and "pup" up next is the letter C, his favorite, but he's still guessing sometimes on P so I can't rush or get ahead of myself (or him), he can do it though, I've just got to keep my excitement and ambition up. He and his stuffed animal Snowy Dog are learning together--we tell him he's Snowy's teacher--its pretty fun.

We have a walker!

We do have a walker but first our stake had a day of service. The video says you can embed it but all I can get it to do is the link :( you can watch it and see us on the news if you want :)

http://www.msnewsnow.com/clip/10582098/state-park-gets-makeover-during-annual-day-of-service

Anyway, it was pretty fun, I was a little skeptical a "Day" of service with 2 kids, but it turned our pretty good and Cannon and Isaac really did go from about 7:00 AM until 2:00 PM, Colt and I didn't make it that long, but still. Sunday we talked about service in primary so it really tied in great, it was a good weekend.

Monday the missionaries were sharing a thought with us after dinner and Colton stepped away from Isaac and toward Cannon, no hands! I totally interrupted the lesson and we clapped and celebrated.

Here's a couple different videos of those first teetery steps, well the one he doesn't walk at all but Cannon cheering "Go Colt!" was too cute to leave out!

Later Monday night Isaac took the boys shopping for my birthday, I thought that was super cute and it really did feel like we celebrated for 3 days because of that. Cannon came in when they got back and with those big blue eyes and raised eyebrows he whispered "We got you a waffle maker!" Isaac was right behind him coming in the door and said "Don't tell her! Its a surprise." I asked where they went Isaac said again that it was a surprise and Cannon said "We went to Ross!" It was funny. (And it worked I thought a waffle maker from Ross? They had gone to Ross but they didn't buy anything.) The next night I went to the fitness center and they wrapped presents, I had to be help by saying "Don't tell me." Once or twice but he really didn't ruin the other surprise. And Wednesday I got to open my presents. Isaac asked that morning which one we should open and Cannon said "The waffle maker!" Isaac was like "Oh buddy, you ruined the surprised." And then I confessed that he'd told me the other night. It was really fun though we tried out the new waffle maker that morning and my other surprise was new basketball shoes!

That was pretty fun. (After a couple weeks ago I was ready to hang'm up forever...but new shoes were pretty fun and we did go play Thursday and they felt good. My old shoes might have been good back in the day but I'm fairly certain that no basketball shoe is really built to last 15 years-even if I only play once in a while!) Anyway it was a super fun morning and day. Grama surprised me with some pretty flowers and getting my hair done and a pedicure and Isaac took care of the tending duties. I was super spoiled, all day long! It was great. I've been in Utah the last two years for my birthday which of course was fun but it was really fun to spend my big day with my husband this time, I love him, and he was so extra cute about it, we had a great time.

We had so much fun with presents I let the boys get in on the fun too with some shirts that I had put away for them.

 

We made a birthday project out of feeding Ayla's ducks. (They've been moved for over a year but we still call them Ayla's ducks)

 

 And the thing about having a birthday around our house is you have to have and excavator cake -whether you want one or not ;) - Luckily I saved the main body part from Isaac's birthday, if I remember right it was on his recommendation, and it was a good one. So when Colt fell asleep Cannon and I went to work "making the boom" we had to have one that worked this time.

 It didn't work very good but...we're making progress. (And I'm sure I'll have more chances to practice.)

That night Isaac had meetings but we couldn't wait for him to get home late to try out that excavator so Cannon sang to me and we went with it.

 And as a matter of fact we played with it for a couple days.

Other than that we just lay around and drink milk, or go to the park or whatever else we can dream up to do.  We're getting the most use we can out of the pool while its still open, that's been a fun surprise! We love to read books, and play in the sandbox, and...get it to mischief...we're really good at that one!

 

We might need to have a little less fun next week-I'm just kidding but this stink'n blog post took forever! (Mostly just fighting with that darn news clip) Oh well, it was a super fun week. We'll take it!

Aren't they cute, (this is usually the scene when Isaac gets up before me) actually when we stayed at that nasty motel a couple weeks ago when he got out of the shower the boys were both sitting on the bed watching TV and said to me "This is how easy life could be." True...but I still love NOT having TV and obviously they are not totally deprived.
Saturday was SUCH A FUN DAY but the crazy thing is-I didn't take a single picture, check my pulse right? We started out with a family bike ride complete with towing the trike behind  the bike trailer so Cannon got to ride around a bit too when we got to a better spot. It looked pretty silly but it worked. Colt fell asleep on the way back so Isaac and Cannon hit Home Depot day themselves by time they got back Colt was awake so we tackled the grocery stores (typical) and Walmart (unusually fun!) At our Walmart here when things go on clearance it ridiculous like was $15 and now it $13 happy clearance -so lame. But!!! But but but, once in a while, (its happened twice now) I've been at Walmart on a Saturday when they come over the speaker and say anything that is clearance is $1. Now that is HAPPY CLEARANCE! I got 3 new pairs of capri's and I'm only out $3 bucks, awesome. I don't mess around with trying them on for a dollar, I buy whatever size they have and hope someday I get back into it! (Still only out a buck) I wished I'd gone sooner-it was pretty picked over and since it was the 4th store I drug Colt to (2 grocery stores and the dollar store) he'd kind of had it or I could've  had even more fun! I love to shop IF I feel like I'm getting a good deal! The other bummer--or what saved us several more dollars one dollar at a time was I forgot my phone or I probably would have called everyone I knew and asked sizes. There was literally nothing left in the baby and boys clearance so I didn't get the boys anything but I had fun and that counts for something! I also snagged several t-shirts for a little primary project we have dreamt up. When we finished up that fun and got back we all went swimming, perfect water and the pool all to ourselves, it was just a great day!
Monday we went  back to Walmart (in all of my clearance shopping excitement I forgot soap and diapers that we actually needed!) But their little $1 tricks got me again. In the middle of the isle was a basket with $1 baseball pants, of course we went for that. (I could spent a small fortune $1 at a time, and people do, its keeping the dollar store open!) Anyway so our Tuesday project was of course to try out the new pants "like the players wear"  I can't take pictures when I'm the one pitching but we got a before and after in there, and we're still not touching bases???

But we're having fun. 

We've had the missionaries over a lot, I finally think we know them all. And we had our friends the Fernandes over for FHE, I am so happy they are here! Isaac loves them because they are from Brazil, I love them because we have friends in our ward that are similar to us again!!!!! YAY!!!! They have a little girl Julie that's Cannon's age and a new baby who's just a few months old. His name is Thomas-of course we like him ;) We are working on Head Shoulders Knees and Toes in Portuguese so we can sing with Julie! She's doing really well on English though too.

It seems like its been a busy week but I don't have that much to report.

Frog Hunts and slushies with dad-those are always favorites. (The slushies were actually first I insist its straight to the tub after touching frogs!)

 

I mentioned our little climber last week and I know you can tell by the look on his face I should have been rescuing rather than photographing this, but it was about the 12th time that day I'd heard that scream and made that rescue...I knew he'd be fine for 3 extra seconds. The wheels make its so he can easily push the tractor stool anywhere...but they keep rolling, bummer.

  

And this last picture is really gross but may the record clearly state that the meanest thing I do to Cannon is make him eat. Its obviously torture!

Bloggy Day snuck up on me today...
While I usually have something started or a reminder here or there I'm winging it today!
Last Saturday we went to a baptism, our ward has been doing pretty awesome this summer with the hastening of the work! Saturday a recent convert got to baptize his wife, pretty cool. Sunday was Ward Conference so Isaac had lots of meetings and I had one after church (each of us took a kid to our after church meeting) I was feeling pretty run ragged before we ever got to church-remind me I only have 2 kids, I don't know how people with more live to tell about it.
Sunday night Miss Suzanne (our neighbor) brought us over a little plant for taking her to the airport so the boys planted that Monday.

  

 (Yes Colt is IN the hole) When Suzanne was over as we were visiting we also decided to go in together on a BBQ, we're pretty excited about it! She bought it Monday, Isaac put it together Tuesday and we grilled burgers that night. Delicious!

 

Back to Monday they planted the plant and we just let them get super filthy because they were having a blast and our plan was to go swimming after anyway...it backfired when the pool was closed. Oh well. So we went to the park and played a little baseball until I was pretty much eaten alive by the mosquitoes. They love me. I hate them.

 

Cannon stayed in his swimming suit, put on himself, backwards, but here's the movie...I guess we need to work on a few things-like touching the bases, or home plate. 

 

Wednesday we had the missionaries over and it was good to have them back in our home. Our ward has 4 companionship plus a senior couple but the new rule is one companionship at a time for dinner. (I love the rule but I just feel bad because the little calender they pass around for people to sign up is basically empty.) Anyway these two sisters have Southern Utah connections so I was loving life! The missionaries really are my friends here! One is from Hurricane and the other has an Aunt (Chris Gunn Beachum) that lives in Santa Clara, she lived with her for a while and knows a lot of SC kids that I know older siblings of, needless to say we were fast friends.

Thursday we ventured over to the church to play basketball...I'm old...and out of shape...and mostly I just felt OLD after the first game my ankles were killing me, they just ached, plus I was hobbling around from the beginning because Saturday I landed myself a little treadmill injury. I was just running~trying to push myself, but those number don't lie, I was still going slow~ anyway I thought oh, that's a cramp in my calf, I tried to push through it but decided no that's a real cramp so I got off and stretched and drank a little water then got back on, I got back up to "Speed" (if we can call it that) and seriously 1 maybe 2 steps and I was completely crippled hopping on the other foot while I frantically turned the speed down. If felt like something with huge sharp teeth up and bit my leg and kept its jaws clamped in. I hobbled home and 6 days later I'm upping my own diagnoses, that had to be a strain of some sort! More than just a cramp! Anyway...
Other than that, I don't know what else, we have a little climber on our hands-Colt climbs on everything, and he turns all kinds of things into stools.  He's pretty good at getting to his belly and throwing his feet first to get off of things, I'm thankful for that but it's still dangerous and I have to keep on my toes!
Until Next Week!