Happy Thoughts from the Past Week

Happy Thoughts from the Past Week:

• sheep on the highway... lots and lots of sheep... this photo doesn't do it justice
• goblins
• arches
• switchbacks (yikes!)
• wide narrows
• sliding down & climbing out of canyons
• arch hunting! ooooohhhh, I LOVE IT!
• aching legs
• sunburn
• GPS
• squished Subway sandwiches
• Natalie's trail mix
• the letter Z
• we made it through the alphabet!
• sparkly shoes
• Arizona cousins
• Utah cousins
• Grandma & Grandpa willing to take care of 4 silly girls so their mom/parents could have great get-aways! (Curtis & Lindsay are in New York right now)
• Rebecca and I singing at the top of our lungs while driving in record time between home and Grandma's house, and back again
• being so sore when I got home I could barely walk once I climbed out of the car
• Rebecca got 100% on her kindergarten screening and no one even dared to suggest that I not let her go to kindergarten despite her late birthday
• Teancum missed me!
• James is Super Dad
• I came home to a clean house
• all my stuff made a big mess in the kitchen & living room
• the mess is still there
• I left my laptop in Utah! Uh-oh!!! That is actually a sad/stressed/mad-at-myself thought
• a soccer shed with a ROOF on it!
• boys soaking in mud, swimming in puddles, feeding pizza to dogs, and I wasn't there to see it
• mud all over the van
• soccer season is starting this coming week!!!

Classic Quotes from the Past Week:

• Rebecca: "I wishted that Curtis & Lindsay would let us bring Zoey and Skylar home!"
• Teancum: "You mean dog poop is a bad word?" Natalie told me this analogy that I'll use in a talk someday. You prepare some chocolate brownies to take to your seminary class/primary class, etc. and ask if anyone wants some. As you're serving them, you mention that you put a tiny bit of dog poop in the mix. "But you won't mind, because it's just a little bit of dog poop." You ask the kids if they still want to eat the brownies. Then you compare that to watching a movie or tv show that has "just a little bit of bad language" or other bad things. James told the boys that analogy and Teancum didn't quite grasp the meaning. Yeah, I guess dog poop could be considered a bad word...
• Teancum: "Mommy, your bread is like one hundred restaurants working to make bread... and you didn't even have to work that hard!"
• Teancum: "You should sell your bread. You should put it in a jar with a lock that has a secret code on it and then sell it!" I have to list these because my bread is probably the only thing I make that Teancum likes. Actually, it's probably the only thing I make that any of my family likes...
• Teancum: "It smelled like double triple poop!" James decided to wash 2 comforters, 2 sets of sheets, and 3 large coats in our small washer...all at once... and pretty soon the house was full of the smell of burning belt and a screeching sound. James was describing the smell to me and asked the boys how they would describe it, thus Teancum's comment.