Happy Labor Day!!
As you will soon read, we spent the weekend at Daniel's Summit Lodge.... this is our back deck where we enjoyed the nice, cool breeze rustling through the green trees....
Here are Gma and Gpa with the kids and a ginormous bear out front the lodge. When Brennan saw it he stood and stared at it, growling ferociously with all the terror a two foot 6 inch toddler can muster. Very cute. We also saw a puppy in the parking lot and Bren said "Wuff! Wuff! Wuff!" We didn't even know he could bark.

We hope everyone had a good day off. We finally took a break and are doing what Labor Day was intended for! Rest.

We had a really fun weekend. Kwint headed to the cabin with Kris and the boys and I went to Daniel's Summit with his parents. We stayed in the Daniel's Summit Lodge, which is a log cabin style hotel with a cowboys and indians theme. It was so nice to have a break from the heat. We went to Swiss Days in Midway and played in the grass at the lodge on Saturday, and after Kris and Kwint got back we went to dinner in Park City. The weather was perfect and it was so beautiful up there! We so love the mountains... so why, you ask, do we live in the desert? Good question. There will come a day when we move back up North, but we gotta finish what we started down there first.

Yesterday we took our time leaving the lodge, went to church in Heber and when we got back to Layton we played games as a family and relaxed. Today we have done absolutley nothing. We haven't done nothing in a really long time and we really needed the rejuvenation.

Now, for the usual funny kid stories.... Brennan, or "Bruno" as I call him lately, has been destroying everything in his wake. He has been getting spatulas and serving spoons out of the drawers, walking over to Kaeleb and swinging them wildly as if he wants to swordfight. Poor Kaeleb raises his arms yelling "No, no hit! No, no hit!" and Bren just laughs because he thinks he's playing a game.

Before I tell this story, let me say something in Bren's defense. He is the sweetest, most loving baby and never does any harm on purpose. He is so much fun and we all (including Kaeleb) think he is hilarious and laugh all the time at his antics. He just loves to have fun and thinks life is a game. He gets so excited about things that sometimes he's a bit over-exuberant.

On Thursday while I was packing Kaeleb brought me a toy that Bren had broken. He was visibly upset and said, "Look Mom! I found it just like this and Brennan did it!" I said, "Oh, I'm sorry Kaeleb, he doesn't mean to, he just doesn't know any better yet." He said "Well, don't ever have another baby like that one!"

I forced back a smile and said, "Kaeleb, I don't have any control over that, it's up to Heavenly Father." He resolutely stated, "Then I'm saying a prayer!"

He went to my bed and kneeled down. He began to pray, very sweetly at first, "Dear Heavenly Father, please don't send us another baby like this one. When you send another one please make it a calm one, "-at this point his voice became louder and more firm- "because this one is crazy and does things that are not good. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

I had to leave the room so he wouldn't see me laughing. He felt better though and I have been laughing ever since about it.

I sure do love my guys.