Some highlights of the week...

Frist, the funny things they say...

If any of your kids watch special Agent Oso, you will appreciate this. Kaeleb had a bowl of food on the counter which he was finished with and was about to take to the sink when he lost his balance. Food went flying everywhere. He looked at me, waiting for a reaction. For some reason, this time I did not react with my usual "Oh Kaeleb!! Pick it up now!" I simply stared at him, waiting to see what he would do next. He smiled slyly and said "It's all part of the plan-- more or less. OOPS!"

I love to listen to Brenny talk, because he still doesn't say the C or G sounds and things sound so funny. While looking out the back window I said to Brennan, "We are going to get a backyard there soon, won't that be fun?" He said "NO! You tan't! Dat is my darden!" I said "Your garden? What, your weed garden?" "Yeah, my weed and dirt darden."

And, the funny things they do...

Kaeleb won a trophy at Iddy Biddy basketball. He was sooo excited. He said "My first trophy!" He carried it around all the next day and made a spot for it on his shelf. He said "It's gold because I did my very best, right? If I only did sorta my best it would be silver, and if I didn't do much of my best it would be bronze."

Kaeleb came running to me shouting, I need my dinosaur costume!" I said, "Kaeleb, you were three when you wore it. It is too small." "No, mom!" he replied, "It will fit." So, I relented, and it was a bit small, but it still zipped. Then Brennan piped up, "I need my tiger costume!" to which I laughed-- "Ok, so Kaeleb can squeeze into the costume he wore when he was three, but you were only 6 weeks old when you wore this. You couldn't even fit it on one leg." Well, he insisted, and as you will see, he did fit it on one leg. Two legs even. My how they grow. They played Dawn of the Dinosaurs for hours that day.



We had the Millers over for FHE and Kwint was in charge of the lesson... We were well entertained by Captain Moroni with his Title of Liberty, Nephi with his broken bow, and Ammon with his sword.



As far as the grown ups go, we are busy getting ready to move. Kwint is organizing his caseload and putting things in order to move his practice and I am cleaning out closets and dejunking. It is my favorite thing to do. I get a little too excited about throwing things away, actually. We are still praying for the miracle of our home selling, but also trying to think of "creative" investment ideas for plan B. It is a wee bit overwhelming, but we feel right about it and so the Lord will prepare the way...

Snow much fun!

We spent our long Valentine's Weekend up North. Kwint met with a private practice group in Park City, who he has been corresponding with for the last several months and they have offered him a spot in their practice. We have said that he will take it. We have a lot of things going here and don't want to slow down so we aren't talking a whole lot about it to anyone but friends and family, but we are hoping to be up there by May 1st, though nothing is set in stone datewise.

Anybody wanna buy a house in St. George? We are pretty motivated... It is a super horrible time to sell so we are praying for a big miracle. :)

Here are some fun shots of the weekend. Naturally, I forgot to take pictures on Saturday of our get-together with friends... and I forgot to take a picture of the new little Jenkins baby I got to hold... though here is one of his big sis, Mikell, and Kaeleb.

The boys were obsessed with the teddy bears at Grandma's house this weekend. They kept fighting them with swords, throwing them downstairs, and of course, burying Grandpa with them.

Here we have the shirtless duo... Brenny was diggin' the potato chips... a delicacy Mommy never buys for him.

Kaeleb vacuuming up cupcake crumbs, another delicacy Mommy never provides.

And outside, while our friends in St. George were sporting around in 60 degree weather, we were building snowmen and snow forts.



Reading with Great-Aunt Marie... Yes, Brenny is sound asleep.

My Funny Boys

We have had many a sleepless night lately, which I suppose is just part of parenting... but it has impaired my ability to think and write, and therefore blog about anything interesting.... We have actually had quite a lot going on lately, but it is too overwhelming to think about on this amount of sleep... so, for now, here are some funny pics of my guys to keep things light...


Kwint is such a great dad-- Here he is taking his boys fishing

Yesterday we went to Dixie Rock with some friends... in the rain... very cold...

Kaeleb making a shot at "Iddy Biddy Basketball"

These are Brenny's toes, poking out of the sleeves of his leather jacket. He said his feet were cold. Ha!!

Kaeleb on the 100th day of school

Brenny giving his Buddy a bath. His Buddy's name is Fuzzy Mike.

He is on a strict See Food Diet

Finally, here is the master sleep fighter who "is NOT tired" every afternoon. Double HA!!

Fun around the House

It has been a rainy week!! We love it when that happens... once every two years...
So here are a couple things we have done to pass the time:

Watched one too many shows...


I don't know why, but one of my favorite things is to see the back of their heads together... melts me every time!


We read a book about gingerbread men... and made them a couple houses.


Brenny ate one candy for each that he put on the house....


King Peter of Narnia :)

Happy Late New Year

A bit late... but better late than never... We have had a tough time recovering from the holidays. Food hangovers, sleep deprivation, piles of paperwork.... yikes! Now comes tax season, here we go!

Not only was Dec 31st New Years Eve, but it was a blue moon, which I finally learned means that it was the 2nd full moon in the same month, which happens only once every 27 years. Ya learn something new every day, eh? I never stopped to think about what a blue moon was, although I have often used the expression "Once in a blue moon." It got us thinking about the funny things we say and I have to ask, does anyone know where the expression "It doesn't hold a candle to..." came from?

Here we are at midnight. Yes, we all stayed up. Kaeleb was quite determined, even though he started asking "Is it midnight yet?" repeatedly, because he was getting tired.


Brenny on the other hand, has no qualms about staying up until midnight, or any other hour, for that matter.

New Years resolutions, anyone?

God Bless Us Everyone!

Merry Christmas to all! What a happy holiday we have had, and we hope you have, too. Here are some shots of the action around here!
First things first, however, was Kwint's birthday... here he is making a wish...

The Robinson's came to help us eat Calzones....

The Miller's came to support the cause....

Brenny took this picture of me, not a bad aim. :)

Kwint had a great birthday and the party was super fun.

Next up, Christmas Eve at the Robinson's! Tam made chicken pot pie and Dave made his ever famous cinnamon rolls... Cinnabon has nothing on these...

Here is Brenny enjoying his cinnamon roll-- who needs a fork... or hands, for that matter!

After dinner and a couple good games of Mafia and Screaming Viking we opened our traditional Christmas Eve PJ's. This year the boys got bathrobes, per request by Kaeleb, who loved his so much he wore all the next day over his clothes.
Here is Brennan in his sports robe.

Kaeleb got pirates, to match his PJ's.

Sadie, Tam, and Jaiden (sorry, none of Kwint and I-- we give each other workout clothes, which just can't compete with tiger print PJ's.)

After a movie we went home to put out the cookie plate and reindeer oats, then settled into bed at the early hour of eleven o'clock. (Santa was up until one, however!!) Here is the result:

They started with their stockings, which provided their favorite presents, little Star Wars figurines! Kaeleb got Luke and R2D2

Brenny got OB-1 and Captain Rex

Santa was good to us this year and brought us all a Wii, which has been entertaining and helped burn a few holiday calories, which we needed.

The boys got scooter from Kwint and I. Bren on a Radio Flyer:

Kaeleb got a Razor:

Kwint and I got a masssage chair and foot massager from his parents-- When the Robinsons came over that afternoon we took turns playing the Wii and sitting in the massage parlor. :)

It was a very relaxing Christmas with our family. We went to the Robinson's for another movie that night and ate leftovers. They are the best brother and sister anyone could hope for, by the way.
Today we got up early and drove up through Parowan to Brianhead Resort where Kwint and Jaiden went snowboarding and the rest of us went tubing. It was soooo fun!! It was about 100 degrees cooler than we are used to (5 degrees, to be exact) but our snowclothes kept us nice and toasty as we sailed down the mountain. Kaeleb and Bren took one run and then both threw fits about how fast and scary it was, so we had to go to the baby sled area and Tam and I took turns tubing and babysitting.
Here we are on the way, being silly.

Here are the cute boys on the tubes they loathed entirely.

The part they did like was the tailgate party where we ate lunch. Tee Hee.

It is going to be hard to get back into the rhythm of life... but here we go anyway... Welcome 2010!

Oh, Santa!

Last night for FHE we went with the Millers to see the lights at the temple. So, maybe it's no Temple Square excursion, but hey, it was fun and beautiful, 20 degrees warmer, and only takes 10 minutes. The boys were happy to be running wild and free and we appreciated the beauty of the temple.

Gina and Mary Lynne

Brennan and Kwint

Kaeleb, McKay, and Nathan

Afterward, we came to our house for hot chocolate and you will never believe who knocked on our door!!

Kaeleb and Santa!

Nathan, McKay and Santa.

What a fun thing to have happen! Brennan fell asleep on the way home and if you know anything about Brenny's wacky sleeping habits you will understand why we did not wake him up for the big Ho, Ho, Ho event. He may use it against us later in his life, but someday he will have a son like himself and understand.

We spent last weekend at Grandpa and Grandma Kemp's. I forgot the camera so I will insert pics later when Gpa emails them to me cuz we had some serious fun!! Kwint went snowboarding with Kris and 3 of our cute nieces, and the boys and I built a snowman, a snow fort, and had a snowball fight. Oh, the fun!!! (What I will not talk about is the disaster of a shopping trip getting the boys outfitted for snow play. Let's just say that everyone in Layton had a good earful of just how mean a mom I am and just how naughty my boys can be. Luckily, we all redeemed ourselves in the nick of time before Santa rescinded Christmas for the whole lot of us.)

Parenting is not always peachy. Mostly not peachy. I always hesitate to write anything negative in my blogs, because who wants to read about that? But I use it for a journal because I never have time to write in a personal journal and if I don't at least allude to the difficulty, I will, on some future day, forget all the reasons for the mental and emotional breakdowns and wonder why I used to be so crazy and grumpy.

Saturday night at Grandma's we had a serious party. Well, not serious, it was actually quite silly. We celebrated the 5 December birthdays in our family (Tam, Coby, Dave, Kwint, and Jaiden, in that order)and had a little cousin to cousin gift exchange. It was really, really fun. Brennan got a punching bag from Romalyn. Oh, man, was that ever the most "fwavowite" thing he has ever received! Kaeleb and Talan both got the same thing from their cousins- a space police lego kit. Kaeleb was yelling "It's what I wanted! It's what I wanted! How did they know? How did they know!" Oh, what fun!

The boys keep saying the funniest things, and I keep forgetting to write them down. I will at least jot down a couple, but I know I am forgetting some really good ones...

We have been listening to a lot of Christmas music and Brennan has been singing all the songs in medley form, such as "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way to the winter wonderland and Fwosty the Snowman and Wudolph the Wed-nosed Weindeer are baby it's cold outside!" He is sooo funny. He loves the song "Santa Baby" and has started calling Kaeleb "Budder Baby" all the time.

Kwint got a stuffed Yoda from his parents and Brenny was playing with it. I said "Brennan, Yoda likes to say "Do or do not, there is no try." Then, I heard him pretending with Yoda and saying "Der is no twy. I tan't twy! I tan't twy! I just wanna twy and I tan't!!" (I love the way he talks- he says T for the C,K sound- ie, Taeleb, Tutumber, Tan't" and D for the G sound- I dot it!, do away, I want a piece of dum, etc.)

Today's funny quote of the day tops the cake, though. We had Brennan's playgroup at our house this morning. Kaeleb is on winter break, so he was the ring leader of this big group of toddlers. The boys were all sword fighting and had ganged up on Brennan (a little taste of his own medicine, I'd say) and Bren was getting really mad. My friend went to check on them and said she saw Brennan sitting on his knees with his fists clenched and then she heard Kaeleb say, "Watch out guys, when you see his ears turn red it means he's GONNA BLOW!" The moms all got a good laugh out of that one.

More will come tomorrow... Happy almost 32 years to my sweetie tomorrow!!