Lucky ND

 So Kayla was moving to ND in a week and I was talking to Matt one night about how I was going to miss her so much and wish we'd been closer and could have hung out more before she left.  He said, well you don't have to stay here, why don't you go visit for a bit. So that's just what we did. (which worked out pretty good since Matt had a pretty big test on Friday that he would have been studying for anyways)

We got there Tuesday evening and left Friday morning, so it was a quick 2 day visit but we sure had a wonderful time.

 We met Grandpa at Chuck e cheese on his lunch break one day.  The boys love playing all the fun games and climbing in the tubes.  They were both pretty scared at first, but after I went up with them once they were crazies just like normal.

 Dad pulled a Nile.  When we were kids we would take our report cards to chuck e cheese each year and get tokens to play all the games. After we were finished playing, Nile would go around climbing under all the machines trying to find lost tokens.  I'm pretty sure he would average about 10 more tokens than the rest of us.  No matter how hard I looked for them, I could never find them like Nile. He just had a second sense for them or something.  Anyways, Dad moved this little teacup machine over a bit and guess what was underneath.  A token. We had to document it for Nile. (even though I cut the token out of the picture when I took it... oops)

 We went to the park with Grandma.  It was kind of neat to take the boys to a park we used to live really close to and visit frequently growing up.  I have many memories of this place.

 Grandma sure has some muscles!

We watched some fuzzy little baby geese for a while.  They were so cute!

 During conference weekend Heath had made me a little bracelet that I'd been wearing since.  On our drive to Springfield I was telling Heath that we were going to spend some time with Kayla because she is going to be moving far far away and we probably wont see her very much/for a long time.  He didn't like the sound of it.  He said, "Mommy I should give her your bracelet..... would that make you sad?"  I thought that was pretty thoughtful of a 3 year old boy to think to give Kayla something, then to realize that it may make me sad to give her something he'd given me.  I told him I thought that was a great idea, and that it would not make me sad. Kayla would be so happy to have a present from him. And she was.

 One morning we went over to visit Amy & the kiddos.  They are always so much fun. 



Sweet little Owie boy!

 Houston was pretty scared of Molly dog, but I think Molly's getting to be pretty scared of little boys too.  She's getting to be so old.  Such a sweet little dog.








These two are such good friends.  I still think they could pass for siblings.

 Tahnee & Morgan showed up too.  Houston loves Morgan so much and is really good at saying his name.  I just love the way hes looking at Morgan in this picture.























Attack of the 60 toed monster!

 Houston loves Kayla so much.  He also says her name really well.  When we got home from visiting, at least once a day he would walk around the house calling Kayla's name and looking in all our rooms for her. 

Last family shot (minus Dallin who was at a track meet & Matt) for a while.

 After bidding Kayla & Papa good bye we went with Grandma to watch Dallin run at his track meet.  We walked in and right when we got to the bleachers the gun went off for Dallin's 4x200.  It was the shortest most effective track meet I've ever been to. We watched his one race and then checked him out and went home.  hence the boys were so well behaved throughout the whole thing.

There was a hurdle sitting out off in the corner so I took the boys over  and told Heath how Mommy and Daddy used to run over hurdles in races.

He thought it was pretty cool and wanted to know when he could run over them in races.  There's a good chance he someday will.

 Our ward had a hoedown themed auction/fundraiser night for all the kids in the ward going to camps this summer.  Since I was recently called to be the Young Women's secretary we attended and I was able to help out a bit.  I wish we had taken a family picture, it was pretty fun to dress up and have some fun. We gave Heath a quarter for doing some chores for us. He was so excited to spend his hard earned money.  He picked out these mustache cookies for himself & Houston.  They loved them. (as you can see by the fact that Houston's disappeared before I could even take a picture.)  It sure was a fun night.

become one of those families.

 So a couple weeks ago we really started searching for a new vehicle.  We figure we'll need something bigger in the next couple years and we mays well do it before we move down south for the summer so that we will have room to pack stuff.   We test drove several different types of vehicles and did our research.  We decided to go with the Nissan Quest because it has the longest wheel base in the minivan class, thus the most leg room.

Our poor boys were drug around back and forth for a couple days but between all the sales people they got plenty of spoiling.

We found a Quest that had 82,000 miles on it and was a '05 (but wasn't actually sold until part way through 06) in our budget.  It's had one owner and is fully loaded.  leather interior, 2 tv's, automatic everything. We're so spoiled.   Matt's favorite part is that he can sit in the driver's seat, move it all the way back, then get into the second row and not even come close to touching the front seats,  then he can get into the back seat and still not be touching.  It's probably the most comfortable van I've ever sat in. Not to mention it's safety ratings and repairs/recall record. We're really happy.

Chomp Chomp

Heath has been very interested in work lately.  The other day we were leaving the grocery store and he asked why that man was pushing the carts back into the store.  I told him that was his job, it's what he did to make money to buy food and stuff for his family.  He asked when he could have a job.  I told him he already had jobs, cleaning up his toys, making his bed, playing with and helping Houston, helping mommy and daddy.  He said, "no a real job."  I told him he could start washing the dishes.  When we got home he was so excited and washed a whole load, I was right there encouraging him to move on to the next dish, (Im pretty sure he would have washed just one thing over and over for about 30 min) but hey I thought it was pretty good for a just turned 3 year old. 

Both our boys love dandelions and lucky for them they're all over the place here.






The other day the boys were in their room "going to sleep" with a lot of giggling.  Heath yelled out, "Mommy Houston's giving me hugs and kisses!"  more giggling.... then Houston yelled, "I lovv Heas!" It was so sweet.  

The boys were jumping on their bed and Heath started yelling out "Watch out for Sister Lopez! She might bite you.... chomp chomp!" "Watch out for Sister Lopez! She might bite you... chomp chomp!"  don't know where that one came from, but man were we laughing! Laura happened to call right about that time and Matt asked her when she was biting our children...  Heath just started laughing!










Matt has been taking the boys outside to practice fishing a lot lately.  They just love it, and are getting really good at casting.

 So,  after Matt is finished with school for the semester he's finally cutting off the beard!  In the mean time we decided to have some fun and straitened it one night.  I thought he looked like a china man. 


Soon we will say, "So long beard... it was alright knowing you...."

 Houston LOVES milk! He asks for it all day long every day.  I think he would much rather drink milk all day than ever eat.  Lately I've been having to limit him around meal times so he'll eat real food during the day. It sure is cute though when he comes to me saying, "Molk pleese"

 Running is Heath's favorite pass time. He runs and runs all every day.

Houston loves to sneak.  It's so cute.  He'll come around the corner all hunkered over like this then, when he gets close he pounces!