Green River Geiser

Burke took Kaleb and Kaiya to the Geiser yesterday. We've never been lucky enough to be there when it goes off, but we hear it still does like every 12 hours or something, but we have no clue when to go check. We just need to stay there all day sometime...or not. We'll just keep trying. They went to give me time to finish reading Fire and the Covenant. I've been trying to get through it for a while now and it's from our library so I keep renewing it over and over again. So they went and Katelin took a nap and I finished! I'm so glad too because I got a bit depressed reading it. I didn't think I could really be affected by a book like that, but I was. It was so sad to hear all of the stories they went through to get here and in the winter! Oh, I just ached for them. I knew it had a happy ending, but it was hard to get to it. It's interesting the different trials we all have to go through to either prove ourselves, strengthen our testimonies or just stand for what we believe in. They may look down upon some of us and be grateful for the challenges they went through because they just wouldn't be able to bear ours. And we look at theirs the same way. I really think we were all put on earth at the time in which we would learn the most from our own trials of our day and that's how we will really become who we are supposed to be.
Back to the kids - they had a great time on their litte outing with dad - especially cause they go and get treats everytime they go do something. He's such a fun dad.

What will she do next?

This morning Burke had to go to a Volleyball thing so I asked Kaleb if he'd give Katelin some Cheerios and play with her for a minute so I could hurry and take a shower. Usually I wait until she takes a nap. While I was in the shower washing the soap out of my hair with my eyes closed, I felt this little hand on my leg. I look down and there's Katelin in the shower with me. I had already gotten her all ready for the day. It was so funny, she just played in the water and could care less that she was fully dressed doing it. I put my robe on and ran to get the camera and tell Kaleb thanks for watching her. He was watching cartoons. When he saw her all soaking wet he just started laughing so hard and said we have to take a video. He's so funny.

Then later on I decided to put on my makeup and in comes Katelin again with yellow all over her face and hands and legs. I had my camera right there too, but I didn't even think about taking a picture until later, cause I didn't know what it was. Kaiya came in and showed me it was one of my ink pads for stamps. Seriously, it looked like Katelin had a yellow beard and mustache. I'm glad it came off easily. So I'm just waiting for number three thing to happen today. Cause you know "they" say that things always happen in three's! Who in the heck are "they" anyway?! Burke and I have wondered who "they" are for quit some time now.

Creative Time

Yesterday the kids wanted something to do so I got out this cute book Burke got for them a while ago. It is called -Snip it! it's made by Mead- This one was the stage 1 for preschool - Kindergarten age. So Kaiya loves it. It has lines on the color pages that they need to cut on then there pages they peel of paper and it's sticky underneath, then they rip up the colored paper and stick it wherever they want to make a picture. Anyway, it's really cute and I highly recommend it. Kaleb got a bit bored with it though cause he likes to create his own stuff. So I gave him some scrapbook paper I'm not going to use and he ripped and cut out shapes and made his own creations. He took that last picture for you to see.

Happy 24th!

We had a really fun ward party for the 24th celebration tonight. I'm pretty sure it was the funnest I've ever been too. They had so many fun activities outside at the park - they did a great job. The kids got to search through the wood chips to find quarters. It was really hard to find them, but finally they did. There was also a donut eating contest on a string and you couldn't use your hands. Kaiya wanted to do it and Kaleb didn't until he saw that there were prizes after you did it. So we got them up to their donuts and it switched - Kaleb did it and Kaiya didn't want to so she just pulled hers off. So funny. Then they had two guys holding a sling type thing and the kids would take turns putting water balloons in it and pull back and let it fly and all of the other kids were out in the field trying to catch them and just get wet. We ate and talked and played. What a great time!

Rainy day

The rain this afternoon was so nice! Kaleb took Katelin over to sit in the doorway of the sliding door to watch it. She loved it so much. He was so cute with her and helped her put her hand in it and then her whole self. She was soaked within a few minutes. I took off her wet clothes and wrapped her up in her favorite blanket - I know it's Christmasy, but it's her favorite. She was being so cute so I took lots of pictures of her little poses - and I couldn't decide which to post - so you get to see most of them. :) What a sweetie she is.

Simmons Reunion

This last week we had a get together with Burke's siblings and their families and his parents. We went to a cabin in Heber and had so much fun. The kids all have someone about their age and they really had so much fun together and didn't even get really sick of eachother. That was really nice since we all stayed in the cabin together from Monday to Saturday. Someone in each family showed everyone how do something during the trip - so the picture of Burke's nicely decorated cupcake was from Chanelle's lesson on cake decorating, it was really fun. We also went and played at Jordanelle (sorry I don't even know how to spell it!) and played on the wave runner things - it was great! Another day we went on a train ride wich was fun too, I'm glad we didn't do the 3 hour one though - 1 hour and 15 minutes, was just right. In the back of the cabin they had some swings hanging from the deck above and the kids loved playing in the dirt and going exploring in the woods behind us. It was a good time.

promised pictures

Here's some of the many pictures taken of our week in Salt Lake. The kids played in the water with cousins in my mom's backyard and then at the splash park. My sister Tiffany found a new splash park and not a lot of people know about it yet so we were there all by ourselves for about an hour before anyone else showed up. It was lots of fun. Katelin and Reagan had fun sitting by eachother, playing and feeding eachother. They are such cuties! Kaleb and Kaiya made bird houses with their Opa. They had fun spending time with him. The last picture is of Kaleb and two of his cousins Cannon and Jordan at my Stepdad's reunion we went too. Fun week.

One week down

We've been at my mom's this whole week hanging out while Burke was at his scout camp. It was fun hanging out with my sisters and my mom. We went to a splash park, the kids had a sleepover with cousins, I painted my mom's family room and hallway downstairs, then helped my sister Robyn finish painting her girls room, did some projects on my cricut, went to a reunion with my stepdad's side of the family, took a trip to Tooele to visit my aunt and look around her gift shop. Whew, what a week! It was nice and now Burke is back with us and that is SO nice! He got home from scout camp saturday and needed to do a bunch of watering for our garden and grass, mow the lawn - he even cleaned up the house so it wouldn't be a mess for our return home. What a super guy! He was up until 4am doing all of this and decided to just drive the three hours to us then! So he did. It was such a nice surprise to see him in the morning. The kids were so excited too. Now we're off today to his family's reunion in Heber. It will be fun. Then we'll finally go home! I did take some pictures during the week, but don't have a way to put them on until I get home - so I promise I will post them in a week when we return. Until then - have a great day!!!! :)

TAG

Here's how this "Tag" works. List 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 surprising facts about yourself. Then tag 5 people at the end of your post.

3 Joys:
- Family
- Friends
- Icecreammmmmmmmm!

3 Fears:
- Being home with out my husband at night- hate it!
- That I may have to have eye surgery. My left eye has issues - so that may be a option sometime. I saw something being done one an eye on T.V. when I was younger and thought that would be so horrible. Just imagine some surgery tool coming right at you and your watching it! Talk about scary.
- That one of my kids could get one of our random illnesses from being in our family. But that's part of life I guess. - but still a fear.

3 Goals:
- Get into shape - work out, work out, work out!
- Learn piano or guitar - or heck why not both!
- Get our food & water storage & 72 hour kit all under control!

3 Current obsessions:
- playing with my new toy - cricut expression
- have to watch So You Think You Can Dance - and vote.
- and I have to say Cricut Expression again - it's new I have to use it lots!

3 surprising facts about me:
- I started babysitting when I was 8 years old. Probably because I was tall and acted old. Even in my family there are six kids and I was always the babysitter when my parents were out even though I have two older brothers. I guess, I was just the bossy, I'm in charge kinda girl.
- I'm the only one in my family who doesn't play any sort of musical instrument at all! It's on my goal list though so watch out kiddies!
- Whenever I sneeze people think I'm coughing, but they're not sure so they say - do you have a cough? And I say - nope, just sneezing. (ok that was dumb, but all I could think of folks)

I Tag, Jen G, Kerri, Seantae and mom.

And we're off!!!

Yes, we're leaving again. We get to go party for the 4th with family. Then Burke has a scout camp the whole next week. So the kids and I will stay and play at my mom's while he's gone. Then the week after that we have a reunion with Burke's family! So we'll be gone for a while. So I'll have lots of pictures and updates on the fun when we return!!! Have a great fourth!!!! :)

MY NEW TOY!!!

The Cricut Expression. This is by far my funnest toy yet! It is a card maker/scrapbooker's dream! I'm having SO much fun. It makes everything I want to make go so much more quickly. LOVE IT!!! I told Burke it will be my b-day and Christmas and whatever else - totally worth it. If you don't know what this is - it's like a glorified die cutter, but without taking up all of the space in your house to have all the fonts and shapes you want. It uses cartriges. It cuts the letters or shapes you choose for it to cut in a matter of seconds! So fun.