May 2013

I thought this was a funny text message exchange that occurred when Tony sent me an "I love you"

On May 3rd, Faith was gone on a play date and Christian busied himself with my makeup, Faith's clothes, and a leftover plastic Easter egg opened into halves. 

A little too much "RuPaul's Drag Race" being watched at our house, perhaps?

One of Tony's work customers gave him a few sets of these plastic toy crossbows.

They're pretty powerful and the kids love them!

On the fourth we went to the kids soccer games,

and after working on the garden all day and finally getting it planted, we went to Ironman 3 with Tammy.

The next week the kids got their baseball and softball jerseys. Tony loves that they both got number seven, the same as Ben Rothlisberger!

Here is faith playing on the seventh,

  and pitching on the ninth! It was her first time, but managed to get in a couple of good throws.

On the 10th, Buddy set up a sort of Rube Goldberg machine out of everyday items on the kitchen table.

The cutest part is that he took lots of pictures and a video explaining what all the parts do.

On the 11th the kids and I went to baby animal days at the Biotanical center in Kaysville.

Skittles liked seeing the babies, too.

I don't think this snake was a baby, though!

It was a fun time :)

For some reason i snapped this pic in church on the 12th.

I love Christian's notes! I was working and Buddy was getting ready to leave for school. A few weeks before, he had thrown a toy sticky eyeball up at the ceiling and it stuck up there and for some reason it was imperative to him to retrieve it. So this note reads:

"Mom, don't forget to get the eyeball down from the ceiling." What a funny note.

More baseball and softball on the 14th. All the practices and two games, per kid, per week sure keeps us busy!

Christian's new obsession--the ball park concession stand. 

He had just finished bawling because he don't have enough money to buy all he wanted. At least he got some nachos!

We loved this beautiful rainbow on the 15th.

Buddy, still loving Ironman, drew this in the car on the 23rd.

Mom and dad got back from their two week cruise to the British isles & France on May 25th, so on the 26th Sarah and I brought dinner to their house, for a change. I made lettuce wraps and Sarah made Chinese chicken salad. Because it was Memorial Day weekend, Faith and I wanted to make some special treats.

The top level has brightly colored red, white & blue sandwich cookies made with cake mix and jello with some miniature reproductions of World War II propaganda posters in them. The lower level is star-shaped sugar cookies with cream cheese frosting, strawberries and blueberries like little fruit pizzas!

On the 27th, Tony had off from work so we started out at Lagoon-a Beach where the kids floated the lazy river on tubes and did a few water slides.

Then we hiked up to Timpanogos cave, starting with a quick visit to the gift shop.

It was a beautiful day with perfect weather. The trail is longer and steeper than I remember!

About 500 feet from the top, Tony freaked out and had a panic attack because there were no more trees on the side of the trail and you could see all the way down the side of the mountain. He couldn't go any farther and stayed behind while the kids and I crested the mountain and toured the cave, but they were super sad their dad missed out.

It was awesome!!

On the 29th we saw the first egg this year in our sattelite dish nest. there were two by the 30th! We figured out that they're Western Kingbirds.

That evening was the fifth grade program. I left buddy with Tam at his baseball game to get there forty minutes early, but still got crappy seats at the back. We could just barely see Faith when she was singing on the steps, but her dance numbers were on the floor in front instead of on the stage (???!!!!) so all we could see was the top of her head bobbing up and down :(

Christian was super sad he couldn't see her and bawled and threw a fit the whole time till we all wanted to kill him. Not a great night.