Day Camp!! Aug 20th

Today Dwayne and I experienced Day Camp for the first time. We are the Cub masters for our ward, well stake really. Last year our stake combined all the packs together and it really was a great choice. It makes things much easier! Anyway, not only was it our first year at day camp but it was Mason's as well. He and all the other boys sure had fun. They did BB shooting, archery, canoeing, swimming, crafts (manly crafts of course) and hiking. But the high light of the day was the Hakka that the boys learned. They loved all the yelling and stomping. Mason is still singing it tonight. Dwayne and I were in charge of the neckerchief station. The theme this year was Castaways of the 'Cub'arrian, so we had the boys make their personalized Jolly Rogers. I can't believe how creative those boys were! So now Dwayne and I are EXHAUSTED!! We were up at 5:00am and didn't get back until 4:00pm. I'm glad we only do this once a year! Boys in the picture below are Mason, Bryce, Sam, Jadin, Dallon, Tim, Jake and Wyatt.

Parents, educate your children please!

My children have been laughing non stop for 2 days while watching Muppett Show clips on YouTube. As a matter of fact they were late for school this morning.
so, today in class I showed my students the Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody, they sooo didn't get it.
Come on mom and dad educate your kids please!
Turn off the blood and gore and turn on the Muppets!
Turn off Justin crapper and turn on Queen!

Taco Bell sauce..a cautionary tale

The following is a conversation I had with 3 year old Kwynn this morning
Mom,guess what?
What?
Last night when I went to bed, I had a squishy thing with me. (a Taco Bell packet that I keep in food storage)
Really
Ah huh. I had it in my mouth so Daddy couldn't see it. I was sneeky.
So Daddy didn't know you took it to bed huh.
Yup but then I bit it and Mommy it was all in my mouth and it was hot! Hot hot hot!
So what did you do?
I spit it on my pillow and ran and told Daddy. He told be to get a dwink. And I couldn't have pink pillow anymore. I was so sad and my mouth was hot.
So are you going to sneek things into bed anymore?
NO WAY! And squishy things eiver. They are very bad.

So the lesson of the story little children is this. Taco Bell packets are not to be played with. Please use them with caution. If you don't, you might not get to sleep with your favorite pink pillow at night. I do think it's funny that she tried the 'hide things from dad' game with Dwayne when I wasn't there. Denyce and I were at standards night at the church.

12 yrs old

Today in church Mason leans over and asks "Why is Porter passing the sacrement?" Porter is our friends oldest son and he was ordained a deacon 2 weeks ago. I Told Mason that Porter was a deacon now and he had the priesthood so he could pass the sacrament. He of course asked me when he could get the priesthood. On paper I lined out the different ages and offices of the priesthood. For High Priest I wrote "old" next to it and he turned to me and asked "Dad are you a High Priest?" :( So, I wrote :)
The best part of the lesson for him was when he found out that girls don't have the priesthood. He smiled really big, because at 8 yrs old, "Boys rule and girls drool."

Needless to say, Mason has a new check mark on his life list.
8 - baptism
12 - deacon
19 - mission
Then College and Marriage.
(His List)

Happy Anniversary

I don't know if you knw this, but I have been married to an awesome woman for the last 14 years. It hasn't always been easy, but it has a been interesting. She always lights up a room with a beautiful smile and an infectious personality. It was actually her smile that I first fell in love with. I love her more and more every year.
Kreslie, 14 yrs, 6 kids, and several animals later and we are still here. Love you!

Come on ref!

This is Dwayne (I don't want to tred on Kreslie's name)

Denyce bought me a "bad call brick" recently. It's a foam block covered in Denver Broncos fabric and you are supposed to throw it at the TV when you think the refs have made a bad call. Mason saw it and asked what it was so I told him. Laughing only the way Mason can he says, "Bad Call Brick, thats funny!" He then picks it up and throws it at our flat screen. (I'm gasping in terror right now!) It bounces off, hits the ground and he says, "Well, it works." and then bounces out of the room.
For all the guys reading this, the TV is fine. And I have hid the brick.

You did WHAT!!!

Oh the surprising things you learn at church. When church ends and we are on our way home, Dwayne and I find it a good time to find out what the kids learned that day. You know when it's fresh in their minds. Never mind that we usually get the reply of "I don't know" and the ever amusing "I don't remember." Anyway on this particular Sunday, I was asking Dwayne how his substitution of the older teen class went. He answered that it went fine but he purposely didn't get to the end of the lesson. Curious I asked why. " It was about circumcision." was his response. So we went back and forth on the reasons why they would have that topic in a lesson in the first place and the squeamishness of 16 year old girls on the topic as well, when we hear the question "Dad, what's circumcision?" It doesn't surprise me that is was Garrison that asked the question. Out of all of my kids, Garrison is the most curious and the bravest when it comes to asking the uncomfortable questions. When I was pregnant with Aubrey, he would ask me all types of questions about the baby and everything that went with it. The best question was how the baby could breath in my tummy because of all the liquid in there. I explain to him about the umbilical cord and all that it does for the baby. He was fascinated. When Dwayne got home from work that night, he eagerly repeated all that he had learned about the baby. He especially wanted dad to know all about the EXTENSION cord that did so much for the baby in mommy's tummy. Dwayne and I love that story.
But I regress, back to the circumcision, Garrison was understandably horrified when he learn all that it entailed. I believe "Ewwww gross!!!" was his main reaction. Dwayne explained that we did this procedure on both him and Mason when they were babies so they wouldn't even remember what happened. It was then that we heard a little voice from the back of the Suburban. Mason demanded "You did WHAT to my penis?!!" I laughed all the way home and Dwayne just about drove off the road. I guess he pays way more attention to the conversations around him then we ever realized!