Walberswick

Lovin' the seaside. The family voted this the best picture of the day because it looks like Brennan's rock is about to smack me on the head. Luckily it was just the perspective of the picture and I was safe.

Brennan was apprehensive about going in the water and didn't change his mind that day, but he loved throwing rocks into the water, so it was a successful day in his eyes.

Carter is in love with the sea. Cold or hot out he doesn't mind, going in and diving around is the only option.

Taylor is our sea shell collector. You can tell the difference between her temperature tolerance compared to Carter.

My husband rocks!!!

This is the final product of the Carter and Brennan bunk bed. Yes, Taylor now wants Dad to build her a bed because her little store bought one is no longer fabulous. I realize that I am completely spoiled with my ability to create a "honey-do" list of grand proportions and it is completed with this kind of style.

I haven't even posted a picture of the dining room floor that he replaced--he did have a fabulous friend help out with that project.

Now my mind is at work with something else he can make for yours truly.

Games

We had some of our fabulous friends come and stay with us for a week. They flew in from their little baby island in the middle of the Atlantic and we had a fabulous time! This is literally the only picture I took..I know I'm good. So we have this obsession with Cranium. We always have played boys against girls and the girls have literally ALWAYS won. Until these stupid reflective belts came into play. It all started on our night down at the temple. Mike put his orange one on trying to be funny, and they won, barely, but they won. Then we got home and he found a blue one-they creamed us! There was no contest. Now I am on a search for something that will conquer the power of the reflective belts so that we can reclaim our winners status!I think there might be something wrong with us. Seriously, who loses the Celestial Companions game not once, but now twice to a set of Elders? That would be us..and our friends. They beat two couples, one has been married for 17 years, the other 10 years. How is this possible? I'm seriously baffled by this poor showing by us. Apparently instead of watching movies at night we should quiz each other about who we are and what we like now. :)

a little piece of England

Every time I drive to base I get to pass this wall. It is about a quarter mile long and is so lovely, behind it lies a Stud Farm and there are horses everywhere. Along this wall is this spot, with a little post box that just makes me a little giddy every time I pass it. I love this spot and wanted to capture it forever and then wanted to share with all of you. Enjoy!

Bunk Bed in the Works...

The beginning

The middle....

The final to be released soon.....

More Brennan moments.

Dad was in charge of cleaning this little guy when he got done with play time outside. Why walk all the way upstairs thought Dad. I walked in the kitchen and busted up laughing. Men are a little weird. :)

"I got a fishy, I got a fishy!" Brennan is in love with Swedish Fish, and really who isn't? He begged this one off of Mason and was very grateful.

Mason's packages

I have looked into our pictures to find many that I never posted, never talked about, just because we have been in a whirl wind of craziness since August 3. So Mason did get his packages from Grandparents and enjoyed them both very much. Endless goodies in each box made for a happy child.

New shirt, like they expected this was more of a need than a want of Mason's. :) Thanks Gma and Gpa Mason!

His new Toy Story 3 board book. I was super impressed that it is a giant board book, that was awesome. For the record, I totally bawled at the end of this movie. It made me so sad!

Another box of treasures from Nana and Papa. Mason loved the endless supply of little surprises..and he even shared! What a super star.

Thanks to Nana and Papa for the great package, Mason had a blast going through it.

Daddy's Back!

Yippee Skippy!!!! Daddy is home at last. The kids were all thrilled to go and get daddy. For the thirty minute car ride the children were shouting, "Hip, Hip, Hooray!!" Mason wasn't to sure about Mike being home for about two days. He would run to mom for everything, and now we are back to normal and Mike is the parent on duty with Mason.

Mike just had to go and attack Mason because he kept running away from Mike. It was pretty funny and not like Mason at all, so we are grateful that phase of transition is over.

See what we are reduced too?

The time had come for Dad to come home. Hollie was in survival mode and the kids suffered because of it. :)
Totally kidding, he got into the dirt and had a great time and then I wouldn't give him something from the kitchen that he wanted, so he was upset about that.

Mason's birthday present finally came!!! Thanks to the Elders for once again serving our family!

Gruffalo's, Turnips, and Sunshine

School has been out for about two weeks now and I am just really behind on this blog. So here is my effort to get caught up. Taylor was a completely different child with her concert this year. She was so excited to go up and show me her songs. Her favorite is a song about a turnip, and it is REALLY cute. She had that tall girl standing in front of her at the beginning and Taylor gently pushed her out of the way and all you heard was, "my mom can't see me Sophia." Luckily Sophia's parents were right in front of me and laughed and said they were hoping someone would move there tall daughter so I could see Taylor.

I love that they are all doing something in this picture. I think Taylor was spot on as the teacher was doing the same thing she was. :) That would be during the Gruffalo song. All of it was super cute and I was glad that Taylor had the guts to go up there this year.