Big Time Slacking

Catch up time!! :)

Clark and I celebrated our 4th Anniversary by going up to Hole in the Rock and having a picnic.

Here's my boys snoozing after all our hard work packing up at the end of summer.

Rosie and I at Bear Lake. The kids loved the sand!


Will enjoyed this scooter almost everyday this summer. He was able to anticipate when it was going to crash and he'd bail right before. It cracked me up.



We swam a lot this summer!

Escape

During a casual horse ride at a family reunion, Clark spotted a horney toad (scientifically a "horned lizard"). He jumped off his horse and put him in his saddle bag. When we got back to camp, we showed the toad to Will and it was love at first sight.

Will named him "Frog and Toad" (after the Arnold Lobel book) and we looked up everything we needed to know about horney toads on the internet.

We fed him ants, put a rock and sand in his bowl, and took him outside during the day to get some sunshine.

To our surprise, after two weeks of loving our pet, he disappeared. We fed him 15 ants that morning and brought him out on the porch to sunbathe. When Clark got home at 4:30 he asked, "Where'd Frog and Toad go?" I said, "Oh he probably buried himself in the sand. He likes to do that." Clark looked at me and said, "No, I don't think that's the case." I quickly raked through his sand and Clark was right, he was gone. We are hoping he just hopped out and wasn't eaten by a bird or something sad like that. We told Will he wanted to go back to his home.

I don't know what happened, but he will be missed. Here's to you Frog and Toad, wherever you may be.

concert

I am so excited! Clark is taking me to a Collective Soul concert tonight. Neither of us are HUGE fans, but he got the tickets free at his work so we're going. I am just pumped to go to a concert with my honey.

Other news . . .

Rosie stayed in nursery the entire time last week. :)

Will is almost completely potty-trained (minus a few accidents here and there)

Our car broke down again :(

I, for the first time, read "Anne of Green Gables" I LOVED it! Such a cute book with such flare.

Tea Party

Great Grandma Anderson invited us over for "tea" yesterday. It was so much fun! The girls made egg salad sandwiches, artichoke dip, pinwheels, and strawberry-banana shishkabobs. Everyone made a hat out of paper. When I asked Rosie if she wanted one, she said, "hmm mmm" so we sat her down and put the paper on her head. When we were taping it, she started crying so we quickly finished. Will was allowed to dress up as a cowboy since he was the only boy there.

Our eyes look a little funny in this picture because we tried to do "red eye" but it ended up blacking them out, so then we tried "blemish remover" and that made it worse.

The mind of a 3 year old

Two Sundays ago, Will asked if Rosie could go to nursery with him. I told him that she had to get a little bigger and then she could go. He thought for a moment, then said, "I know what to do. We take her little head off and put a big head on. Then she's bigger." Oh the mind of a 3-year-old!

On the subject of nursery, Rosie goes to our ward's nursery for the first time this Sunday. Last Sunday, we were in Logan attending Clark's cousin's mission homecoming. We tried taking Rosie to nursery, but after 30 minutes, she decided she had enough.