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Hey Cookie Lady....YOU SUCK!!!

I know you purposely are giving out the wrong recipie to all your friends and family just so we can't hold the title of "Cookie Lady!" Then you try to give tips on how to tweek them...add a little more flour, maybe your baking soda is old go buy some new, use oil, use shortening, milk chocolate chips, well NONE of your "tips" worked! I guess I'll have to buy them at the gas station!


I'm sticking to my old recipie.

The Mother, The Secretary

Dear Tooth Fairy,
I lost a tooth and I took it to the Kamas Pool. When we came home we stopped at the lookout. I was showing everyone at Porters party my tooth when I was walking backwards, then I tripped on a rock. I lost the tooth that I got out all by myself. Can you please go to the lookout and look behind every big rock and look with your magnifying glass and please return it or keep it and give me 10 of your quarters.
Love, Hannah!

These are Hannah's exact words that she dictated to me tonight of her tragic experience after the swim party for her friend Porter. I guess she is too lazy to write her own letters these days.

I'm expecting a card and flowers for Secretary's Day this year.

Peas & Carrots

I have to say how thankful I am for FRIENDS! I truely believe that everyone needs a handful of really good friends to survive this life and at least one really close one that they will have their entire life. I am blessed to have neighbors that my kids can play with. Our little neck of the woods is full of kids and I love it.

I love to hear the sound of kids playing and giggling. I love to see popscicle stained faces smiling at me. I love to hear the sound of the outside waterhose being turned on and then hearing little voices squealing. I love to see the little secrets being wispered into one anothers ears. I love to see that "big plans" being made and mapped out in crayon. I love to hear the musical instruments being played that are made from recycled junk. I love to see the imaginations running wild. I love knowing that my children have good friends and together they are making memories that will last a lifetime.

Good friends go together like Peas and Carrots.

Bethany and Jake

Hannah and Carter

P.S. We are having a double wedding! :)

THINGS I LOVE TO EAT

Banana popscicles...

Potato, stolen from the pantry when mom wasn't looking...

Napkins, again mom wasn't looking...

Gumballs, surprise, Mom wasn't watching...I think there is a pattern to this...

Chocolate Cupcakes, OK mom gave me this one YUMMY!

What do you like to eat?

I tag...Brinley Harrison, Brinlee Bingham and Kailee Wilson!

Finally a NEW post....

Well sort of! I've just been swamped...with what I don't know, but everyday is filled with adventure and excitement at our home. I feel like I don't have a minute to myself...have I even brushed my teeth today? So soon I will entertain you with some of our silly summer fun....until then, have fun and stay cool...that means you Sara!

Cousin Brighton turns 5

Happy 5th BIRTHDAY Brighton!

Our friend Gus Gus.

A couple of weeks ago Dan and I took the kids to the Children's Museum. We were playing the the Sesame Street portion of the museum when I realized I hadn't seen Hannah for a while. Off I went looking for her and this is where I found her. Sitting in a wheel chair. I suddenly realized what she was doing. It was a fun little racing game. There were 3 different routes and modes of transportation your could travel with. I'm not sure why, but for some reason Hannah has always been fascinated with wheel chairs.

Gus Gus was a dear friend to Hannah. They would play for hours together. He was a good little friend to her, he never got mad at her, he always did just as she wanted, he went every where she did and he always took the blame for all the mischief that happened without any complaints.

One day we were in Lindon having lunch at the Arctic Circle, where the kids could play, when it was time to go, we packed everyone in the van and headed across busy state street to the Wal-Mart when suddenly I heard screams of bloody murder coming from the back seat, "Gus Gus, we left him at the rest-a-rant." This of course was a bad habit Gus Gus had, not getting in the van quick enough (although, once he barely made it and got his hand smashed in the door.)

"He will just have to run over to the store and meet us there!"

" Heeeee caaaaan't," she yells with tears streaming down her face.

"Hannah, clam down he will be fine."

"No, he won't. He can't walk. His legs are broken, " (probably from the death defying leaps he takes getting into the car.)

"Hannah, he can use crutches to walk."

"No mom, (spoken with weeping and waling and gnashing of teeth) we have to go back and get him."

This is the point in your life as a mom when you have to be very careful in what you say, if you say the wrong thing your child will be "scared for life," however, if you happen to say the right thing you may be hailed as the best mom ever and be the hero for your child's eyes for eternity! The one accomplishment that moms all around the world strive for.

Me, of course, I said the wrong thing. "Hannah I am not going back. Gus Gus can meet us at Wal-Mart!" With lots of crying and frustration coming from the back of the van she says,

"No he can't! He rides in a chair that goes like this," making motions with her hands as if this tiny little friend is in a wheel chair!

Just for 1 day I would love to look inside this child's head and see what is actually going on. Where do they come up with this stuff?