Kids say the darndest things part III

Once again Buster takes the cake with his quick whit! The kid just comes up with some of the most creative things. Tonight I was helping him get dressed for bed and he didn't want to go to bed. So he was letting me know that in his own 4 year-0ld way and he decided to stick his tongue out at me. I let him know that it isn't a nice thing to do especially to your mom! He said "Mom, I was trying to stick my tongue out at the door and you got in the way". Once again, I had to turn my head because I started laughing.

Family pictures.... and a whole lot of threats

Man, I thought that since our kids were getting older it would be easier to have family pictures taken. So we prepped the kids about the pictures and promised rewards if they were good. I had quite a few talks with Buster about smiling good and listening to Nathan and Denise (photographers/ aunt & uncle). Carter had a soccer a 8:00 am so he wasn't excited about getting up so early. Then we went to change clothes and get ready for pictures he decided he didn't want to have pictures, not Buster the 4 year old, but Carter the 9 year old!!! By the time we were done with pictures I wanted to hug Buster and spank Carter! Well, despite Carter's efforts of boycotting the pictures, we did manage to get some good ones. Let me know what you think.

Kids say the darndnest things part II

Yesterday Buster decided to take my church bag and dump it out all over his bedroom. When I saw this I told him to pick it all up. Well, he threw everything in the bag including all the crayons that were once in the crayon box. I said that this isn't the way you found the bag, so I dumped it back out and told him (yes I was being mean) to put the crayons back in the box. He was just sitting on the floor crying and I started feeling a little guilty, so I said I would help him. Through his sad little voice he said " Mom, Jesus said love everyone, treat them kindly too, why aren't you obeying Jesus's commandments?" I had to start laughing, because this kid can make the biggest mess and wonder why I get so angry. He always say's he is to little to pick up his messes and he needs help. What is a mom to do with such an innocent question??

The Big Apple

I had the opportunity to head to New York for a conference for work. I was apprehensive because I hadn't ever been away from my children for more than a night or two. Can I just say that I LOVED NEW YORK!! There are so many things to see and do. I can't wait to go back and take my family. We did a lot of walking I guess I was able to get my exercises in while I was there.

When I go back I would love to go to the Manhattan temple and also attend church. I was only able to catch a picture as we were walking by, we had one day to fit in these sights.
I is so weird when you walk down the street not to be able to see mountain or even sky most of the time. The buildings are so tall, so have to make an effort to look up and see the sky. I needed a compass while I was there because I couldn't ever tell what direction we were heading.
It seems that even the hard times have hit the street vendors and I couldn't help but chuckle when I was this sign.
Our family loved the movie "Night at the Museum" and so when I saw the Museum of Natural History I could help but go in a snap a shot of the dinosaurs.
We asked somebody on the street (I know totally touristy) where a good place would be to go and get authentic New York cheesecake. The nice gentleman told us Junior's which is on Broadway between 44th & 45th street (you need to say that with a New York accent). I tell you what, it didn't disappoint. We went to Central Park and had a seat so we could enjoy the view and enjoy our food!
How could we resist not having our pictures taken with a couple of cops, we loved the horses.
Lady Liberty! She is an amazing view. I could have spent all day on Ellis Island listening to the audio tour, but like I said only one day. No matter how crappy politicians are sometimes, we do live in an amazing place!
A great view of the New York skyline, and a very bored Hispanic lady!
This is the sight of the World Trade Towers. Hard to believe the 10 year anniversary will be coming up in 2011. They are still working on the memorial sight, but I am still in wonderment over the whole 9/11 thing. It is so weird how the buildings around the towers are fine.
OK, so the girl I was eating cheesecake with a few pictures back, is a big fan of Tim McGraw. Well, of all the people, guess who was preforming on the Today show the Friday that we were there??? I was hard to get a good picture, but he is the guy in the black cow boy hat.It is very obvious that they don't enforce the above sign!!!!
I had to try on this cool had, I thought that maybe I should buy it for snow skiing, what do you think?
I can see why people love Central Park. It is the only place that has grass! We found this bum sleeping under his blanked in Central Park. I had always heard about that, but didn't think I would actually see it. We braved the subway, the air bus and the train. It was a great time and I can't wait to go back and visit again.

Signs of the times......

OH, I just thought this was to funny and since it is Halloween! Have a great Halloween weekend and don't get sick eating to much candy. Also, Happy 9th Birthday to Carter on October 30th, you are a great son and we love you.

Kids say the darndest things....

Last night we were having family scripture study (OK that might be pushing it, let me rephrase) we were reading scriptures. When we were done Buster said that he wanted to read and so he took the framed copy of the Proclamation to the world and sat it down in front of him. Then he started rubbing his own shoulders. When asked what he was doing, he said that he was getting warmed up to read! We all started laughing. Then he started reading about how Amalickiah was killing Laman and Lemuel with swords and there was blood everywhere. It was so cute, I just love this age and the funny things that they say and do.

Never say Never

For everybody that says "Oh, I could never do ......", I am here to tell you that nothing is impossible!! I would always say that I would NEVER run, it hurts my body to bad or if you run somewhere, that means that you have to turn around and run back to where you came from. That would take to much work. Well, I ate my words on 9/19/09. I ran my first ever marathon and finished in 4 hours and 18 minutes. After months of training I proved to myself that I can do hard things and that I am not quite over-the-hill yet, despite hitting 35 this year. Before I turned 30 I used to eat WHATEVER I wanted and I would ALWAYS have dessert (my friend reminded me of this during the middle of the marathon). Well, now I have to exercise if I want dessert and I can't go back for seconds :(, no matter how good the food is. It was a great day and now I am trying to figure out what I want to accomplish next. Any ideas???? Below are some pictures and my #1 fan Cynthia took for me at the marathon, despite falling backwards over a construction cone :)

This is my cousins husband Jim and he also ran the race and finished way before I did! He doesn't count because he run marathons all of the time.