Fourth of July Fun

Fourth of July is aways fun. Fun for all ages. The grown ups enjoy lighting things on fire just as much as the kids. This year my parents were able to be here and celebrate with us.

My beautiful sister

My goofy hubby
Brooklyn

My mom was obsessed with sparklers. I had to tell her that she couldn't have any more and that she had to save them for the kids.

Hannah and Grandpa Bird and Harley (our dog....sort of)

The fire starters.

A Special Daddy Daughter date!!

A couple of weeks ago BJ took Brooklyn on a very special daddy daughter date. BJ and I are big fans of RSL (Utahs MLS team). In fact, we have season tickets and we go to every home game. We love to talk about it with the kids and teach them how to cheer, "Goooo, REAL SALT LAKE!!". So for one of the home games BJ took Brooklyn. She wore my jersey and cheered her little heart out. She even got a hotdog and cotton candy at the game.

Our first real camping trip

Over memorial day weekend we decided to go on an overnight camping trip. We went with some great friends of our. We had a blast! But in all honesty BJ and I decided we are more of the hotel camper type. The girls (me included) stole all the blankets from BJ. When we woke in the morning we found him sleeping in the truck with the truck running. Haha.. The kids loved it and ask all the time to go again.

Kids say the darndest things...

Today we decided to go on a family drive. As we were driving we past a church building. Hannah says, "look mom a wedding."
Later on in our drive Hannah notices the moon and thinks it is following us. Brooklyn replies, "it's just following us because the wind is blowing it"
We went to a park to play and Hannah got stung by a wasp. She wailed and cried the whole time saying that a bee walked on her finger.

Mom, Can I help you?

Another Hannah moment... I swear I have no idea how that brain of hers works. All I know is she can think quickly and it keeps me on my toes.
I was in the attic putting things away the other day and Hannah wanted to come up and help. She had already asked to come up the latter about a billion times and of course my reply was the same, "no sweetie it is too high and dangerous." I guess she had had enough of that answer because after telling her that for the last time she said, "ok mommy, no latter......" and proceeded to push the latter down the hallway so that couldn't get down from the attic.
I asked for it nicely back and then quickly got firmer and thankfully for my quick thinking too, I treatened no more treats and got the latter back right away.

Mom, I have to go potty....

So Hannah has been our little firecracker lately... She is definitely her own person. I'll share some of her latest. A couple of weeks ago I was out running errands with the kids. I stopped off at Staples in Provo. Now, what I'm about to admit is not something I am proud of, and will NEVER DO AGAIN. I left the kids in the car while I ran inside..... In my defense I locked the doors, turned up the AC, and turned on a movie. And, I only had to purchase 1 thing... Ok, enough about trying to defend myself. I told the girls to not get out of the car.. So as I am coming out of Staples I notice a car parked next to mine. I immediately feel the guilt for having left my kids unattended and hope that the lady that is still in her car doesn't notice my kids. After a few more steps I notice that my car windows are down and I can see that Hannah is out of her seat. When I get to her window I ask,
"Hannah, what are you doing?"
She replies, " I had to pee!"
I say, "oh no! did you go in your pants?"
She says, "nope"
I say, "did you go in the car somewhere?"
"nope"
"well where did you go?"
"I went outside."
I look down to see a pudlle, which I am standing in...
I say, "did you open the door?"
"nope"
"well what did you do?" I am still very confused. And at this point Brooklyn breaks away from the movie and informs me that Hannah went pee out of the window!
Hannah then says, "I will show you mom." And she proceeds to pull down her pants, climb onto her seat and then onto the door and wiggle her little white bum onto the window....
I couldn't believe it. I took a step back and sure enough there was a wet streak down the side of the van. So as you can see I will never again leave my kids unattended. I never thought it would be for peeing out the window though.

Hannah and Prayers

So after almost all of the prayers we say in our family, Hannah always says,"I didn't close my eyes or fold my arms!" But after our dinner prayer tonight she proudly says, "Mom! I folded my eyes and closed my arms." She's a funny kid.