Baby Maddie

Niece #8 - yay!! Congrats Bri and Kat! This is Maddie. She was in the NICU for 8 days with a lung infection, but she's home now!! Soooo teensy! Can't wait to meet her!

Jonesville, MI

Brad and I recently took advantage of a free babysitter (Grandma T - thank you!!!) and went on a romantic getaway to Jonesville, MI. It was a lot of fun and nice to get a reminder of what we are like just as people.

 We stayed at this awesome Bed and Breakfast called the Munro House.

 They had a grand piano in the living room and Brad provided the tunes.

Our self pic in our room called George's Room. What fun! And great food, but no pics of that, sorry...

New Addition to the Family

We finally did it and got Hy (and the other kids, but mainly Hy) his first (of probably many) snake. Name to come. We vote tonight for FHE.

Another Bus Story

This one is much lighter than the last.

So we went and met Brad for lunch again.

We got to campus just fine, nothing out of the ordinary to report. I had the stroller for Harper and both girls were perfectly quiet and well-behaved. Had lunch at Pizza Hut - it was a sturdy ok.

The girls and I walked back to the bus stop. The bus that had left suddenly that other time would have done the same thing, our timing was just horrible, so we decided to wait out the few minutes between buses at the stop. I folded up the stroller and the girls ran around, a safe distance from the street and were earning loyal fans with every gut laugh and giggle.

The bus arrived and we got on, in our usual spot in the back (we try to stay out of the way). Harper sat on my lap, grabbed the wheel to the stroller and asked if she could drive. I said sure. She then called out in her loudest voice, "I'm pirate - ARRRRRRRRR!! And I driving!" Everyone started laughing. Harper again, "I pirate Harper!!!" She repeated it every 10-20 seconds, every time met with smiles from her fans, egging her on.

After about 3 minutes, I said "What else drives besides a pirate?"

She replied, without consideration, "Two pirates, here Samara [offering the other wheel of the stroller], you pirate too!"

Eruptions of laughter.

Seriously, she just charmed every person on that bus and hopefully made their day, possibly even their week. Of all the times we've been on the bus, I've never seen so many people respond to my kids like today.

Scripture Time

Tonight, we read Mosiah 12. It was Harper's turn to 'read' verse 5.

BRAD: ...before...
HARPER: be-fow
[Hyrum makes eye contact with me and starts quietly laughing]
BRAD: ...like a...
HARPER: lika
BRAD: ...dumb ass...
HARPER: dummm ass
[Isaac and Hyrum both laughing]
TRACEY: It means a donkey.
SAMARA: That farted?
[eruptions of laughter]

Anniversary

11 years ago, Brad and I got married.

To congratulate us first thing this morning, Harper woke up in her own vomit and poo. She held up her blanket and reported, "poo-poo come out my mouth accident." Sigh. At least she's cute right?

Today

The kids have today off of school, 'cause, ya know, it's...Tuesday. So we went to campus, saw Brad teach the last few minutes of his class, and walked to lunch. It was about 54 degrees F today and we played outside all afternoon. I did homework for Sport Psychology and got a 100% on my quiz!