Too Cute!

Sarah wrote this is school. I thought the poem was cute but I also thought that all her comments were cute too. The only one her teacher wrote was Awesome Poem!

As David and I were looking at pictures from the Aquarium we saw the dolphins. I said look David a dolphin.

His response "pish"

Me "no it is a dolphin"

David "pish"

Me "yes, it is a big fish"

To David (all day long) "Let go, Becca doesn't want to be tackled!"

Man that kid is going to play football. He loves to wrap his arms around Becca and pick her up and throw her to the ground. Seriously kid!

Baltimore Aquarium

Yesterday we had a great time in Baltimore. We have been talking about going to the aquarium ever since Sarah was 2 and we finally did it! I do have to confess I was a little dissappointed, don't get me wrong, it was great, just crowded...I guess that is what we get for going on a Saturday.

Here they are standing in front of the last surviving Coast Guard ship from WW2

We're ON!

Our house is officially on the market! You can all view in on forsalebyowner.com and type in the zip code 17111 and you will be able to find our house! I am a terrible housekeeper so we will see how long I can keep it clean! I don't know how my friends keep their houses SO CLEAN!

In my last post I talked about having to dress the lady that passed away in our ward. It was probably one of the most spiritual experiences I have had. I thought it would be a little weird, and it was awkward at times, but the spirit was SO strong. If ever you have to do it, don't be scared, it is a sacred experience.

Our carpet pulling party was successful and we managed to get all our carpet to wonderful friends who let us use their curb (we had 30 rolls!) It was really easy and I felt like we contributed something.

The new carpet looks great. I love it...too bad we have to move!

Easter was fun! The Easter Bunny had to hide the eggs inside because it was snowing. We had our spiritual Easter egg hunt outside on Sunday (there are 12 eggs with symbols of the Easter story and we read the scripture that goes with the symbol.) This is the first year I bought them dresses for Easter.

Today we went to a place called bounce u. We had a BLAST! There were all these inflatable slides and bouncy houses. I had to help David. I think I had the most fun :) When we came out we saw these cool tractors. David was in heaven!

Tomorrow we are going to the Baltimore Aquarium so we will have a fun post on Sunday!

Craigslist junkies, RS President and carpet update

Last night we listed a desk and coffee table on craigslist and this morning I had about 30 messages for it!

The RS President and Bishop have been out of town and so the first counselors have been really busy! I really don't know how she does it. I talked with someone for about 45 minutes today then got the message that the sister that passed away yesterday the funeral will be on Friday not Saturday so I will have to dress the sister Thursday night and prepare the luncheon for Friday afternoon. Whew. Then our sister that has been in transition finally has an apartment so we will be moving her Saturday morning.

Saturday evening will be our carpet pulling party because the installers will be coming Monday. I am getting a little nervous about selling for sale by owner...well actually selling it. Whew.

I am REALLY grateful for my great kids who have been good today while I did all my calling and cleaning. I am ESPECIALLY grateful for all my wonderful friends who have watched my kids (and who will be watching my kids...)

Oh Becca part 2

After putting the kids in bed tonight I just went in to check on them and this is what I found. Becca decided to put on her "makeup" right before bed! They went to a birthday party yesterday apparently that was in the goodie bag. She was very good at wiping it off :)

PS This afternoon Becca was chilly and decided to turn up the heater. I went to check the thermostat and it was set at 90 degrees! Aaron and I just laughed.

pictures

Here are the pictures. for some reason it wouldn't let me put them on the last post!

cute cupcakes and flour MESS

Friday night I took a shower after the kids went to bed and Aaron and I were joking about how nice it was that no one was outside the door fighting or saying that David poured the flour out. Funny thing I was getting ready for a baby shower when Becca and Sarah came and said, David just dumped out the flour. As you can see it was a MESS. I was a little angry...but then I just said oh, well...life goes on.

I saw this idea on a friend's blog and I thought it was cute! We made spring cupcakes. The kids loved it. Although, when Sarah's friends came over she wanted to show them the cupcakes and left the oven open. We didn't discover it until they were done baking. Some were burnt on the bottom because the oven had to constantly be on...life is a journey and there are always lessons to learn right!

To make the cute flowers on top take two marshmallows and put them on their side and smash them flat. Then with kitchen shears cut them into thirds and there are your petals. you are supposed to put a gum drop in the middle, but we just had petals.

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Sarah's exercise class and weird Mormons

The other day it was warm outside (~45) and so Sarah said lets go have an exercise class outside. I looked out and couldn't pass up the opportunity. I love Becca's version of a push up :)

Today at the gym I was talking with a lady and I told her that I was going to be moving soon. Then the question always follows...where...Utah. She said, my sister lives there. The people there are SO weird! We kept talking about skiing and the mountains (anything other than the inevitable) then she asked, "Are you a Mormon?" and I said yes. She said you are so bubbly and friendly...I would have NEVER guessed. HAHA. I then told her that 4 others in spin class are LDS too. She was astonished that we were all so nice, because Mormons were supposed to be weird.

Oh, Becca

Today we had ward conference and the kids were singing "I am a Child of God." They forgot to put in the program that Becca was the soloist. She was right on and knew most of the words (even if she didn't know the words she pretended...Grandma Grider would be so proud!) I have to confess I got a little teary because it was so pure and from her heart. Plenty of comments were made afterwards. Everyone came up and said how great of a singer Becca is. Funny thing is Sarah has a better ear for music and is more on tune, Becca just belts it out!



As we were in our meeting with the Stake RS Presidency the kids were pretty good. The last 10 minutes they were beginning to get a little restless. The secretary pulled out her pad of paper for Becca to draw. She began drawing a person. The secretary started to smile and said show it to your mom. It apparently was a picture of a boy with all his boy parts. I tried to stifle my laugh and asked her who it was, she looked at me and said, David. I told her that it was a great picture but usually we draw people with clothes on. OH BECCA.



Sarah's school is having a pennies for patients drive for children with leukemia and she is really serious about it. She has asked anyone who comes to the house if they have any pennies they want to donate. She has gone over to our neighbors and asked if they had any pennies. Tonight we went to some friends and had YUMMY dinner. Sarah of course took her jar and was thrilled when the mom emptied her purse and the dad poured in 200 pennies. She was excited to count her money when we came home.

Oh I almost forgot...the other night Aaron and I were sitting at the table with Becca when she said, "you know the Easter Bunny is not real." I said well who leaves out all the eggs? People do. I said, "well, it is fun to pretend." then Aaron said, "You know there will be no candy for those who don't believe in the Easter Bunny." She didn't say anything else...haha.

Later Sarah asked when Easter was. I said that this year it was March 22nd. She was really sad and I asked her why she was down. She said, "I was going to write to the Easter Bunny and ask him to leave me coins in my pennies for patients jar." Too cute. Sarah still believes.

Chocolate World

This week we went to Chocolate World with some friends from DC. We rode the ride twice (oh how I am going to MISS Chocolate World!). I will have to post some video clips from chocolate world...anyway when I was cleaning out my pantry there was a chocolate bar (from the last time we went camping) and David was pointing to it saying Chocolate World, Chocolate World. Poor kids I guess the only time he gets chocolate is at Chocolate World :)

HOUSE UPDATE: This weekend we did touch up and A TON of trim and doors. We still have more to go, but it is not as crucial. I ordered carpet this morning...not too bad. We decided to save $500 and rip it up ourselves. The trash company will take it a little at a time so those who live close if you wake up on trash day and there is a pile of carpet in front of your house THANKS!

Reverence please

Today was stake conference and my kids were far from reverent...any tips or suggestions (other than food and coloring/reading).

This story was shared in one of the talks that I really liked. He was talking about mother hens gathering her chick and that if you come between a mother hen and her chicks watch out. He told of a firefighter who after a wildfire was walking the forest surveying the damage. He came upon the charred carcase of a hen. The firefighter thought what a dumb bird, she didn't even fly away from the fire. As he kicked the carcase he discovered her live chicks. She had given her life to save her chicks. Oh how I want to be like that mother hen and give all I have for my kids!

Our talented kids

Becca has been into lifting her eyebrows and winking so I thought I would capture our talented kids :)