Flour fun!

This happened about 2 weeks ago.  But let's talk about it like it happened yesterday.

I have a dog trainer who comes over once a week and helps me with Charlie.  She happened to be there, and so I wasn't keeping a real close eye on the boys.  All the sudden, about 15 minutes before Kimberly left, Landon comes running in and stands by the front door- covered head to toe in flour and announced that they had made a skating rink.  I just laughed- I think I said something like "Oh, kids will be kids!  Hahahaha."  Kimberly left and I showed Chase what happened.  He took one look and said, "They are in so much trouble!"  I told him to calm down, just laugh about it.  Kids just do this kind of stuff (I seriously must have been on a sugar high, or something.).  I put the kids in the shower/bath, and started cleaning it.  I thought, this will take about 15, maybe 20 minutes to clean up. First I got a wet cloth and wiped the counters.  Then I did it again with a new clean wet cloth.  Then I did it a third time. I swept (my mom called at this point and I told her what happened, laughed, and said Kids will be kids!  My mom gasped, then said in a really confused voice, "Yeah, I guess kids will be kids."), then I decided I needed to vacuum the hard floor.  Then I mopped.  Twice.  Vacuumed the carpet, and went back over the hard floor to get all the corners.  Wiped everything down again.  2 and 1/2 hours later I went upstairs and told Chase "The boys are in so much trouble.  I'm taking a shower.  So much trouble.  They are in trouble and they are trouble. (muttering) trouble.  So gross.  All that flour.  Grrr.

I asked Landon about it a few days later.  I said, "Hey, what happened in the kitchen?"  Landon, "We made a really slippery situation."

Happy birthday Charlie!

This is Charlie.  He is a coton de tulear, a breed of dog from Madagascar.  Chase and I have been talking about getting a dog for a long long time.  I knew he would be more my dog then anyone, so I always felt pretty...weary about getting a dog.  I started looking at pounds and on KSL and would see one every now and then that looked cute, but I didn't feel super strong about getting a dog.  Thursday afternoon I was looking on KSL again and saw a picture of this little guy.  I looked up the breed on line and learned about them.  They are very fun and playful, super healthy, and they are happy in any environment.  I decided show Chase so we could talk about getting him.  On Saturday morning we decided to take the boys and go pick up Charlie.  They were very excited when they found out we were going to take him home.  He has been really good so far.  He really likes Chase, so we're trying to urge him to sit with Collin and play with him a lot.  I'm really worried about training him.  I'm sure it will go great, but I just have no idea what I'm doing.  

Cali day 1

Even though we left the day before, we didn't take any pictures.  We tried to see the Salt Flats but it was so muddy we didn't even stop.  So day 1 is Saturday.  We drove and drove and drove from Elko NV all the way to a place called Muir National Forest.  It's part of the Redwoods, and it was beautiful.  Dave and the girls met us there, and it was really fun to spend time with them.  Afterwords we went to Pier 39 and I had some clam chowder.  It ended up being really good.

Cali day 2

Sunday we went to church with David, Megan, and the girls.  One of my seminary teachers was in their bishopric, Brother Bohn.  It was fun to see him and catch up a little.  We didn't last the whole church, Landon was very tired and we decided to go home and eat and then head over to the Golden Gate Bridge.  We went and parked so we could walk on the bridge.  It was so windy!

The boy's found a hole that went though the cement so they could see the ocean under the bridge.  It was kind of scary.

Collin found a door and tried to open it.

Cali day 3

Monday was driving.  Once I saw it was a 7 hour drive to Newport Beach Chase and I decided to drive 3 hours Sunday night so we would only have 4 hours on Monday.  I was very glad we did that, we were able to sleep later then we would have, and the hotel had a great breakfast.  We went to the beach soon after we got there.

We decided to go get ice cream after the beach

Chase ended up finding 3 clams, but I looked online and found out that you can't take any clams you find on the beach where we were so they threw them back.

Cali day 4

Day 4 was spent at California Adventures.  We had a hard time getting out the door that morning and we missed breakfast so we had to find somewhere in Disneyland to eat, which was not cheap.  We found something and got to the gates in before it opened, and we were still able to get in the Radiator Springs Racers ride fairly quickly.  The lines in CA were wonderful, there was hardly anyone there.  We went on all the rides we wanted and some that ended up making mom and dad really sick.  It's crazy, neither Collin or Landon get sick, and both Chase and I have gotten motion sick our whole lives.

Landon fell asleep and didn't get to see either Mator or Lighting

Landon was sleeping

Collin had never been on Tower of Terror and kept begging us to take him.  I finally decided to go ahead and take him.  The picture above is before we went on it, and the picture below is after.  He was silent the whole ride, and told me right after we got off that it scared him, and then decided it didn't and he was just tricking me.

First time any of us saw World of Color.  It was really neat.