The kids have all missed going to Nana’s house like usual this week. They have been very worried about her in the hospital. The day after her surgery, they spent a little while making her some “Get Well” posters to go in her hospital room.
We’re hoping that one day soon she be back to her old self and ready to do this again:
Kids can be so funny. Seriously they come up with some of the craziest stuff. Like this morning, Layton told that if I didn’t get out of bed and get his drinky (aka chocolate milk) that the boogie man was going to get me.
Or a couple of nights ago, Nathan was giving Layton one of his specialty hugs. He does high hugs, Lightning McQueen hugs, tickle hugs, Mater Hugs, and all kinds of other ones that he and Layton have come up with. That night Layton asked for a Pirate hug. Then we asked how do you give a Pirate Hug. He responded, “With Pirate Attitude”. Yep, he’s got attitude all right.
And between all the craziness he can be ridiculously sweet. Like yesterday when he woke up from his nap and started asking for Daddy and then he wanted me to call Daddy and tell him to come home. That may not sound like much to some people, but it was pretty much a miracle to me and Nathan. He is a momma’s boy through and through and so for him to ask for Daddy is like one of the sweetest things he’s ever said about Nathan.
like when I let them do this:
It is becoming quite a tradition! They love it and I love watching them do it. To me – it is the epitome of what childhood is all about.
At Nathan’s office they are doing a health challenge starting tomorrow to see who can be the biggest loser. Everyone will put in $10 and whichever woman and man loses the highest percentage of body weight in the next 8 weeks will split the pot. But, to make it nice for all of the participants, anyone who loses 5% or more body weight will win a day off of work. Sweet, right? So Nathan has decided to enter to see if he can get a day off of work.
And so since right now I am trying to exercise to get in shape for our vacation in September, which is only 7 weeks away (YAY!!!!), I thought it might be fun for the two of us to have a little competition of our own. Between the two of us we’ll see who can lose 5% of body weight first. We haven’t decided on a prize yet. Any ideas? I was thinking that maybe the loser would have to give the winner a full body massage. Which is totally something I could use right now. Holy cow I’m out of shape. I’ve been exercising daily for about a week now and right this second I am SOOOOO sore. It even hurts to type.
So sweetie – get ready to get your butt kicked. It is so ON!
Remember Dallin’s huge sunflowers? Well, the sunflower seeds finally matured and so we decided to harvest them.
I still can’t get over how big these things got.
They really were enormous and very very heavy!
This huge pile of seeds was from only FOUR sunflowers. Crazy!
After harvesting them, I decided to try soaking them in salt and then roasting them in the oven. They came out ok, but not as good as the ones you buy at the store. I think I should have used DOUBLE the amount of salt that the recipe I had called for. But, it was a good learning experience and now I know for next year!
At Dallin’s party, I walked up to Nathan and found him doing this:
He then turned Reese towards me and asked – see don’t you want another one?
I think if I could be guaranteed to have one as happy and sweet as she is, I think I might really be tempted. But, I’m not sure if I am willing to take that risk!!! Not when I have Layton around all the time to remind me of what I would most likely get!
Layton is so sweet when he is asleep. In fact I think it might be the only time that I can truly say that he is sweet!
