Thursday, July 18, 2013

Prayers and Family Home Evening

Today Lincoln told me a story while playing with his toys:

“Once upon a time there was a garbage man. Then Optimus Prime came and told him to build a ferry. Then all the animals and spiders got on the ferry and the rain came and no one died. THE END!”

Can you guess what story I told Lincoln?

Noah’s ark.

I made the mistake of using his toys to tell the story and I guess his couldn’t quite understand that God was not in fact Optimus Prime…..

Every Sunday, we ask him what he learned in church and he usually whines, “Stop asking me that!” We figured he was the kid crawling through his chair anyway and chances were that he wasn’t actually learning anything. Then over the past six months, whenever he prays he lets slip what he learned. Without fail every prayer starts with, “Thanks that we live on Earth” and he usually goes on to tell us something he learned the Sunday before.

It always makes Scott and I smile because we are awful about teaching Lincoln about the scriptures. In fact he called any kind of instruction manual “Scriptures” for over a year due to our lack of……ummmm…..reading them.

We are working on being better about that, but we are thankful that his teachers are leading him in the right direction.

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Now I know some people only look at my blog for the pictures, so for you, here are a bunch of random pictures from the last week or two.

Here is one of Lincoln’s his best friends Kristie. She comes over to play and swim every Tuesday after we go to a summer movie. IMG_5156IMG_5160IMG_5167IMG_5172IMG_5173

Every day Lincoln asks “What are we gonna make today?” We make something every single day.

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On Mondays and Thursdays we walk to the library for story time and always take a stop to see our ducks. We fed them one day and Lincoln thought it was awesome!

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Well that is all the pictures for now!

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

The Fourth of July

Another great fourth of July for us! This year we went to the parade again. Lincoln was so excited he could hardly stand it. He got lots of candy and waved his pom-pom as fast and hard as he could. Maverick enjoyed it too, until he wanted to walk out and be a part of the parade. We didn’t get home until after 1:00 and all took a nap. Per-fect!IMG_5185IMG_5193IMG_5194IMG_5195IMG_5198IMG_5199IMG_5200IMG_5205IMG_5206IMG_5210IMG_5213IMG_5215IMG_5218IMG_5222IMG_5226IMG_5229

We went to the beach for dinner with our good friends Doug and Clarissa Young. We had hotdogs and yummy grapes and strawberries. It was relaxing and stress-free and our kids loved it. IMG_5232IMG_5234IMG_5236

David through sand in Mavericks mouth and Maverick enjoyed it so much that he continued stuffing sand in his own mouth. IMG_5237IMG_5238IMG_5239

By time we got home, it was bedtime for Maverick. We gave the boys a quick bath and sent them off to bed. We didn’t do fireworks this year because we wanted our sleep. It was a great day and I have to say it is becoming one of my favorite holidays!

Saturday, July 13, 2013

You Are My Sunshine Birthday Party

After Lincoln’s Super Hero Birthday Party I was still completely exhausted and decided to go simple for Mavericks. I wasn’t even sure what I was doing until a couple of days before. Lincoln was so excited for Maverick’s birthday party that it motivated me to try just a little.

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Although Maverick destroys everything in his path and usually has a scowl on his face, he still makes me happy when skies are grey. And grey skies are common in Seattle!

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I made cake balls for everyone else, since Mavo would have his own cake. IMG_5376

His sun cake. It kind of looks like a turkey right?IMG_5378IMG_5379

Presents! If you know me at all, you know that I always buy too many toys for my kids, and then if you know me even more you know I have daily fits over cleaning up all the toys I buy. So this year Scott forced me to cut back on my over-spending and Maverick got three presents from us: a set of wood trucks, a puzzle and a kite. IMG_5390

Wearing his birthday present from grandma Jones.IMG_5398

The plan was small toys and few toys, so we can fit them in our tiny apartment. Then grandma Roberts showed up! She brought seven presents with her and most of them were big! Lincoln was soooooo excited that we basically had to hold him back from tearing open all the presents himself!

IMG_5406IMG_5407He did so well at tearing off the paper. “Mom you really are gonna let me destroy this? BEST. DAY. EVER.”IMG_5414IMG_5419

Loved the stuffed animal from his aunty Nicole!IMG_5423

There was no doubt in our minds that Monster Mav would demolish his cake. First thing he did before touching it was lean forward and take a taste.IMG_5434IMG_5442IMG_5444IMG_5457IMG_5466IMG_5468IMG_5470

He ate half the cake and then began throwing the rest everywhere. We moved him from the dining room to the kitchen and since it was his birthday, we let him throw it everywhere.IMG_5485IMG_5488IMG_5490IMG_5497

“Here Lincoln, you can have this metal part that actually isn’t cake”IMG_5500

Happy Birthday Monster Mav! You really are my ray of sunshine!