We got to go to Goblin Valley this year for Easter. Great fun. Except at night. At night the wind blew, the sand covered and the tents collapsed. We did get to go on a couple of great hikes. Wild Horse Canyon was beautiful and the kids hiked most of the way themselves.

On Friday we died Easter eggs to leave out for the Easter Bunny to hide. The plan was that in the morning we would hunt for the eggs and then make eggs golden rod. During the night a fox or a skunk or a something decided to start the hunt without us though and with the exception of a couple of eggs got them all.

The kids didn't think it was very funny when I suggested that maybe the fox ate the bunny.   

Go Utes

I took the kids to the University of Utah's Red & White Spring Football game.  I had a good time.  So did the kids apparently.  When we got home Heather asked Caleb what he did.  He said "umm sit in a chair," she asked him what else "umm eat candy."

Andrew didn't get to come.  He said he was too busy to do his chores.  He had to go to a funeral instead.

I had kids to make me laugh...and cry and scream

I was pushing Andrew in the stroller (for which he is getting too big,) and he was trying to get me to push really fast. "I'm lazy," I answered. To which he responded, "Lazy people are crazy. And crazy people go fast!" A=B=C. He's already full of logic.

We were in sacrament yesterday, and when the water tray came to us, there weren't enough cups for the last few kids, Caleb included. He was very disappointed, but I calmed him by telling him it would be coming. He waited patiently, but when it came, he surprised us all by yelling loudly, "WATER! I love it!" Then, he proceeded to spill it down his front in his excitement.

The brainy one in the family?

These glasses look like they belong on him, don't they?

Our Little Book Worm

We went to our cousin's wedding last night, and while Caleb was busy tossing table decorations into the stream, Elsie sat down to read.  They both make me laugh.

The Little Drunker Boy, Part I

I was at Scouts a few weeks ago and didn't have my cell phone with me. When I came home and saw Heather's car gone and Robin's truck in front of our house, I smelled trouble.

Turns out Caleb bit 3/4's of the way through his tongue vertically and about 1/3 of the way across his tongue horizontally.

I rushed off to be a part of the fun (thank you Robin), and boy o' boy did I have it. Lots of it. Caleb was actually very happy pre-surgery we played and laughed and had fun taking pictures.

He couldn't have surgery until the food he had eaten a few minutes before the accident was out of his system so we had time to play.

He didn't like the IV though and it took 5 tries and the special team to get one successfully in.

Anyway, the surgery went well, just before they started the Nurses brought us some slushies, I felt like I was at the movies, watching surgery while slurping a grape slushy.

After the surgery the doctor wouldn't release Caleb until he could show that he was off of the effects of Kedamine. The nurse suggested that we get him to play a game or move around. He was so funny. He acted just like he was drunk. He staggered, he swayed, he drooled.

For a while he played the game of repeatedly hitting me in the head with a stuffed dolphin. Each time he hit me I would cry out "ohhh." He would laugh in his adorable drunk way.

He reminded me so much of the boy on this short video (well worth the watch):

http://www.thedoorpost.com/sacrifice/theboywhostoldchristmas/

The Little Drunker Boy part 2

Here are some more hospital pictures from our wonderful "little drunker boy."

Is he blaming Heather?

Don't look at me, look at the baby.