Brothers

My kids fight and argue...a lot!!! It drives me crazy and I am always telling them that they should be best friends and watch out for each other and love each other more than anyone else but they don't listen....or do they?!?

In school, Cooper is learning about positive role models and being polite. He had to draw a picture of his role model...guess who it is...his big brother CONNOR!!

I would have never guessed Cooper would pick Connor to be his role model....maybe behind all the fighting and arguing they do love each other!

Date Night!

Eric and I had a must needed date night on Saturday.

We went bowling! (for the first time in forever...our scores show how lame we are!)
Then to dinner....(no pictures..we were to busy eating!)

Then 3D BLACK LIGHT mini-golf....this was sooo cool and fun!! Eric hit the hole-in-one on the 18th hole and the dinosaur talked to us!

Then a little Christmas shopping and finally we picked the kids up...oh and did I mention FREE babysitting for the evening... THANKS TESSA AND JAKE!!!!

Date Nights are the best...!!! I love you Eric!

Walmart.....

So I walk into Walmart this morning and a cute little old man says hi to me and Cody and hands Cody a weekly ad. Cody took it and off we went to shop. Then I look down and see what I thought was a picture of President Monson. I took the ad from Cody's hand and sure enough....front and center at the top of the instore Walmart ad is a picture of President Monson. The ad was announcing the new book about him that is coming out. Right under that is the weekly sale on Mac-n-Cheese. I honestly, didn't know what to think at first. My initial thought was "oh my gosh I have to tell my friends in California!" Never would you see this in an ad in California and certainly not on the front, in big bold letters!! Then I thought, wow..this is really strange! As I walked around I thought about it more....and here is my reaction to this ad.....

I am lucky to live in a community where this is acceptable and where the general population is actually interested in the Prophet of God. I am happy to know that the ad the little old man is handing me and my son has a picture of the Prophet on it and not a group of girls in bikinis drinking beer. I am happy to know that I don't have to drive 30 minutes to a church book store to get uplifting church reading material. Seeing this ad really made me happy today and I am a little embarassed that my first reaction was that I thought it was odd and inappropriate.

(My friends back home are probably rolling their eyes at me....but that's ok! :) Life is good here in Idaho!)

On a very funny side note, the bottom part of that ad is full of specials on food storage! I am not joking either, I wish I had taken a picture of that before I had to use the ad as a napkin!!!!

Getting ready..

This weekend we went home to California for Brock's farewell talk and to get all the rest of the stuff he needs for his mission. Eric, Brock and I spent Saturday going from store to store, checking off things from the list, buying this, buying that, trying on this, trying on that....I leave them for 2 minutes and this is what I find them doing......

HAHAHA!! I love these guys!!

The Spirit of Boise

The Spirit of Boise is a 3 day celebration that celebrates...well I guess Boise, I am not really sure. But what I do know is that this year they brought back the "hot air balloons". They haven't done this for the last 3 years so the Jones Family made sure we were part of the celebration. We got up really early...went to the park, put down our blankets, had some hot chocolate and waited.

Then they start inflating the balloons. I didn't realize how close we were until they start filling up. There were 23 balloons lined up and they raced to see who could fill up and take off first. There was some kind of race to see who could circle and knock down a port-o-potty with the basket of their balloon first..but we didn't stay for that part of it.

If there is one thing we have learned...these people are C-R-A-Z-Y about Boise State! This balloon was heavily cheered for!!

It was soooo cool to see them fill up and take off. They filled the sky. It was worth getting up early. It was very cool!

Then we left and went and had breakfast..yes there were 4 adults and 7 children in a restaurant at one big table. It was crazy but the food was yummy!

Later that night, we went back to the same park to watch the final balloon event. We got there and had to wait a little longer than we did in the morning. The kids killed the time by giving horse rides, playing with my camera and eating popcorn.

And then... The count down..."3-2-1 burn". All the hot air balloons light up time and time again. It was really cool. You can see there are a ton of people there. They were going crazy when they lite up the Boise State balloon! This is an event we will attend next year for sure!!

Nothing but fun..

Sand camping, quad riding, the lake, a rock that looks like Idaho, a new big boy bike for Cody, Idaho State Fair....nothing but fun in Idaho!!!!

(yes he did run into the mailbox)

Really..does it really say....

YES!!! Yes- it does really say.... PEPSI! This is painted on the playground of my sons elementary school. Oh yes it is! I don't know why (yet) but I will find out. I think it was destiny!!