An Amusing Day

So today was just a normal busy day, with grocery shopping and freezer jam making, but I have some funny stories to share.

This morning while I was doing my workout on the Wii Fit I gave the kids some frozen go-gurts. They took them outside to eat. After I was done I went outside to go take a picture for my neighbor, Summer. On my way across the lawn to her house Annicka stopped me. "Mommy, the sun is warming up my brain." I think she had gotten an ice-cream headache from eating it too quickly.

Then we went grocery shopping after Indie's morning nap. On the way from Costco to Wal-mart Annicka was sitting in the very back of the van and asked me to turn the air conditioning up to three. It was on one and so I put it to two. She asked, "is it on three?" Not seeing any need to argue about whether it needed to be on three or two I just said, "Yes!" Then Park, who was sitting in the middle where he could see everything going on outed me. He said, "No, mommy. It on two!" What do you do with a two year old who knows all of his numbers and letters?

Soccer

Annicka has started soccer practice and she loves it! Here she is running laps.

Listening intently to coaches Cameron and Nate.

What a kick! Look at that extension!

Scott told her to look mean.

Proud of her first battle wound.

Girls Camp and Swimming

I was called about six weeks ago to be our ward girls camp director and camp was this last week. I was surprised at the call so close to camp, but I was really excited. Girls Camp was always a highlight from my Young Women years. I wasn't able to stay over night because of Indie, but I went back and forth every day. Scott was amazing, he took the week off and watched the kids while I was gone, all while he had a bad cold. Thank you, Scott! I love you! I've already started thinking about where to go and what to do next year.

This last Friday one of Scott's cousins invited the family to a swim party at their neighbors house. The pool was huge, complete with water slide and a waterfall to jump from and a shallow end for the kiddos.
This was Indie's first swimming experience and he loved it!

Ward Campout

We had our ward campout last night. The place was perfect for our ward, it's about 7 minutes from our house and they had a playground and pavillion and lots of room for tents under large trees. We made our tinfoil dinners and then the ward provided smores and breakfast.

Me at the karaoke show!

What a beautiful sunset!

So, I was feeding Indie in the tent at about 8:30 so I could lay him down. Annicka kept insisting that she was tired and wanted to go to bed. I tried VERY hard to discourage her from going to bed right then, I knew she would want to play with the other kids as soon as she heard them outside and that would mean having to get her ready again and so on. She wouldn't let up. So I finally conceded with the stipulation that if she came into the tent, she wasn't coming out. She said, okay. Less than two minutes after getting her ready to go to sleep she wanted to go out and play. I told her she had to stay and go to sleep like she said she would. She started crying. I left her in there for about 20 minutes. Scott went back after a while and she was still crying. Hence, the above picture. Four year olds are so fickle!
Park and Daddy!

Here is Indie, on our matress after a very LONG night of not good sleep.