Favorite Quotes

I have been having trouble downloading pictures lately, so there are no darling pics to go with these quotes, but I didn't want to forget them:)

Conversation between Josh and Anna and me:
Josh: "Mom when I'm 12 and 19 I get to go to the temple and I'm almost there!"
Anna:"  I go to temple too, get married"
Me: " Who are you going to marry Anna?"
Anna: "Auntie Jessie"
Me: (totally laughing because that's who Josh wanted to marry at this age too.) "Sorry sweetie auntie Jessie is already married and you have to marry a boy."
Anna: "Ummm I don't want to, I just want rings and earrings."

Love it!  She has been noticing accessories an alarming amount lately - especially since I rarely wear any. At Josh's preschool graduation she stood up on her chair and yelled:

"Mom, that girl has Kennedy's (our neighbor) shoes!"  She was not pleased thinking she stole them from her.  After I consoled her she continued to point out people's pretty earrings and shirts.  I think I'm in trouble.....

She also woke up from her nap today and said, while brushing her hair out of her eyes, "Mom I really need to brush my hair it's a little crazy!"

I really need to video her talking, it's my favorite age for talking when they talk a mile a minute in their little baby voice.

Josh has had a spiritual awakening of late.  I'm not quite sure what triggered it.  He says it's from listening to Scripture Scouts (CDs that I totally recommend).  He is constantly telling me that he misses Jesus so much it makes him cry sometimes.  And he'll bust out with "I just love our family and Heavenly Father and Jesus so much!"  Several times a day.

Ummm, and he prays constantly.  Which is darling.  He had a lesson in primary that triggered this aspect by the way.  It has gotten to the point that Justin asked me the other night, if we should talk to him about not randomly breaking into prayer when he's at school or playing with his friends.  I told him, that it's summer, so we don't have to worry about school ridicule, and I don't think we should discourage prayer in any form at this point.

And an excerpt from the journal I keep for Josh:

My favorite thing that you have said so far today is, "We can't live without bums." So true.  After this statement I said, "That is very good thinking, why do you say that?"

"because then we couldn't drink milk or eat food"  It would be difficult it's true, I love the logic that goes on in your exceptionally brilliant head.

Other favorite things that you've said lately:

We have been reading in the New Testament lately.  We were reading about when Jesus was 12 and his parents found him in the temple. "If he was 12 he must have lost all his teeth by then..."  That is of course exactly what I wanted you to get out of that story:)

Someone has also been talking to him about love:

From a couple of weeks ago:

"Mom I think I fell in love."

"Really with who."

"The girl holding the yellow balloon at Taco Bell" - where we had gone for dinner a couple of nights previously.

"Really what did she look like."

"She was as tall as me with curly brown hair."

From yesterday:

"Mom I think I just fall in love with girls."

"Ok"

"It started when I was born, I just fell in love with Grams, then you, then Anna when she was born, and I still love Ava from California, and I think now I love Ella( a friend we play with frequently)

Kids are great!

In other news, Anna is totally potty-trained.  She pretty much decided and did it herself, since I didn't want to go there while I was feeling crappy.  However, she is not perfect and did have a couple of accidents, including diarrhea all over the playground equipment.   such is life.

The Travel Bug

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Sundays usually result in me thinking about all the places I'd like to go - this may or may not have a significant amount to do with the travel section in the newspaper.  Today it was about South Africa.  I'm totally sold.  Luckily my husband shares my love of travel, and we have big plans:)  Currently at the top of our list are:
Brazil
Australia
Italy
Greece
Driving across America
Service type of trip somewhere - want to do this with each of our children when they are in highschool

That's just the top of the list though.  I could go anywhere and be happy, including dinky towns close to where I live, we had a memorable family vacation to Tombstone AZ when I was in high school.  It's all about seeing new places.  Justin and I have been to London, New York, and Mexico together since we've been married and we spent a lot of that time just walking around, soaking everything in. - That also may or may not have had something to do with being on a budget:)

The above map is places I've been - unfortunately it doesn't let you break down the US because I definitely have not been to Alaska, although I would say it's the next tier down on the list, and have been to Boston, Washington DC, Misssouri, Vermont etc.  Maybe I'll look for a US map as well.... And this map just includes places I've actually left the airport, I've been in too many airports to count.

We have spent all our vacation time this year at Disneyland/California due to our wonderful season passes, when they expire in October I look forward to exploring some new places - I'm pretty sure half of them will still be in California, the beach is in our blood:)

Hopefully we'll be able to travel our whole lives.


visited 15 states (30%)
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Jessie's Wedding

 Jessica Esplin married Brady McArthur May 7th 2011.  After dating for 2 years, waiting for two years and then dating/engaged for almost another year they were ready.  Jessie wasn't even the slightest bit nervous.  Watching Jessie go through the temple was amazing.  Words can't describe the power of the ceremony.  The sealing was my favorite though.  They were so happy gazing into each others eyes, so happy in fact that Jess said "Yes" too early.  When she realized her mistake she said, "Shoot!" in the middle of the ceremony.  Total Jess.  Then after the sealer had them stand side by side and said,  "Look at them they're the perfect size, good luck staying that way!"  Or something to that effect:) 

 Waiting for them to come out of the temple.  Both my kids LOVED their wedding outfits.

 My sister, Amy and her two daughters.  We loved having them hear for two weeks.  Honestly we feel a little lost without them.  Anna still occasionally asks where Natalie or Auntie Amy is.  Anna and Natalie would disappear for hours.

 All the little ones holding Jessie's amazing dress.  Anna was confused when they told her she could go hold the dress and ran up to the front of Jessie and just clutched the fabric - we sorted her out.

 Mom spent hours and hours on the decorations and they were so beautiful.  She used all her mom's, (who recently passed away) crystal, and made these amazing string balls that she hung from the ceiling and used in the centerpieces.  Every table was different.

 Jessie made sure to give her nieces and nephews lots of attention on her day.  They will be so sad when she has her own kids:)

 The cute couple at their wedding dinner.  They both cried - which I have only seen Jess do a couple of times (including the night Brady left), and have never seen Brady do.  Their wedding video was also awesome.  It was completely them, Jessie kept referring to food, and how Brady's cousins were mean to her when he came home, you know total honesty:)

 And before the took off for Mexico there was the necessary game of tag.  What an awesome aunt!

 Mom bought some old closet doors at DI for the back drop, attached them together, painted and glazed them, so cool.  I hope I can hire her when Anna gets married.

The only pic of me and Justin.  And it's at the wedding dinner.  He got the stomach flu that night and missed the whole wedding and reception.  Poor guy!

I Am Pregnant!

I guess it's time I made it official here on my blog:)
This is the reason that I haven't been posting as much lately.
I am due the first week in December - I swore I would never have a December baby but oh well.
We are excited.
It has been my hardest pregnancy so far.  I keep telling Justin three kids is plenty - but he doesn't believe that I'm serious.