what a beautiful mess

Trevor actually texted me during dinner "Why do you hate me??" I thought the zucchini noodles were delicious, at least they were the first couple of bites and only as long as there was bacon in it. No worries though cause I fed him dessert: Zucchini cake. But that, at least, was good. Emily has decided to play the violin. Doesn't she look adorable and happy? And Annabelle looks scared....and adorable. It's a great picture, right? Emily seems to have grown 3 inches over night. She's growing up! Painting is just about done. I have put off mowing the lawn for 3 days now but tomorrow I have to do it. When you have to hike through the grass, then it's time to get to work. Speaking of hiking, Josh and I hiked the "R"  mountain today with some friends. And it was just as beautiful as before. And we plan on doing it again tomorrow.... I cannot wait!

And that's really what the kids named this little guy after they found him. I think it's alluding to the fact that we say Josh looked like a frog when he was born... He was a tiny little guy and the kids had fun playing with him for an hour or so. They even built him a castle. I love having a yard again.... Church was.....good today. Through all the meetings, the subject kept coming up on how to be a better person. And how we need to change ourselves and make ourselves open to loving criticism. It was a bit of an awaken-er to me. I often go through the motions of trying to be a better person but it's a little half heart-ed. I know there are times I hurt peoples feelings, I'm not as kind as I should be, I'm too sensitive and I can be annoyingly mopey. Those are things that I need to change and it was just reiterated to me today. The Relief Society lesson was given on this  talk from last Aprils General Conference and I plan on reading it and studying it more...

They aren't quite red but they're getting pretty close.  Near our house, we have awesome hiking.  Did I say awesome italisized?? That's cause it's  awesome .  We hiked the Rexburg mountain today or the Buttes.  Don't let Emily's happy face fool you.  She was miserable. She drank all her water halfway to the top and ended up throwing the water and her oatmeal up.  Not a pretty sight.  It's uphill the whole way and I think the "whole way" means about 2 miles.  But once you reach the top, it's so completely and totally worth it. I know Trevor doesn't love hiking (although he does like it a lot) but he totally knew what he was getting into when he proposed to me on a hike~Angels Landing in Zions.  That was the best hike ever.  EVER. This evening we had a barbque at some friends house. And that brings me to the point of the title of this post.  We find ourselves saying "ain't" and "worth a lick"  and "ain't wor...

My goofy boys. (oh yeah, don't look up his nose...gross.) And I'm not gonna lie.... I had three of them today. And lots of water flavored with this: It's delicious. Painting makes me really thirsty....

I'm pretty sure they'll all be needing new shoes again before too long... And we're now back to a regular schedule  of waking up early and going to bed early. I'm already exhausted.

Trevor always has the best ideas.  We started with some yummy food, then went and played some games outside. Our kids favorites; a spelling bee and truth or dare.  (isn't it hard to believe, judging by the picture, that they actually fight and argue and are mean to each other? well, believe it. they really don't always get along.) Josh's first word to spell: ABC.  He did fantastic... What better way to celebrate going back to school than by watching High School Musical? I love that move... And it was the first time Trevor had ever watched it all the way though. Between you and me, I think he really enjoyed it. The kids go back on Wednesday.  That would be the day after tomorrow.  Holy cow.

That's okay cause it's given us lots of free time to do as we please (and actually we would have done all this had it been working also but for this posts' sake....) We had lots of fun on Friday at Rigby Lake; our new favorite place. We played in the sand and practiced our swimming and had a grand time. Look at these girls thinking they're sweet stuff. Of course, that's cause they are. The sweetest of all... I'm not sure what Emily is saying or maybe yelling. We'll pretend she's saying how much she loves her brothers. (ha ha.) We then went and enjoyed Rexburg, Idaho's county rodeo. The kids got tired and we left during the barrel racing but everything up to that point was great. Stephen even went out and chased a calf for cash with a bunch of other kids but didn't end up any richer than he already was, dang it. It was fun watching though. Saturday our internet went out and didn't come back until Monday afternoon (I have a feeling that m...