Oh a Camping We Will Go!

We're super excited! We're going camping tomorrow! After Brian got home from fathers and sons a few weeks ago we had to put up the tent in the garage for it to dry and I just got "the feeling." We HAD to go camping! So, since it's Memorial Day weekend, we're going camping...tomorrow. I'm so excited!! Stay tuned for pictures and I'm sure many fantastic stories thanks to Adam. Have a great weekend!

Those were peas?! Oops...

So I have to laugh at myself. I talked to mom on Sunday and was telling her about our exciting garden. She asked if I had needed to weed a lot yet and I haven't had to weed at all yet. Brian mentioned last night as we were headed to see a piano that there were some weeds in the top box. So when we got home I checked it out, pulled one out with the roots and thought, "wow, that looks weird--you can still see the seed!" Then I tried to pull out two more but couldn't get the roots. Adam was getting fussy and so we headed in. Then as we were taking Brian to work this morning I got to thinking about those weeds and how I needed to get out my gloves and get the seeds out. Then I thought about our zucchini seeds that just sprouted in our kitchen and I wondered when our peas would sprout that we planted in the top box...ahh!! I was pulling up our peas!!! I had completely forgotten that we had planted them where the "weeds" were coming up. Good thing I only plucked out one by the roots and two just got pinched off. Oops. What's life if you can't learn a little and laugh at yourself in the process??

Someone is Silly!

I was able to catch some of Adam's silly moments on camera. The other day I was going through some of the boxes down in the basement and Adam decided to help. He pulled these out, so I helped him put them on. Now he REALLY looks like his daddy!

We had the missionaries over for dinner last week and I made a no-bake cheesecake (no eggs...). Adam helped me mix and put in ingredients and I so I had to let him do what mommy did...he got to lick the beaters for the first time! I promise, no raw eggs were used...just yummy good stuff. He seemed to think it was the coolest thing since cinnamon in his applesauce.

This picture is Adam in his car seat on our way to take Daddy to work. He was fascinated by the rain that was pouring down outside. He's in his little booty-short PJ's I bought last summer for $2. I didn't think they would be that short! Thanks Scott and Melissa for the car seat!
Just a quick update on our weekend: Brian had fun at the fathers and sons, getting mud all over our car and having to be pushed up the hill to get to the campout. Just after Adam fell asleep and I was watching a movie a neighbor came over to tell me there was a tornado warning and tornado watch for the next 30-60 minutes. Being alone in your house with a little baby and a tornado warning dispatch is a little scary. Luckily, no tornadoes formed or touched down. But after being in the situation I think we really need to finish our 72-hour kits!

Time Out

Tonight Brian is out on the fathers and sons campout...minus his son. Adam got to stay home with me and be grumpy, get a bath, and go to bed a little early due to his grumpiness (he started the go-to-bed routine early, on his own). So knowing I'd be alone for the evening I got a movie from the RedBox at WalMart. Brian and I have been trying to find this movie for about two months, but we never seem to go at the right time. But today--I got it! I saw a trailor for it and my friend Jackie recommended it. I highly recommend it as well. In fact, tomorrow night after Adam goes to bed Brian and I are going to watch it together. I won't have to cry alone! The movie is called "Fireproof." There were a lot of great lessons that are applicable to anyone's life.

Seeing as the movie is about marriage I easily thought about my marriage. I see our marriage and then I look at other peoples' marriages and see the differences. But every marriage is different because each person is different. I find myself so happy in my marriage. So grateful to have such a wonderful husband. He is selfless and caring and one of my favorite parts is that he helps me with the dishes and with Adam. He always takes the trash out--I never have to ask. You know how we all have our favorite household chore? Maybe his is taking out the trash. Mine is vaccuuming. Back to the point...I am so grateful to have such a wonderful husband. He goes to work everyday so that I can stay home with Adam. He makes sure that we always read the scriptures together and say our prayers before we go to bed. Reading my journals from back in the day when we were friends and starting to date I wrote that I loved being around Brian because he made me want to be better. I find that fact still true today--Brian makes me want to be better and thus I try to be better. Thank you Brian--I love you!

It's time for some more pictures!! April is shaping up to be a fun month! I am loving spring out here, minus the allergies. Adam loves playing outside and when it rains, we have a very sad and grumpy boy who pounds on the glass wanting to go out.

Our lovely tulips that finally bloomed! When Scott, Melissa & Co. came out for Thanksgiving Brian and Scott planted these in the fairly frozen ground in front of our porch. They were so beautiful when they bloomed!


Adam has discovered animals. This is our neighbor's cat, Baby Kitty. She always comes up to our door hoping for attention and Adam just loves to watch her. I feel safe having a pane of glass between them so he won't get scratched. If he's lucky, we'll even take him outside and let him pet her. Adam is fascinated with animals. When we work out in the yard and the cat is around, he just loves to chase after her.

Here's Adam playing with the tulips. Every time we go outside he always tries to pull the tulips out! It drives me nuts! But just for the photo books, I let him touch some for a few pictures. Brian was close by to keep him from ripping them out.

I just love this picture of Adam! During lunch, or any meal really, he likes to take his bib off but when he does, he is not allowed to eat. So the other day I told him to put his bib back on and it was so silly I tried to take a picture. This is the face he posed for the camera. Silly boy-I love him!


And of course we had to snap a picture of Adam crawling into his toy basket. He's so silly! Just now after a few quiet minutes in his room, he came up to me with a mouth full of paper. After I got it out I checked his room to see what he had eaten, but I couldn't find anything. Probably a label or a piece of a box. This kid loves paper. I should say he loves to eat paper.

And let's not forget the sweater that I crocheted for Adam. I made it for him to wear this fall, when he'll be 18 months. So I made it according to the pattern for 18 months. When it was all finished and I tried it on him and it was a little tight I remembered, he wears 18 month clothes now! Alas, this will have to wait for the next kid since the weather has been in the 80's for the last four days.

And one last picture...I canned turkey all by myself this week! And it worked! They all sealed and now we have turkey for casseroles and soups and anything else whenever we want. I'm working on our food storage and it feels great to be self sufficient and to be able to do things my mom can do. I'm growing up!