Destruction in a day

If the tolet paper in not in rolled I can usually find toys in the toilet, mud or paint in the sink, or something to wipe up from our most resent potty trainer.

Walter is supper into putting all the crayons down the air vent. He will start to do his yell and point to the crayons. We call him our little shrieker for a reason. Usually someone gives in and gives him the crayons. We all rather fish them out of the vent than listen to the shriek.

Oh I am so happy spring is here. We all have had spring fever but Maverick the worst. When he gets board he takes it out on his bed. I don't know if you can see it in this photo but Walt dumped out Mav's water and started to throw handfuls of dog food at Maverick before I caught him.

I cease to be amazed at the amount of destruction that occurs at our house in a 24 hour period. I thought I would document a small sliver of it. I am doing this because I like to find the humor in something that can be so discouraging. I am happy my problems are only as big as unrolled toilet paper, crayons down the air vent and a shredded dog bed. As for now I can handle the destruction. Todays culprits; Walter and Maverick. After I cleaned up one thing to find three more things messed up I let Walt watch Yo Gabba Gabba with a fruit leather. He was quit pleased. A day full of destruction, a fruit leather and Yo Gabba Gabba. I think if he could talk he would say "Ah, this is the life!"

Junky Bistro Gourmet club

I love being a part of Gourmet club. I have really learned a lot about cooking. This is my second year doing it. Last year when it was our turn, My partner Melissa Quigley and I did a fall harvest theme. This year we had the spring. Our spring fever combined with our love for old thing with chipping paint we came up with a junk market bistro. It was so much fun coming up with the recipes and decorating. Decorating was super fun and easy. We just used things we had, some news paper, and coffee filters made cute flowers and banners.

For the food, we did two choices of everything, then we took everyones orders like at a bistro. We had muffins, soups, salads, sandwiches, homemade(by Matt)potato chips, fruit sorbet and chocolate cake! Matt saved me and made potato chips for almost three hours!!! What a sweetie. Matt's an amazing cook. He always puts the science of it into his cooking, I think that is why it turns out so good.

Jane's Baptism

The day was far more wonderful than I had anticipated. I have been putting off wrighting about it because I am having a had time putting my feelings of the baptism into words. I felt our Heavenly Fathers love for me, Jane and everyone who was there. The music invited the spirit, Uncle Dane Garner and Grandpa Michael McConkie gave really perfect talks on Baptism and the Holly Ghost and Jane was so sweet. She was just beaming. My heart was so full of gratitude and love. I don't know that I can say much more but, I know the Church is true! I know that we have a Father in Heaven that love's us and wants us to be happy. I know that Jane knows this and I know she know's that she choose the right. I hope she can always feel and know of Heavenly Fathers love for her and remember the day she was baptized.

Tom and Jerry need to be baptized

We have been talking a lot about baptism in our house lately with Jane's baptism. Eli was giving the prayer and said some thing I thought was funny. " Please bless that Tom and Jerry can be baptized." We I guess he gets the baptism wipes away our sins part. It made me wonder if I should be letting my kids watch Tom and Jerry!

So Many Fun Things

We have been doing so many fun things the past few days. I wanted to wright them down so I don't forget about them. Unfortunately, I don't seem to have that great of a memory anymore. I thought that was something that happened when you got old, like really old, but it turns out having a few kids and being sleep deprived for a few years brings on memory loss as well.

Saturday:

Matt, Jane and Eli went skiing with Grandma and Grandpa Garner. I am so sad I didn't get to see them do so awsome. They had such a great time. Matt said Jane and Eli both did so great. They had so much fun they didn't want to leave. Eli went off a jump! I think he has more of Matt's blood than mine.

Sunday:

We had Tom and Hillary Garner over for dinner. There kids are supper cute. All the kids ran around and played hide and seek. It was nice to catch up and spend sometime together.

Monday:

We went and played laser tag with the kids. The vest was about as big as Eli but he is such a tough little kid it was no problem for him. Jane was not sure about trying something new but once we started playing she had a great time. Matt held Hyrum and I held Walt. After our first game ended they all wanted to play again. We played one more game, Jane, Walt and I against Matt, Eli and Hyrum. Eli ran so fast I couldn't get away, good thing Jane had my back. It was a total bast and we cant wait to go again.

Tuesday:

We went swimming a the Bountiful recreation center. They have such a fun pool. The water is warm so the kids could swim for hours. Jane and Eli are such fish. Hyrum is starting to feel more comfortable in the water. He wanted to swim all by him self this time.

I am sad I didn't get any photos of laser tag or swimming but here is one of skiing.

Ice Skating and Ice Cream

We went ice skating with our friend's the Quigley's. It was crazy. I love to ice skate. Eli and Hyrum had a blast. I just held Hyrums hands and skated along with him. I had to hold his arms all the way up so I cloud stand up strait and not kill my back. After our second time around the rink he said "My hands are feeling sparkly." Poor kid I didn't even think about all the blood going out of his little hands that were held high. Jane I think loved it but hatted the falling down part. Walt was ticked the whole time. He wanted to get down and crawl around so bad. I just envisioned his tiny little fingers getting stepped on by big foot with an ice skate on it. Not to mention the dirty floor. FYI to me get a baby sitter for walt next time. After we got ice cream. I know that sounds like not the right treat to go along with ice skating but there are no good doughnut places around here so ice cream it was. Eli and Hyrum keep asking when we can go again.