an old journal

Tonight I found an old journal from a couple years ago. I found an entry that really made me laugh and I had to share. Addie was 2 and we were driving. She was thirsty so I gave her my water bottle. She took a drink and then she started tooting.
Me: "Addie!"
Addie:"that water makes me toot."
Me: "What do you say" (waiting for an 'excuse me').
Addie: "There's more where that came from"

I'm so glad I wrote that down because I had totally forgotten about it.

Just one of those updates

I thought it was time for an update of what is going on in our lives around here.
It is starting to warm up a little but it has been pretty dang cold. We love to play games inside. The kids favorite are "races" that Ammon makes up...more like an obstacle course that they have to go through. Ammon is such a great dad and these kids adore him. They also love Lego's Avonlea has been learning how to feed herself. For the last couple days, if I try to feed her, she just turns her head but if I give it to her to feed herself...SHE GOES TO TOWN!!!

We have some little builders on our hands. Lowes does this awesome thing where every couple weeks they do a project for kids. Yesterday, I took the kids and they got these goggles, aprons (to keep) and hammer and they got to make these little basketball hoops. They loved it and the best part is that it was FREE!!!! How cool is that

While Addie is at school, Kimball and I try to keep busy. He loves going to the zoo. Avonlea and I love it too.

He loves to help me paint, which I have been doing A LOT lately. This last month I have painted the master bedroom, the girls room and the guest room. Before and after pictures will be coming soon. I just have to finish a few of the accessories before I take the pictures. I am really loving decorating this house.

We enjoy watching the garbage truck picking up the garbage :-)

Oh...and we have been doing A LOT of this. These last 2 weeks we have had sick kids. Last week was Addie, this week has been Avonlea and Kimball. Avonlea has RSV and ear infections. NO FUN! Especially since it has been Ammons Spring break and we had plans to go out and do a lot of different things. Oh well, Summer is on its way.

We were able to go to the IMAX theater that is included in our zoo membership this year. That was pretty dang cool.

I love how many things there are around here that are geared toward family. There are so many fun activities with the Zoo, the botanicle gardens right by our house, the childrens museum and wonderful friends all around. We love living where we are. We do still really miss Utah. In fact almost everyday Addie tells me how sad she is because she misses Cedar so much. Today, when she was coming home from church with Ammon, she told him that sometimes she gets so frustrated with me because I took her away from Cedar ;-( How sad. I try to help her look for all the good things about Omaha and I think she takes that as me saying I don't miss Cedar. I feel bad that this has been so hard for her. We are hoping to go home in May for a visit and for Ammon to graduate from SUU so hopefully that will help. All in all, yes we miss Cedar and Utah and being around family but we are enjoying our new home too. We just can't wait for it to warm up

How could I NOT feel better

Today I felt sick and took a nap. When I woke up, Addie had a card waiting right beside me. How could I not feel better after seeing my "git well soon" card. I love my girl.

In case you can't read it (sorry, poor quality scanner) it says "I hop you git well soon. I know you wont be sikc forevr"

"You ckoodint be sick for that minee days"