Sunday, July 22, 2012

Starting Early

We all piled in the van following church today. I asked my typical question, "How was primary today?" and received a non-typical response from The Boy.


"I kissed a girl."

(Um...what?) "Who was it?"

"What?"

"What was her name?"

"I don't know."

And that was that. As we tried, unsuccessfully, to stifle the laughter we tried to tell him that it might not be a great idea to kiss girls in Primary.

According to him, however, "boys kiss girls". 

So, what's he gonna do?

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Wow! That Family Picture is OLD!

You know, that one over there on the sidebar!

But, since I can't seem to get another one where a) all 5 of us are in it, b) all 3 of them are looking in the same direction, and c) the boy is actually in the mood for a picture...

you're stuck with a 3 year-old version of our family.

Monday, July 16, 2012

A Laugh Before Dying

He has a fever. And a slight cough. So he lays, pathetic, on the couch.

He beckons to me to come closer and whispers, "I'm dying...I'm trying to hang on, though."

As I stifle my laughter he continues to explain, "When you're super, super sick...you die."

I tried, to no avail, to explain that he is not "super, super sick". 

We've agreed to disagree.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Canadians Are Melting!

Seriously?

I took this shot right before it bumped up to 101˚. Then 102˚.

Ridiculous.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

So Long, Farewell

We said goodbye to Grandma and Grandpa in Canada...


and hit the open road. (Meanwhile every insect in the state of Montana seemed intent on hitting our window.)

Somewhere in the middle of Montana, Curtis decided he wanted to share his lunch with all of us. Unfortunately, it was the lunch he had eaten an hour or so earlier. Up it came. Horrified, I dove into the back to try to...I don't know...do something. There was nothing to be done. Driving through a teeny town we spied a hose on the ground next to cafe. The owners graciously let us soak down our son, his clothes, and his carseat and sympathized with us...while a perfectly healthy boy ran around gleefully, like this sort of thing happened every day. (Heaven forbid!)

We finally made it to Blackfoot. Though we were tired, we figured we would stop at the local hot spot and snap a photo.


We spent the evening and next morning with Grandma. She became quite a hero by letting the kids have some spiffy cowboy hats and sheriff badges.




Grandpa showed up for breakfast and also earned his own little fan club by letting them all take turns riding on his new motorbike.




Then it was time to go. Another family picture on Grandma's steps (one of these days we'll have to count how many we have there) and we were off. 



Headed for home, sweet sweltering home.