crawling at funerals

Today was not the most "fun" day ever only because it began with a funeral and ended with crying children at the end of the day. (due to lack of napping and a weird schedule)

There were some good in between parts so that was good. A dear friend of mine, my family's and an awesome member of my ward passed away on Saturday. Today was her funeral. She didn't want a funeral or a viewing but I guess it happened for the rest of us left behind. Shryl was an amazing woman, I remember the most that she LOVED babies and Sarah was no exception. Her last sunday at church about 2 weeks ago, she spent holding her! I think she died too young, she was 70. This morning at the funeral I took Sarah with me. During the service she was a little wiggly so I set her on the floor. She crawled across the floor to the pew across and behind us. I mean she full blown crawled hand and knees, no scooting nothing! She was too cute for me to sweep her up even though I know it was probably a little distracting. But then I thought Shryl would not have minded the least bit! 

I thought it was pretty cool for her to crawl today, it is her 9 month "birthday" and I'm pretty sure that's the same point Dallin started crawling. 

I am amazed at life, the joys and the sorrows. I know funerals are not the most fun thing to write about but I felt it was important to document Sarah crawling and when she did it, this funeral was  a celebration of a woman's life. I know we will all see her again so in a way that makes it not so sad. 

He's Just a Two year old

Dallin saw the cat drinking like this from the faucet and now it is his standard drinking procedure! 

I have been going crazy still.. today marker on the couch and lazy boy chairs. Will this madness ever end? I put things up high so he won't reach them. Dallin's solution, climb up and get it. I put a lock on the bathroom door, he learns how to open it. I put up a baby gate, he reaches over and opens it. When I move it up higher, he crawls underneath. Dallin I love you but I'm really losing my sanity! anyone have any good tips/ advice for me to help me cope through this stage of a two year old? One day I'm going to find him swinging from the power lines outside or something crazy like that. 

But besides all the chaos we had a really great day spending time together as a family, shopping, eating at mc donalds only for the play place of course, we went to the park and it was all around great fun! Dallin really is a good kid, he's just two and it's going to get the best of me by the time he's three. but by then Sarah will be two! Wish us luck!

Tornado Johnson

The past couple of days have been especially rough, Sarah is sick (again, story of my life) and So sleep is not happening at our house. This means my level of patience has been dwindling yesterday was extra bad, Dallin was getting into EVERYTHING under the sun. We were about to go out the door to have dinner with daddy and I of course had to use the bathroom before we left. When I got there discovered that an entire bottle (new of course) had been magically poured all over the bathroom literally. So I held back my fustration and started cleaning up. It would have ended there except that Sarah was crying, due to me not holding her, and Dallin kept entering the bathroom to "help" and was making the mess even bigger. I kept telling him to go away until I was done. 

So while I'm cleaning up Dallin "helped" himself to the fingernail polish, obviously while I wasn't looking because it was in the same room that I was cleaning up in. So in the midst of the chaos I faintly smell the fingernail polish... Oh crap I thought. I found him in the hallway with the bottle and asked him where he put it. He led me to the front room right next to the TV where he had created his master piece all over the wall (of our house that we rent of course!) 

In a panic I grabbed the nearest towel and thankfully got it up off the wood floors. As for the wall there is no hope. I called my mom nearly in tears at this point asking if she knew how to get it off. She came to my rescue with fingernail polish remover, no luck.

Mr Clean magic eraser and I have had a lovely relationship up to this point in my motherhood days... but no more can I call him my friend! So for now we have a wall that is painted sunset pink and a bathroom that smells like tutti fruity orange shampoo! Another Day goes on with tornado Johnson (as grandpa calls him) at the loose! 

HAPPPY 4TH OF JULY!

Happy 4th of July !

LAGOON!

I kept debating  back and forth if it was worth it for us to go to Lagoon. It's awfully pricey and it's HOT in Utah. But thanks to stake Lagoon day and a rain storm we had an awesome day! 

First off on the way there Dallin fell asleep so Dave and I were able to ride 2 big kid rides while Dave's aunt watched the kids sleep. 

Then it was time for rides! Sarah went on 3 rides total including the ferris wheel! She was so good the whole day! She got most upset when I tried to take back my straw from my drink.

Dallin's first ride by himself was bulgy the whale. According to my mom this was my first ride and her first ride! Way to carry on the family tradition! He was nervous at first but once he realized he was ok he was all smiles all day. He didn't even cry, now that's a brave boy!

The little roller coaster Puff the magic dragon was his favorite ride, every time he would get off he would yell AGAIN! This was his reaction to every ride! 

This sums up Dallin's expression the whole day!

Around 5:30 a huge rain storm came in and we debated wither to stay or go, we ducked into the arcade for about an hour and waited out the rain. We also spent a "few" dollars playing Deal or no Deal. I now understand how gamblers can end up with so many problems. Dallin Played ski ball, shoot the clown teeth, Dance Dance Revolution, Race cars and some other games. I'm glad we held out because then all the lines were pretty much nothing. On his last ride on the flying planes he put his hands up in the sky all on his own doing, no prompting! 

This was last friday that we went and he is still wanting to go back to the "park" So even though it was way too expensive, I'm so glad we went and had a great time. We will probably go back, maybe sooner than we think.