Jack-o-lantern Grin

On the night before last, Ryan lost yet another tooth. This is the 4th tooth in 4 weeks! He was a little slow losing teeth but he is sure making up for in now. He's keeping the tooth fairy in business right now! He is such a cutie, and I love this stage - but my heart gets sad too, knowing that this is my last child to go through this stage. And, it seems like after they lose their baby teeth and get baptized, they are not so little anymore.

Labor Day Break

On Labor Day weekend, we were lucky enough to borrow a friend's cabin for a few days. We wanted to get out of the heat and we were selfish and wanted Taylor to ourselves for a few days before he left on his mission. We went to Pinetop, not very far from Don's cabin. We ate Mexican food and watched the BYU game, relaxed, played games, went to church, and spent a little time in the mountains up by Green's Peak. We took hot dog fixins' and found a little place to build a fire. As soon as it was time to cook the hotdogs, it started raining. We got them cooked anyway - and after it stopped raining we spent some nice time in the woods. It was so relaxing! We always miss Emily though!

It was hard to start a fire because everything was so damp. The boys had to show me how manly they were! In the picture you see Alex playing with his hair. He had his head so close blowing on the fire that he actually burned some of his hair!

Camping face (a joke in our family!)

All my boys :)

Old Friends

I can't believe it has already been 3 weeks since I was in Utah dropping off Taylor at the MTC and playing around with Emily at BYU. While I was there, I was lucky enough to get to spend a whole day with old friends from home! Jodi and I were good friends in High School. We worked at Apache Title together and after school, we lived together in Mesa. We also worked at Lewis and Roca together. Kathy and I are cousins and have a lot of family ties. We spent many Heap Reunions together and lived together for awhile in Provo. She helped me have a great time up there even though I was so homesick. Kelli and I worked together at Apache Title and I had a great time with her and getting to know her. Kelli and Jodi both live up in Utah and Kathy lives in Las Vegas, so I don't get many opportunities to see them.

We had lunch in Provo (thanks Kelli) and then drove to Lindon, and sat on Jodi's porch all afternoon. We laughed and cried and had such a great time together. I am sooo thankful for old friends who will be friends for life. The kind of friend that you can pick up with after so many years and things are just as great as ever. I love all 3 of those girls and will cherish their friendship always!

What!?!

So. . . the other day Ryan was playing around in the family room and he all of a sudden says, "bloody h***" in a funny voice! I asked him what he said and he said he was just practicing. I asked him where he heard that and he said that Ron Weasley in Harry Potter says it. I asked him if he knew that it was a swear word and he didn't know what a swear word was! I explained to him that it was a bad word and we shouldn't say it. He said, "wow, good thing you told me! I was thinking of being Ron Weasley for Halloween and I was gonna go around saying that when I was trick-or-treating - so I was practicing!"

I LOVE MY SWEET INNOCENT BOY!!!