Quotes Of the Day

These are all things the kids said yesterday

Jace: That's the longest shortcut we ever took!

Found on the Back of a valentine Jace made at school: I love pizza, pets, wii, and Mrs Cooley. (Somehow no one in the family made the list but his teacher did. What a funny kid!)

Camden: Can you get me some more ice cream you little fatty! (He said that to my dad)

Camden:You have REALLY long arms...so can you reach that ice cream? (He said that to my brother.)

Me: Alek, say Cam
Alek: Cam!
Me: now say din
Alek: din!
Me: Say Camden!
Alek: Bapa !
(We don't know why, but that's how how says Camden every time.)

Me: Alek say happy day!
Alek: No WAY!

Another Boy?

Yes, it's true, there is another boy in our family. We have a puppy!

His name is Jasper, he's a mix of a shiba inu and a shi tzu. Isn't he cute?



I wasn't really in the market for a puppy but my sister didn't have enough space for him so she asked if we could take him. He has been so good for the kids. That's a big part of why we took him. Camden is doing so much better with dogs now. He isn't scared of Jasper and even other people dogs don't scare him as much as they used to. That is a huge step for him. He truly used to be scared of dogs to nearly phobic proportions. This picture was taken less than a week after Jasper came to live with us. (I don't know what's wrong with this picture. It looks right in my picture file but when I upload it onto blogger it is turned. Sorry)
Alek loves the dog too and has no fear It's funny to watch him try and play with the dog. And Jace is being really responsible about taking Jasper out to go potty and take him for walks. Being a dog owner is a new thing for us and it's taking some getting used to but overall, I think it's a good thing.

(I have a ton of other stuff to catch up on but this was a short, easy post so this is what I started with. More new posts coming soon!

So Much Fun in Vegas!

We went to Las Vegas last week so Jace could participate in a golf tournament and had so much fun. We decided to make a vacation of it and spend a few days there. We had a lot of fun doing some sightseeing and it was great to just get away for a few days.


The kids loved the hotel. I think Alek is calling for room service.

The Mirage Hotel has a dolphin habitat and also an area where they have Lions, tigers and...leopards. Jace got this lion to look at us by growling at it.


The kids didn't like sitting on this tiger statue because it was too hot for them. It didn't end up being the photo opp I thought it would be.


The dolphin habitat was great! The trainers were feeding and interacting with the dolphins while we were there.


We could get pretty close to the dolphins. We could sit on the wall that went around the edge of the tank. One area had a baby dolphin in it. Camden said, "Ohhhh...cute little baby dolphin." every time it was close to the wall.


We went to M&M world thinking we could save some money by going to something that was free. Then we bought $20 worth of candy there. Sounds like a lot of candy right? No. We could have bought the same amount at the store for about 5 bucks. Oh well, the kids loved picking their favorite colors of M&M's. Jace picked gray and green. Camden, of course, picked pink.

And they loved this race car!

The next post will be about Jace's tournament.

Lava Hot Springs

We had a fun time at Lava Hot Springs over the weekend. Every year we go there in August for a family reunion. I loved going when I was little and now it's fun to watch my kids enjoy it, even though it's a LOT more work now.

We went to the pool and all of the kids had fun swimming.


When we got out for a quick lunch Alek fell asleep.



Then after dinner that evening Casey and I left the kids with my parents and went to the hot pools for a soak. It was just what we needed. It's a pretty fun place for a quick weekend getaway.