Girl-Cheese-Sandwich

So, Abbey asked for a

girl-cheese-sandwich. So I asked

her if the boys were aloud to have them

if they were not boy-cheese-sandwiches,

just to make sure I was understanding

her correctly. Yep...she told me, "Of

course they can, you make them for

them all the time"! So I go online to find a pic for

this post, and she goes, "Where's the boy ones"?

Grow Old With You

Love this!!

For My Children

Tonight I heard this song (lyrics below and the song is at the top of my playlist) while I was driving Spencer to Mutual. This is a great song...I have heard it a hundred times probably. I've always loved it, but for some reason it really caught my attention tonight. It made me think of my kids and how much I wish for their lives. We all want our kids to be happy, successful people, with rich and full lives. But I cannot, and maybe you can't either, begin to describe the deepest feelings I have for my children. The love I feel for them goes so deep inside to a place no one can touch. It goes beyond the worrying for them, and even beyond the joy I feel just watching them sometimes. It's just something I can't describe. I know they are loaned to us from a Heavenly Father who loves them much more than I can imagine...but that's just it...I can't comprehend that. It seems impossible to me that anyone can love them more than me, or their Dad. Sometimes I am so amazed that these beautiful spirits are a part of me. We have normal lives like anyone else. We have our good days and our not so good days. Our children give us grief sometimes. But in those quiet moments where it's just me, myself and my thoughts, I often think of them and just want to shed some tears! They do something to my soul that tells me there HAS to be something more than just us. I know there is...and it is just more proof to me. Some nights I can't make the tears stop flowing, while I'm telling Heavenly Father how very thankful I am that they are a part of my life. I feel so blessed to have them that sometimes I think my heart could just burst! Sometimes I get little flickers of how eternity must feel. Like when one of them says, "I love you mama", at just the right moment. Or when one of them just looks at me with a certain expression, and I feel like I've died and gone to Heaven. I honestly can barely remember life without them. Or at least I can't remember life being so full. Each one of them in their own way has parts of me and parts of Isaac in them...in the way they walk, the way they laugh, the way they view the world around them, their quirks and mannerism's, their personalities...so many different aspects I can pick out from either one of us. And yet, they are their own person. They are little people who trust us completely to lead and guide them. They look to us for acceptance, love, security, a warm smile, a hug and a kiss. So this song, to me, says just the very least of what I wish for them, but it says enough that it will be burned in my heart for years to come. I could not even sing along to it tonight because it made me so choked up. So, to my children, I dedicate this song...

***

"My Wish"

I hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow,

And each road leads you where you want to go,

And if you're faced with a choice, and you have to choose,

I hope you choose the one that means the most to you.

And if one door opens to another door closed,

I hope you keep on walkin' till you find the window,

If it's cold outside, show the world the warmth of your smile,

But more than anything, more than anything,

***

My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,

Your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,

You never need to carry more than you can hold,

And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,

I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,

Yeah, this, is my wish.

***

I hope you never look back, but ya never forget,

All the ones who love you, in the place you left,

I hope you always forgive, and you never regret,

And you help somebody every chance you get,

Oh, you find God's grace, in every mistake,

And you always give more than you take.

But more than anything, yeah, more than anything,

***

My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,

Your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,

You never need to carry more than you can hold,

And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,

I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,

Yeah, this, is my wish.

***

My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,

Your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,

You never need to carry more than you can hold,

And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,

I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,

Yeah, this, is my wish.

This is my wish

I hope you know somebody loves you

This is beautiful!!!

This actually made me teary. First of all, I love this song. This girl is 12 and the look on Simons face is one of a kind for him. In the first shot of him when she starts singing, he looks dumbfounded! Then he's just mezmorized through the whole thing. Wait until you get to the end and her dad hugs her...wow!

Drinking Beer Doesn't Help

Another gem from a friend of mine who knows how much I love redneck images. This one was titled "What does an idiot look like"? Hello! Spencer saw it and goes, "Well, they're drinking beer so that doesn't help"! LOLOLOLOLOL

Slip-N-Slide

Remember the good 'ol days when we used to lay the Slip-N-Slide on the front lawn and either hook the hose to it or turn on the sprinklers? Doesn't this picture just scream summer? I remember playing on the Slip-N-Slide at the Mendoza's house and wishing it were about 3 times as long as it was. It was bright yellow and when you got to the end you just stopped, as you did a face plant into the grass. What fun memories. Well, today I got to re-live one of my favorite childhood memories...minus the face plant, thankfully. We had a Primary activity at the church this afternoon. When I got there with my kids and Vicki's, there were these two humongous yellow pieces of plastic laying down the side of the grassy hill and someone running a hose down them. At first I thought, "Wow, how cool, the kids are gonna have a blast!" And they did! And so did all of us adults! What a sight we must've been to behold. The kids played until we had lunch, then they did water balloons, and then straight back to the Slip-N-Slide. In the meantime, us adults are sneaking around trying to surprise eachother with a water balloon in the back, or face, or trying to dump water onto each other. It was 100 degrees today, so we didn't mind getting a little wet. Uh-huh...we were soaked!! Completely! The next thing I know, I find myself and 4 other ladies going head first down the Slip-N-Slide and straight into the muddy water at the bottom of the hill. How did this happen? An hour earlier I was trying desperately to avoid any child with any amount of water on themselves or in a cup. Once we got up off the ground, we noticed the looks on all the kids faces...they were delighted!! They were hystarical with laughter! Thier Mom's/Leaders soaking wet...clothes, hair, all of it! It made me think of how often we don't enjoy life like they do. The unabashedly, full-on, who cares how we look kind of fun. We had so much fun today...I want to say we adults had more fun than the kids. Not possible. Even today, nothing compares to the memories of childhood. When you're a kid, it's a first time experience with everything. My kids have never seen a Slip-N-Slide, I don't think. Watching them enjoy one of my favorite memories was priceless.

Lemon Heads

K, we all remember doing this when we were kids. We usually used orange wedges, but hey, whatever blows your skirt up, right?? We were a Olive Garden for Laura's birthday dessert...cheesecake, of course...and these two were gutsy enough to use lemons...no sugar added...and neither one of them even flinched!

Abbey & Jackson

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