Fourth of July Frenzie...and Grace's 10th

Tinkerbell---Total Rock Star

So I know I've complained up and down about losing our camera at Disneyland. But we did find our flip camera. So here's a choice little morsel of the kids meeting Tinkerbell. BTW, we only had to wait in line for an hour to meet her. Totally worth it (do you sense the sarcasm in my voice?) Well it was worth it for them. :)

What's Really Important

I just got back from Girls Camp with our ward and also a family reunion with Adam's family. Whew. But over this week I was reminded of what's really important...The Gospel, My Testimony, My Family, and My Friends. How lucky am I to live in this world, surrounded by truth, love, and security?

Truly Lucky.

And I'm grateful I have moments where I remember what is important. When I can lift my head from the mundane things of life and realize the beauty around me. Thank goodness for moments of clarity. If only I could always be aware of my blessings and live in a constant state of gratitude.

Check out this Morman Message, My-New-Life , it reminds me of how good life really is, and how lucky I am to be a mother.



xo Jen

Pizza and I'm Smart

Summer Bucket List

So here's a peek at our summer "to do" list. I just realized that we'd have to do 1.5 things a week to get everything done. Hmmmm. We'll see. :)

1. Tubing down Provo River
2. Steel Days
3. Hike to Y
4. Timpanogos Caves
5. Springville Museum of Art
6. Scera Theatre: Willy Wonka
7. Raging Waters
8. Color Me Mine
9. Sundance
10. Boondocks
11. Real Salt Lake Soccer Game
12. Fishing
13. Water Skiing
14. Camp Grand Canyon
15. The Beach
16. Bear Lake
17. Bowling
18. Rodeo

Happy Summer!

Did I Mention I Have a Two-Year-Old?

To all of you with two-year-olds, I say bless you. I am one of those fortunate few...and yes it is mostly delicious to be a mother of a wonderous, inquisitive,and determined child.

BUT

Today. Well, yesterday too. I just wonder...

So I have this cream. This very expensive eye cream that I keep in a very special place, for my very special 37-year-old wrinkly eyes...(pathetic, huh?) And I relish this cream. And I love it because when I put it on it makes me feel like the magic is working, smoothing out my getting-wrinklier-by-the-day-undereyes.

And today Lucy found it.

And now it is no more. Spread all over her hands and the counter and smeared all over terracotta tiles which do not particularly enjoy magic-making-eye-cream. For the tiles, it's just something greasy to clean up. My under-eye area was very sad. And so am I.

Boo-hoo.

Ears pierced...check

So since I don't have a replacement camera yet, I was looking around on line for a pretty generic photo of an ear piercing....uhm. My advice. Don't look for that :) It brings up all sorts of crazy piercing photos...and well. Just take my advice.

So I have no picture of Sophie in the chair at Claires, no in the chair/out of the chair/ in the chair/ no, now out, crying, holding her teddy bear, squeezing Grace's hand, whoops she's out of the chair and out of the store and determined NOT to get her ears pierced.

Wait. She's back. Determined to get ears pierced so she can wear sparkly panda bear earrings (in 8 weeks). But still she clutches those Panda Bears like they are her life line.

Tada! Sophie did it. (Whew). It was quite an event.

And Grace got her ears re-pierced, since about a year and half ago her earring was pulled almost completely out of her ear. OUCH. So they had healed and we did it again.

Do you remember when you got your ears pierced? I think I was 10? And I was definetly a drama queen. I screamed, I cried, and then I was eventually happy that I got them pierced. sigh. I guess I shouldn't wonder where we get all the drama in our house. :) So a right of passage has been completed. Two little girls are now trying to be big with new sparkly earrings.