My mom and I saw this dog when we pulled into a gas station in Montana, I think it was...it really looked like the dog was driving the truck. The owner said that the dog always gets into the driver's seat when he gets out. So funny!

WOW

I had to put this on here...maybe a little nerdy of me, but my cousin Ben plays for Montreal in the CFL, and he is really amazing...This is the best version of the video, but unfortunately it is in french!

Reflections

I love this song and these beautiful pictures. Be sure to turn off my music at the bottom so that you can enjoy this if you haven't seen it already.

Oh, Amy, you will have to tell Gene, that I think he could be the one singing this...after he sang this years ago in G.B., I was hoping he would sing every week in our ward! His voice is amazing!

City Kids at the Farm

After we took Porter to his final day of cub scout day camp, I took Marik and Autumn to "Morningside Park". They have a section of the park that they have a little farm that is modeled after a typical homestead here in Alachua County in 1870. They sometimes have staff that dress up, and make biscuits, and syrup from sugar cane, and serve it to anyone who visits that day. They have a garden that anyone is allowed to pick (and keep) vegetables from on certain days, and the kids can feed the animals they have there. It is a really cute little place! I included the picture of Marik feeding the cow because he had really had to put on a brave face after being attacked by a rooster. :) The man working there said that a little boy had kicked that particular rooster a while back and now he was a bully towards little kids and was usually locked up now because of it. I felt bad for Marik because it really scared him. He was just standing there looking at the cows, and this rooster flies out and pecks him in the stomach and knocks him backwards! Yikes! I held him for a while, then he was ready to feed the cows pretty soon after that.

This was just supposed to be a picture, but Marik's face was too funny not to include it!

Tooth Fairy

I don't have a picture, and it has been several weeks since Autumn lost her first tooth, but I have to write this down. She lost it after General Conference, because she and Porter slept that night in the "tent" we put up in Porter's room. She asked me if she should put the tooth under her pillow in the tent, or in her room. I told her to put in her room, you know, to make it easy for the tooth fairy. Like the good mom that I am, I forgot about it. This has happened before with Porter, but I always make up some story about how the tooth fairy must have been busy. I heard the kids talking in the morning so I went in to talk to them, and Autumn asked if I thought the tooth fairy had come, and I said..."Just give the tooth fairy a little longer..." I ran to my room to search for money, and when I came out, Porter was standing outside Autumns room with a funny look on his face. When I got closer, he whispered, "Don't worry mom, I put $2 under her pillow." I started laughing, and asked when he figured out the tooth fairy wasn't real. He stared blankly, so I asked if it was because I was so forgetful as the tooth fairy, and he just nodded. What a nice brother to try to keep up appearances for Autumn. She was so excited! :)

Wedding Fun!

I have posted this to the wrong blog twice. I am too ashamed that I was the only one to wear a wedding dress to this girl's night out to post it on the family blog. :) It wasn't my idea to lay across the front of the picture, by the way. Janene hosted this fun event where we looked at each other's wedding pictures and videos. What a fun idea! There were a lot of people there too, although we took this picture after many had left. I stole these pictures from Janene...hopefully that is okay! Thanks!

How fun...it is great to be a girl! :)

Just a quick note because Marik said something cute just now, and I often forget to write these things down! He was being really cute, and I said: "I don't know if there is anyone cuter than you, Marik..it's debatable." (yeah, doesn't make sense.) He said "It's not abatable, it's incredible!" He makes me laugh a lot.