Conversation with Mitch

So today as I was sitting at Lunch with Mitchell, he says to me "Mom, can I call Connor to see if he can go on a bike ride with me?" I can't for the life of me think of another Connor but my nephew, who lives 400 miles away. So I tell him "I don't know any Connor." His reply is this "yeah, he's my friend." I ask if he is a friend at church, he says no. I tell him "okay, call him!" thinking he is pretending and will pretend to call his friend Connor. But he says "I don't know his number. Then he says "oh, yeah I do. It's 1......(pause).......5.......6.....7." So I repeat, "His number is 1567?" And he says yes. Then I tell him again that I don't know who he is talking about. Then he says "We went there with Grandma." I finally realize who he is talking about, so I ask him "Can he ride his bike here? or is it too far?" He thinks about that for a minute and says "No, it's too far." Then I say "He is in school right now and cannot ride bikes with you." Then he says "No he is not. He did all his work and his Mom came and picked him up." I say "No! He is still in school. Do you want to call him later when he get's out of school?" He sadly looks at me with his head down and says "Yeah."

We have many funny conversations like this one. Once while driving in the car he says "WHOAH! There is brains under my fingernail." He had smashed his finger in a door the week before and his fingernail was falling off.

We had a fun day yesterday on his 4th Birthday. He is a funny kid and I love being home with him. He is my little buddy.

Kyah's Baptism

Kyah turned 8 the end of May and was baptized on 6/6/09. What an awesome day. Her cousin is only 5 days older than her and they were baptized on the same day. Here are some pictures we took at the temple that day.

This is the second double baptism we have done together. Porter has a cousin (from the same family) who is 10 days older than he is. They were baptized the same day as well. Last time we joined their stake baptism, so this time they joined ours. Our stake baptism was crazy. There were about 12 kids baptized that night, 6 of which were from our ward alone.

I am grateful for a great husband who keeps himself worthy to hold the priesthood.

My House!

Here are some pictures of my house! We put it up for sale in March and at the end of this month, we are taking it off. We'll try again in the spring.

If you haven't seen my house clean (it isn't that often). Here's what it looks like.

I'm Alive!

What a crazy 4 months it has been. My goal is to get my blog updated with what we have been doing the past 4 months. It may be a few posts but this is what has taken up most of my time lately.

READING!!! Who knew I would love to read and be totally board when I don't have a book to read. Here's my story:

In June we found out we were expecting number 6. Things were going great, in fact a little too great. I wasn't sick, didn't really feel pregnant at all much. A little tired, but I could handle it. I kept thinking, "I feel way too good". The dr. said the uterus was growing and things were fine. About a week later I had the very strong feeling that things were not fine. I was very nervous about it and had Seth give me a blessing. In the blessing, while I was hoping to hear and feel that the baby would be fine, instead, I felt like I would be okay and I would get through this. I knew then that there was no baby. I had a teary couple days and then when I got home from a reunion, I called the dr. and had an ultra sound ASAP. I was right, there was a sac but no baby. It's called a blighted ovum. Then next day I had a D and C.

While I was recovering, I watched so many movies I was sick of it, so when Sunday rolled around and I was staying home, I noticed a set of books my friend Jenn had brought over about 6 months before. She told me I couldn't return them until I read them. I was not a reader. The other reason it had taken me so long to read these books was it was the "Twilight" series.

There was SOOO much talk and excitement about these books and the movie that had come out that I was NOT interested in them AT ALL. I thought that I might like them but didn't want to read them because everyone was telling me I NEEDED to. I am sort of a rebel that way.

But with things sort of calm with Twilight, I thought, "Maybe now I can read them." So that Sunday I started reading. And by the time my family was home from church, I was hooked. I read the first book in two days. Seth was SHOCKED. My kids were saying things like "I have never seen Mom read." Or "Mom is reading AGAIN?!" Needless to say, I finished all 4 books in about 2-3 weeks. Then I read on stepheniemeyer.com her partial draft of "Midnight Sun."

I took a break for a while so my family and my house could recover. But I found myself board again and I wanted to read more. But what? Another friend let me barrow "The Hunger Games".

I read it in two and a half days. I wanted to savor it longer but I still found myself staying up until 4 a.m. reading. I loved it so much I bought it and "Catching Fire". Seth is now reading the first book and I am half way through the second.

I want to go read now but please leave a comment and give me some ideas of what book to read next. I don't want to be board.