Nothin' goin on

We haven't had anything exciting going on lately. #1 started basketball again. The girls have been busy learning lots of new words (#2 now says "Dang it!"), and #3 figured out how to climb from the couch, to the end table, to the top of the piano. So needless to say I have to watch them both every second! Here are a few pictures from the last week.

#2


#3 and #2 eating ice cream



Getting ready for bed...

Caiden's random thoughts of the week...

Every night when we tuck Caiden into bed he always has the most random questions. I'm not sure if this is his way of stalling or what. Here are some lately:

C: "Mom, (long thinking pause) how do horses take showers?"
Me: I am just thinking WHAT THE HECK?!?!?! We hadn't seen pictures of horses, talked about horses, nothing.


C: "Dad, how much does a speeding ticket cost?"
Rich: "Um...$100."
C: "Oh, that's a lot."
Rich: "Yeah."
C: "That's a huge waste of money, Dad."

And this one is not quite as random but funny so I thought I'd share. Lately when we are driving Caiden has been saying that Garfield is following behind us. (I have no clue where he got that from???) So today he was riding with his Grandpa Chewy (that is what he calls my dad) and said "Garfield is following us." My dad didn't understand what he was saying so Caiden said "It starts with a G." My dad not thinking said "Is it a jet?" Right after he said it he thought, "That was stupid, Jet starts with a J but he won't know." Then Caiden called him out on it and said "Uh chewy, Jet starts with a J, G is G-uh." There is no sneaking anything by that kid.

You know it's been 9 years when...(updated version)

On the night of our 9th wedding anniversary I am sitting home alone reading blogs. Rich is out of town for work so I was home alone all day and night, fed the kids dinner, put them to bed, and here I am. Pretty exciting...definitely not the same as years past. We are celebrating Friday so it better be good!! HAHA! (Barb, I think it's a tie for who had the best anniversary this year!

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UPDATE: Rich actually sent me 2 dozen beautiful roses and I didn't know they were on the porch all night...oops! We went to dinner at "Monsoon's" Friday night and then he surprised me with a new cell phone! Rich, thanks for the best 9 years! I love you and look forward to many, many, more!! I have had a few requests to share how we met and our first date...pull up a chair and have a seat this is gonna be a long one. Enjoy!

I had been taking some college classes and working two jobs so I didn't get very many days off. I finally had a Saturday off and was SO excited and had lots I wanted to do when my mom tells me that it was her wards "Super Saturday Craft Day" and she wanted me to go with her. UGH, I kept trying to get out of it but I felt bad and agreed to go with her. A new woman in our ward, Amy Cardiff, was teaching a cute Christmas craft so I decided to go to it. She started talking to me and found out I had just graduated high school and liked to snowboard so she said "Oh, you ought to meet my brother-in-law Richard, he just got off his mission this week and he likes to ski."

Our first date was on Friday, November 13, 1998. We went to dinner, played air hockey, and miniature golf, and then went back to David and Amy's house to watch a movie. When it was about 2am, Rich says "Hey, let's go drive around and you can give me a tour of the town." I'm thinking, okay that shouldn't take long there is not much here...so we drove around, went to the snowbowl, and drove around some more. We were having such a good time that neither of us were paying much attention to the time. At about 5am he decided he had better get me home. As we were turning into my parent's neighborhood we passed an officer who then flipped around and started following us. I was wondering why an officer would be following us and wasn't telling Rich how to get me back home so he missed the street to my parent's house. Right then, the officer turned his lights on and pulled us over. As we rolled the window down he says, "Oh, Linsey I am glad to see you. You had better get back home. Your mom is a little worried about you." He talked to us a few more minutes and then we turned around and as we pull up to the house we see my dad standing at the front door. Rich asks if I wanted him to walk me up and I said I would be okay, so he took off throwing rocks and cinders on me as he sped away.

It turns out my mom was worried we had a car problem so she called David and Amy, and they didn't know where we had gone so David, my dad and Derek all drove around looking for us. I have no clue how we didn't pass anyone. This town is not that big. After they couldn't find us my mom decided to call the police and just have them look for us since she figured we were broken down on the side of the road and maybe one of the officers would see us as they were driving around. Well, since I worked for the Police Dept. it turned into a HUGE missing person report. Everyone from my supervisor up to the Chief of Police had to be notified. I was so mad at my mom, talk about embarrassing!! Everyone made fun of me at work for the longest time! Anyways, Rich's dad kept telling him that he could just "Kiss that girl goodbye...her parent's have to be so mad...you don't keep a girl out all night like that..." and I kept telling my mom "Way to go, I really liked him and now he will NEVER call me again!"

So Sunday night, 2 days later, we get a knock on the door and it's Rich standing there waiving a white hankerchief at my Dad. We all thought it was funny and now we have the police report as the first page in our scrapbook.

Rich swears he knew I was the one he was gonna marry after our second date but it took me a lot longer to realize it. A year and a half later we were married in the Mesa Temple. I'm so glad I was blessed with such an amazing guy to be my husband!

Happy New Year!

David, Amy, their 4 kids, and Dwayne and Eve's youngest 2 boys Drew and Jared, came to our house for New Year's Eve. We ended up going over to Chad and Becky's for pizza and of course some Rockband. They all headed downtown for the famous Pinecone Drop and we went home to put sick kiddos to bed. I was pretty much a party pooper because I have been sick all week and was exhausted from dealing with 3 sick kids so my whole goal was to be in bed and asleep WAY before midnight. In the morning we played...surprise, surprise, more Rockband! Then we met Chad, Becky, Cayden, Kenna, Morgan, and Taylor all at Taco Bell for lunch. It doesn't stop there...Friday afternoon Grandpa Fuzz, Grandma Nana, Dwayne, Eve, and their oldest 3 Paige, Tanner, and Peyton, came to Chad and Becky's for just a few minutes so we ran over there to visit with them before they left. Later we broke out the chocolate fondue!! YUMMO!! We had a fun New Year's with family and hope everyone else had a great one too!! I was such a slacker and the only pictures I got were of the fondue.