These are the days...

Memorial Day

Always love visiting the National Cemetery on Memorial Day. We learned that the Mormons use Moroni as their religious symbol on the head stones. My kids got a huge kick out of hunting for them!

Off to Lake Wilderness for some fishing and playing catch!

Tucker's last day with Mrs. Cloud. What a wonderful 2 years we had with her. Tuck said he wouldn't miss preschool because he is going to be a Preschool teacher someday;)

Ran the Green River Marathon with some friends. Gorgeous day in Seattle.

This time only 1 minor blister.

Luke's piano recital. He played Hedwig's Theme and The Happy Green Frog. He tells me that he was "made for the piano and the piano was made for him." Hope it lasts:()

Boys went off to Father and Sons and we girls spent the weekend at Maple Valley Days. SO LOVE this weekend. So many fun things to do and see.

Will never get sick of this park for as long as I live. This is one of the reasons we moved here.

Just in...this hole just suddenly appeared in my wall. Apparently I nailed 2 holes into a drainage pipe YEARS AGO while trying to hang a shelf. That shelf is no more, and those holes have been leaking water for a long time. Nothing that a little YouTube, Epoxy putty and spackle couldn't fix!

The BEST for last... Luke participated in his first ever Pinewood Derby race last night. He and Dave started working on the car last week but finished it literally minutes before the race began. Luke worked by Dave's side throughout. This was Dave's first experience as well (he never did this as a child,) and told Luke that they would be happy if the car just made it all the way down the track. You can imagine our surprise when Luke's car not only made it down the track BUT won - nearly EVERY race! He ended up with first place in his den and then first overall in the pack. I have never seen him so happy. He wrote 2 1/4 pages in his journal about the experience and slept with the grand trophy next to him last night. GO LUKE!

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Let's just call this paybacks

Dave got the heads up this morning that we were going to have a couple of "special" talks on reverence today as the Stake Presidency was a little concerned about how loud our sacrament meetings have become. I thought ~ great, let's prep the kids ~ I told them that they were to be on their best behavior, no snacks, no toys, no talking, you get the idea... The meeting went pretty smooth until the Bishop got up. He very tenderly started talking about how important it is that we teach our children about the sacrament...it was at that moment that my family fell a part. Eden and Luke started fighting and Liza and Tucker started screaming---did I mention we were on the second row? I grabbed Luke and put him in a body hold and motioned for Dave to get Tuck and Liza out. Dave left with Liza and Tuck (so I thought...) and next thing you know, Tucker is up on the stand running back and forth behind the Bishop. My sweet friend sitting next to me jumped up to get Tuck, but he of cours...

Another day, another blog!

Anyone who knows me well knows (don't you love how I start all my posts this way?!) anyway, you know that I love good referrals, hot tips, good finds, etc...I decided to compile a list of all my favorite referrals/finds and make a blog. Check it out: www.soundsecrets.blogspot.com (link it link it!) If you have any good referrals, hot tips, etc. please email them to me. I am in desperate need of a good general physician and Mexican restaurant---do you have one? In other news... My dear friend Becky and I ran the "Susan G. Komen, Race for the cure" yesterday. We originally did it as part of our training for a relay that we are running in July, but it turned into an incredible, emotional experience. Most of the women in the race either had cancer or were either running for someone they knew that had cancer. It was difficult (to say the least) to keep a dry eye throughout. It was definitely worth every penny of that $30.

Lesson Learned

Have you ever been in a grocery or Target type store with all your kiddos and had a lovely employee tell your children to "please sit down in the cart!"? Well I have...several times. Each time I politely smile and say sorry, but all the while my brain is filled with smart aleck comments like "hey, last time I checked, I was their mother," or, "lady it's either standing up in the cart or pulling product off your shelves-you choose!" I have been sufficiently humbled. This morning, like all mornings, I put Eliza in her high chair to get her out of my hair for a moment so that I could make breakfast. She immediately climbed out and was about to stand on the table when she lost her balance and fell to the floor. I raced over to pick her up and noticed that while she was trying to scream nothing was coming out of her mouth. I picked her up and she started seizing, her eyes rolled back into her head and then she went limp. No words can describe the thoughts...

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