Category: Personal

Here are Chase and his friend Audrey sitting on the terra cotta turtle in our backyard. They may seem like the best of friends, but they actually have what some may call a love/hate relationship!

Afterwards, they cuddled during a movie (although Chase found it difficult to see the TV while cuddling). Cute!

Don’t be fooled by the cuteness, though. Chase is also a little culprit! Today he succeeded in stealing some ice cream out of the freezer for the hundredth time!!!! If it’s ever quiet in the house, it can be assumed that he’s sneakily sneaking some ice cream. Notice how ashamed he seems in the photos. 😉 But at least he is quite civilized about it; he gets out a bowl and spoon to keep it tidy. It’s frustrating, but even so, I have to stifle a laugh whenever I catch him doing this… But I am not going to buy any more ice cream for a while!

We also went to the BYU Bookstore today (because I haven’t been there in ages), where Chase ripped open a bag of gummy worms and proceeded to devour one. So I ended up having to purchase the bag of gummy worms. Sneaky, sly kid!

He also liked "riding" the wheelbarrow this afternoon!

Here is a superfluous surplus of photos from our outing to Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point. My little buddy Chase and I went last week with Tiffany and Kyle (thanks for inviting us!). We had good times! I had even more cute photos than this. I have really put the bare minimum on here. :)  I was sad to see that some of the cows were tied up by their mouths. I’m sure it was for some greater cause… but I didn’t take any pictures of that depressing sight. Otherwise, we had lots of fun, and the boys loved riding the real ponies! I couldn’t take photos of that because I was holding Chase steady on the pony.

So anyway, please comment so I will know who our  REAL, faithful, die-hard blog readers are. Because I don’t even know who reads this thing any more, besides some of our family. Which is great too, but, ya know.

I am very happy because I filed our taxes last night! I know it’s not even that early or anything, but I am just glad to have gotten them done and it’s over. Last year this task was on my “To Do” list for a long time, and I really dreaded it. This year, it was actually rather painless! I ordered TurboTax through Brad and Tiffany (thanks so much, guys!) and got it over with the same day in an hour or so! Excellent. Tiffany said that they got an outrageous amount back (I won’t say how much). We aren’t getting any more than usual, but we’re happy with what we’re ending up with anyway! And I know it’s not that exciting because it was ours to begin with, but I just love getting our money back! I’m also excited about the Economic Stimulus Rebate which will come closer to summertime, I believe. Fun stuff!

1) ACTIVITIES WITH MOMMY:

–Being outside in the beautiful Spring weather! He made that crazy face for no reason at all!

–Dancing to loud music! (I promise I’m not kicking him despite how it appears in the photo!)

2) ACTIVITIES WITH DADDY:

–Reading the mail together

–Washing the cars

–Showering! Daddy didn’t want to be in the picture for this one because people would become envious of his bod.

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This was a fun, informal Easter Egg Hunt we had at the park yesterday, for kids age 5 and under. Here they are getting pumped up before the "competition." I’m proud to say that Chase started the "baskethead" trend! :

At first Chase didn’t want to be in the group shot, but then he conformed so we could get the show on the road.

And they’re off! Here he’s rapidly scanning the field:

Begging for more eggs from the "big girls" who were a bit faster than he was:

And then he enjoyed the loot for a while before Mommy took it away:

Ahhh, all in a day’s work.

While we didn’t win the last 2.2 Million dollar dream home, we do encourage you all to enter in this green home contest. It starts tom at 9am. BUt if you click on this link you can enter today b/c they have a bad webmaster. And Joy, we can both enter b/c it says one email per person, not per house. So good luck, and if you win, have us over for a BBQ will ya?

My buddy Chase and I have been enjoying the spring season lately, playing outside and playing with friends– his favorite activities! I’ve noticed that the always-moving Chase has been getting injured a lot; you’ll notice in the photos below that he has lots of cuts and scratches, along with a recovering fat lip. I have a feeling that this is foreshadowing what might happen this upcoming summer… But let’s hope not!

I am enjoying the fact that Chase is becoming more mature and fun to play with! He’s old enough to enjoy all sort of new experiences. Today we got the Friend magazine for the first time, which was fun to look through and discuss with Chase. And tomorrow we’re having an Easter egg hunt at the park with some young kids from the ward (I’ll post about that later).

Meanwhile, Chase has been dancing a lot, counting to thirteen (?), saying the alphabet the best he can, and singing. Tonight he was singing/yelling nonstop while we watched the first part of American Idol. I kept having to rewind parts of it so I could actually hear. Watch out, America, you may see him on that show… in about 15 years!!! Chase also enjoys knowing who I’m talking to on the phone, and sometimes he guesses who it is by the end of the phone call if I’ve mentioned their name or their kids’ names during the conversation. It’s entertaining. Speaking of entertaining, here are two little conversations that popped up tonight:

                 At dinner time…

Pace: "Here’s some corn, Chase."

Chase: "Deh-dew, Daddy!" ("Thank you, Daddy!")

Joy: You’re so polite, Chase! Good boy!

Chase: "Welpum, Mommy." (You’re welcome, Mommy.")

              At bed time…

Joy: "Daddy and Mommy got married in the temple."

Chase: (throwing arms up in the air) "Yay! Hooray! Yay Mommy, yay Daddy! Yeppers!"

  
  

  

Very interesting stuff here (19 mins long), this lady has a stoke – normal. This lady was a brain scientist when having a stroke, not normal. Then she has a very unique experience, one which I think was similar to Lehi’s dream but based more upon the scientific knowledge that she was so familiar with. Interesting how science is still catching up with the doctrine already provided by God. That we are so much more than just a physical body, but an immense eternal spirit combined with a physical system. Cool things to think about.

What are your thoughts on it?