End of Summer Swimming Party

I know I am playing catch up with my blog today, but we have had a lot going on this week. Here is a picture I took at an end of summer swimming party last Thursday. (I would have posted it earlier, but I left my camera at the swimming pool and just barely figured out where it was.)

The boys and I got invited to go swimming with a bunch of our buddies at a private pool last Thursday. Grace (the owner of the pool and most gorgeous backyard I have ever seen) opens up her backyard and swimming pool every thursday during the summer for all to enjoy. We had a wondrful time. The kids had a great time in the pool, and I had a great time admiring the piece of heaven that is Grace's backyard. (Envision a secluded yard with a pool, diving board, mature trees, and paths that lead to a play house, trampolie, fire pit, koy pond, and hammocks all scattered throughout a beautifully lush perenial garden and you just might have a glimpse of this absolutely stunning yard.) I think we played in Grace's backyard for 3 or 4 hours. It was heavenly, not to mention the company was GREAT! It was fun to spend the day with good friends enjoying one last day in the sun before everyone goes back to school. What a perfect day!

House For Sale!

About two weeks ago Jeremy and I found a house for sale in the neighborhood just up the street from ours. On a whim, we decided to go check it out. We really liked it so, we decided to put our house on the market. To make a long story short, here is the time line of our move.

Saturday, August 16th (14 days ago) - We found a beautiful house with a gorgeous backyard, third car garage, and a 2nd floor laundary room. (for a very reasonable price)

Monday, August 18th (12 days ago) - We called our neighbor (and real estate agent) Rachel, and had her take us through the house.

Tuesday, August 19th (11 days ago) - We went to see the house again. Loved it even more the second time. (it has great bones, Jeremy and I can take care of all the decorating/making it cute stuff) Jeremy and I decided to put our house up for sale, in hopes we could sell ours before the other house sold.

Tuesday-Saturday - Cleaning, weeding, staging, and organizing to get ready to list the house.

Saturday, August 23rd (7 days ago) Rachel came and took pictures of our house. By Saturday evening, the house was listed, and there were pictures up on the MLS (multipul listing service.)

Monday Morning, August 25th (5 days ago) - Connor's kindergarten orientation. When we got home, Rachel called to say that she had schedualed our very first showing.

Tuesday Morning, August 26th (4 days ago) - We recieved an offer on our house!

Wednesday, August 27th (3 days ago) - We accepted the offer, and put an offer on the other house.

Friday, August 29th (yesterday) - Our offer got accepted.

Pending everything goes as planned we are moving September 18th. Things are happening so fast! Who sells their house to the first viewers on the first possible day you could show it. Some thing is telling me this might be meant to be. I realize that everything could fall apart, which would be sad, but I don't know that I would be suprized. Everything is happening so fast, I don't think the whole situation has totally sunk in yet.

MOVING IN 19 DAYS!!!!!!!!!

The Things Kids Say

Here are a few of my favorite phrases from boys during our 10 minute drive home the other day. I have home with the giggles. Kids are so funny.

1. Connor and Parker had brought their toy truck in the car with them. It says things like "Heavy Chevy coming through!", "Let's go find some mud." and their favorite "Seein' the USA in your Chevrolet!" They thought it was pretty cool, so they were trying to repeat everything that the truck would say. They did pretty well until they got to the last quote. Chevrolet is a pretty tough word. Here are a few of their attempts: Chev-lo-la, Chev-kung-fu, Chevy-way, Chev-ho-hay, Chev-ro-way. . .Nice attempts, but they never did quite get it.

2. Connor asked me, "Mom, if Dad buys a truck can we have Uncle Terry come teach it magic?" (I think Terry is the only one who will really understand this, but I just want you to know Terry, that Connor had a really good time that day you guys went to the mall and then to McDonalds.)

3. My favorite quote for the day. Connor asked me as we passed a cemetary where the groundskeepers were watering the grass, "Mom, why are they watering the dead humans?" I just about bust a gut with that one!

Distracted At Breakfast

This morning at breakfast Connor was a little distracted from eating his toast. He got out his alphabet flash cards, rolled around all over the kitchen floor, and tried to get Parker involved in a game of open seasame (the pass word was race car.) When Connor finally decided to eat his toast he returned to the table to find his toast was more than half eaten. In a moment of obvious frustration Connor said very loudly, "Who ate my toast?!" Parkers questioning reply still has me giggling. He looked at Connor with a huge smile on his face and asked, "Was it me?"
After my laughing subsided Parker looked at me with earnest eyes and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to eat the crust." Three year-old honesty is the greatest!

Davis County Fair

Last night we took the boys to explore the Davis County Fair. It was really windy so we had to cut our evening short, but we did get to do a few things before we got tired of the wind. First of all, we went to go see the chickens and the bunnies. Connor thought it was so cool that some of the animals won ribbons and trophies.

Parker was especially entertained by the bunnies. Go figure he likes the things that jump.
We waited in line for a pony ride. The boys thought it was pretty cool to be able to ride the ponies all by themselves.
Parker rode a horse named C.J. (I don't know if he named it, or it that really is the name of the pony he rode.)
We spent a small fortune on tickets and let the boys ride these cars at the amusement park side of the fair. ($3.00 a ride seemed like a major rip-off, but the boys loved it and person working the ride let them ride for a long time.) To finish things off we bought a few snow cones and headed for home. It was a fun night at the fair.

Work Party

Thursday night was Jeremy's summer work party. We met at a local park for a delicious dutch oven dinner, good company, and fun and games. Basic Grey rented a huge bounce house and asked a balloon artist to come entertain the kids (and the adults for that matter.) Connor said his favorite part of the party was playing tag in the bounce house, while Parker enjoyed the endless bouncing, and he especially enjoyed the balloon artist. The balloon guy could make anything. Connor asked for a black panther, but we also saw him make beautiful dragonflies, penguins, flowers, butterflies, crazy hats, balloon portraits, frogs, birds, and combined things like a butterfly on a flower with a frog attatched to the flower base. He was really cool. The balloon guy made Parker a beautiful blue bird. Parker was instantly attatched. He named his bird Gary (I don't know where he came up with that one.) He was instantly attatched to his new friend. He was a little disappointed the next morning when he woke up to find that Gary's wings were loosing air. He quickly put Gary to bed and told me that Gary wasn't feeling very well. Parker was even more disappointed (dare I say devistated) when he checked on the bird later and found that his beak had lost all of its' air too. After a few tears, we had to explain that Gary was made out of balloons, and that balloons don't last very long. He was crushed. (Can you imagine being three again?) All in all, it was a very fun and memorable work party.

The Box in the Bathwater

Yes, my boys really will try anything. This was my clean up project saturday night. The boys decided a shoe box would be a fun bath toy. Little did they know it would turn into a fun pile of mushy mess in seconds. By the time I figured out what was going on the water was black and brown (the box was black,) and they had disgusting brown things stuck all over them. (For a split second I thought it was poop. Super disgusting, I know.) When I started to rant and rave, Connor said, "but Mom! We are going to keep the shoes, so I don't see what the problem is." He obviously had no idea what the clean up would entail. It included fishing for soggy and disgusting floaties(very similar to wet toilet paper,) plunging the bathtub (three times,) and scrubbing the tub. Oh the joys of being a mother to boys!

The Box Car - Renewed

Well, Parker's box/car has seen better days. It was near total destruction when Jeremy decided to "take it to the mechanic" a.k.a. reinforce it with extra cardboard and a bunch of tape. After a whole roll of tape (and half an hour later,) Parker's "car" was as good as new. He was so excited!

Connor's Fashion Statement

Need I say more. . . This is the outfit that Connor decided to wear the other day. He was so proud of it. I told him that he had to take the tie off if we left the house. He promptly explained that taking the tie off would ruin the look he was going for. I must admit that this out fit is pretty cool in a seasonal cross-dressing, t-ball/swimming, church kind of way.