My Dad and his Childhood Memories...

So my Brother and Sis in law had a great idea. They thought it would be fun to go downtown where my Dad grew up and go to all the places he lived and have him tell us stories from his childhood. So we all packed up our sack lunch dinners and drove to the Avenues. It was fun for the kids too, they all rode in different cars with their little cousins.

It was so much fun to hear the stories and to see my Dad remember when he was young. To see the houses he use to live in and where he played as a boy.

This is now a cafe but my Dad told us how it use to be a store/gas station and he worked there when he was 14. He was working late one night and got robbed. The guy told him to give him all the money in the till. My Dad asked if he wanted the coins too. The guy did not think that was funny. Than he left and my Dad called the owner who than told him to call the police. Crazy to be robbed at the age of 14.

I think my Dad lived in three houses on the avenues. This one he called the jungle. It was surrounded by trees and was on a hill. You had to climb up stairs to get there. He use to raise boats down this rain gutter. This place looked so fun to grow up at.

This is looking down from the house back to the street. It was so pretty. Lots of bugs but very pretty.

This is the house my Mom and Dad moved into right after they got married. They were renting the bottom part of the house from someone they knew. LDS hospital was less than a block away. My Oldest brother was born at LDS and they brought him home here.

My Mom told some fun stories too. Like how they went to my Dad's Grandma's house for dinner when they were engaged and she made them dinner. But my parents were an hour late getting there. She told of how mad grandma was and how she told them it was very rude to be late to someone's house for dinner. Love hearing both of there memories.

This was such a fun night. I should have asked more questions but it was fun to see all of these places. I would like to due a post on my Mom's childhood memories too one day when we go to Bear River. Than I think I will do my own post about the only home I lived in!

Cuz Ya had a Bad Day...

My sister told me yesterday that I did a great job in portraying the fun and happy side of family life here on this blog. Well I guess that is because I don't post as much on the days that ya just have a bad day. Funny thing is that today was one of those bad days.

I got up later than I wanted to and did not work out and just felt like doing nothing.

Than I had a crying 3 year old not wanting to go to his swim lessons which was not for another 4 hours. I ended up calling his Dad who decided he would come to swim to see if he would get in the water for him. Well he did finally get in the water half way through the lesson.

We than went and grabbed lunch. Where I was eating a hamburger and holding my almost 1 year old baby who was getting pretty fussy. Than we saw that I must have spilled something on her clothes only later to find out nope that was not mustard. I did not get mustard on my burger. Yep that's poop all over her and all over my white shirt. Lovely. On a normal day that would not bother me to much. I have been pooped on quite a bit. In fact sometimes I think it is pretty funny. But not so funny today. Poor girl. No wonder she was crying. I'd cry too.

Than I knew Kevin had to stay later at work to study. So that's always a bummer. Than I took a quick visit to a sister's house to drop something off and things were good again.

This really hasn't been too bad of a day compared to others.

But than the topper came later this evening when we got Kevin's test result back from his last CPA test. He didn't pass. He got a 74 and needed a 75. We were pretty bummed out to say the least. He is so great. He has so much going on in his life and to put studying for the CPA Exams on top of that is really hard. It is only a minor set back in the plans. I know. But man was it a bad day or what. Tomorrow will be better! I will make sure of that. :)

Happy Father's Day...

The Father of our home leads our family. With wisdom's light in all that's right;

My father's good to me. Fathers are so special with a very special love.

They watch us and protect us. They guide us and direct us Back to our home above.

I have amazing Father's in my life! I am so blessed to have my Dad and Kevin's Dad. They are both wonderful men, who honor their priesthood and who are hard working, loving Fathers!!!

Love you guys!

Our primary sang this song above (not sure why it's underlined and in blue, must of hit something) in church to the Dad's. Cole sang so great! But I love this little simple song.

I am also so blessed to have this guy to be the Father to my two beautiful kids. He is so amazing.

He is such a great Dad. I love watching him with Cole and Day. He is great.

Boy oh Boy did I ever luck out when I married him!!!

Kevin wanted to take his Dad golfing for Father's Day so he and his brother and Dad went golfing early Saturday morning. Than his Dad took them both out to breakfast. I love that they like to spend time together! Oh and Kev needed to try out his new club.

The kids and I went to their cousins last soccer games. They both are very good at soccer. Than we got a babysitter and went out to PF Changs for dinner with my family. It was a very fun and "special" night. To top the night off we got a parking ticket. Another story for later. But definitely a funny situation. It probably won't be funny if they don't except our appeal. But still kind of funny. That is our busy, but fun weekend!

Crazy Busy, Summer Fun...

This past weekend was a busy and fun one. We had the ward carnival on Friday night. Where I was in charge of all the games. I look forward to this carnival. It is a lot of fun. However I am not good yet at mastering how to be fun and not stress over things and so maybe that is why I am still in the primary and they haven't released me. Ha ha. No I love Primary! It's definitely where it's at. But it all seemed to happen all at once. Carnival, Sharing Time, and Father's Day.

Whooo. I love being busy and I love summer too.

So it was fun but also nice to have the weekend over.

Here is only a couple of photos from the carnival. I think I was too worried about the cotton candy not working. (Thanks to Kev, we got a refund on it) I was no help with it. I kept screaming when it would make loud sounds at me. So I gave up. Thanks to our secretary she finally was the one to get it going and to another lady in a different ward. Thanks Lady in the other ward for your help.

I did have my fun, husband talk me into getting in the dunk tank and go down the fun slip n slide. No pics of that Thank goodness.

70th Birthday party Luau...

Mom Dearden planned a Luau for Dad's 70th Birthday! It was so much fun. We ate delicious food, talked and played. The decorations were awesome. It made it so fun.

Way to go Mom and Lorrie.

Mom made a book for him, and all the kids did a page in the book with memories and pictures.

Kevin took this picture. I was laughing watching him try and get the flame in the shot.

He did pretty good!
I thought these cupcakes were so cute.




Leslie and Dale flew here from Georgia and surprised Dad for the party.

We had a great weekend. We were able to hang out with the Family several days in a row and we even got to go to the Draper temple on Saturday with Mom and Dad and Leslie and Dale. What a great time. Happy 70th Birthday Dad!!!

Thanks Dearden Family!!!

Father and Sons...

Kevin told Cole that they would be going on the ward Father and Son's camp out a few weeks before. Well that seemed forever away to a three year old. So we drew a picture of a camp fire and put it on our calendar. Cole was so excited. He told everyone he was going camping. His primary teachers, random people at the store and all his cousins. He would always say " I'm going campin just my daddy and me. Not Dailey or my Mom." Just so everyone knew. ha ha.

I took Cole to the store to get some treats he said he needed chocolate. We sent them off on Friday afternoon. They roasted hot dogs for dinner, had s'mores and just a great time with other boys in the ward. Kev is such a great Dad. I love to watch him with Coleman.

We sure missed them, and look forward to more Father and Sons so we girls can have some "girl time".

I remember when I was little and the boys in the fam would go and we would rent a good movie and get treats and have some fun, just the girls. One time in particular, I remember going to watch Pollyanna. I also remember my Mom bearing her testimony to us girls. I loved that she would take that time and talk to us about what she knew was so important.

I hope to be able to do the same and take those little moments and just share and soak in time with them too.

Three and So FunnY!

So it seems that three is definitely the age of being so dang funny! Coleman makes me laugh hard everyday. I absolutely love it. From what he says and how he says it with his tone and actions and facial expressions. Man alive he is so funny. I am trying to think of the things that make me laugh so I can remember them when I am old.

Right now he thinks that the word "tootie" is so funny. Probably because I taught him to say "toot" for when he passes gas. I know kind of silly. But at the time, of a very young age it sounded better than some of the alternatives. He now runs around yelling tootie, and says I tooted, and your a tootie. Than he laughs. I don't love that but I guess he is a boy and for some reason they do think that is funny. The other night he said "I tooted" and started laughing and I said " Cole that isn't really funny, no one else is laughing." he said. "Well I crack myself up". That did make me laugh.

The other night I sang the second verse to" I love to see the temple" right before bed. I said how Mom and Dad were married in the temple and how one day after his mission he can get married in the temple. Than I told him I loved him and kissed him and walked out shutting the door behind me. I walked out and started doing some primary stuff on the computer. It was about 15 minutes later. Cole comes out and says, crying. "mom, I don't want to get married" I told him that it would not happen for a long long time and he said I just want to be with you and dad. So cute. I remember when I was little I was afraid of leaving my parents too.

I really can't remember all the funny things I initially wanted to put in this post that he says but I do want to remember that I love this age and I love being a Mom!

Memorial Day Weekend.....

I love Memorial Day weekend! It was so fun. We went to Bear River and than to the park afterward for food and lots of sports. We played baseball, volleyball and later that night a game of croquette. I love the river that runs through the cemetery. Ever since I was little we would all try and jump it. Some would fall in and get their foot wet. However in recent years it has been filled to the top with water so you would get pretty wet these days if you fell in. So no jumping for me. I love watching Cole with his cousins throw sticks and weeds in and than run down the other side to watch them float on by. It was a good day.