Calvin

Calvin is so cute and hilarious lately.

He is getting the hang of talking, so all day he learned new words (eat, hug), and tried to make up some of his own. He likes talking. A lot.

Whenever the phone rings or the doorbell rings he says "HI"

Whenever he gives a hug (which he can do on command now), he says "oooooh"

He is a wanderer, we went to a friends house for a BBQ, there were over 10 kids there and it was pretty crazy. suddenly a concerned neighbor yells over the fence "are you missing a little guy? There's a little guy running down the sidewalk" I knew immediately it was Calvin. I ran out of the house and he was just a speck in the distance - 7 houses later, I caught up to him. He was unrepentant.
Today I took him outside and just followed him as he walked down the street, through an alleyway to the track behind our house, across several soccer fields to the elementary school playground. After he played we started back and after walking that far, he expected me to carry him all the way back! He was disappointed.

Girls camp 2014

I went to Girls Camp last week at Heber Valley and it was the best. Great weather, great young women and leaders, fun, spiritual - all the good stuff.

I got to organize the 2nd year hike for the stake - they are supposed to go 5 miles, so I planned this big hike and according to the numbers on the map it was just under 5.5 miles. Nobody got lost, everybody finished, it was beautiful, we hiked up and down two mountains. When we got back, one of the leaders with a gps watch said it was over 6 miles. -oops. But the fact that they all did it without complaining was amazing.

I <3 girls camp.

Mixed bag

So yesterday was a mixed bag.

Chronologically: a fish died-

Our house finally got an offer-

Ben came home from a work trip-

Anna threw up right before I had to leave-

We found out the house we were eyeing was already under contract-

We have a full month planned without house hunting, but I feel like if we can survive June, we might survive anything.

Face painting

After helping me in the yard one Saturday I took the girls to the craft store as a reward. We had a hard time finding two things under $5 so they decided to pool their money and get a face painting kit.

This had been a long time coming, since we went to the circus and I told them if they would stop asking to get their faces painted, I would buy them their own face paints. 6 months ago.

So Anna painted Eliza's face first

Then Eliza painted my face

And I painted Anna's face.

The next day we took the paints to Grammas house and Anna painted her cousin Lincoln's face, she did a very good job turning him into Spider-Man all by herself. We may have praised her a bit too highly because on the drive home she decided she could set up a face painting booth on our driveway and earn a bunch of money painting all the neighbor kids faces. She went to school on Monday ready to tell all her friends to come over after lunch to get their faces painted and -

They did. Anna didn't charge them anything and she even let them paint each other. It was a solid 3 hour face paint extravaganza. 

Eliza kept her witch face all day until she could show daddy

This was from another day, she let her friend paint a goatee, it was pretty funny.

So if you need something to do this summer, set up a face painting booth! 

But not on our street, this is our turf!