One last hurrah

I know you've seen a lot of skiing pictures from us this summer, but I'm going to post one last set.  Brad and I pulled the kids out of school a little early and took the boat out for the last day of the season this Friday.  It was the perfect day.

I caught Jordan on camera making a few good cuts.

 

He got so close to touching his hip to the water on this one that he didn't quite pull it off.

We got some good barefooting sequences of Brad:

 

Don't ask me why he does that.  I think he must be a glutton for pain.

Since I couldn't ski because of my hamstring I got some good tubing in with the kids.

 

 

Kenzie enjoyed the chance to shove me off every time that she could.

Getting me back for all those mean mommy moments I guess.

Everyone got to try the wake board for the first time

 

And we did get some candid shots of the day...well, maybe not so candid but at least some that weren't of the skiing.

And one last one to finish the season off

To end today's post I'll leave you with my favorite quote from the family proclamation.

"Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities."

Update 9/21/2014

Riley turned 9.

We are having our best month ever at the dental practice.  That's good but it's made me really busy.  I've had too many nights being there 2 hours after to tie up all the loose ends.  Which, has made us post an ad for another front desk.  Hopefully this will alleviate me some.

I'm taking Ben out of football.  He had one game where he got to play a lot and then this last game, which we had to travel an hour to get to, he played 12 plays.  I would be okay with that if the game were close I guess, but the final score 40 to 6 with us in the lead...and really, he got 12 plays?

I'm putting Kenzie, Ben and Riley on the swim club.  Time to try something new.  We'll see how they like it.

Just got back from a 2nd trip to Lake Powell.  This time we went to Page and stayed in a VBRO.  I think I liked it better in the end than the house boat.  Met some old friends and my sister there.

Some advice that Kenzie gave to me when I couldn't climb up out of the water to get on the rock to cliff jump.  "Just pretend you're a whale mom.  BEACH YOURSELF!!"  Surprisingly enough the beached whale method worked perfectly.

Ben learned to slalom ski and beat me....

I was almost up off the long rope out of the back but tore my hamstring my last try:(  Six weeks of recovery.  Next year I'll try again.

Just bought our first TV ever in our marriage and found out all about how to use Amazon Prime.  Unfortunately I'm not sure how to block the bad stuff from the kids.  I mean, I don't know about you but titles like the "Happy Hooker went to Washington," have me taking my remote to work with me so that my kids don't "accidently" end up watching it.  I know you can change the settings on Amazon Prime but then it won't let me watch any of the PG-13 movies I want to without changing my settings back on the computer...I thought I would just be able to unblock them with a code, but I couldn't figure out how.  Am I dumb or is that the way amazon works?

Kenzie tripped and fell flat on her face up on her way to the stand today to give her first talk.  Which had the whole Young Women's laughing during opening prayer (All the Young Women had to speak on a value).  It was AWESOME!  It will probably go down in her book as one of the most embarrassing moments of her life.  However, I was so proud of her and the way she still calmly got up and delivered her talk.  That takes a lot of self confidence to do after a trip like that.  Got to love that girl:)

Time to move on. A post maybe only my sisters will understand.

I'm writing this with my smartphone.  Are you impressed?  You should be.

So today my daughter comes to me and asks with this face

"Mom don't you think it's time I got some more mature underwear?  I mean    it's embarrassing wearing icecream underwear and changing in the locker room.  Icecream underwear that tell you what day of the week it is mom.  Embarrassing!"

Between her face and expressions and my own experiences being embarrassed by underwear she had me laughing so hard I was in tears.

Let me delve into that past for a moment.  (Mom, please don't be offended by what I'm about to write.  I know you had the best of intentions.)

Growing up as a daughter of a teacher in a family of seven with a stay at home mom meant we were really poor.  One of the things my mom did for us to help make ends meet was sew.  She sewed everything.  Our t-shirts, dresses, jeans, etc.  I remember one year my sister wanted to have a pair of jeans like the other girls.  They had some sort of rose pattern embroidered on the back pocket.  My mom made her the jeans and made her own rose design just so Anjee would fit in. It didn't work so well, but Mom tried.  Anyway you get the picture.  It saved us money and so my mom sewed. One of the things she sewed for us was underwear. She tried so hard to make it fashionable and cute.  She would trim it with lace so it would be pretty.  We wore it for years without any thought of it being any different.  But then came jr. High and PE and changing in front of the other girls. My friends made fun of the underwear teasing me, "nice granny pants merg". or "That's some pretty lace." To say the least I became very embarrassed and surely said something similar to what my own daughter said to me.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is I laughed because I could relate.  And yes, Kenz...maybe it's time to move on from the icecream cone underwear. 

A few Jake funny sayings... The first one may be more sad than funny.  

Just the other day Jake asked me when we were going to be moving houses again.  It was foreign to him to think that we were going to be in this home forever.  It was funny and yet sad to think how often we have moved since Jake has been born.  I was proud to tell him no more moves for a long time.

Yesterday Brad told Jake that if he didn't do the dishes he would have a cow.  Jake asked sincerely, "You mean you're going to buy a cow dad?"

Ben's football is going better.

I've been sick and should be sleeping instead of blogging so I'm off to bed now.