Family Dinner, Lemonade, Cookies, and Milk

We have dinner together most every night which I love! We were talking and Zach got this brilliant idea that he should have a lemonade stand and sell lemonade. Josh explained to him that lemon juice is usually expensive and he wouldn't make a lot of money. So undeterred he suggested selling cookies and mom's jam. Here is the conversation Zach had with me.

Zach: Mom, could you make some cookies and get some cups and some milk so I can sell them?

Me: Um maybe.

Zach: I think that the kids will like them. I think that the mom's will like them too. Especially the stressed out ones because milk and cookies are a good treat. They would really like that. It would be good to put a glass of milk and some cookies in a mom's place (at the table) and then say Hey Mom Come look what the stressed out fairy brought you!

Me: Yeah that would be good. Alright Zach, time for bed, see you in the morning.

Let me tell you it was hard not to smirk or bust out laughing! He was so serious! So what does the stressed out fairy bring you? Apparently ours brings milk and cookies!

We've been caught!

By the silly bug! This is what happens when we get to be ourselves! We do silly things!

Enjoy these pictures!

Isn't he a fun Dad at bath time?


Giddy up cowboys!


What do you to do let loose at your house?

Funny Man Sam!

So my almost two year old Sam,(can you believe it?) was shopping with me today. We were at the grocery store getting some Easter candy to help the Easter bunny out. I handed him a bag of chocolate eggs of which he was delighted! We're walking down the isle and I hear this little voice say Lunch Me.....

Here is the rest of the conversation:
Mom: Lunch? It's not lunchtime!
Sam: Lunch Me
Mom: We're not having candy for lunch you silly pickle!
Sam: Lunch.

He cried pretty hard when I took the candy way from him and put it in the trunk... I guess I have a candy lover in the house... Oh no I'll have to share!:)

Choose the Right

So it's a busy time of year and it seems that things come up and you get to things a little later then you had anticipated like folding the laundry and practicing the organ. Well tonight I needed to go practice on the organ at the church since I am the lucky organist this Sunday. I start practicing and the other ward is there having their mutual night and so there's people around. No big deal. I just start playing some songs trying to figure out what's going to work best for Sunday and I hear the door open... I glance and I don't see anyone there. That happens a lot when I practice and there's people around. They just like to check things out. So I'm just doing my thing concentrating really hard and it's been like 5 minutes since the door open and out of the corner of my eye I see this orange thing run across the back of the chapel squealing! It startles me so I jump but I just keep going. It gets quiet again and I'm just doing my thing and again the same kid who's between a cub scout and deacon age does the same thing. This time I didn't jump. I just decided to play something else that I knew better. So I play Count your Blessings a couple times through and then I turn the page back one and there is the good old hymn Choose the Right! I smiled to myself and I started to play wondering if it would make a difference. At about the middle of the song I see two boys walk across the back of the chapel and I hear the door open and shut. So see it really does work to think of a hymn to keep yourself out of trouble! God knew what he was doing when he put those hymns next to each other :)