alphabet poop

there have been some silly things going on around here lately...











another one is our alphabet poop project...
ryan likes to make up different ways to ask cole if he has pooped. while in st. george, the bergstrom boys came up with a few to add to the list. it got me to thinking that it might be fun/challenging to come up with a phrase for every letter of the alphabet. here is what we came up with...{we had a lot of time driving in the car to brainstorm!}

Apple/Awk in your A...
Bomb in your Boxers/Bloomers
Crap in your Coolots
Dookie/Doo Doo in your Diaper
Dump in you Drawers
Excrement/Eewie in your E...
Feces/Fudge in your F...
Grunt in your Gitch/Gotch
Hud in your Huggies
Ice cream in your I...
J... in your Jockeys
Kool Whip in your Khakis
Log/Loaf in your Luvs/Long johns
Mess in your M...
Nugget in you kNickers
Oh no in your O...
Poop in your Pants
Q...
Rocky Road in you R...
Soil your Shorts
Turd in your Trousers
Ugly in your Undies
V...
Waste in your Whities
X...
Yucky in your Y...
Z...

We are now down to the hard letters. If you are well versed in the language of poo/underwear/pants and would like to add to and/or edit the list, please feel free. I'm not ready to give up on the dream of a best-selling children's book just yet!

st. george

we're back from nine days in st george...what a trip! the only pictures i took with my camera are of our hike to three "ponds" in snow canyon and playing at the park...

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE...
• seeing Sweetie Grandma and Grandpa’s new house in coral canyon
• texas roadhouse and swimming… and mclayne saying “just one more last time” twenty times
• almost dying in snow canyon…hiking 3.5 miles in river bottom sand packing two kids in the heat is not a good idea!
• Mclayne’s shrimpfest at the Casablanca buffet in mesquite
• Ernesto’s Mexican restaurant…mmmmmm
• going down the hydrotube at the washington rec center with mclayne
• Emerald pools hike at Zions
• The zion’s St. Patrick’s Day parade that we got stuck behind…NOT!
• Finding two new swimsuits…is it really two if you just buy two of the same one in different colors?...either way I’m set for five more years!

OUR {little} BACKYARD

i know i was spoiled with a yard like this in Pennsylvania....





but the yards in Colorado are tiny! So Marianne, even though I go on and on and on about how perfect it is here {i've got to stop doing that!}, it does have its drawbacks. Since the yard only goes back 30 or 40 feet, i couldn't even get a shot looking back toward the house, but there is room for a 10X28 foot deck. You know how they say the camera adds 10 pounds, well it also takes away 10 yards...it feels a little bigger in person. Still, it's a good thing we like our neighbors!




one of the best thing about our yard...the NEIGHBOR'S water fountain/pond that can be seen right behind the picnic table.





side yard. future garden or trampoline site. It really is bigger than it looks. That's what he said. {sorry I couldn't help myself.)

















p.s. i'll e-mail the recipes (more like instructions) to you. I'm waiting for a new one to add to the rest... :)

swimming things

On Saturday we decided to go fishing...for fish and crawdads. We thought if we tried catching two different kinds of animals it would increase our chances of catching something. We tried for about an hour or two with no luck. As we were packing things up to leave, mclayne started getting this look like 'what's going on' and said, "we can't go home without any swimming things!" She was convinced that's how it should be...you can't leave until you catch something. She may turn out to be a better fisher than we thought. We went on another ADVENTURE to find a good spot to leave the crawdad trap overnight. Hopefully I have pictures of a new pet crawdad to post soon!