A funny story

The other day while we were up visiting Grandma Wallace's house Kiana needed to use the potty. A lot of times she takes off her shirt as well as her pants to go potty and this was the case this time. She had some trouble getting the toilet paper to rip so there ended up being a pile of toilet paper on the floor. I passed by the bathroom as this was happening and since it has happened before I told her she needed to roll the toilet paper back up on the roll so there wasn't toilet paper all over the floor. I walked into another room to do something else and my sister-in-law Shelley came in a few seconds later and told me through her laughter that Kiana needed my help. Apparently rather than rolling the toilet paper up on the roll she decided to throw it all in the toilet. This wouldn't have been so bad if the shirt she had taken off hadn't been white and buried underneath the pile of toilet paper, therefore being misaken as toilet paper by my sweet innocent three year old daughter. I couln't help but laugh as I saw the shirt stuck and tried to figure out how to fish it out of the toilet. After getting a bowl and a disposable kitchen utensil we got it out of the toilet and into the washing machine, but next time she pulls out all the toilet paper I will be better about the instructions I give her to clean it up.

Bad News, Good News!!!

The bad news is a couple of weeks ago our computer crashed, the good news is we finally got a new one!!!!! I am loving it and I wonder how I got along without it. Since we now have media drives and USB ports that actually work well, we were able to get some pictures we took off of Steve's phone. About a year ago Steve took Emma and Kiana fishing in one of the city ponds and before Steve could catch a fish Emma had one on her line and was freaking out. I was out in the car with Shay so Steve snapped a few pictures on his phone. Here is Emma's first fish. Oh, I have to add that she was so excited to eat it.

Bear Lake Reunion

We just returned from a wonderful time at Bear Lake with Steve's family. We loved boating and going on the tubes, except when they nose-dived, feeding the goats, building sand castles and having a mud fight, hiking the trail and the cave with all 17 kids in tow, the pickleville playhouse and the villain rap, and all the games and laughter in between.


Kiana, Emma, Grandpa Bingham, Jakob

It's always the little moments that mean the most in life. It might be the way Grandpa holds your hand or coaches you on the softball field...

(Steve, Kiana, Shay, Jill, Emma),

It might be stopping to admire the beautiful creations all around us or pausing to enjoy the view...

(Kiana, Shay)

(Shay, Emma, Maddie, Nathan, Katelyn)

Sometimes it's capturing the innocent smile of little ones, and sometimes it's seeing who can be the first one down the mountain...

It's the 800+ steps we took in the cave holding hands...

and it's loving being on the beach, whether it's playing in the sand for hours and hours, laying in the water waiting for the boat to come in or enjoying an all-you-can-eat buffet of mud.

Most importantly it's spending time with family. Thanks Mike and Gina (mostly Gina) for all the planning and preparation. Thanks Great Grandpa and Grandma Cornia for making the trip so we could spend some time with you. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma Bingham for the fun memories and making all this possible. We had a great time at Bear Lake and look forward to next year.