Little boys and Rocks

I went to Seattle to visit with my family and see Matthew speak in church. While we were there we went down to a place called the spit. The spit is an inlet of the ocean just a couple of miles down the road from where my parents live. The beach is made up of rocks rather than sand. Seth loved every second of it. He kept asking my mom if the rock he was holding was her favorite rock and when she said that it was he would throw it in the water and then laugh. (kind of sadistic) I can't say that the rest of us didn't throw rocks in the water too. Matthew actually ran into two of his friends while we were there. Now all of the boys sat and threw rocks. The older boys turned it into of course a contest...who could throw the farthest, skip the most, or any other thing that they could think of. In the end we left the older boys there throwing rocks on the beach. It was a great trip and even the airplane ride went fine. We didn't have to jump out with our parachutes and Seth only had meltdown while we were in the airport.

Seth and the airplane

Seth and I are planning on flying to visit my family tomorrow. Seth is excited and keeps talking about flying on the airplane. He was a little bit worried though about jumping out with his parachute once we get to Grandmas house. I assured him that the plane would stop and let us off without having to jump. He was assured but I am not sure he fully believes me. Yesterday he came to me and said that we couldn't go on the airplane because we didn't have airplane helmets to wear. I told him that we were going on a special airplane that drove people on it so we didn't need helmets. He then said that I should drive the airplane and refused to believe me when I told him that only special people called pilots could drive airplanes. I think that he is going to be somewhat disappointed in our journey tomorrow because he saw a commercial that was showing jets flying off of an aircraft carrier. He just sat there watching them and yelling AWESOME!! Hopefully he will be tired enough and it won't matter what kind of airplane we are on. Grandma's house here we come

Easter

Easter was a good, but busy day. I am leaving to go and visit my family in Seattle on Wednesday so I have been running errands and getting things in order for days. Saturday turned into a very busy long day of running sooo...Sunday morning we colored our Easter eggs and had a nice breakfast (luckyily for today we have church at 1:00pm right now.) and then went off to church where I had to teach RS. We then ran home and straightened up some so that our neighbors could come over and have dinner with us. So I rushed around to get mashed potatoes made and quick rise the rolls that I forgot to get out before we left for church. We then welcomed three other children and two more adults into our chaos. After dinner the kids went on a Easter egg hunt and then sat and ate more candy than they should. After our neighbors went home the rest of us relaxed and watched the Work and the Glory III. Joseph really enjoyed these movies especially because they were about his name sake Joseph Smith. Now that Easter is over I am back to scrambling around to get everything ready for me to leave tomorrow. Do you know how much laundry a family of six produces?