In my sleep...

Apparently in my sleep last night I said the words "Did you hear that?" in a very creepy whisper.  I scared poor Jeremy half to death and I feel really bad about it.  If he would have done that to me, I would have called 911 and then hid underneath the bed...

But that's not the worst part.  He then asked me if I was sleeping.  Now this I woke up to.  I was angry.  Why would he ask me if I was asleep at 2 in the morning?  Of course I was asleep.  I was mad...confused...bitter.  And I never even answered his question.

So, I have come to this conclusion.  I have anger issues in my sleep.  I am always yelling at someone or something.  This is not in my daytime nature, so I must be letting off steam or stress...I guess.  Usually,  I wake myself up to these tyrants. For instance, a few weeks ago, I can remember waking up mid-yell to my brother.  I was asking him to get me a glass of water...with ice.

I also remember having yelled at the cat, but mostly its strangers in my dreams.  And I don't know if I would even classify it as "yelling".  It's more like a "stern talking to" with lots of eye rolling and deep sighing or grunting out of frustration. 

I feel bad for Jeremy.  I wake him up a lot.  And I think I've only heard him talk in his sleep a handful of times.  He has a theme too:  concrete.  Yes, he dreams a lot about concrete, he is an engineer after all.

I'm just thankful he doesn't sleepwalk--cause that really freaks me out.  And he should be thankful that I don't get physical--he's never woken up with a black eye before :) 

He's just a baby!!!

Oh Bridger, my Bridger!  He's at school right now.  It's his first day of Kindergarten--or the rest of his life!  He looked so cute today.  He was so excited to wear that shirt with those flame shoes--which he had been asking for for months! 

This morning, he cleaned his room, took a bath, got dressed, ate breakfast, helped me teach Kennedy's preschool, ate lunch, brushed his teeth and made sure he had everything in his backpack.  He has always been such a great helper and a great brother.  I know, he's only gone for 3 hours a day.  It's not that big of a deal!  But I'll still miss him.  I always miss my kids when they're gone (which isn't too often :) )  Why is that?  Sometimes I want them to leave--and as soon as they do I want them back again!

Jeremy came home for lunch today and we all walked to school together to drop Bridger off.  His teacher had given him some magic confetti to sleep with last night--and it worked like a charm!  It's supposed to calm the excitement of the night before school.  Let's just say that he slept in until 9:00 this morning!  I'm thinking we might do the magic confetti a little more often...



As we were walking to school, his pace got slower and slower and slower until finally we kicked Kennedy out of the stroller and let him ride instead.  I could tell all that excitement was starting to take its toll--it always does with him.  This is how he is on Christmas too (when he finally gets to see his presents he's too embarrassed to look!).







But we made it--to his Kindergarten playground--he met three of his friends, but wouldn't talk to them :)  Kennedy on the other hand, found a few friends and went off to play.  I bet I could have left her there and no one would have noticed that she's only three!





When the bell rang, he walked into class and they slammed the door on my heart.  Okay, I know I'm being so dramatic.  It wasn't really that bad. :)



And on the way home, Kennedy fell asleep in the stroller--she wasn't buckled in and she almost fell on the ground.  I carried her the rest of the way home.  Now, both girls are sound asleep.  Hmmm...maybe I can get used to this :)

p.s. I know, she's wearing snow boots with frilly socks in August.  I have no control over her wardrobe sometimes! 

Rodeo!

We spent an evening at the Salt Lake County Fair last week.  This was our family's first rodeo and it won't be our last!  We had a lot of fun.  But before I go on...does anybody else have this problem where their kids strangle each other in pictures?  It's a problem for us...

 

See what I mean???

Kennedy didn't get into the rodeo too much in the beginning.  She spent more time staring, kissing, hugging, touching and basically harrassing little Charlotte (who was sitting in Jer's lap--that's who she was looking at during this picture)

Bridger, on the other hand, was a little intense.  He loved those big bulls, he loved the rodeo clowns and the wild horses.  He loved it all.  You might not guess that from this face he is making, but I know Bridger.  This is his "I love it" face.

And this?  This is the face Charlotte makes when she is eying Kennedy.  Waiting for the next attack of hugs and kisses. 

Isn't this the prettiest view?

This was Kennedy's favorite part.  I don't know if she would have loved as much if the girl were wearing a blue jacket though...  She did tricks on her horse:  upside down, sideways, backwards, on and off and on again, it was really fun to watch.  And I guess she's still in high school!  Pretty impressive.  I was in the marching band...

On to the money cow...  I have to admit that at first I thought they kept saying the "bunny Cow".  In my defense, the speakers were really garbled, but I couldn't imagine for the life of me what a "bunny cow" was....




So, the kids both wanted to do it.  Bridger was all excited--I was hoping Kennedy would stay back since she was by far the smallest one out there, but she didn't.  One of the cows looped by Bridger and the next thing I know, Bridger came running back in my direction with tears streaming down his face.



Apparently, he's not big into competition.  He didn't like the other kids being able to run faster than him and he especially didn't like the fact that they were grabbing money and we wasn't!  So, he was out :)



Can you see Kennedy out there?  She ran with the best of them.  I was getting a little nervous for her actually, since the cow was bigger than her!  In the end, she came back crying too--she was the last one off the field.  I figured she was crying because she was scared or lonely.  Nope.  She was crying because she didn't get any money.  Well, I gave them each a dollar and all was well :)

The End.

 

 

 

Fashion Show

It's that time of year again!  Well, we've never actually experienced "that" time of year before--so this is a new and exciting experience for us.  We started off the new (and first!) school year with a back to school fashion show.  The kids were so excited!  We had Jer's family (Grandma and Grandpa, Joel and Emilee, Madison Hudson and Jen) over and it was a blast.  First we made pizza's, which were delicious, but it took entirely too long according to the kids :) They wanted to move forward with the festivities!

Here is our beautiful niece, Madison, showing off her stylish ensembles for school.  Jer was the MC and did a great job introducing each "outfit".  And cute Madison looked like a rock star!  I especially loved all of her poses for the camera!

Then it was Bridger's turn--Madison was upstairs giving them direction, and Bridger was getting a little bit nervous!  But, after the first round, he ran back upstairs and said: "That was awesome!  At first I was beginning to feel a little stage-frighted, but I'm not scared anymore!"  After that, we got a little break dance at the beginning of each cat walk.  Towards the end, the light saber was being thrown around...in typical Bridger fashion.  Oh, and can you tell which shirts I bought for him and which ones he picked out himself?  He loves that shark shirt, the tsunami shirt and his star wars shirts like he has never loved a shirt before!  (Sigh), if only I had complete control forever! :)

And then there was Kennedy.  She is starting a little preschool this year, we didn't really buy her school clothes, but she had plenty to wear!  First, she modeled some new church dresses, then it was onto the dress up clothes.  I didn't influence anything she put on--I only did the buttons.  In the end, we had a princess, a ballerina and a girl getting married (see Bridger proposing to her?).  She could have done this all night long!  There was always a wand, a purse, a crown, sometimes flowers, jewelry, or her pink backpack---what a girl!

Here's our cute cousin, Hudson.  I'm sure next year he'll have something to show off!

And Charlotte, she is growing so fast!  More pics of her coming soon.  She deserves her own post :)

We will be making this a yearly tradition--the kids had so much fun!  After the show, we finished with rootbeer floats.  And since Hudson has a little big crush on Kennedy, they shared :)

Bears and Tomato's

Last weekend, while Jeremy was out doing this:

And this:

and seeing beautiful things like this while hiking to the top of King's Peak--apparently the tallest peak in Utah. 

Enjoying beautiful waterfalls,

mountain views,

sunsets and bears (yes, bears.  well, one bear.  They shared a patch of trees for a minute or two.  I think they were both trying to sneak up on each other.  Jeremy trying to get a picture and the bear trying to avoid the paparazzi.  Needless to say somebody got a lecture when they got home...)

We were enjoying our local Farmer's Market.  Have I told you lately how much I am in love with the Farmer's Market?

We got yummy cherries, peaches tomatoes, honey, a loaf of artisan bread and a few honey sticks (a new favorite for us). 

Everything was so delicious and beautiful!  It's a small market, but still lots of fun.  I let the kids pick one thing they wanted.

Bridger of course picked tomato's--his favorite.  He finished three off as soon as he could get his hands on them.  Kennedy ate one too!  And what did Kennedy want?  Yes, the honey.  That was her choice.  Made by Utah bees.  Oh, and it had to be in a bear bottle.  My kids call honey "baby bear".  Charlotte told me that she wanted the cherry's.  I told her I would eat lots for her :)

Another thing I love about our Farmer's Market is how central they are to a few of the places I love most in my city.  Roberts--where everything (well, lots of things..) was 75% off, Material Girls--where their fat quarters were on sale for a dollar that day, Cafe Rio--where I can feed myself and the kids for $5 and the new and fabulous frozen yogurt shop.  Where it's only .39/oz. and the kids got a free t-shirt to color, balloon animals, stickers, and fake tattoo's.

It was a great fun day!  We missed having our dad around--he was off getting blisters and filtering his own water.  No, don't feel bad for him.  He likes that kind of thing :)  He was so excited to use his new backpacking stove--even tested it out the night before.  Did I mention that he tested out his filter too?  Yes, he filtered our tap water and then made me drink it...

But by the end of day, this is how we ALL were.  It was a great day :)