mothers

We were reading the part in the scriptures about Heleman and the 2,000 stripling warriors and I almost lost it when they were talking about how good they were, and that their mothers taught them. Their mothers had prepared them for fighting these Lamanites. I am preparing my kids for the big battles they will have to fight in their lives. It's so important for mothers to give their kids the weapons and the shields to fight the battles they will have to fight in their lives.

P.S. After reading this, Nathan said, "I want to play that game!" (pretending he was one of the 2,000 young warriors fighting the Lamanites). He was playing and then came to me and said, "What kind of weapon did Heleman had?" I said, "I don't know, but I bet he had a lot of different kind of weapons." Nathan said, "Do you think he had one of these?" and held up a pie server. "Yes, Nathan, he probably had one of those." And Nathan said ok, and ran back outside to play his game with Alex.

Alex is manly

Alex turns 8 tomorrow, so I thought it was time for him to learn to do some manly things:

He did a great job!

It helped to tell him about how uncle Ryan earned mega bucks in the summer mowing lawns when he was a kid:). I didn't tell Nathan that story or he would be BEGGING me to teach him how to mow!

a summer baseball game

Todd's work had a work party tonight: hamburgers and then tickets to the Orem Owlz baseball game. It was fun.

Look at those beautiful mountains!:

They gave the kids a treat bag. Here is Katherine "blowing bubbles" (aka sticking the whole wand in her mouth):

Beautiful Katherine and her mommy that looks like the Trunchbull from the Matilda movie--scary!!: