What is it about our bed?

Caden and Isaac are always asking if they can lay on my bed and watch TV. We hardly ever let them in our room. We feel like they are big enough that there's really no reason they should be in there anymore. Also, that is our room, our space. I'm weird I guess but I don't really like anyone in there except me or Matt. I let them come in and fold clothes with me or come tell me if they wake up but that's about it. One particular night after baths I decided to let them watch TV on my bed. You can't tell from the pictures but they were SO excited. Life's simple pleasures huh?

Suicide prevention walk

In September I had the chance to participate in a suicide prevention walk. Matt had to work but I went and took the boys with me. We walked to honor our friend Mike King who committed suicide two years ago. Isaac didn't really know what it was other than it was a long walk and we were there to remember Mike. I did tell Caden a little bit about the walk without putting too much information in his head. There were a lot of people there to support the King family and I'm grateful we were able to participate in this.

Fishing Fun

Most of our family activities are spur of the moment. That's what this day was. We decided to go to the pond and take the kids fishing. We spent about three hours there just enjoying this beautiful afternoon. Didn't catch anything but had a great time anyway. I just sat in my little camp chair and loved every minute. Isaac had more fun feeding the ducks than he did fishing but that's ok. He doesn't quite have the patience yet to sit there and do nothing but wait.

Backyard camp out

During the summer Matt decided to do a spur of the moment backyard camp out. He told the boys we were going to set up the tent to see if it was ok to use this summer. After it was all set up and ready to go, he asked them if they wanted to sleep outside that night. The kids were SO excited and ran in to get their sleeping bags and stuffed animals and the dog. They wanted her to sleep outside with them. I was less than excited about the idea of sleeping out that night so I took my bag of cinnamon bears and headed to my room. I laid in bed and watched one of my cheesy Hallmark movies all by myself with no interruptions from anyone. It was a great night.

Snug as a bug in a rug

So Saturday morning I was doing my regular weekly cleaning. As I was cleaning off Isaac's window seat I looked over at his bed that needed to be made. It got me thinking that I wanted new sheets for both of the boys beds. I called Matt at work and told him I wanted to go shopping when he got home. He started looking at some bedding with new comforters. They were both in need of new bedding so when he got home from work we took the kids to the store with us. We showed them all the ones they could pick from and they both wanted the exact same one. Ironically it was the same one Matt was looking at online. We came home and washed it all that night and made their beds just in time for bed. There's nothing better than climbing into bed at night with freshly washed brand new bedding. We took these "pretend like your asleep" pictures but as you can see Isaac didn't quite get the point!

Shoshone Falls

We took a drive to Shoshone Falls on July 5th. It was beautiful. They had large grassy areas with nice concrete picnic tables to eat on. We took a cooler of food with us and ate lunch and the kids climbed trees and ran and played. It was a GREAT day!

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