p.young and the restless: October 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008

Anna's first horseback riding lesson

Anna earns points for being tough with her diabetes site changes and shots. She saved up her points for several months with the goal of a horseback riding lesson in mind. We finally got her a lesson and she loved it! Rod asked her where she would rank it on a scale from 1-10 and she said "a 12!" We may have to figure out how to let her take a few more.

Monday, October 20, 2008

No training wheels!

Tanielu has been working on riding his bike with no training wheels for a few months. However, he has been a bit nervous and really preferred his big-wheel. Until this weekend that is! Tani finally got comfortable on his bike! Hooray! We can now go on family bike rides again. We rode to Manila school yesterday to play on the playground and had a great time. Tani is already trying to "pop-a-wheely". What a boy!

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Hiking in the fall

We spent a perfect fall day as a family hiking around Tibble Fork Reservoir. The leaves were colorful and the weather was gorgeous. We brought Subway sandwiches and had a picnic lunch by the river. We then hiked up the river and practised walking across logs and rocks. By the end of the day everyone had wet feet and pants but it was a blast. I can't imagine anything I enjoy more than spending a beautiful day with my family in the mountains.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Cousins and Cornbelly's

We love it when our cousins come to visit! We always do lots of fun things when they are here. This time we all went to Cornbelly's together.

The Pumpkin Princess was very sweet to Anna. She remembered meeting us at the Diabetes Walk so we now know that princesses can have diabetes too.

We wandered in the children's corn maze and had fun looking for Halloween eggs. Owen was the only one to find one though. He was quite pleased by that fact!

Anna dressed up in Princess Land and drove the Pumpkin Princess' carriage.

The boys had a lot of fun climbing all over the castle and the giant hay bale slides.

Owen and William loved the water pump rubber ducky tracks.

The kids all laughed at the pig races and Rod was even chosen to participate. The host said "SIR! How did I miss you?!" Rod made a face, slid his hat crooked and ran up. It was pretty funny.

William had no fear and wanted to climb the hay bales with all the big kids.

Overall we had a great time. I had been mourning the loss of summer and it was good to get out and celebrate fall with our family!

Silly Kid Stuff

January 2009 Anna stands up and starts dancing by our table in the restaurant. I tell her it isn't the place for dancing and she replies: "Mom, its always the place for dancing!"
November 2008 I instruct Tanielu to use his silverwear and not his hands while eating dinner and he casually replies: "Mom, I'm Samoan."
August 2008 Anna tells me she thinks it would be fun to have Hannah Montana as her older sister because then she would have really cool hand me downs.
Sunday July 6, 2008 Anna's teacher gave a lesson on the 10 lepers and taught the children about how only one came back to thank the Savior after they were healed. After class her teacher told me that Anna was the only one who thanked him for teaching class that day. What a special little girl!
Wednesday July 2, 2008 Owen and I had a date night together because Anna and Tani were at the cousins for a sleepover and Rod was working late. I asked him what he would like to do and he chose to get donuts and eat them in Mom's bed while we watched "go diego go go". Later we were talking and I told him how I couldn't wait to see what he would grow up to be because he is such a neat boy. He told me he would like to grow up to be a Dad. Then he said "but I might grow up then get little again because I ate so much junk!"
May 2008 Anna and Rod were having a long talk. Rod told Anna that picking me to be his wife was the most important and best decision he had ever made. Anna replied: "That's why I love you so much Dad!"
Owen age 3 (May 2008) I look outside in time to see Owen's bare buns and a golden fountain as he pees off our second story deck.
Tanielu age 4 (May 2008) while listening to the radio: "This is girl music Dad. It's not rock and roll!"
May 2008 I send Owen and Tanielu outside to play after telling them to stay out of the mud. I look out a little later and see them both playing with the hose in an enormous mud puddle. They were completely covered head to toe in mud. Their smiles were priceless! I wish I had taken a picture but I was too frustrated at the disobedience to stop and enjoy the moment. Live and learn.

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