I found it! in the bread machine!~

I want you all to know that we will be posting more pictures! We have looked and looked and looked for our camera and could not find it, Until I looked in the bread machine! I will not say who I think it was that hid it there but, it wasn't me and it wasn't Dan!

"I'm so drinky"

Dawson doesn't want to sleep in his own bed tonight. He had announced that he is hungry, there might be monsters, he is cold and that he does not have a choice to go to bed. A smart one we have, so his solution is that he watches a movie while Dan and I sleep. He promises that he will keep the noise down so it won't keep us up. When we told him that a movie was not an option he told us that he is so "appointed" ( disappointed). His little words make me smile! Yesterday he said, "I'm so drinky" (thirsty).

He is also discovering new things. He had his first little "man sweat". He was running around outside and felt the top of his head. He asked why his head was so wet? I told him it was man sweat! And it was sweet like sugar not stinky!

Oh, I love this little boy!!!

Why?

what does it mean when you go for a Sunday walk and you tell your husband that you feel a little discouraged and with out missing a beat a bird poops on you?

Later reviewing what happened the conversation went like this:

Emily: Dan do you realize that right when I told you that I felt discouraged a bird pooped on me?

Dan: No, Emily it was more like this, "Dan I kind of feel dis...AHHHHH!

Romeo Romeo

Where art thou Romeo??

Today was a day, it was a good day! We talked to Dawson's Birth grandma who ate a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch just like we did two states away! Coincidence? I think not, we are family!

It's HOT all of the sudden we have gone from snow in June to above 90's, still in June. My air conditioning went out in our car and I just have not felt like going anywhere!

Ideally in the mornings I take a shower before Dawson wakes up...today he woke up right after me. In such a case I sometimes will wait until Dan comes home from work so that I can have a shower with out my super hero sidekick, after all even super hero's don't reveal their entire identity!

Evening was approaching and Dan was due to be home. I really kind of felt crummy after cleaning and doing other projects around the house. I really wanted a hot shower, I felt.... grimy!

I decided to take a shower really really fast and when I say fast, 15 minutes in my long shower! I had the feeling to close my front room window... but why? I have my clothes with me, I will change in the bathroom when I am done, it's perfect!

So here I am 2 seconds into my hot shower and momentary escape with soap in my hair and I hear... HI MOM!!! I look down and a little naked Dawson hops in.....uh.... Hi Dawson?! 

I told him to hop back out, I hadn't realized that the shower curtain had collected a ton of water....Swoosh!!  the floor was an instant swimming hole. I quickly threw my towel down mop up the water (which was my only towel in the bathroom). I quickly told Dawson to go get another one from the clean laundry upstairs. I told him there is a big red towel in a blue laundry basket in daddies office. 

He comes back down and hands me a hand towel :). I tell him to try one more time and tell him again where to find the big red beach towel ( because I know there will be more water to be mopped up).

While I am waiting for him to bring me the towel I finish rinsing out my sudsy hair and my privacy curtain falls from my bathroom window. Yes, this is over a 2x2 foot window. We have privacy glass but we have been told by neighbors that it conceals nothing! Nothing...

I have no choice but to rinse off  and pray no one sees me in the window!

I dry myself off with the hand towel...I couldn't put my dry clothes on sopping wet, have you ever tired that? I have it doesn't work and while I am about to prance my way down the hall into our bedroom,  I notice... my front room window is WIDE OPEN! Well if they didn't see it before they have seen it all now and I prance gracefully down the hall trying to conceal my self and I leap into my room where I know I have a clean towel ( yes my folded laundry piles are everywhere in fact today is laundry party day where we all work together to put it away, because sometimes I just do not get it all done, who does).

I dry off, ah I think to myself.. okay okay start all over again, it's going to be a great evening. Where are my clothes??? AH! I forgot to grab them on my way down the hall... I prance back down the hall into the bathroom and get dressed. 

Okay, Okay it's going to be a great evening, I can't wait till Dan comes home! I mop up the little wet foot prints from Dawson going back and forth trying to find the right towel. 

I feel the need to air out my feelings... I go into Dan's office, hello red towel!  I sit down and in a millisecond I think, Oh there is that water bottle I thought to take downstairs with me before I showered so Dawson doesn't ...oh too late, water everywhere.

Okay okay... get this out, Dan will come home, it's going to be great, wait no, I'm starting to feel a little frustrated......  WHACK!!!!

 the sound of a little Dawson on the hard floor, I thought I had cleaned up all the water but Dawson must have found a little bit of water on the Kitchen Floor and slipped on it! I race down the hall, while Dawson tries to make his way to me at the same time bloody lip and all

and with typing these last three words Dan just pulled up... 

Shake it momma!

I was teaching Dawson how to cut watermelon with a butter knife, a good song came on the radio and he said, " shake it momma' I busted up laughing so hard I almost peed my pants. Then I start signing and he says, "mom, don't sing" no matter how hard I tried he would not tell me why? I wonder if it has anything to with the same reason when I sang to him when he was ten months old and he covered his ears and shook his head back and forth??? 

This is Beautiful!!

Crocodile tears

Tonight, before Dan came home from work, Dawson fell asleep long before his bedtime!! We couldn't get him to wake up. I came upstairs and it was late (10:00pm). Dan fell asleep in our room just as Dawson woke up! he said, I am going to go get daddy. After I relayed the news that Dan had gone to sleep for the night, Dawson cried and cried and cried, the went into the bathroom and came back out with a huge roll of paper towels ( ya know the paper towel rolls that are like twice the size of normal ones?) clutched under his arm. It was really random to say the least so I asked him what he was doing with it? I was trying not to laugh when he said, "it is for all my tears, because I didn't get to wrestle with daddy"

Here you go..

Being a mom there are a lot of situations that make you wonder.... where did they come up with this stuff?  I was having some private time in the potty and Dawson ran in, I said excuse me privacy please  so he ran in and gave me a kiss and ran back out!

or when we are in the car and he asks us, " if we know how to drive this thing" why he says this we do  not know we are careful drivers!

Then he said mom! I need a girlfriend! Dan and I tried not to laugh and so I asked  him what he would do with his girlfriend? He said, " go shopping and stuff, talk and hang out." Huh?  Well I guess that exposes what Dan and I do at home.

What's for dinner?

After an unsuccessful dinner for Dawson, he finally decided he was hungry. Upon questioning what he wanted to eat he said, "frosting".

Hmmm...Now that I think of it he may be on to something! 

Graffiti on the house

Dawson snuk a piece of chalk into the house and started doing graffiti everywhere! Dan's response? "Em let's have more kids, its just fun with kids."  I agree

"Ispy wiff my wittle eye"

Tonight we went to the Dinosaur Museum, then when it was near bed time we played I spy with my little eye for the first time with Dawson. When he played it went a little like this... "I spy wiff my wittle eye a rocket ship" and then he would point to the rocket ship in his room.

Then I would say, Um the Rocket ship and he would say yes "dood Job" and he would be really excited that I got it right!

 Then he would say it again and point the the picture, same thing, he would be really excited for me that I got it right.

 Then he would "spy" a guitar... 

so I decided to have Dan join in without explaining the new instructions on how to play the game. So we went into Dan's office and Dawson said... I spy... the computer. So Dan says okay okay is it black and Dawson says, yes oh boy he was getting sooo excited his parents are really smart!  Is it a rectangle.... you get the point, then Dawson grabs a shirt and covers Dan's eyes and says you can't peak. I could tell he really wanted to make this one difficult! so he covers Dan's eyes and says, " I spy wiff my wittle eye, DADDY!"

Weekend Warriors

(Dan Here) This past weekend we did something great as a family. We played in the Mud! More specifically I ran a 5k Mud/Obstacle race with some buddies from work. I have always loved sports and played a lot basketball but I would never consider myself a runner, and in fact have never ran more than the 1 mile I was required to in 8th grade PE class.

But something about this race called out to me and so I trained the best I could for a few months and then gave it by best effort. Not only did I finish and have a great experience, but it was so fulfilling to physically push myself to do something like this, that Emily and I have decided to do the 10k version of the Dirty Dash when it comes to town in September.

Growing up I always had a desire for adventure, but my parents were not the outdoors type, so my adventures came vicariously through playing computer games or watching movies. Now in adulthood I have this great desire to go explore the outdoors and do fun things that challenge the mind, body and spirit.

Dawson saw some scuba divers on a cartoon and has been asking to go scuba diving. So tonight we drove over to the store and spent $2 to buy a mask and snorkel. We came home and after a little water safety talk from Emily, he jumped into the bath and started to put his head under the water and blow through the snorkel. We sat in the bathroom and watched him experience this little adventure for the first time and he loved it.

I decided tonight that I want to become a weekend warrior. I love business and I love wearing a suit. I like to walk into nice offices and negotiate deals with clients. I enjoy the work that I do. I would not want to be a park ranger or ski instructor full time.. However.. on the weekend I want to hang up my suit, pack our car full of water bottles and snacks and go out and explore the mountains around us, or drive down to Moab to do a hike (where I met and proposed to Emily). The euphoric feeling that I got from our family activity last weekend has stayed with me all week long and has me thirsting for more.

I think experiencing the outdoors and little adventures is a great way to spend quality time together as a family on a weekend or through a trip. Especially now days with all of the technology, it is so easy to get sidetracked by idle activities.

Emily and I think it is so important that we take the time to unplug the technology, and recharge our family through being Weekend Warriors. Be on the lookout for our upcoming adventures!

We had Guests over

Our friends Susan and Josh came over for a visit. Anytime they come it is a lot of fun and also includes many questions about the baby in Susan's tummy! Sorry Susan!

Dawson came barreling downstairs to greet them in good old Dawson' fashion with a lot of energy and questions and wearing his Buzz Light-year Pj's they gifted him. Thanks guys! 

Previous to them coming over we were outside blowing bubbles and some other neighbors stopped by in which he asked if their dog pooped? He then mentioned that he pooped too! 

After his inquire of Susan's baby, he offered Susan and Josh a fruit roll up and then handed Susan a second one for her baby! 

All in all it was a great visit and we really appreciate how sweet they are to our wonderful son! They will be great parents to their little fruit roll up! Thanks for stopping by it was really good to see you!

an accident

Dan and I were on the topic of a few things.  I was told that ( according to my mother) my parents though they were done when they had 4 kids but then, #5 came, me. My mom called me an accident. However, mom if you are reading this I know you would not feel any of your precious children to be an accident and may not recall this conversation. I was "unplanned". A surprise?

I wanted to say that no pregnancy is an  accident, these words make me vomit. AND no pregnancy is unplanned, it may be unexpected or a surprise but, never an ACCIDENT.

I do not feel that a child comes just by chance.

I do not feel that God sends a pregnancy down a tube and says... you decide whether this one is trash or a PRICELESS gift from me, You decide.

Sometimes in our finite knowledge we may think, that we know everything, but God, Heavenly Father has an intricate design that no matter what we have set out for ourselves, HE MAY PLAN OTHERWISE.

I am so thankful that Dawson's biological mother chose life for him, or he could not have typed whatever he did down below:
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He puts sunshine to our day everyday, this little kid is brilliance, a soul unlike any other's because he is unique, no one person alike. I am so grateful for his life!

good times had by all!

A LINK

Dan met us at the park

 Dan met us at the park! 

Dawson LOVES it when Dan pushes him on the swing, he always tells me when I push him, " higher , higher just like daddy does"    Dawson was watching the other kids while on the swing and yes his shoes are not on the right feet but he is getting better at that and he is animate that he do it all on his own so he does, and he corrects himself! We are very impressed his our boy!

This is how the night ended, he looks pretty fierce! We both have time with just Dawson, and we also have family time, it is something we feel is very important to do with all of our kids! We have our family time which includes dinner, reading the scriptures, talking together and having family prayers. (I read books in the day, and ) Dan reads books to Dawson in the night and he does some seriously funny voices. But all of that is after an nightly epic battle between the two of them!

How do I love thee