And Dan the Man, or should I say MY MAN was recognized as a Leader at work and was given an award at an award Banquet.

Proud of you Dan the man! You are Dantastic and I honor you!

Thanks Dan

Thanks Dan for all of our conversations! I Love YOU!!! woot woot!

The rOlleR cOaStEr........

A few weeks ago, Dan, Dawson and I all went and did the Alpine Coaster, in Park City. You start off being pulled up a mountain and then the track turns and you begin your CrAzY decent down the coaster. Dan had me load onto my coaster car first because he knew that if he and Dawson went first I would back out!! He also knew that if I took Dawson I would cry the whole time because I would be scared for him and scared for myself and sure enough I would have to be assisted down.

 I want to show you two videos that I am sure depict Dan and Dawson's trip down and then my trip down, but before you see them I want to explain how they work. There is a lever you pull back towards you to brake and to go there is no gas you just push the lever forward...a little forward so you don't crash or.... as Dan did with Dawson, a whole lot of lever all of the way. Me, I did not use a lever only for breaking. See if you don't push it forward gravity and the hill take you down. There was a moment when I was going down a spiral as I was before Dan and Dawson and I had to yell and pray that they heard me... SLOW DOWN!!!

Although you are strapped in you still swing from side to side so Dan had one arm around Dawson so that he would not sway and Dan had the other arm pushing down on the lever full throttle.


Here is what my ride was like ( but in the video its a guy!!) way ScArY!!!!!

Here is what I imagine what Dan and Dawson's ride was like:

In a few days this will be us... and on this one... I go FULL THROTTLE!!  It's so much fun and a little tip..the  side that says "SLOW" are not they are the older tracks and they are actually faster than the others!! WOOT WOOT!

"Are your gonna put it on tid wock"

Today Dawson wanted to play a Curious George game on PBSkids.com. Whenever we let him watch DVD's on the computer we put a kid lock on the computer so that he can not get online. So when he asked if he could play Curious George he said, "are you gonna put it on tid wock tuz I will be sad if you do" I thought that was pretty funny!

He seems to be exploring his independence. Last night before Dan could even announce what we were having for dinner he said, "I don't want that I want something else"

A few mornings ago I made him an awesome breakfast, and he looked at it and began to pretend to be sick. He continued to fake vomit (dry heave) just typing this it makes me want to throw up, the sounds were so real. He just didn't want to eat what I had prepared, he wanted "sumfing different".   I told him he could either eat his breakfast or go take a nap! Well after an hour and fifteen minutes he FINALLY ate it. Please tell me this happens to you too!!! Please comment!!

Planking

Dawson's baby

Sometimes Dawson has to come to church activities with me. We did an activity where we handed out water balloons and told the children that they were to be treated as a baby. The objective was to see how long each  lasted with out being popped. Dawson was given a balloon too! Out of all the 8-11 year old's, he was the only child left with a balloon. He took it sooo seriously that when we got home from church we put it in a container to be safe. 

 Over the weeks it went the way of all water balloons.

Now we just need to figure out how to get rid of it with out him being too upset! 

I just asked him now that it popped can we throw it away?? He adamantly said, "NO" why? be tuzz it's my baby!!!

so here is sits on my kitchen counter, because its his "BABY"

He has also told us that when we do have a baby that if any kids are not nice to the baby at the park he is going to punch them in the face. So we talked about "appropriate punching" and with Dawson's questions we all three came to the conclusion that there are sometimes that you may need to punch someone in a life or death situation but not at the park. There we told him to walk away if someone is not being nice and to take his baby with him!! We also told him to focus on the nice kids at the park so that he can make friends with them. We also talked about conflict resolution, I think it went well.

We eat our boogers!

The other day Dawson asked why his teachers won't let him eat his boogers while in class??

We are really trying to vamp up our culinary skills at home as a gluten free family:

In an attempt to take matters into his own hands, due to my lack in culinary skills and good recipes, Dawson has tried the following:

Earwax: tastes like soap

Ants: good

Dirt: good

Boogers: good and comforting at night time

poop: worst ever (accidental ingestion, long story)

finger nails: good but not allowed (not to say the above list is acceptable but nails?? those cant be good they're so darn sharp!)

Too much gluten free bread: rapid fire diarrhea

Ice cream: good main course!

To support him in his adventures we shared some boogers as a family: I think these are dinosaur boogers, these are a lot bigger than human boogers!!

Swimming

This picture makes me laugh!

I think we are going to put Dawson in swim lessons! I used to be an instructor but I think it will be good for him to take a class with his peers!! We also want to get in soccer however he wants to tackle while playing soccer. We told him that's only okay in football and he won't play tackle football until he's 8. I saw that there is a father's son wrestling class at our rec center for boys Dawson's age... hmmm

An innocent conversation

Minutes before kick off to the Utah vs. BYU football game Dawson and Dan were at the park. There was a little boy dressed like this.........

Dawson looked over at him Dressed like this...

the conversation went like this...

With much attitude Dawson said to the little boy...

"you're going down"

(the conversation between the two little boys was innocent because they were on the swings at the same time)  

Me and Dan and our future selves ....together

This post is brought to you by the letter C

 Today Dawson demonstrated his ABC skills by creating the letter C with my....strap from the clean laundry pile. I think this is a sign that the preschool program we do at home is going well!

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster

Chickens

My mom got some chickens and Dawson has loved holding them!! His favorite is Ms. Sophie (above).  We hope to have our own chickens someday!