kids say the funniest things...

Dallin is on one this week, Him and water are not mixing well... Tues. he emptied a GOOD portion (like 1/3 of the 5gals) of the water cooler on the kitchen floor; Wed. he filled up ALL the cooking pots with water and played in them 'til it was all over; Thurs. he throws a water bottle with no lid down the stairs. When asked why he just says "Because ...there was a moose on the TV" What the heck does that have to do with anything?!?

• Jared Hanks well, that is the natural defense against a moose. basic knowledge there. duh!

• Melissa Andersen Bird I love him! haha!

• Coleton Jaffa dalin is the best! hahaha
• Libby Hopkins Clarke There used to be a TV show that fits perfectly - Kids Say The Funniest Things!

  
  
• Elise Jaffa i bet he misses cole!
  

  
  
• Rob Pearson Of course it makes sense. The moose has everything to do with it

kids say the funniest things...

Dallin has been asking to go to LuLu's house for a while now and I kind've been pushing it away. Today...

Dallin: We go to gmas house today?
me: Which grandmas?
Dallin: We go to gma lulu's?
Me: Honey that is a long way away... all the way to california.
Dallin: OOHH... you just drive faster than we get there.
Me: If I drive that fast the policeman will come and get me.
Dallin: just go fast like the airplane in the sky and poiceman not go in the sky and then we get to lulu's!!

If it was only that easy... when will our world be like the jetsens?

Ella is listening in primary

First and foremost... Aunt Marleen, we love you and Uncle LaMont so much. The kids only know Uncle Mont and Aunt Marleen from a few family reunions but have heard TONS of bedtime stories from their dad of him growing up and having fun fishing and camping with Mont and Marleen. This past December Uncle Mont passed away during the prime of his life, and the girls attended the services with their dad.

While traveling some this month we had lots of time in the car to talk. We talked about all that was going on, and some of the things that we wanted to do this summer as it warms up. This was Ella's conversation with me...

Ella: when it gets warmer I want to go camping and fishing more.
me: okay sweetie, that sounds like fun honey.
Ella: Can we go fishing with Aunt mar and uncle mont, like when daddy use to.
Me: Honey, that sounds like fun and I can see if aunt mar wants to go, but remember Uncle mont passed away and you went to the funeral with daddy.
Ella: I know mom, but it has been 3 days now and he already went to heaven to see Heavenly Father, so shouldn't he be alive again so we can go fishing.

I had to smile to myself and think how thankful I am for sweet Ella and the primary teachers that she has had. Sometimes they might not get it all correct, but I know that she is listening and learning the gospel.

"Look what I got mama..."

Dallin says as he is coming up to show me something... I just kinda nod and say "oh yea, that is fun" without really looking.

**BIG (HUGE) MISTAKE!!!**

As I rethink in my head that I didn't really recognize what he had in his hand I finally look back over my shoulder to check out what it is that he really has..... AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

To give you an idea, I have one kid that does not always flush the toilet and Dallin that play and puts things in the toilet.... He now also takes things out of the toilet!! AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

I'M MOVING OUT!

Ella has decided that she is moving out. She said that she would just like to try someone else house for a while. I'm sure the fact that her mom has had a short temper lately and she has got a good portion of it. Along with MaCayela going to school all day makes her sad to be home without a friend and mom is to tired to play much has nothing to do with it. But on the way home yesterday she informed Corey that she is moving out and going to live at the Hubers house. So when we got home she called Donna to ask if she could come live there and then proceeded to question Donna on if she will play with her and if she yells when the kids do something bad. (the whole thing had me in the giggles.) She then handed me the phone and said that I could talk to Donna while she packed and by the way, she needed a suitcase. I told her she could pack her overnight bag and then she was off to empty as much of her dresser as would fit in her bag. Well we let her know that the Hubers were busy that night and she would have to wait to go so she agreed to stay but only for a couple days, but that then runs into the time that grandmas are here, so she decided that she could wait until after grandmas were gone, but then she is moving. When I woke up this morning I noticed that Corey had shaved his goatee off and I made a comment about him shaving and he proceeded to tell me how last night during daddy time him and Ella made a deal that if he would shave (she doesn't like his whiskers, cause they hurt when she kisses him) she wouldn't move out. So this morning she begrudgingly unpacked her bag and said that she would stay.

Oh what a 4yr old comes up with and the joy and excitement that she brings to our family.

The Day After...

This is my quick post from Facebook on the day after Mothers Day...

Mothers day is defiantly over at the hanks house! Lost shoes, late to school and a whole bag of powdered sugar on the carpet with a cup of water to mix. To follow it up, Corey left for SF for 3 days. OH YEA!! What a start to the week.

Lois Tanner at 9:06am May 11

Mother's day is never over, just all the other days feel a little different, but they are definitely always mother's days.

Sarah Larson Lopez at 9:23am May 11

haa haa I only laugh because sounds like our morning Enjoy! happy belated mothers day! miss ya

Melissa Andersen Bird at 12:59pm May 11

i love you!!

OH my gosh! Seriously!!! I just walked in on Dallin in my room with a pair of scissors. His pants are in shreds barely held together at the waist and ankles, my socks no longer qualify as socks, and my sweats won't stay up as they have no waist band any longer. WHAT THE HECK!!! how much more will this day bring!

Christi Leonard Williams at 1:22pm May 11

don't ask!!

Melissa Andersen Bird at 1:28pm May 11

I am NOT looking forward to having a toddler boy.....

Jennifer Duran Ward at 1:29pm May 11

oh sister, i feel your pain. not today, but so many other days go just like yours today.

Chad A Brown at 1:43pm May 11

LOL, and you didn't post a picture!?

Leah Smith Thompson at 2:35pm May 11

TOO FUUNY!!! So sorry to hear that! :) Love him anyway...

Megan Stoddard Robertson at 2:40pm May 11

I know it's far from funny now, but one day you will look back and laugh!

Carrie Hanks at 2:46pm May 11

At least he didn't cut his hair too?!? Breakfast in bed seems like a distant memory now I'll bet.

Terra L Ruoti Luft at 4:55pm May 11

Oh you poor girl... Calgon take you away - although who knows what will happen while you are soaking in a bathtub!

Shannon Jaffa Hello my new friend!! Okay I just have to say that I love reading your comments. I laugh so hard I'm crying! Just remember they don't stay little for very long and all these stories make great memories! But if you ever need a break... I'm just a few houses down and I know Dallin loves that little tikes car so I can entertain him for a few hours :P

like they say, when things are bad, don't ask how it could get worse! Between the two girls we lost a whole gallon of milk at dinner, all over us, the table, the chairs and the carpeted floor,. Combined that with a little black olive juice and all the play dough smashed in the carpet and it might be time to rent a carpet cleaner. Am I bad mom that the kids were all in bed by 7:45 when it is bright as day out still.

Christi Leonard Williams at 8:39pm May 11

You have to do what you have to do!!
Hang in there, been there, done that.
You just have to laugh!!

Linda Clark Vance at 8:39pm May 11

Wow you have had a day! There are two guys that can help you feel better, they are Ben and Jerry and I have been relying on them for years!

Beth Ashby Lawrence at 8:41pm May 11

no way! on days like these, sending them to bed saves their lives!

Heidi Carlson Toomer at 9:09pm May 11

With the kind of day you're having, I would have sent them to bed way earlier than 7:45. Hope tomorrow is better.

Kim Nielsen Andrews at 9:19pm May 11

All that happened to you after our phone conversation?!?!?!? Man I'm so sorry......if you need some Ben and Jerry's, I have some here! :)

The only part of all this that I am bummed about is like Chad said "Where are the pictures". I love my friends and all the support and smiles that they give me, Thanks for the memories.

Another at home haircut

So MaCayela decided to try her hand at cutting hair, AGAIN!!! This time it was her own hair and she was at a friends house with 2 other little girls. The other girls went first I am told and cut about an inch or two off long hair and maybe only a 1/2 an inch around when holding it. What does MaCayela decide to do... Cut the front of hers about 3 inches from her part and about 2 inches into her hair all the way up to her eyebrow. She had cut a whole hand full off.

I had got the call while at home from Melanie that she had just found the girls with scissors and hair on the ground. Needless to say that since this had happened last year with mac cutting Ellas hair, I was FURIOUS!! I cut her play date short and went and got her and took her strait to Jill's salon to have it fixed to something we can deal with.

She does still look cute, but wow how it takes time to do her hair now. We actually have to do something with her bangs and straiten them, they have just enough curl in the area to make them a pain. And of course I didn't take a picture until after it was all done.

Soccer for MaCayela?

This week at school they have had sign ups for soccer. I thought that MaC would like to play soccer this year since we are not doing gymnastics, this is the response that I got.

Me: Hey MaC they have Soccer sign ups, would you like to play this year? It might be lots of fun.

MaC: NO, all they do is run all over THE WHOLE time. That is a lot of exercise and doesn't sound like fun to me.

Some day my kids will kill me for this...

This is what my niece, Katy, and my two girls do to poor little Dallin. The best part of the whole experience was when Corey walked into the room to see his one and only son dressed up as Tinkerbell. I'm sure you can imagine his response.

I know Dallin will not be happy someday when he looks back over his childhood and sees these pictures, but they made me laugh really hard. Even worse is the thought that I had when I saw them on my camera (yes I saw him that day, but I didn't know that my niece took pictures) My first thought was that someday I could show his wife to be what he did as a kid. As a young man these have to be as embarrassing as the naked baby pictures to him.

Even worse is the fact that MaC fell asleep on the job...

HEHEHE!!! We had a really long day and had gotten to bed late that night. Corey had already fell asleep while I was getting ready and so I went to check on the kids one last time. On my way to the girls room I noticed that the light was on in the bathroom, without thinking I just hit the switch and headed to check the girls. Well Mac was not in bed and no where to be found. I then checked back in the bathroom and this is what I found. I felt so bad for her, I had turned the light out on her and didn't even notice that she was in there. But it made me laugh so hard that I of course had to run and wake up Corey so he could see and then go get my camera. So I hope as she grows up she will forgive me for this, but this truly was a funny I didn't want to forget.

Just some backyard fun

I caught Dallin and Ella living up the epitome of childhood summers...

I thought this would be a good spot to put in some of our summer "ways"...

This summer has been great as far as the kids. Dallin is walking now and loves the outdoors, and the girls always want to be outside. So our summer days, which start at 6:30am, ( ...don't they know they are on summer break!! - a break from what I don't know but really can't ya sleep in!) usually start with the kids crawling out the doggy door before I am even dressed. They play for a while until breakfast is ready and if I can get them in to eat it is a surprise. Usually the just want to eat it outside. They then play outside until I call then in for errand or lunch or naps... The funny part of all this is when my girlfriend LaShay and I get together for the day we will sit and gab and munch all day and then are quite pleased with ourselves that the kids played outside for 5 hours and we got to have a bonbon day!! yeah for us!! (and big entertaining backyards!!)

All they want to do is dance...

When I came home from girls camp this year I came home with a CD that one of the girls had made that said "AMAZING DANCE MUSIC". This is MaC and Ella's new favorite CD. It has some old time fun and funky dance music that the kids have been having a blast with. So when I had my sisters kids for the day not only did they want to dance, but they wanted it video taped so that they could watch them selves afterwards.

(Hey Sis... hope you enjoy this one.)

Nap time for Bentley

Ella is just in love with Bentley. (You should have seen her, crying and caring on, the day that Bentley stayed at the clinic when he was fixed. She was so worried that they weren't going to take good care of him and that he didn't have a bed there. She was insisting that we go get him right away so that she could hold him.) And like everything else in our house she has decided to mother him. She will carry him around like a baby and then try to put him in her baby bed for naps. If he doesn't stay and take a nap she will rock him in the chair and sing lullaby's that she makes up to him. (I wish that I had gotten a video of it, but I never think fast enough.)

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Bed Time Stall Tactics 101

MaCayela is always my little sweetie that keeps us in line. She is always reminding us of what we should be doing (especially if it will benefit her and what she wants).

A couple weeks ago we decided to do an activity for Family Home Evening. A few days later MaCayela was complaining to me as we were getting ready for bed (one of her stall tactics, find what mom has done wrong and complain to see if she will fix it before they have to go to bed)that we had skipped FHE on Monday. I reminded her that we had gone out for some family fun time that FHE. She then turned over in bed and told me that we are suppose to have lessons and that she didn't learn anything that night so it wasn't a real FHE, which she wanted to have right then and there so she could learn something about Jesus. I decided that since it was a spiritual stall tactic (the usual is if we read scriptures longer we would learn more about Jesus) that I would compromise with the girls and that we could sing some songs while in bed. They choose a few of there favorites and then asked if I would sing "Teach me to walk" and "I am a child of God" (2 of the normals). I sang teach me and then on I am a child of God they asked for 2 verses. I thought to shorten my time I would skip the chorus on the first verse and then sing it after the 2nd. Well as I skipped it and went into the 2nd verse Ella informed me that I wasn't singing it right, I forgot the Lead me, Guide me part. She then asked if I learned anything when I was a little girl in primary or if I needed her to teach me the right way to sing it. MaCayela then piped in that maybe they could teach us for FHE next time how to sing the songs right.

At least I know that they have good primary teachers and leaders guiding them and teaching them what is right. And that they can in turn teach us what is right.

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Survivor Season 35 Tryouts

So I think that my kids are preparing for survivor tryouts for season 35. First let me give you some background...

Last summer we had some fun outside days with the kiddie pools and air water slide in the backyard. But i didn't like once they were all wet them coming in and out of the house. So, when the girls would say that they need to go pee we would tell them to stay outside and just pee on the grass and then run through the sprinklers.

Well, one day we had a little friend over to play outside in the water with the girls while her mom and I sat inside with Dallin. We soon see Mason running across the backyard with no swimsuit on, and then follows behind her Mac & Ella with no suits either. We thought that this had warranted some inspections so we went out to ask why they were all naked, and this is what we got back... Mason had said that she need to go to the bathroom and the girls told her mom just tell them when they are wet to just go on the grass. Well the difference in this whole situation was that when she said she need to go to the bathroom she didn't mean that she need to pee. Hence the reason that she had to take her swimsuit off to do her business, on my grass mind you. Now as to why my girls had no suits on... I think they figure if she took hers off we can all take ours off.

Now most recently the weather here has been great. It has been fun for the girls to play outside and run around for hours. Last week the girls (all three of them, Mac, Ella and again Mason) had a fun day, or at least it was fun for LaShay and I, the girls were outside from 12:30 to 5:00 and we just sat and watched out the back door as they ran around. Towards the end of the afternoon we hadn't seen them for a while so I thought that I would go tell them 10 mins 'till mason had to go and check and see where they were.

I found the girls playing over in the orchard trees and Ella hooking her overalls back together. As I looked a little closer at mason I notice that the top of the back of her pants were wet. So as my mind was working and the question being asked... Mason did you wet your pants? No... Ella did you need to go pee? Yes... Finally MaC came forward and said that they all need to go to the bathroom and didn't want to come in the house so... They decided to cop-a-squat under the trees. Hence the reason just the top of Masons pants were wet and not the whole thing. I mentioned something about not having any toilet paper and they then proudly proceed to tell me how they just used to leaves from the trees to wipe with. You WHaT!!

I was laughing so hard that I just walked away and shared the story that I had just been privy to with LaShay so that she could see how our 3 girls would do just fine on survivor.

Caught Red Handed

... Handed!! what am I talking about, caught red bodied. I wish that I had thought fast enough and got a picture of it, but I am sure that most of you moms can use your imagination (or real life experiences) to formulate a picture.

Corey and I were trying to prepare dinner tonight and Dallin was just screaming in that high pitched squeal that only little kids can do. (I was really hoping that with a boy that it would be different or maybe even a lower pitch, but no such luck... that is not one of the differences between girls and boys.) So we put him in his high chair with some dry cereal to snack on and as Corey was making crystal light to drink he tossed Dallin one of the little containers to play with. We went along getting things done until I turned to put some stuff on the table... HoLy CRaP!!!! ***I know if things get to quiet there is something wrong, but when you get caught up in the moment of accomplishing something you forget how quiet it got.*** Dallin had poked a finger through that foil top (you know the kind that you as an adult have to get the steak knife out to get a hole in) of the red raspberry drink mix and dumped it everywhere. Then with the amount of drool that this kid produces between screaming, snacking and teething and the water that he can shake out of his "no spill" cup, he made a red paste out of it. He then took that paste and proceed to finger paint with it all over his high chair, face, hair, and body. Lovely...just lovely!!

So off I rush with the kid in tow to the bath tub (for the 4th bath in 2 days to clean up this little monster), trying not to let him touch anything along the way, including me. Wow... that stuff stains the body. He was like ELMO Dallin!! After getting him cleaned up it was like he had just a slight tint of color on his hands for the rest of the evening. And I now have a lovely red towel from cleaning up the powder mix off the high chair and floor. ~~ Good times & fun memories

Those toys are for the poor kids

For Friday's date night Corey and I decided to get some of our Christmas shopping done for the kids. We started out at Toys-r-us looking around for some little things, me already knowing what I wanted to get the kids but wanting Corey to feel like he got some input or that it was his idea to actually purchase it when I pointed something out that I knew I wanted to get. We pick out Dallins "Big red man" gift along with a few little things for others. We then went to the dress-up and baby section to look for the girls. I had wanted to show Corey this house thing for the girls gift from the "Big Man in red". As we browsed around I asked what he thought of this little house baby setup like I had just seen it and he thought it was a great idea, and he thinks that we made the decision together, if he only knew.

So we proceeded to check out with what we had decided on and move on to our next stop --- TARGET!!! YEA!!! Well at target we found the same things that we got for 5 different gifts at almost half the cost of what we had just paid for at toys-r-us. So we thought that we would just get it at target and then the return the things to toys-r-us. Great idea I figured. Well, by the time that we finished up at target it was time to get the kids from the sitter, so we piled all the purchases into the back of the excursion and headed off to the Sapps to get the little ones.
As we picked up the kids and headed for home we were talking to the kids to keep them awake until we got home. We pulled in the driveway and Corey got out to get Dallin and I took a minute to collect all my stuff from the evening. As I got out and turned to open the girls door for them I see them looking over the back of the seat and opening the bags in the back of the car.

AAAAAHHHH!!!!! GET OUT OF THERE RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!!!! or Santa is not going to come to our house. That just terrified the girls and they ran to their room. Corey went in to talk to them and they asked if the house set was theirs, he answers no and they go into even more tears. He then thinks fast and explains that the gifts are for some poor kids that don't have money to get some gifts. MaCayela then wants to know if Santa doesn't visit the poor kids and is that why we have to buy toys for them. Wow the things that they think of. We explain to them about how moms and dads also buy things for kids along with what Santa brings. We then also explain a little about the toys for tots program that MaCayelas class is going to the fire house for and that we got a barbie for her to take. Well now she wants to know what poor kids are getting the house set. oh me, oh my, now what.

Well then, yesterday morning I had a YW/YM joint ward breakfast and was explaining our occurrences from the night before to some of the other leaders when one of them (that my kids don't know from the other ward) volunteered to be the poor family for us to take our toys to. What an idea.... actually make the kids take it to someones house.

What a memory this will be when the kids look back and think of this.