Friday, March 27, 2015

Jan/Feb Quotes

Good quotes from the last few months (plus some that I missed from last year.)

On the car ride home from Northstar, we were discussing where we all want to live when we grow up.  Here are some snippets of that conversation:
Daphne: I'm gonna live on a ranch in New York's countryside, and I'll vacation in Marcus's Vineyard. 
Dallin: What do you want your husband's job to be?
Daphne: Whatever pays more so we can have lots of money to do fun stuff.
Dallin: I bet none of this stuff is gonna happen.
Daph: I bet mine will because Dreams come true!
Sean: I want to live in Florida, design my own house, and live next to Universal Studios and be a dentist.
Hayden: I'm gonna live in Hawaii and buy that Kona plantation. 
Me: How are you gonna pay for it?
Daph: Sean's money!
Hayden: oh, oh, oh!  I'll be a doctor.
Dallin: And Bennett will be a professional golfer.
Dallin:  I guess I'll live wherever Heavenly Father wants me to go.
Daphne: Well I hope Heavenly Father tells me to live in New York.


Sydney: I wanna go to the car wash!  They have lollipops at the car wash!  
Me: they do?
Syd: uh, actually no.


Sean: (appalled) Hayden, why did you take your shirt off on a SUNDAY??

Sydney to me:  I think you need to get up now because it really feels like morning.

Sean: Mom can you please sew my bear patch on because I look like a wimp next to all the other bears.

Sydney: My daddy gots to shave.  He has hairy legs!

Me to Sydney:  You and Daphne are the best ones in our family at keeping your room clean.  The boys have a hard time keeping their rooms clean.
Syd: And you and daddy have a very, very, VERY hard time keeping your room clean.

Sydney's preschool friend, Audrey: Sydney, here is a joke--why did the elephant cross the road?
Sydney:  hahaha!  That's a good one!

Hayden: What's a pipe bomb?

Me: Hey Sydney, we should probably do your laundry.
Syd: sigh...okay.  I hate doing laundry.
(Because she's the one that does it??)

Listening to hobbit music in the car.  
Syd: I LOVE hobbit music!
Sean: Wouldn't it be great if we WERE hobbits?
Hayden: Yeah, I'd want to live at Bag End.


Dallin: Come on Daphne, I'm getting all these hashtags ready for you to play tic tac toe with me.

Sydney: Do princesses go to the bafroom?
Me: Yep.  Everyone goes to the bathroom.
Syd: Oh.  I didn't fink princesses went to the bathroom.

During dinner one night, Syd took one bite of asparagus, chewed slowly for awhile, then said with distaste:  This is NOT good for my body.

Daphne:  Mom, we should have parties more often.  It gets us more clean and civilized.

Sydney:  What does a yellow light mean?
Me:  That depends on who's driving.

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Durango Ski Trip

January 29-31, 2015
Durango Mountain Resort, CO
aka Purgatory!

The day after Arthur's b-day we went up to Colorado where we stayed slope side few nights for a family ski trip.  It was great timing because it was right in the middle of the King and I rehearsals and we loved having that much-needed family time.   We stayed in a very cozy one room with a loft condo, and had a great time.  We celebrated Arthur's birthday, (which for some reason I couldn't find any pictures of, even though I know I took some!) and went skiing and watched "Support Your Local Sheriff" which is an old movie that the kids at first had misgivings about, but soon came around and now we all quote it regularly.  :)


Bennett in the loft

We had a plentiful supply of hot chocolate!

Our deck looked out over the ski hill.






AND we finished the Book of Mormon as a family.  We've been working on that for 3 years, so that was a big deal.  We sat by the fire and read Moroni 10 together and prayed about the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.  We enjoyed delicious cinnamon rolls afterward.  It was a very sweet experience.  (And not just because of the cinnamon rolls. ;) 


Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Ringing in 2015 at Stonehaven

Dec 28-Jan 2 2014/15
Stonehaven
Northstar, CA

We spent a wonderful week up at the cabin playing in the snow, (there wasn't much, but it didn't stop anyone from having fun!) skiing, watching movies, playing games, doing puzzles, eating s'mores, enjoying the fire and just taking it slow.  I'm so grateful my Grandpa Stone lets us stay at his mountain home where we have made so many happy family memories.















Skiing/Boarding


Games

mmm, the fire . . .

Two Silly Brothers

Puzzles

This guy isn't big enough to ski yet, but he can't WAIT til he is!

Uncle Mikey, Aunt Amber and BEAR!

Dec 26, 2014
A walk by the San Joaquin River
Modesto, CA

This day was awesome.  (Can't remember if it was actually Dec 26th, but it was some day after Christmas).  We went for a nice long walk with Uncle Mikey and Aunt Amber and their sheepdog Bear along the river.  The weather was gorgeous, the company exceptional, and I had some new camera lenses for us all to play with.  :)  We loved spending this beautiful day with Mike and Amber and the kids especially LOVED Bear.











Hi Uncle Mikey!

Christmas 2014

Catching up . . .
Christmas Break
Nona & Papa's House
Dec 22-27, 2014

Somehow we managed to pack all of our Christmas and all of our snow/ski gear plus all of our regular traveling gear for a trip back to CA to visit Nona and Papa for Christmas.

We went caroling, walked down Christmas Tree Lane, did the Nativity reenactment, made forts for hiding for Santa, and just loved being together on Christmas morning.  Also at Mom and Dad's house were my siblings Reed, Nathan, and Melanie.  Christmas dinner was at Grammy and Grandpa's house with lots of Stone cousins who hadn't seen each other in a LONG time!  


The Nativity Reenactment





After the Nativity reenactment, we enjoyed DELICIOUS cinnamon rolls!

Hiding for Santa:  The Christmas Eve "rehearsal"



Christmas Morning:





All the boys got ties for Christmas! 




Arthur got me two really nice lenses for my camera.  I'm still figuring out how to use them, but Melanie got some pretty nice shots using them:



Uncle Reed and Bennett.