Mother/Daughter Campout

Apparently all my posts are about Hannah lately...she and I tend to be together a lot. Our ward had a Mother/Daughter campout scheduled that we were SO excited for. And then it rained ALL weekend so it was canceled. We did end up meeting for a couple hours at Pflugerville Lake for Marshmellows, games, and girls' camp songs. Then Hannah and I came home and pitched the tent in her bedroom. It was a really fun night together despite the disappointment of the rain. 

When will you be a baby?

"When Hyrum grows up he will be a dad and when I grow up I will be a mom. When will you be a baby?" --Hannah

This comment led to us getting out my baby scrapbook and looking through the pictures. Since I wore all of Marcus' hand me downs when I was a baby I had a hard time convincing Hannah I was the baby in the pictures because not only was I bald, but I was wearing boy clothes.

On one page we were looking at the pictures here:

The one on the far left Hannah asked, "Who is that baby?"

Me: That is Uncle Scott and my mom is holding him.
Hannah: And that is Marcus and that is me. (then she got kind of a confused look like that didn't seem right to have a little Uncle Marcus and her in the same picture.)

It was pretty funny. This is one picture where Hannah and I actually look very similar. It's the awesome thin stringy hair that doesn't grow on the sides. Glad to pass that down in the genetic pool.

**The middle picture is the 3 of us sibling with my Grandpa Hurschell Urie. The one in the top corner is Marcus and me hiding in the closet.**

First Day of School...

The boys were so excited. James couldn't wait to see all his friends...they've had almost the same class since kindergarten, just a couple changes so all the kids know each other and have a lot of fun together. His class has 11 boys and 4 girls which has been the ratio since 1st grade. His kindergarten class had 13 boys and 2 girls. 

Matthias couldn't wait to start school. He was so excited to go to Ms. H's class (we love her!). She bring her dog Daisy to school every day and that's fun for the kids too. Matthias has done so great in school and loves everything. I get so many compliments about him from the teachers...so glad he decided to be wonderful at school and not crazy man. =] 

You know your yard looks bad when random teenagers stop by and ask if they can mow for you.

Ha.

Then after they leave Hannah says, 

"I think he`s American but we`re Texans."

And then about 5 minutes later she says, 

"That boy was kind of cute." 

This girl is Trouble.

Hannah the Baker

It turns out you're thankful that your 3 year old always insists on standing directly between you and whatever you're cooking when your 5 year old floods the bathroom while you're in the middle of making bread. The 3 year old knows how to finish the next step in the bread process while you save the carpet.

Within a couple years maybe she can make it all by herself...

No Running Water

So we've had this water issue lately...Friday the front yard had a huge puddle. That evening Taylor dug all around  the front yard trying to find the leaking pipe. Saturday morning he woke up with a collapsed lung so we spent 5 hours at the ER. Monday evening and Tuesday evening some wonderful brethren came over to help dig since Taylor couldn't any more. Then Taylor fixed the pipe they finally found on Tuesday night. He was out with his headlamp of course until like 11 pm. So we'd had no water from Friday afternoon until Wednesday morning. Then we had water for the 4th of July (Wednesday) and Thursday morning.

Then something brown and yellow and nasty started coming out of the tubs and the sinks shut up completely. The resin tank in the water softener had broken and was coming through the pipes so Taylor spent Thursday evening fixing that. The boys got some of the brownish stuff to look at under the microscope...I though it was salt leaking, but James informed me it was not since salt is square and this stuff was circle. Turns out he was right. 

We spent most every night at the Spencers' house for dinner and of course went swimming all morning every day so we managed really well. 

It was a grand adventure that I pretty much laughed my way through. It's pretty funny though when you're mentally saying to yourself, "can't flush the toilet" as you walk to the sink and try to turn on the water to wash your hands. Makes you realize how dependent you are on running water. I was able to make several meals using no water at all and only getting like 2 dishes dirty total...pretty impressed with myself. The kids were totally great about it and didn't really seem to be bothered...they never remember to flush the toilet or wash their hands anyway. Ha. 

"I can`t wait til baby Hyrum's done so you can stop napping." --Matthias