a yummy heart

"Wow, G!  I can't believe you're almost four!"  I said.

"I'll still be small and I'll still be so nice to Mommy," he replied.

"You're so sweet," I told him ... "You make my heart feel happy."

"And YOU make my heart feel so yummy, Mommy."

This kid is a charmer :)  He has helped lift my spirits many times ...

a little Wyoming - Part 1

This is our third...well, fourth major family trip of this year. We've made a trip to Florida, a trip to the farm in Huron, and a trip to Rapid City where J's folks live, and our final trip has been to Jackson Hole, Wyoming! (Maybe more about those other trips later)

Jackson is about an 18 hour drive, so we stayed over night with J's parents on our way out and plan to do so on our way back! 

Some photos from the drive!

On our second day, we went on a three mile hike along Snake River. All the kids came and did really well. Scenery was beautiful, and ... we saw a moose!!!

Some rock-throwing was done

And running

 These two were taken right before the moose-sighting!

We got super close to this moose!

And that's a story in itself! We were down by a little branch of the river, admiring a beaver dam and some trout visible in the crystal-clear water. Then Hayley heard branches snapping and a grunt. She told Jeff and they tore up the little incline to the path ... where we saw this moose. Hayley began screaming and the moose started trotting through the woods. We thought it would be gone, but then it stopped and came over the barbed wire and up onto the path we were on! We kept our distance and assumed the moose would keep it's, but it started coming towards us! At one point some of us could have reached out and touched it, it was so close. It galloped up to the boys, and E did a "stop, drop, and roll" down into a ravine to get away from the moose!!! It was quite an adventure. 

a ranch and a cop

When we were driving through Wyoming, we saw lots of animals and farms/ranches.  At one point, Halo said, "I want goats!  I want horses!  I want a ranch!"

Then G said, "When I'm big I am going to be a U.S. cop and I'm going to GUARD Halo's ranch!!!"

Normandy Beach

I should be in a painting class because I can make World War Two.  See?  I made Normany (Normandy) Beach!  (photo coming)

more from G

If I was Hayley ...
and if I was taller ...
and if I was a baker ...
and if I made coffee cake ...
I would put ICE CREAM on top!
3.6.17


I want to be in the army ... but I don't want to be Nazis.
I want to be a general and have a bomber plane.
3.8.17

a little encourager

G is my cheerleader :)  He says endearing and encouraging things to me almost daily.  Here's a couple I happened to jot down ...

"You are the goodest mommy in the whole world and so sweet and so nice.  So nice. So nice. SO NICE!"  ("so nice" about 10 more times).

1.13.17

"I always want YOU for my Mommy!"  (He sang this a few times.) 

2.20.17 


"I love you so so bad, Mommy!  I'm so glad I have you!"
3.8.17