Funny Little 4 Year Olds

This post doesn't have any pictures to it cause I am blogging from Texas away from my laptop, but I needed to write these things down before I forgot them completly. We have had a blast on Vacation for the past week or so and have just started the "Texas" portion of our summer. Here are a few things that the twins have said that have made me giggle lately.

We have spent alot of time in the sun swimming and catching up on our suntans. Elizabeth has a white birth mark that you can not normally see, but when she tans it is obvious because it does not tan. Here was her question to me a couple of days ago.

"Mommy, why do I have a white bookmark?" (birthmark = bookmark in her mind)

I have already forgotten which of my twins said this one, but on our "Colorado" portion of our summer vacay, Papa Carl treated us to a white water float trip down the Colorado River. There were innertubes that the "brave" ones could ride in over some of the Class 2 Rapids. One of the twins said (I think it was Emily, but not sure), "I want a turn in the interpeed" (innertube = interpeed).

There has been an outbreak of Whooping Cough this year thus the need for educational commercials about getting the pertussis vaccination. Elizabeth overheard a commercial talking about how children have been dying from Whooping Cough and she came in the kitchen and said, "Mom, I really don't want to get Pooping Cough. That sounds yucky!" (The expression on her face was priceless. She was in complete disgust that such a thing as Pooping Cough even existed).

Last night, I was tucking the kids into bed and each of them were taking turns saying their prayers.
This is how Elizabeth's prayer went:

"Heavenly Father, please help Harrison be good on his mission and please bless my new baby brother Carson Kent Ralphs that he will not wiggle too much in mommy's tummy so that she doesn't throw up. Jesus Christ Amen."

What a sweetie!

Camper PROJECT

When Darin and Shane get together it seems like there is no project that is too big for them to attempt. Shane is constantly using his mechanic skills to help others out. He came up for the weekend to help Darin put a NEW engine into our OLD camper. It has been quite the project, let me tell you and I don't know how many more days my neighbors and I can tolerate our driveway looking like a used car lot. I am glad that Darin and Shane get along so well and work so well together. They are having alot of male-bonding time with a lot of grease and sweat mixed in.  

Elizabeth is a little grease monkey and loves to help Daddy and Uncle Shane. She hands them tools and makes sure that they clean their hands with the Citrus Orange hand cleaner and grease remover. Abigail and Emily could care less about what is going on outside as they spent most of their time doing karaoke in the house.

The guys are taking the NEW motor out of an older truck and puttting it into the camper.

Fun 4th With Cousins

Darin's older sister Rachelle and her two girls came to Idaho to visit and Abigail, Emily, & Elizabeth had a blast partying hard with their cousins.

They had a pizza party at Brooklyn's Playground and played of course.

In age order - Abigail, Isabella, Madeline, Emily, Elizabeth

We went to Rockland for some small town fun. The girls had fun on a slippery slide.

No 4th of July in Rockland would be complete without the kids being able to chase a greased pig (or is the pig chasing the kids).

We LOVE Driggs!!!

We have decided to make it a family tradition to go to Driggs, Idaho the weekend before the 4th of July. The Huntsman Cancer Foundation puts on a huge event every year called Celebrating America. There is a Street Carnival with food, bounce houses, face painting, a car show, BMX bike show, and air show, hypmotists, and magic shows. The best thing about it is that it is ALL FREE except for the food. At the end of the day they always have an inspirational speaker and an AMAZING fireworks show. This year the speaker was John Huntsman Jr.

We found a great camp ground and stayed in a cabin this year. The kids had a blast, and we will probably be returning to this campsite in the future. It was the Teton Valley Campground in Victor, Idaho.

The campground had a swimming pool. The kids loved swimming, Darin and I tried, but it was way too cold for us.

There were also some fun play areas.

We headed to THE SPUD drive-in movie theater to watch BRAVE. I love that drive in! The tickets are reasonable and the kids can play in the yard until the movie starts, they also have pretty good food. We definately hope to return every year! The only downside is that the movie starts at 9:45 p.m. when it gets dark, so we had to make sure that the girls got a good nap in before going to the show.

Our first stop at Celebrating America was the face painting booth.

Abigail got a firework.

Elizabeth got a spider.

Emily got a ladybug.

Our next stop was the bounce houses. There were about 10 bounce houses for the kids to climb on and they had a blast.

Riding the bounce house bull for 8 seconds. Liz is not too sure about the whole thing.

Next we looked at the old cars.

The twins especially loved the old cars.

We took a break in the middle of the day and went to the Grand Targhee Ski Resort and rode the ski lift up to the top of the mountain to look around. Darin has great memories of skiing at Targhee with his buddy from Ricks College, Ben Weston.

We returned to Celebrating America for Dinner. Elizabeth loved the corn on the cob  and Misty loved the shade.

We sat in the lawn and listened to a live band. The girls danced for 2 hours in the lawn non-stop. John Huntsman joined the band for the last two songs on the keyboard. He really knew how to get down to Mustang Sally. He and his dad, John Huntsman Sr. spoke and delivered a very patriotic, spiritual message, and then the best firework show I have ever seen ensued. We are so greatful to be Americans!

Below is a clip of some of the spectacular firework show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsMaO82no2g&feature=youtu.be