My Sister Cynthia tagged Michaela and Andrea. it was so fun to ask the questions...try it with your little ones. I officially tag Spencer, Preston, Rachel, Rebecca, Izzy, Courtney, and Audrey.
1. What is something mom always says to you?
Michaela: “Put away the dishes.”
Andrea: “Make the bed.”
2. What makes mom happy?
Michaela: “When you surprise her and go in the music room and say ‘practice time.’”
Andrea: “By putting the dishes away…I mean practicing”
3. What makes mom sad?
Michaela: “When you’re not obeying”
Andrea: “By I’m not practicing or if someone stands on the trash can.”
4. How does your mom make you laugh?
Michaela: “I don’t know”
Andrea: “I don’t know.” (Apparently, I need to work on that one.)
5. What was your mom like as a child?
Michaela: “nice”
Andrea: “I don’t know…I think you like toys.”
6. How old is your mom?
Michaela: “Is this thinking or guessing…30 I don’t remember…35.”
Andrea: “hmm…I wanna get it right” (in response to Michaela saying guess.)
7. How tall is your mom?
Michaela: “How tall can mom’s grow to be?”
Mom: “ A tall mom might grow to be 6 feet.”
Michaela: “6 feet.” (I'm 5'8")
Andrea: “I don’t know.”
8. What is her favorite thing to do?
Michaela: “I’m just trying to think…”
Andrea: “Help us practice.”
Michaela: “Reading your chapter books in bed and having little naps.”
9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
Michaela: “Takes care of the babies and cleans the house.”
Andrea: “I think she …when she needs to go somewhere I think she needs to go to Costco.”
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
Michaela: “I don’t know…so you can do Andrea first. Uh…dance.” (not!!!)
Andrea: “I don’t know.”
11. What is your mom really good at?
Michaela: “Helping us clean up.”
Andrea: “Driving”
12. What is your mom not very good at?
Michaela: “I don’t know.”
Andrea: “I don’t know.”
13. What does your mom do for her job?
Michaela: “Teach piano.”
Andrea: “She makes things that she doesn’t know how to makes and sees if they taste good.”
14. What is your mom's favorite food?
Michaela: “Chicken pasta.”
Andrea: “Pasta.”
15. What makes you proud of your mom?
Michaela: “That she makes yummy chicken.” (Apricot chicken)
Andrea: “Cause she loves me.”
16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Michaela: “The Queen in Sleeping Beauty.”
Andrea: “Curious George!!!”
17. What do you and your mom do together?
Michaela: “Practice.”
Andrea: “Practice.”
18. How are you and your mom the same?
Michaela: “That we both know how to play the piano.”
Andrea: “If you do your hair just like someone else did.”
19. How are you and your mom different?
Michaela: “I have blonde hair and you have short hair.”
Andrea: “Cause they have different hairs and color hair.”
20. How do you know your mom loves you?
Michaela: “Because she tells me she loves me.”
Andrea: “Cause she always tells me.”
Two great reasons to live in Utah: (yeah, they were the only two I could think of off hand ... even though we really do LOVE it here) , great national parks and even"Pioneer Day" is a holiday from work! We celebrated by taking our three kids and hiking 1.5 miles up to the caves. If you haven't done it before, it is quite steep and quite the trek for 3 little ones. It gave me new appreciation for the pioneers and how they must have had to listen to their kids complain all the way to the Salt Lake Valley, "I'm so tired!"
Starting off wasn't bad. We're always up for adventure.
But then I started hearing, "I'm tired," every 5 seconds from Andrea. We started a new rule. We complained only when we hit a mile marker ( it turns out those numbers were for rock identification, so they weren't very evenly spaced out...) Of course Andrea being the adorable girl she is, started saying "Thank you" instead of complaining whenever she saw the markers. Nevertheless, we looked forward to the next number so we could all chime in, "I'm soooo tired!" It was great fun...if only it would have worked. We still heard her complain between numbers as well! ;-) Oh blessed pioneers!
The caves were really cool although any of my pictures just don't do justice to the three caves. This is the "heart" in one of the caves. It takes millions of years for these stalactites to form as mineral water drips into the caves and deposits calcites...that's why they look white like bones...(oh yeah...an excuse not to forget my chemistry!)
Steen stayed awake for most of it...then he just conked out!!! Oh blessed day!
Here is the view from the top. Don't look too close or you can see our house...(we're about a mile or two away) and Steven hadn't mowed the lawn that day!
The best part was going down...instead of taking a whole hour, it took half the time, and the kids got a free ride from daddy! What a great dad.
