Month: August 2007

that my kids always fall asleep on the way home.
(For those of you who live in the area, and have never been there….you must go this summer! We swam for 3.5 hours today, and my boys would have stayed longer if I didn’t need to get home and started on dinner!)

I had the most delicious day on Tuesday, because…

I got to spend the entire day, with my hubba. My wonderful mother took the boys, so I could attend Tophs’ work sponsored broadcast, and luncheon. It is not often when I get to hang with Toph at his work for an entire day, and I must be honest, it was better than I had expected, in fact I would go so far as to say it was a FANTASTIC day.
This was the first time I had been to Tophs’ new office, and to really get to know his co-workers and their spouses a little bit better.
(For those of you who still haven’t seen Tophs’ office, here are a few pics:)
Metal Bookshelfs,


Pictures of the Kids and Wife (good work hon..)

And here is a picture of Toph outside of his office, next to his name plaque. (Trust me, it does say Christopher Phillips. I know it is all blurry. This is because I had to take it quickly while no one was in the hall. I think it must be hard on a fellow to have an embarrassing wife who is always taking pictures of weird things…)

Some of the highlights of the day included:
Watching my husband be a real life Rescue Hero, (putting the broadcast up on the internet, because the other site was down) Thanks Sister Em for your help too, he couldn’t have done it with out You 🙂

A backstage tour of the Audio and Visual Department at the Conference Center:

Eating Dessert at top of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building:

I think I was trying to figure out what Christopher was doing when he took this picture, I thought he was just reviewing the pictures we had taken that day…
What a good combination, hubba and chocolate covered bananas. Yum.

Going back to the room where we had our wedding reception, over SIX years ago. The Empire Room.

I vividly remember the carpet for some reason.

Walking around Temple Square, the place where we were married, over SIX years ago!

And I won’t forget our casual “bump-in” with Elder Eyering–and my husband not noticing him. I guess that is a good sign CES employee?!
But the best part of this day was that it was full of our past, present and future.

Last Monday Afternoon, I had a MAGNIFICENT day with Tucker. Truman took a super long nap after the busy weekend, and so I was able to just hang out with the Tucker-ster
In all of my Human Development Classes that I took FOREVER ago in college, we talked about having Child Centered Play. Where you let the child decide what to play, and just follow the childs’ lead.
I try to incorporate different types of play, but it is not often that I can take an entire afternoon to focus and follow Tucker, without having to stop and answer the phone, or make dinner, or just live life, but last Monday was a great day. It was a rare occasion and one that I want to remember. Hence the post.
I’m not sure exactly how it all happened, but Tuck got up from his quiet time, came up to the office, where I had just finished sewing some stuff, and had my sewing machine up, and he asked if he could sew something. I knew we would have sometime, so after following his lead, we ended up sewing a “Robot Blanket”. He chose out the material, and cut out the robots and even pinned them together. While I worked the sewing machine. (although he chose what stitches he wanted…)
If you have ever seen the robots that Tucker draws, these look exactly like them. It was fun to see his creativity flow, as he grabbed fabric from my scrap pile, and created these fun robots.
If I had known what we were going to be really making, (and the treasure that it has already become) I think I would have gotten better material, and spent a little bit more time sewing it together…but, I didn’t know. And truth be told, If I had known, and I had taken control of this situation by choosing out the fabric, and etc., it wouldn’t have been all about Tucker, and that is what made the afternoon wonderful. Tucker, and his creativity. Not the perfect blanket.

that THESE are parked outside our front window.



And don’t be jealous that they have been working outside my house for the past 2.5 hours.
AND don’t be jealous that I thought my boys would just be LOVING them, and aren’t.
I should have run when I saw them coming, like a few of my neighbors did. But I didn’t.
How was I to know that my boys ONLY like to watch big constructions machines when these awesome construction machines are NOT in front of their house. That they only like to watch these big machines from the comfort of their car seats, when we are driving past them, and I can’t stop for more than 5 minutes. You would think that all the crying and pouting that takes place when I pull away, would mean something!
And now I am starting to get a headache from all the loud pounding and my house shaking (at first it was fun and I was loving watching them, but they just kept going, and they seem to be getting slower and slower, and it is so LOUD)…
So really, Don’t be jealous….and advice to my other fellow Pleasant Grove-ites, if you do see them coming. Run. Run Fast.

A few months ago, Tucker gave a talk at church during Primary.
He has give quite a few talks, and every time I am surprised at how comfortable he is infront of his peers, sharing his talk.
As we were preparing for his talk, we asked him what he wanted to speak about, and of course, it was Captain Moroni. That is his favorite Book of Mormon Hero.
The reason I thought about this, is because I came across this picture he drew for his talk. It is a picture of Captain Moroni, and I thought I would post it because it makes me so happy to see.

We were shopping and saw this old School Photo Booth. We have not done one of these for AGES, since we were first married. Toph found the change in my purse, and while we were waiting for our pictures to develop, I just thought, “How fun are these? Way Fun.”
Truman didn’t quite make it in the Photos, but we decided it would be the perfect excuse to come back and do another one.

and Counting.

Something that I loved before, but really love now.
Graphing Paper, please take a look:

This took Tucker almost 3 days to do. He worked incredibly hard.
I love when he finds things that he loves doing, and hold his attention for along time that don’t include mud.

Tucker has a new obsession. It is not just robots any more. It is..
“Transformers, more than meets the eye, Transformers, Robots in Disguise”
My good friend Michelle lent us some DVDs of the Old School Transformer Cartoons from when I was growing up. TUCKER LOVES THEM.
Everyday he saves his TV time to watch these DVD’s. He just sits in front of them all bug eyed and I cannot get his attention during a 20 minute episode. He doesn’t move, and hardly blinks, he is so intent on catching everything that happens.
He now wants to color only Transformer pictures, builds transforming robots out of his Legos and pretends that he is helping “Bumblebee” (one of good guy transformers that looks like a yellow Volkswagen beetle.)
Tucker still loves Robots, and I think that this obsession will last a while–I can see how a 4 year old boy can just loose himself in that fun world of things not being as they appear.
Thanks Again Michelle!

With in the Phillips Family, we have almost One Birthday Every Week from the end of July to mid-September, so many fun birthdays, and so many people whom we love.
We have already celebrated a few, and will celebrate many more!
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear:
Mikey Turned 2!

Picture taken by Lexie
Dallin Paul Turned 18!

Sophie Turned 4!

Patrick will be turning 30!

Picture taken by Lexie
Nora Will be 2!

Picture taken by Lexie
Owen will be 2!

Picture taken by Lexie
Brian Will be a year older 🙂

(funny thing, almost all pictures we have of Brian, he is either eating, or doing something funny….)
Happy Birthday to you!