Author: Emily

Truman has been singing this same line over and over and over and over ALL DAY today,
“I hope you call me on a mission”
“I hope you call me on a mission”
Everytime he says “you” he stops and thinks, and then goes on singing.
It is a bright song, and makes me smile…

A while back we got some books from the Great Hunsakers. We have enjoyed them, this week we started to read one called “Bible Stories from the Old Testament”. We have looked at the pictures, and talked about the stories, but I have never read the text. Well this last week, Tucker asked me to read the “real words”, I was making lunch (mustard, cheese and meat sandwiches of course), and I was just reading aloud the text while I focused all of my attention toward making sandwiches. Not really paying much attention to what I was reading….
Here is the paragraph out of the book I was reading. We were talking about the story of the Creation…

After I read it, I half thought in my head, Did I just tell the boys that our Lord created Sea Monsters? On rereading, I discovered Yep. I did.
The boys needed some clarification after reading that story….

On Saturday, the Ladies of the Phillips Family met together to enjoy each others company, (it was so nice to be together with out having to separate my children!) We had a great time at Gardners Village looking at the shops, Walking Around, and enjoying lunch as well as each others company. It was so fun to be just the girls together.
I took my camera, but didn’t get many pictures…

This was the first time I had met Madeline, it was so fun to hold her and see her, and we truly had a great time!

Thanks Ladies, I am so glad to be part of your Family….

Our good friend Hinckley came to play, Tucker and Truman love to play with him, but we just don’t get together as often as we would all like. It is hard when life is so busy.
Here are a few shots of them playing together.

What Can I say?I love our local Celebration, it is wonderful, and we have enjoyed it over the past few
days. Toph loves the strawberries and cream that they serve, and what child is not
going to love the carnival rides? And what parent is not going to love watching their children on the
rides?
We started the festivities by participating in the Childrens Parade. It is really actually kind of a dumb thing. All of the children from the area, line up and walk around a parade route, but the thing is, all of the children are IN the parade, so NO ONE is watching the parade, it is at 5:00 in the afternoon, and I really think it was around 100 degrees that day. My Friend Diana and I went, and she pulled the wagon with my children in it. I was very hot, and I was grateful for her, and needless to say, we had some tired, overheated children, but it was alot of fun.


Tucker and Truman wanted to dress up in Hawaiian theme, and so that is what we did.The real theme was “All American” so I gave them a flag, and counted that as good.

The next night we went to the Carnival, Tucker and Truman started out on the Dragon Rollercoaster, After it had circled twice another little girl on the ride was screaming, she wanted off. Truman wasn’t crying, but had a very terrified look on his face, and he wanted to get off, so we pulled him off, and Tucker finished the Roller Coaster with a big smile and a giggle.


The children went on a few other rides, including a train, the monster truck, motorcycle and the fun house.

There is nothing like being a kid!

It is great to live in a wonderful community, and to be part of their celebrations!

At Library Class, we learned a new song about
the man in the moon.
Here are the lyrics,
There was a man lived in the moon
lived in the moon, lived in the moon
There was a man lived in the moon
and his name was Aiken Drum
And he played upon a ladle, a ladle, a ladle
He played upon a ladle and his name was Aiken Drum
And his head was made of cream cheese…
And his name was Aiken Drum and etc.
We came home and loaded it on the Ipod, and he played
it all afternoon. While in the car later that night,
Tucker started to sing it again, and Truman said, No
Tucker it’s Aiken Bum…. and the argument had begun.
Tucker: Its Aiken Drum
Truman: No, It Aiken Bum

I am going to try to get a video of Tucker Singing the
song and if/when I do, I will post it.

LIBRARY CLASS!
The PG Library has an awesome Summer Reading Program,
and we have begun! We LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

Everytime we sit down to a meal, Tucker describes how
full he is by placing his hand parallel to the ground,
at either his belly button, neck, his nose or up to
the top of his head.
We have tried to describe to him about our body
systems, and how our body is not an empty cavity that
just fills up with food. But still he describes with
the parallel hand, and states, “I am this full Mommy!”
When I ask him if he wants more green beans, he
replies in a similar manner, “I am this full Mommy!”
Funny, Funny.

So I had to wear this Heart Monitor, and I was supposed to be marking certain things down in my diary, when I eat, drink, feel heart palpitations, and etc. One of the things I am supposed to write down was any big emotions that make my heart jump.
Here is some things I had to record, because they all happened while I was wearing the monitor(may I mention these were all with in a 2 hours period 🙂 )-
Truman almost falling down a flight of stairs, because he ran away from me because I made him wash his hands
Tucker almost slamming his fingers in the front door.
Truman burning his hand on the dinner pan.
Christopher had to climb on the roof to fix the swamp cooler that had broken, and suddenly I hear a LOUD crash on the patio (he had jumped down, and was fine)
Tucker throwing a HUGE fit because he was ready for FHE, and Dad was still up on the roof trying to fix the swamp cooler.
May I also mention, earlier this morning before the monitor had been put on, was our trip with Truman to see Dr. Connors. Our Swamp Cooler, and garbage disposal were acting up, and both were not working.

I think Stress is a little factor in my heart problems!