Conference weekend is always a wonderful time, a time to hang out in your Pajamas, eat candy, and get instruction on how to better your life.
It is even more wonderful when your sister in law named JoAnna comes to visit!
We loved having JoAnna in our home, and we did a whole lot of eating: conference candy, brownie Sundays, Ham and Potatoes, and don’t forget Conference Omelets ala Toph (a Phillips Fam Tradition):
And Tru and Jo played the song from Cars: “Your in my Highway” (really “Life is a Highway”) on the piano.
(Truman says you play it best Jo)
We love you Jo, thanks for coming to visit!
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Dear Grandma and Grandpa Phillips,
You sure know how to grow some delicious Watermelon, and big ones too.
We ate, ate, ate and ate the yummy melon.
Toph finished it off last night.
Yummy Delicious, Thanks for sharing!
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A birthday wish to our Great Aunt Mable…
I had a busy Relief Society Weekend Planned, and so instead of hanging out and being bored at home, the boys decided to go up to Logan, to be with Grandma and Grandpa Phillips, and a have a real good time.
Here are the pictures that were taken at Patricks Special Olympics Meet:
I don’t blame Toph and the boys for wanting to be in Logan this weekend, there is nothing better than being with people who love you so much…
Dear Dad,
We woke up this morning, and a found a surprise in the Kitchen. Do you know what it was?
DOUGHNUTS!
with CHOCOLATE
and SPRINKLES.
Thanks,
Love
Mom, Tuck and Tru.
So the day is Friday—my wonderful husband took the kids, and I spent an Educational and Spritually uplifting day on the BYU Campus for Education Week. While I was gone the carpets got cleaned (the only thing I wanted for my birthday), and the boys spent a fabulous day together. I think that my children would love it if, Toph was the stay at home dad. They always have so much fun while they are together.
I came home refreshed, and loved seeing the clean, clean carpets!
After the family had all climbed into bed, and were asleep, I heard the noise, that I most didn’t want to hear.
The sound of throw-up.
I got down stairs at the same time as Toph, and I was the most unsympathetic person, I feel horrible to admit it. Normally when our children are sick, It makes me sick for them, but when I saw the Blue Gatorade Throwup all over my newly clean carpet, I didn’t feel one ounce of sympathy, (Now I feel incredibly guilty, because at the time I had to “muster up” feelings of sympathy).
I am happy to announce that it was a 24 hour bug, and we didn’t have any more throw-up. And there is only a slight tinge of blue left in the carpet, but that same day Truman did have a few blowout diapers…
But like I said, sometime good things just don’t last.
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The Andy-Man
Last week, School in Utah County began, and so we are happy to announce, that Andy (Or Candy Pants as Tuck calls him) is back at our house on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He always makes our adventures brighter.
Unfortunately, there is no pictures today, as we are awaiting our cameras return to the state of Utah, but we have made significant progress in the tree house process.
Yesterday 15 tons of sand was dumped on our driveway, and we made all preparations to move the load. We finished digging out the sandbox area, lined it with the weed blocker, stapled it down, and the sand moving process began.
Thanks to some willing and incredibly helpful neighbors, we have moved well over half of the sand, and we are going to get some more moved today. The load was dumped at 5:00 and we worked until we couldn’t see any more. The boys mostly just played in the huge sandpile in the front yard, and Tuck was shocked to see his sandbox in the back at the end of the night. I don’t know where he thought we were hauling, it but, it was fun to see the boys diving in the sand, and just giggling with delight!
The boys had so much fun playing in it yesterday. Toph said, think of how much time they are going to spend in that sandbox, and I added think of the memories that are going to be made there.
I can’t wait to get our camera back in a few days, so you can see the incredible transformation that has taken place!
Tucker leaves notes all over the house for Christopher they usually look something like this:
He knows how to spell DAD and is getting pretty good at drawing bodies.
There is a popular phrase that I often see around. It says, “All because 2 people Fell in Love” For us, this last weekend, it was the love of my great grandparents we were celebrating:
My Grandparents hosted the Hunsaker Family Reunion at the Cabin this Last Weekend. Not to many events planned, but just a day to get together to enjoy each others company, take a extended family picture, and look over some family keepsakes. I got this cute apron made by Great Grandma Hunsaker 
Of course, my little ones were not too interested in any of those things, so here is what I did with them while these events were taking place:
Floating Boats (Scrap wood from the addition) in the front pond–
On the raft with Dad:
I never get tired of this shot ( I have taken this picture SO many times):
Carssen and Hailey Out in the Canoe:
Fishing with Uncle Ryan(thanks to him and his pole and his powerbait, everyone was able to catch a fish):
Coleman caught a fish:
Ikey and his fish:
Me and Tuck fishin:
Toph fishin:
Trus fishey:
Tucker wanted to take a pic:
Ike and Tru pal-in’ around:
Playing in the stream:
Any trip to the cabin is not complete without a dunk in the hot tub:
(I think 2 more people got in after this picture was taken!)
What fun it was to just be together again and hang out! I sad summer is coming to an end, this is truely a perfect summer day for me.