Yes, it is what you think...

Lint on paper.

Hunter wanted to help me with the laundry, particularly emptying the lint screen. Well, who am I to turn down any help from a young enthusiast? So, I told him to make me a note since I had just emptied it and he could do the next one. This is proof that he is my child...he went above and beyond a note, he tool old lint out of the trash can and taped it to a piece of paper to serve as my reminder. What a guy! I thought it was very clever...he worked on it for like an hour.

This has been a whirlwind week. Mom and dad left today after being set apart this morning before our 9am church block. Tricia and my husbands are out of town on business, so we were the lone mothers to get our kids ready and make it to the setting apart before church...and...tada! We made it. The blessings were very nice...lengthy but nice. I most wandered the stake president's office making sure Tyler didn't make too large of a mess. He really wanted to talk on the phone...which eventually he did get to and I just held down the button to keep it connected. He managed to remove the lamp from a table, take all the dry erase markers and erasers off the white board and walk past the stake president during both blessings. It was joyful. :) There was a large sigh of relief when it was done.

Church was great, mom and dad spoke on living by faith rather than fear. It was a nice meeting. Tricia and I sang "Jesus the Very th ought of Thee", at dad's request...our accompanist was a gem and rewrote a lot of the accompaniment so it sounded less "hymn like". We got to mom and dad's after the block and enjoyed a quick lunch and then off they went....I don't think the kids have any clue what is happening...but it was nice to hang out for the better part of the morning.

OTHER EVENTS OF THE WEEK:

Tyler loves wearing Hunter's karate sparring gear...he even wears the helmet backwards sometimes...it is darling.

This is a picture of Tyler after I let him have a little bag of chocolate cookies and left the room only for moments, to come back and find him like this - this first picture is blurry but I love the look he is giving- like he knows something I don't.



Scottie was here for a few minutes at the beginning of the week. I consider our family very close (sibling wise / parent wise) and it is always nice to be together. Travis had to adjust to the closeness of our family, but he has come around and loves to hang our with them as much as I do. :) I am glad I can honestly say that I adore my husband's side of the family as much as my own....a blessing I think he appreciates as well as do I. Here is Scottie with my kids (Tyler was a beast ...and Hunter had stamped his forehead with a stamp he got from school) and then a picture of him with Tricia's kiddos. (Kenna did her own hair.)



And my kiddos sitting on their chairs on the couch...(dangerous, but they love it) a common scene at our house.


This is my darling husband taking the kiddies for a ride around the neighborhood last week. They love rides with their daddy.