Favorite conversations from 2013

"Hey Bobbi, want to go to Miami this weekend?  I'll see if my mom can watch the kids." -Justin

"My muscles have never been this big!  Or maybe this is just a dream..." -Eden (age 6)
  
"Mom, I'm glad we're people. 'Cause we can swim like ducks, and we can get shot out of a cannon and fly like birds." -Eden 

Eden's Sunday song: "I'm gonna go to church, only got twenty dollars in my pocket!"

"Mom! Jack (the dog) brought us something!"   -Eden, with a mangled, dead, bloody songbird in her hands. 

"Mom, do you know what we need to do if we ever get a pet bald eagle?  Dye his feathers red, white & blue to make him look like an American flag." -Austin (age 9)

Eden, without any prompting or assistance or permission from anyone, just sat down at my computer and googled herself.   Heaven help us.

I woke up early to go to the gym. It's still dark outside, but Eden is awake on the couch. "There's a robber trying to steal Austin's coat," she says. "Why would a robber want to steal Austin's coat?" I ask. "I don't know. He was just over there, but now he's in the laundry room".

Teaching my children how to use an old school VCR player: "You mean there's no menu?!?"

"Mom, I love you. You know all those times when I said I didn't like you? I didn't mean it. You just need to learn how to be a better mom. Like, you need to be the kind of mom that I'm going to be when I'm a grown-up."  -Eden

"I want to be bigger enough so I can drive. I won't drive you crazy!"  -Kade (age 3)

"In Spain, we don't have smarshmallows, and camping without smarshmallows isn't really camping at all."  -Jorge (our 13-year-old foreign exchange student from Spain)

"I love you more than Crossfit," I said to Brock after telling him I would skip my workout one morning in order to take him to the library. He hugged me and said, "You can do push-ups in the library! And maybe run up and down the stairs??" 

"...sitting in sacrament with a stinky little girl who is too poor to bathe, baby wearing a white polo and jeans, the piano doesn't match the singing, the soccer announcer next door to the church is louder than the priest saying the sacrament prayer, half of the members are inactive, and half of the people who attend still need to be baptized!!! and there was a dog in relief society again..." -19-year-old Niece, Moe Gonzales, serving an 18- month mission in Peru 

Me: "I probably shouldn't buy this. I don't need it and I don't have room for it."
Justin: "Those reasons have never worked for me."

To the first worker we encountered at the Naval Air Museum: "Excuse me, we need to fly the jets." -Kade

Three boys huddled around a small wood pile in front of the fireplace:
"Look at that spider!"
"It's not a spider, it doesn't have two body parts."
"Yes it does. If you look closely, you can see two body parts right there."
"Should I burn it?"
"Look! There are two spiders!"

"Good thing my dad's a dentist!"  -Eden, after telling me all about the load of candy she hauled home from the Jack-o-lantern Jam

Me: "You're not going to eat that whole thing by yourself, are you?"
Eden: "Um, yeah! My tummy wants it!"

Eden: "Mom, can I paint my fairy house?"
Me: "No."
Eden: "Whoops!"

"Bobbi, go take a nap so you're not grouchy when our company arrives for dinner."  -Justin

"Mom's going to get the wooden spoon out if we don't hurry and clean up this mess!" -Eden

  

"Hey Mom, is this the paralyzed forest?" -Austin

"You got to go skiing on a field trip??!? I wish I went to a school that got to go on trips!" -Austin

Austin: "Is caffeine against the Word of Wisdom?"
Me (sipping on Mtn. Dew): "Depends on who you ask."
Austin: "I'm asking you."

"She needs to cut her nails, and brush her teeth and go to uncle Justin's office" -8-year- old Niece, Kaestli, while watching previews for "The Great and Powerful Oz"

"I feel like I've given birth to a dump truck... by c-section... through my pelvis." -Justin, after running the Gladiator Mud Run 

"YoYums has peanut butter AND banana flavored frozen yogurt! I feel like I just got high fived in the face by a 20 pound sledge hammer of fantasticness." -Justin

  

"Thanks we can go snow flaking, WAIT! I mean skiing. Thanks for Jesus lives in heaven. Thanks I can go live with him. Thanks there will be cookies and cup cakes."  -Kade's prayer