MY IJ Makes Me Smile

Justin's turn:

Diana was singing "If I Only Had a Brain" from The Wizard of Oz, which I play all the time on the ukulele for Isaac, when Isaac said "Mom, no singing that, only Dad has a brain."

My IJ Makes Me Smile

Yes, that's what you think it is. A dented bumper and broken tail light on our week old van. I backed into our neighbors car yesterday.

After Justin got home from work we headed to the library. I was feeling pretty bad about wrecking the van. This is the converstation that followed.

Justin teasing Diana about crashing the van.

Diana: I'm just so stupid. I should have been paying closer attention.

Isaac starts to laugh: Mom is stupid!

Justin: No, Mom is not stupid.

Isaac: Yes, Mom said so, so Mom is stupid.

Justin: No, Mom just made a mistake, she isn't stupid.

Isaac: Mom, everyone makes mistakes.

I just started crying. Leave it to Isaac to know the right thing to say when I'm feeling down. Where did he learn 'everyone makes mistakes' from anyway? What a cute kid!

Reunion and More

11-year highschool reunion:

Why 11 year? Because we felt like it, that's why.

I really enjoyed connecting with old friends. For some reason, when you move to Nebraska, you lose track of people. Hopefully now that we are living in Zion we will make good on plans to stay in touch. Diana knows my friends pretty well at this point and had fun chatting the night away. She also looked hella good.

After the reunion we headed to Wyoming where I babysat while Diana partied it up at shower after shower. Grandpa did relieve the babysitting duties by putting Isaac to work on the farm. We have been doing alot of things with levers lately so Isaac was pumped to see a tractor lever in action.

And just because we weren't completely worn out, we hiked Donut Falls last night.

Shadow

A few weekends ago while up in Wyoming, Uncle Wayne saddled some horses for a ride. I say saddled "some" horses instead of "their" horses because I'm not convinced that they actually own them. You see, including dating, I have been going up to Wyoming for seven years and this was the first time on their horses. I often teased my mother-in-law that they merely rented the horses to impress me. I'd just like to say publicly that I am glad they sprang a little extra on that rental so we could ride them.

Isaac was beyond excited for the ride. We spent about a half an hour in the fields before the rain chased us back. Isaac kept telling Shadow to GIDDYUP, which Shadow thankfully ignored. The only trouble was when Isaac picked up that my clicking was code for giddy up. Poor horse didn't know whether to listen to my "whoa" or IJ's click. Apart from being worried on a short gallop, Isaac really enjoyed himself. He has since talked incessently about Shadow to anyone who will listen.