Notable Quotables

April 2009
Jumping on the trampoline with kids is exhausting. They take all your bounce away and your legs get a super workout. I laid down after a few minutes of bouncing when Bastian said to me, "Get up you tired, old mom."

We put balls on the trampoline and all of them kept flocking to me because I was the heaviest one on the trampoline. Bastian had a different idea as to why they were drawn to me. He said, "It's because they think you're gorgeous."

May 2009Weston said he likes his cereal soggy. I said, "but not too soggy." He said, "Yeah, just one soggy." That sheds some light on the fact that he often asks for too much ice cream!

Weston made himself a sandwich for lunch. It was a cracker sandwich. No, this isn't two crackers with cheese or sliced deli meat in between them. This sandwich was two pieces of bread with wheat thins in the middle. I said, "You don't want to eat a cracker sandwich for lunch. It doesn't even taste good." He argued, "It's yum to me."

When Hayden found out he was in the city newspaper for winning the 5th grade chess tournament he exclaimed, "Yes! Fame and fortune are MINE!"

Bastian was bothering Weston by giving him too many kisses. Weston finally said, "When I say no, I mean no."

I, Rachel, was whining that I was tired and didn't feel like going to the store. Abby reminded me, "You have to go to the store, Mom. There's trials." Yes, pushing through fatigue and going to the store was my trial that day.

Weston threw a candy wrapper on the floor of our van and I said, "Our car isn't a garbage can." Weston said, "Oh, I thought it was."

June 2009The kids and I had a discussion on the importance of education and Hayden broke into song singing, "Jesus wants us to go tooooo SCHOOL." (Sung to the tune Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam)

Rob talking about laws with the kids: "There's the law of Physics, the law of gravity, the law of I'm going to spank your bottom....that's my favorite law."

Weston has a mole on his neck. I was rubbing his face and neck during sacrament meeting and he said, "Don't scratch my nipple, it will hurt." We now lovingly refer to it as his nipple.

Bastian and Abby were helping me make cookies. They wanted to crack the eggs. Bastian said, "Watch and learn. I am the master. Abby, you're my prentice."

During Sunday dinner, (which is always roast, potatoes, gravy, corn and rolls) Hayden said, "Abby can you pass the animal sauce, aka, gravy?"

Abby spent the night at Aunt Allison's house and I mentioned to Hayden the next day I needed to pick up Abby. Realizing she had been gone he said, "I knew something wasn't quite right."

We have a big BBQ spatula with sharp spikes on it. Hayden was unloading the dishwasher and started sword play with it saying, "I like wielding sharp objects." Then in a creepy whisper he said, "It makes me feel powerful."

Abby watched an old Marilyn Monroe movie at Aunt Allison's house and noticed how pointy the bras were back then. She pretended to have one on and said, "I've got boobs and I'm not afraid to use them."

July 2009
Abby found out that our neighbor, an active young woman in our ward, had pierced her tongue and eyebrow. While visiting with the girl Abby said, "Why did you do that? The prophet said not to pierce your body like that." The girl argued, "I can do what I want to." Abby said, "Do you want to do what's right or what you WANT to? The prophet speaks for the Lord. So if the Lord is telling you not to do it, you still WANT to?" The girl said, "Be quiet, Abby. You're making me mad." Then Abby said to me, "I wanted to say, 'no, I'm making SENSE!'" (We later found out that they were both fake piercings)

We were talking about the words phat and fat. Phat meaning cool and fat meaning overweight. Hayden said, "Uncle Joe is phat and our dad is both."

Looking out the window at dusk Weston said, "It's getting night time. The clouds are changing the sun into stars."

While eating at the restaurant Golden Corral Hayden said, "If this isn't what Heaven is like, I can't imagine it! Why have we been wasting our time at Chili's?"