God Hears and Answers Prayers

Last Saturday was a beautiful, sunny day so we decided to go fishing together as a family.  Eric has already gone fishing several times this summer with just Lily and Caleb but unfortunately has caught nothing.  Both Lily and Caleb were pretty skeptical about fishing since past experiences have been fruitless so I suggested we pray before daddy started fishing.  Caleb offered a short prayer thanking Heavenly Father for the sunshine and good weather and asking him to bless daddy to catch a fish.  Well Heavenly Father heard that prayer (and has sense of humor) cause not 5 minutes later Eric caught a fish.

I can never get all my kids to smile at the camera at the same time.

The fish, as you can see, was small, a little too small to keep so we threw it back into the ocean but it was a testament to us and our kids that God hears and answers his children's prayers...next time we'll have to be a little more specific on the size and number of fish we would like to catch :)   

May's, June's and July's Quotes

Lily: "Hey Caleb are you angry?"

Caleb: "No I’m not angry, I’m just a man!"

Me: “How are doing Caleb?”

Caleb: “Oh, I’m doing good…now that I’m sitting down and not running into things."

Caleb was sitting on my lap and let one rip...

Mom: "Hey you tooted on me! That was kinda a musky smelling toot.”

Caleb: "Nope that was just my poop smell.”

Lily: “Hey Mom I have two under shoulders.”

Mom: “…do you mean arm pits?” 

Lil: “Yeah.”

Caleb: "No! The horse doesn’t make the rules, the cowboy does!” (Lily and Caleb were playing horse and cowboy and he was the cowboy)

Eric’s brother and mom and dad had come to visit us for a week and for part of their visit they did a quick two day trip up in Canada to check out Victorias gardens. Well they left early in the morning before the kids woke up so when they did this is the conversation that took place when Caleb discovered Ian wasn’t in Kylie’s room…

Caleb: “Hey Lily Uncle Ian is DEAD!!”

Lily:”No he’s not dead he just went on an adventure with Papa and Grandma!” 

Caleb: ”Hey mom how come you have hair on your arms? Are you growing into a dad?”

We were driving home from visiting family in Kennewick and as we were passing some farms the following conversation occurred...
Lily:"What is that yucky smell?"
Dad: "Its the cows."

Lily:"Well the farmer should give them a bath."