funny kids

2 things happened today that made me laugh, so I had to put them on my blog. Austin and Betsy ran into my room and started posing and saying they were "fashion girls". They looked cute, but the thing that made it so funny for me was that their clothes actually matched. The girls play dress-up all the time, and love to dress themselves in the morning, but rarely do their clothes ever match. So I couldn't help but laugh when they actually matched, and looked so cute.

Joseph was playing with the legos for at least 2 hours today. It was out of the ordinary for several reasons. Joseph hardly ever plays with his legos, and he was playing with them like Betsy would. Betsy loves to organize things, and pretend they are people and play with things forever and entertain herself for a very long time. Joseph was doing the exact same thing he organized them into different colors and kept rearranging them, and I caught him "talking for them" just the Betsy does.

Betsy's birthday

My little Betsy is growing up so fast. I can't believe she is 5 years old and in Kindergarten already. She is such a sweet little girl, who is so helpful, and kind, and caring. This year she had a birthday party at Biggs water park again, and had a wonderful time playing in the water, having lunch, and eating cupcakes. On her actual birthday on Sunday, we had cake and ice cream and opened up more presents. Poor betsy hardly got to open her presents, Austin and Joseph and Samuel just couldn't contain their excitement at her presents, and were basically opening them for her. She was pretty happy and had a good birthday. She loved having her Grandma and Grandpa Hardy here for her birthday, that made it really special.

Joseph Basketball Game

Sorry the videos are in the wrong order, you should watch them backwards if you want to see them in order. Joseph has been in Basketball and has enjoyed it very much. He is decent at defense, and enjoys running around the basketball court, they have a couple of really talented kids on his team, and his team is undefeated. My parents were in town, so I was actually able to watch Joseph play, and video tape it. Joseph has a little bit different defense style, but it is effective. He waves his arms pretty big and fast, to block the other players. At one point in the game, (at the end of the second video) Joseph and another boy crashed, and they both hurt their knees, but after sitting out for a little while Joseph wanted back in the game (I was proud of him). Also Joseph liked to try and get the ball from the referee, the ref would hold the ball up high, and Joseph would jump up and try to knock the ball out of his hand. Once Joseph succeeded the ref tried to get Joseph to give the ball back, but Joseph just passed the ball to another player, and the ref shrugged and the game went on. The second time Joseph did it, the ref got into it a little and kept holding the ball up higher, but Joseph kept at it until he had knocked the ball out of his hand again. But as you can see in the video, after Joseph hurt his knee he was kinda gimpy, and hopping around a little bit, and it looked pretty funny. But he had a good time, his team won, and he enjoyed his game.

update

I haven't written anything in a while. The kids and I have been busy having a fun summer. We've played at the parks and pools many times, we've gone on walks and bike rides, and some days we've just layed around and not done much at all. We went camping for our ward campout in July and had a really good time. The kids had a blast exploring in the forest, going down the zipline and playing with friends. We went on a hike to a waterfall, and had a good time, except Betsy and Samuel both refused to walk back, so I ended up with Betsy on my shoulders and carrying Samuel in the front of me, after a while the Bishop relieved me of Samuel and I just carried Betsy the rest of the way, that was a pretty good workout for me. Yesterday we went to Biggs water park, which is a shallow play area with fountains and slides for kids. It is so fun to watch the kids play. We were there with our friends the Lairds, and Betsy and Austin and their friend Carriane were swimming around, going down slides, slithering around in the water and having a blast. Samuel was throwing himself in the water over and over again, going down slides and loving it. Betsy isn't quite as scared of the water this year, which is nice, and Samuel has lost a tiny bit of his fearlessness, and isn't quite as dangerous, although he is still pretty crazy. He would go down the slide backwards, forwards, on his tummy, back, or whatever would come out first after throwing himself down the slide, he saw a little girl plugging her nose while going down the slide, and he tried that too. Joseph has been doing a summer camp this week, and has been enjoying everything he gets to do there, and I have been enjoying not having to tell him to get off the T.V., computer, or video games all the time.