Out of the Mouth of Babes

Jackson and Allie came to play on Saturday while Lori and Scott watched BYU play the Lobo's.(dang, so close) Jackson wanted me to be downstairs with him while he watched movies. I was sewing on a quilt and he asked me what I was doing. I told him that I was quilting. When he asked me what quilting was, I told him it was something that grandma's do. "Ohhhh...., quilts make monsters go away".

That is going on my wall!!

The Grandparent Code

If pirates can have a code, then so can grandparents. The first of my codes would be:
1. Never go longer that a month without seeing the grandkiddies.
Now I love Scott and Lori with all my heart but how can they compare with the faces of these cuties.

Allie is so good natures and loves to be touched. She giggles a lot when her clothes are changed.

She is so good natured and happy.

Jackson makes us fill so comfortable. When we come to visit, he just makes us fill so much a part of his life and just accepts us for how we are. We were eating dinner and Jackson decided to hid under the table, I put the camera under the table and snapped the shot, that is how I got the first picture. The third one he was reading "The Little Engine that Could". He is so smart.

Jacks and I were talking about sports and I told him that I would come and cheer for him when he is playing basketball. I was showing him how I could be loud by cupping my hands around my mouth. Then he got really excited and said that he had a way of making it much louder. He mumbled something about toilet paper, so I thought he was running to get the toilet paper roll. He came back with the metal rod that holds the roll and then proceeded to tell me all the different uses it has to make things loud, to play music, to whistle. It was funny but what was funnier was that he had been thinking about this "instrument" for a long time! Scott and Lori...look out!

Being a Grandma is not half bad

Allie is so beautiful and has the cutest hair. Where did she get curly hair? She is such a good baby too. I got to hold her for hours, it was so sweet. I am afraid that Scott has doomed himself to coaching girl's basketball. Allie is off the charts in height. What can I say, she is a Crossley. Story goes that when the Crossley ancestor in Leeds, England died, they had to leave the hearse carriage doors open to let the coffin stick out because he was so tall.

Janna was gone two days and we were feeling that the nest was a little too empty, so we invited Jackson to have a "sleep-over" with Grandpa Bear. It makes me smile just to think about the nice time we had. Some of the cute things he said: we were shopping and I kept wandering up and down the aisle because I couldn't decide on something. I just he was getting sea-sick in the cart because he finally said "Grandma, get your head around it". Thanks Scott, I wonder where he learned that. He also talked me into a pumpkin that had to be carved at our house so it would scare the snakes away. Apparently his throwing my onions at them, does not work. I got a little teary eyed on Sunday when we pulled into the church parking lot and he said "This is Janna's church, is Janna inside?" He is so smart.

Summer just doesn't get any better than this.

Spanish Fork has a great home town parade celebrating the 24th of July (Pioneer Day in Utah). One of the best parts of the day is having family around, so this year was especially great. We borrowed Jacks for the night and let Scott and Lori had some rest. It was completely selfish on my part because it was so fun to have him around. Janna was the best because she did all the work.

Dallin brought Jacks down from SLC after he got off work. Jacks walked in the house with his Spiderman backpack, started unloading all of his treasures, two Spiderman toys, a truck, McQueen pillow, his "comfy,warm blanket" and his McQueen blanket and showed them all to Grandpa Bear. We blew up a big air mattress for him and Janna to sleep on in the front room, which only proved to be a big trampoline (or lauching pad) for Jacks to jump up on Grandpa Bear. With the trampoline, popsicles and goodies, he was not going to let Janna get any sleep.

The next morning, we walked down to the middle school where the parade started. The weather was absolutely perfect and the parade was complete with bagpipers, floats, candy tossing marchers, wagons and horses (and the results of many horses), a complete section from the local Hara Kirsand high school bands sadly missing 3/4's of all their members. It is safe to say it would take about 76 such bands to come up with 76 trombone players.

Dallin brought Liberty along. A man came up and asked me if he could pet her. He just stroked her for the longest time telling me about his cocker spaniel he had when he was growing up. He sighed, got up, thanked me and left.

Scott, Lori, Kendall, Chelse, Dallin and Janna were over at the house for a pickle party. It was fun for me because a lot of the stuff, I got out of our garden; tomatoes, sweet onions, cucumbers, peppers, zuccuni and lots of beets that I pickled. In the evening, we went out side to throw some snappers. It was really funny because Jacks couldn't throw them hard enough to make them snap. No matter what he did, he could not get them to pop. So his dad and uncle decided to show him how to do it. They brillantly took turns throwing handfuls on to each other's backs. Do not try to do this at home because it does hurt and does leave welts. That's my boys. It really funny because then Jacks started throwing them at Scott and got them to pop!