The Wagstaff Family: March 2013

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Easter

This year we did things a little different. Each child had to find 25 eggs of a certain color. For example Nathan had to find 25 yellow or orange eggs. So those were hidden up high and harder to find. Then Natalie had to find 25 pink and purple eggs which weren't as hard to find. Then the twins had to find 25 blue and green eggs and they were just on the ground. It worked out well so Nathan was challenged but didn't get all the eggs and it was fair. We had a great Sacrament meeting today. It was a bit of a challenge to get everyone ready and to church on time with all the Easter stuff. Buy we made it. I helped in nursery today and had fun trying to give an Easter lesson. We dyed eggs last night. The twins were already in bed so it was just nathan and Natalie.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Breakfast at Denny's

So the boys played basketball this morning and then I met them with my three youngest for breakfast at Denny's. Paul had the biggest looser, and Christy ran a 5k this morning but the rest us had breakfast. Here are some pictures from said breakfast.

Friday, March 29, 2013

Goodbye dinner for Mike

Well about a month ago I was thinking about our family and how infrequently we have all gotten together lately which led me to realize Mike was going to be deployed in a little while and then we wouldn't even have the chance to get together when we want to. I sent Dan a text to see when they were coming down next since the rest of us live here in UT. He said middle of April which would be too late because Mike leaves the 8th of April. Realizing my reasoning Dan said they could make it down the last weekend in March. So we checked everyone's schedule and Friday night seemed like the best bet. Mike suggested TGIF and so we made it a plan. We missed Kyli Sue at dinner she stayed with her little kiddos but we were glad to join her after dinner at our house. Although then we were sad to lose Breezy because she needed to get back to her kiddos. So we were almost all together. I'm mad I didn't get a nice group photo but glad to get the pictures I got. Getting good pictures is harder than it should be. We won't all be together again for probably a year. We are going to miss Mike but glad Breezy and their kids are close so we can see them while he is away.

Check out these videos I posted on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DevbyhsJdW4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI44eaKyM_Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Maybe when I get on my computer I can put the actual video on. But for now copy and paste:)

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Natalie's Day

Today Natalie and Isabel had their observation day for ballet. They both did very well. She wanted me to make sure Grandma Scherbel saw her picture. It was a nice surprise to get a call from her tonight it was close to midnight there. Tonight Natalie is relaxing in the tub. Paige was over and got her all hooked up with bubbles and colored water. She is in heaven.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Slivers

Natalie was playing on our play set today and got three slivers. I gave her a lollipop and put her in front of some cartoons and removed them. Two came out pretty easy. One was harder to get but she did great and I got them all out. Tonight the priests put on an Easter egg hunt for our primary. After opening all her eggs she says "By the time I get to bed I am going to be full of chocolate. " A girl after my own heart.

Baseball, cupcakes, preschool

Yesterday was a busy day. Here are some pictures with some of the things we did. Nathan and Ryan spent the evening playing a practice baseball game. Nathan has his new uniform. I made cupcakes for the RS birthday party. I got to go to Natalie's school and help. Plus spent some quality time with the twins and Natalie. Good busy day!

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Getting Along

I love when my kids are getting along. Michael was being so cute giving hugs. Later Matthew was so sad, so Michael went and got him his blanket. If you know Michael you know how much he loves his blanket so for him that is the ultimate comfort. Such sweet boys.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

New Fire Station

Well after a long time of watching the new fire station by our house get built it is finally open. We took the family over to check it out. It's really nice. Then off to Arby's for a quick dinner.

Funny Things Nathan Says

As we were checking out at Costco one of our items was missing a product code. A worker went to find out the item number. After a minute or two Nathan pipes up with, "This is taking longer than I expected." The cashier was so funny and after finishing our transaction looked at Nathan and said "I'm sorry to have kept you waiting." Too funny. November 2009

We were in the kitchen when something shifted in the sink. Nathan says "Well, that was unexpected." September 2009

Ryan's mom was watching Nathan and he was telling her about going to a Bee's game. He says "They have nachos and hot dogs ... with buns!" July 2009

While waiting for the tow truck on the side of the road a motorcycle past us going pretty fast and Nathan yells "Maniac!" June 2009

I took Nathan to the dentist and found he had 3 cavities. At the end of our visit the dentist gave Nathan his little bag of goodies. Nathan was going through it and found some flossers. He looks at the dentist and says "we have these at home, we never use them." The dentist and I had a good laugh. April 2009

I found the ottoman pushed over to the fireplace and the clock at the wrong time and knew Nathan was behind it. I asked him about it and he confessed he was trying to play a joke on me. Well the clock stopped working so I told Nathan. A few hours later he came to me and said mom We can just live like they did in the olden days. We can go outside and if our shadow is on our right side then it is morning and if it's straight ahead it's lunch time. If it's on the left then it's dinner time. A few hours later he asked me what time it was so I told him to go outside and tell me! --April 2009

There was a guy at our pool in a speedo. So Nathan says to Alli "Should I tell that guy he's wearing a girl's swimming suit?" Alli of course tells him not to. But wouldn't you guess a couple hours later he goes over and whispers something to the guy. He laughed and asked Alli if she wanted to know what he asked. I'm just glad I wasn't around. March 2009

Christmas morning we were at the Wagstaff's having breakfast and Nathan says "This is the best day of my life!" December 2008

We had tithing settlement the other day and I realized I hadn't taught Nathan about tithing. So determined to teach him I prepared a FHE for Monday night. Well, Nathan was into a show and did not want anything to do with FHE so suffice it to say he went to bed early and we tried again the next night. It went much better. I used ten dimes as an object lesson telling Nathan we give the bishop ten percent of everything we earn. (Up until now Nathan has only collected money as he put it to the bishop.) We counted the dimes and I told him what the money is used for. I also gave him ten swedish fish and then asked for one back and explained how that is like what Heavenly Fathers does. He gives us everything we have and then only asks for one back. Anyway then next day his friend and older brother came over and saw the dimes on the table. Ben started counting ten, twenty, thirty, fourty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred you have a dollar here he says. Nathan replys "Yeah but one of those goes to Heaven." November 2008

Nathan says on the way home from the Wagstaff's "I want to visit another state like BYU or the Cowboys" I tried to explain that Utah is both a state and a football but that is not always the case. So then he says "Well, I want to live in Chinese so I can use chop sticks" Oct 2008

On the night of a full moon Nathan says "Mom did you see the moon? It's so far away and circley." Sep. 2008

I asked Nathan Saturday morning if he wanted to come to the store with me or stay home. He says "By myself?" No dad's home. "Where is he?" He downstairs sleeping in the guestroom. Nathan says "I can't hear him snoring." August 2008

Nathan and Ryan were watching TV and Nathan asks "Are you cold?" Ryan says no. Nathan's reply "That's because you've got all that fur!" I laughed so hard. August 2008

Nathan was eating Reese's Piece today and told Alli he was eating Em's favorite candy. So Alli asks if he knows what her favorite is and he says "Me!" 5-27-08

I had spent quite a bit of time showing Nathan the calendar and how long it was until his birthday. I showed him all the things we were planning to do in the mean time. One of them being Dan and Kyli's wedding in August. Well on the way to WY I was telling him about my mom's knee surgery and how gentle and careful he would have to be and that she wasn't going to be able to get out of bed too much while we were there. He asked how long she would be like that and I said a few weeks. He asked very conserned if she was going to be able to go to Dan and Kyli's wedding. I said yes she'd be better by then. Then out of the blue he goes "I don't have a tie! I don't have a suit!" I told him we ought to wait and see what uncle Dan wants him to wear before we worry too much. 5-22-08

May 2008
"Oh that's the bigger school, that's where I'm going to get growned up."

Nathan says right after Roland and Lizzy leave Monday night. "I was just thinking about Charlotte, I think she's going to miss me."

Talking about the hospital where the baby will be born. Nathan says "That place is humungous. It's huge!

Nathan asked when the baby is coming out and I say October 24th. He says very excited "That's before Valentine's Day!"

After waking up in the morning he has said several times "I'm still kinda tired. I didn't get enough sleep last night. Daddy kept waking me up with his snoring." And a couple times he continues "I need blue ear plugs but I don't want dirty ones."

Nathan's favorite conjunction doesn't actually exist, am'nt. He says all the time "I amn't." (Meaning I am not.)
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After church on Sunday we were relaxing when the phone rang. I asked Nathan if he'd get it, it's nice that he knows how. Well, like many times at our house he couldn't find a phone before the answering machine picked up. Nathan says "That's okay mom it was just a message." 4-13-08

"Dad would you like to join us" 3-2-08

On the way home from the gym Nathan is singing a song from a cartoon and I'm trying to figure out which one. I figure out it's Word World and Nathan says "Word World up next on KUED" 2-18-08

We were driving home from the Wagstaff's Sunday night and Nathan says "look there's the temple! That's where I'm going some day." 2-17-08

Nathan was looking for his green measruing cup (that's another story) and I was trying to help him think where the last time he saw it. After looking in the room he had seen it last he says "Well, it didn't just get up and walk away." 2-13-08

We were eating at Chili's and Ryan was putting his sandwich and fries in a to-go container and Nathan asked if he could put his fries in there as well. Ryan said yes but only the ones without ketchup. So Nathan is carefully putting in one french fry at a time when he comes to one with ketchup on it. He looks at it and buts off the part with the ketchup and then puts it in the to-go box. We were laughing so hard. But it did keep him occupied for quite awhile. 2-12-08

We recently got new carpet and Nathan now asks "How do we get our old carpet back so I can eat down here?" 1/16/08

"Josh and Cameron their my boyz." 1/08

On the way to the Wagstaff's for dinner Nathan says to Christy "You can meet Alli, she's really cool." 1/06/08

We were waiting to go through the car wash and Ryan asked if there was a car in there (the doors were closed) and Nathan says " No, that's a lawn mower." 12/07

We were out to eat for Ryan's birthday and Terri mentioned that Allison's major had changed and she wasn't going to get credit for some of the classes she took. I said that stinks. A bit later Nathan says "Why does it smell in here?" I could not figure out what he was talking about. 1/8/08

On the way to dinner that night Steve got after Nathan for doing something I think he told him to sit down. Nathan's reply "Eye eye captain." 1/8/08

Nathan was talking with my dad on the phone from Hawaii. I heard Nathan ask if there was any snow where he was and then I heard "oh you have the ocean to swim in, surf's up!" 1/8/08

Nathan picked up the phone to order at the Training Table and when the guys answers he says "I'll have spaghetti and nachos." 1/8/08

We were leaving the Homers and I turned to Nathan and siad thanks for being such a good boy today. He replies "Anytime mom." 12/07

For Ryan's and my anniversary we left Nathan with the Wagstaffs for the night. I guess he was getting ready to go to sleep and was missing us but instead of saying I miss my mom and dad he said "My mom and dad are going to miss me." 12-30-07

We read books each night and one of the books he chooses quite frequently is the I Spy book. I let him choose two pages and we take turns asking each other to find various objects in the picture. I say something like "I spy an airplane" he finds it like he has hundreds of times and then says "My little eye is a pig." He usually points to it before I get the chance. But it is quite fun. 12-18-07

Funny things he started saying that I say are: "I could have sworn..." and "What in the world?" and "Oh my word." 12/07

Grandma Wagstaff was opening birthday presents and she receved some sented oils and everyone was smelling them telling what they thought they smelled like and when it was Nathan's turn he said "It kind of smells like alligator" 10-14-07

"Mom, let's make some cookies. We need some more sugar" 10-18-07

Nathan woke up in the middle of the night awhile ago and when asked why the next morning he said "I wanted to get some exercise" 10-11-07

"I've got the bless yous mommy." He also says bless you after he sneezes. It is really quite cute. 11-19-07

We went to the aquarium yesterday and when Ryan asked Nathan what he saw Nathan said Seahorses! Ryan ask Nathan to tell him how big they were but Nathan said no. Ryan siad show me how big they were with your fingers like this. Where they this big? No! So I should him, they were about this big. No! And then I realized our mistake, were they this small? Yes!
11-15-07

Nathan was telling his grandma that we went to look at new couches and she must have asked why because Nathan told her we were getting rid of the couches because they make us nervous. Later I figured out he was refering to Monday night when we were in RC Willey and I told him he was making me nervous running in his cowboy boots.

"I know what we should do!" pause "I should go potty!" 11-13-07

Dad will you get the spice out? (Talking about cinnamon gum)

He has grandma Wagstaff drive past the temple on the way to her house. The first time she drove up around the temple and told him about the angle Moroni and she asked him if he was going to go to the temple someday and he said "I need a girl for that Grandma."

Grandma Wagstaff was asking him about my new car and he kept telling her he didn't like it he liked my old car. She asked him again "Don't you like your mom's new car?" and he said "I guess it's better than nothing."

After driving past the temple several times Grandma Wagstaff was about to drive up through the gates and he Nathan said "I'm kind of tired of that."

Last Sunday we had a meeting to tell us the new boundries for our ward so we left Nathan at the Wagstaffs. He didn't know he was spending the night. Grandma and Emily kept asking him if he wanted to have a sleep over. Finally Nathan said "Are you listening to me Grandma?"

Some of his favorite sayings right now:
"Are you kidding me?"
"Oh my gosh"
"I made a mistake"
"I don't want to go down that hill"
"I want to go backwards"
"Dad asked me" (he means I asked dad and he said I could)