HARDY FAMILY TREASURES: Sledding and snowboarding

12/29/08

Sledding and snowboarding

We hope everyone had a great Christmas. Ours was fabulous. I love Christmas and I’m always a little sad when it’s over. It’s always a challenge these days to make Christmas more about Christ and his birth, more about others, more about giving than getting. I think we did a little better this year. Although, we still received way more gifts than was necessary. But the true spirit of Christmas was there and I am so grateful for the little babe born in a manger a long time ago.

Since we’ve been deprived of a white Christmas this year, the day after Christmas we went to Mt. Charleston to play in the snow with some friends. I realize it’s no Utah mountains, but there was plenty of snow (in between all the Joshua trees, huh, gotta love Vegas) and we had a great time sledding and playing in the snow.

We're missing Kristen and little Kenna in this picture

All ready for sledding...

...and here he comes

Catching a ride back up the mountain

Next day we headed up to Brianhead for some adult time in the snow. We left the kiddos with the grandparents and got some awesome snowboarding time in with Eric, Paola, Merlin, and Emily. We had a ball. It was the most beautiful day ever. The snow was powder and it was sunny and warm. Uhhhh, good times. We need to do it more often.

Us with Eric and Paola (missing Merlin and Emily)

4 comments:

kristen said...: I"m glad you had nice weather for snowboarding. We had fun playing in the snow with you. David used your camera to take a picture of his sister's family because our batteries died. Can you email that picture to me or David's work? Thanks thanks!; December 29, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Emily said...: You guys look so tall next to your friends in that last picture. And very cute. Looks like a really fun time in the snow! I'm SICK of it (the snow, that is, not fun times).; December 29, 2008 at 8:28 PM
~~Heidi~~ said...: This is Nic. When are you guys coming to visit again? We may be moving soon so you should come visit before we leave. I hope that "adult time" in the snow wasn't too cold....; December 30, 2008 at 4:41 PM
RoweKlan said...: I am glad you guys had fun in the snow. It was good to see you guys, we will have to do something more fun next time! Have a Happy New Year!!; December 31, 2008 at 9:06 AM

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Things they says that just have to be remembered...

BENJAMIN:

5/11 - Ben is asking me if Andrew and him could go play at a friends' house. I must have hesitated for a second because he was quick to add "If I'm at Seth's house than you can just clean up the house and I won't be here to mess it up...and I won't be bugging you...doesn't that sound like a good idea?" Haha! How could I say no to that one?

3/11 - We are at church at the sacrament meeting. The speaker is crying...
Andrew: Ben, why is she crying?
Ben: Because she feels the spirit.

2/11 - Benjamin was telling me about a dream he had last night...
Ben: I saw Jesus come down from Heaven.
Me: Did He talk to you?
Ben: Well, no. He was talking to everybody.
Me: What did He say?
Ben: I don't really remember.
Me: How did you feel when you saw Him?
Ben: I was like "oh my gosh, it's Jesus" and I was smiling.
Me: That's a pretty cool dream.
Ben: Yeah, I wish Jesus would come down to Earth again in real life.
Me: Me too.

1/11 - We're driving in a car. Benjamin asked for a drink and I didn't have any. After a couple of seconds of thinking about it, he says "When I am an electrical engineer, I will build fountains on the road, so when somebody gets thirsty in a car, they can just stop and get a drink of water from a fountain. I don't know why Daddy hadn't thought about that?"

3/10 - Davey (Scott’s cousin): “Benjamin, how old are you?”
Ben: “I’m 3.”
Davey: “When do you turn 4?”
Ben: “After you’re 3.”

3/10 - Benjamin is saying a prayer before bed ”…please bless our prophet Thomas S. Monson…(pause)…Obama? Mom, who’s Obama?”
Me: “He is the President of the Unites States of America.”
Ben (continues with his prayer): “Heavenly Father, please bless Obama…”
It’s was kind of funny. He’s been praying for him ever since. I think our president can probably use some 3-year-olds praying for him.

10/09 - I'm making dinner and Benjamin is asking me for fruit snacks. I've already told him several times that he can have some after dinner, but not right now. After asking me yet again and me telling him not till after dinner, he says "urgh, you stubborn old mare". (fyi, it's from a geotrax dvd that he loves).

9/09 - At dinner Benjamin was messing around and fell off his chair head first. After some crying, he climbs back on the chair and says, "Why did you make this floor with tile and not grass? It wouldn't hurt my head so much if it was grass."

8/09 - Benjamin was watching Cindirella for the first time. (I have to admit, it was my idea to watch it. It used to be my favorite growing up.) After the movie was over, he said "Mom, let's not watch that ever again."

4/09 - Benjamin was blessing the food for dinner. After blessing everyone’s individual plates and drinks, and then blessing everybody he knows, twice, he said “…and bless Omner and Himni…”. (For those who don’t know, Omner and Himni were sons of Mosiah from the Book of Mormom, read full story here http://scriptures.lds.org/en/mosiah/27 )

4/09 - We’re at the doctor’s office, checking out. Benjamin is talking to everybody who’ll listen to him in the lobby. One lady asked him what his name was. Here’s his answer…
Ben: I’m Benjamin. I’m almost 3 years old. I’m going to be baptized. I’ll be a missionary one day.

3/09 - I put Ben in time-out (the corner)…
Ben: When I turn into a dinosaur, I’ll scare you away from putting me in time-out.

3/09 - I was helping Benjamin say a prayer. We thanked Heavenly Father for our prophet, Thomas S. Monson. After the prayer...
Ben: Thomas S. Monson is our prophet?
Me: Yes, he is.
Ben: I love him. He is my friend.

2/09 - We're on our way back from the doctor's office. Benjamin's got a really bad runny nose...
Ben: Mom, we need to go back to the doctor.
Me: Why?
Ben: He needs to take my nose off, it's too runny.

2/09 – I’m doing yoga; I’m in my zone, ignoring everything and everyone else. Scott, apparently, thinks it’s funny, so he tries to break my concentration by kissing my face. I try to shoo him away at which Ben gets a running start, jumps on top of me, pins me down and yells “Kiss ‘er, Daddy, kiss ‘er”. Great…there goes my Zen breathing…

12/08 - We are in the car with my Mom.
Ben: Mommy hit a car the other morning.
Mom (to me): You did?
Me: Yea, I did...I wasn't gonna tell you...Thanks, Benjamin. Ben: Did you say sorry to the peoples?
Me: Yes, I told them I was very sorry.
Ben: Thank you for saying sorry.
Me: You're welcome.
Ben: Did you give them money?
Me: No, I didn't give them money.
Ben: Give them hundred dollars.

ANDREW:

2/11 The boys were eating cereal (Crunch Berries). Andrew was picking all the purple ones out and saying, "Who wants the poopoo one?"

2/11 Andrew: (really sweet voice) Mommy, can I please hit Benjamin?
Me: No, you may not hit Benjamin.
Andrew: (disappointed voice) oh, why?

2/11 I was at a Relief Society activity, the boys were being babysat by some young women in our Ward. As I was picking them up...
Me: What did you guys do?
Andrew: We watched a movie.
Me: What movie did you watch?
Andrew: Booty and the Beast

9/10 We just picked up Benjamin from preschool. I asked him what he did at preschool today...
Ben: We talked about our names.
Me: What did you say about your name?
Ben: I said that I have the same name as a righteous king in the Book of Mormon, King Benjamin.
Andrew: and I King Andrew.

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12/29/08

Sledding and snowboarding

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