Team Ostler: Christmas Eve at the Beach

3.16.2012

Christmas Eve at the Beach

This Christmas was the first time in 4 years that we have not traveled to either Utah or Montana. While we did miss being with family it was so nice to be home. We didn't have to haul a bunch of gifts in our car while at the same time making sure that the kids don't see any of them. We didn't have to battle ice and snow and/or car troubles on the long and treacherous 12 hour drive. We didn't have to pull any of our winter coats and snow gear out of our garage. We didn't have to ~~forget to~~ pour hot water on any of our frozen car door locks. This is a very important step. If you don't pour hot water on the lock to defrost it you might just break the lock and then have to prolong your trip an extra day and pay hundreds of dollars to get it fixed. Not that that happened to us though. Just sayin'!

Instead, we got to go to the beach for a picnic on Christmas Eve! It will likely be the first and last time we ever get a chance to do that so we enjoyed every minute of it!! It was a gorgeous, sunny, perfect day! No snow, ice, or frozen car door locks here. :)

Of course, Jim and Ben can't stay away from the water even when they don't have their swim trunks on! Who can blame them though. It was absolutely perfect and beautiful!!!

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Funny Things Kids Say

We were at church and during the sacrament I was talking to Luke about Jesus. I told him that Jesus bled and died for us. Luke looked at me with a very concerned look and said, "Did Heavenly Father give Jesus a band-aid when he was bleeding?"

We were about to walk out the door so I told Luke to go potty. He came out of the bathroom saying, "I can't go! The batteries in my pee pee are dead!"

After Ben finished a big meal he said, "my tummy is so big and full I look like Grandpa now!" (sorry dad).

Ben pointed to a picture of the prophet and said, "That's President Monckley!"

We have a saying in our house. It's "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit!" But Ben has his own version of this. He says "you get what you WANT and you don't throw a fit!"

Jimmy said that he is allergic to babies. I asked him how he knew and he said that he gets sick when he smells them.

Ben asked me for another piece of halloween candy and I said, "Mommy is ready for the halloween candy to be gone" and Ben said, "Yea, gone in my mouth!"

We were driving past the gas station sign and Ben said, "I see a lowercase 5 on that sign."

I was talking to Jimmy about election day and asking him if his teacher voted and he said that she was "absent" that day. (I finally realized what he meant. She had just mailed in an absentee ballot.)

Ben put a whole bunch of toilet paper in the garbage and I told him that is a no, no. He said, "no it's a yes, yes!"

I tell Jimmy on a regular basis that needs to talk nicely. He yelled something across the room to me and I gave him the look that said I didn't like the tone of his voice and he said, "I was yelling nicely!"

Jimmy and I are listening to "Give Said the Little Stream" and Jimmy says "How does it talk?" I said "How does what talk?" He said, "The stream, it doesn't have a mouth, how can it talk?"

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3.16.2012

Christmas Eve at the Beach

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