At Jon’s urging I have decided to contribute to our family website. I absolutely love how he writes and what he chooses to write about – and I’m convinced he could do a better job at writing all of this… but I thought this would be a very fun page to do myself.  Growing up our family had a “Black Book” where my mom recorded all of our funny sayings.  I have continued this tradition in my own family and this page is taken out of our family’s Black Book.

September 2008 Right in the middle of eating her spaghettio’s, Katelyn abruptly stopped, jumped out of her chair and ran over to me as fast as she could.  She then declared: “Daddy, if I do the wrong thing and the right thing, if I do the wrong thing I will get in trouble if I don’t do the wrong thing I will do the right thing, Ok? So if I do the right thing I won’t get in trouble and God’s power will get in all the bad person’s houses.” “Wow, that’s great Katelyn, what does it all mean?” She simply shrugged her shoulders and said “I don’t know.”

July 2008 Katelyn’s birthday is next month and she’s at that age where she wants EVERYTHING for her birthday. The current list ranges from a new frisbee to a pet crab to anything and everything Barbie. Dad developed a bit of pride though when she announced that she wants a hunting rifle just like his except one that’s pink and has Strawberry Shortcake on it. Do they make those? I hope not!

July 2008 We watched Matt and Bonnie Parks’s little girl Amy for a couple hours so they could go to the temple. After Matt came and picked Amy up, Katelyn said “I wish we could have baby Amy and Matt and Bonnie can have another baby.” Say what?

July 2008 During family home evening, I read a talk from the Friend magazine by Elder Uchdorf about the first vision. When finished reading I asked  “Ok, Katelyn, what is Joseph Smith’s First Vision?” Katelyn looked a little puzzled and thought for a second and then said unassuradly “Ummm, he go’d camping?”

June 2008 Katelyn came in from playing in Shalei (my sister’s) backyard and said “I’m soaking hot!”

October 2007 – May 2008 a whole bunch of funny stuff we forgot to write down :-(

September 2007 Every time we are in the car and go down a hill Katelyn suddenly cheers “weeeeeeeeeee!!” Today after “weeeeee-ing” down a hill she excitedly said, “wow, Heavenly Father sure has a lot of slides!”

August 2007 Sometime in the 5 1/2 years we’ve been married we acquired a little stuffed Sponge Bob that suctions to the car window. For one reason or another we have never had the desire to put him up in our car so he’s been in the top of our coat closet next to other forgotten things. I was going through the closet the other day organizing everything and he got put on the floor in a DI pile. Katelyn of course found him and he was an instant life long best friend! Daddy explained the suctions on his hands were for the car window. They had to go out right then and put him up in Katelyns window – facing Katelyn – not outwards like designed. To do this his arms had to be twisted so he could face her and still suction to the window. She is completely delighted with him! Today we were driving along and Katelyn startled me with a very worried cry, “Mommy, help Sponge Bob, she’s arms is hurting!”

May 2007 Today Katelyn saw Ethan’s belly button and started giggling with delight while she said, “that’s Ethan’s belly butt!”

April 2007 Katelyn has had a stuffy nose lately and this morning she came out of the bathroom with one tiny square of toilet paper and said, “I got a toilet wiper!”

February 2007 Katelyn is picking up very quickly on every little conversation she hears. We drove by the temple with her one night and she was hooked – she talks about temples at least 10 times a day. She often talks about it being where Jesus lives, or Heavenly Father’s house. But it doesn’t stop with that, the conversation almost always goes into pretty dresses & getting married. Today she was talking to Jon and I about how when she grows up she’ll wear a pretty dress and get married in the temple. I said, “well, you can’t get married alone, you have to marry a boy, do you know who you want to marry?” She thought for a second or two and her face lit up as she exclaimed, “the Bishop!”

October 2006 Katelyn has been potty trained now for five months – and was quite the miracle child when it came to potty training. Tonight she was on the toilet, and had been for some time… Suddenly she screamed “Alligator! Alligator!” I rushed over to her and she was turned around staring down at one terrifyingly huge, unbelievably long poop!