Conversations from our trip to Hawaii-

Driving passed a cemetery Mike reads: “Valley of the temples”

Looking out the other side of the car, Levi says, “it’s the Mac of the Donald’s.”

Fan tree!

Pantry!

Levi: Pants me 

Dallin: Why do we have to take a plane to the next island? Why can’t we take a boat

Levi: I want to take a submarine. 

Me: Should we take the USS Arizona?

Levi: Ya! 

Me: It’s full of dead bodies. 

Levi: so we’ll have snacks!

Early morning while walking home from seeing the sunrise:

Car honks, I smile and wave. A shady looking dude is hanging out the driver’s window and he looks like he’s about to make a u-turn and come back to see us. 

Robin: oops. This dude looks like he’s selling something. 

Mike: Be cool. Let’s see what he’s selling. 😏 

Me: I hope it’s breakfast. 

I feel like seeing an active volcano is a once in a lifetime experience. And you boys have seen 2 active volcanoes on 2 continents. You are very lucky. Some parents are taking their kids to Disney world. 

Levi: Why does Dallin get the bigger bed?

Mike: He’s the older brother. 

Levi: But I’m bigger. 

Mike: He’s older. 

Levi: I’m wider. 

 Weston: You didn’t make the cinnamon rolls yet?

Me: You just said last night that you don’t like the way I make them and you preferred to make them yourself!

Weston: I was hoping that would make you want to make them before I got up to make them!

Me: YOU CAN’T USE REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY ON YOUR MOTHER!!

 We one had a doctor diagnose Weston as "Sheldon Cooper" from the show "The Big Bang Theory". 

Dallin came home from High School and said he overheard someone in the hallway point to him and say, "Look! It's Young Sheldon". 

 Scripture study- Levi keeps subbing the word “donkey” for “asses”

 Weston: Levi, why won’t you just be inappropriate with us?

Levi: To piss off mom. 

Levi walks into the living room and motions for us to pause our show. 

Me: My life is ruled by tiny dictators that I created. 

 Dallin: When you French kiss, do you also bite the other person’s tongue?

Me: 🙄

Dallin: No seriously, I need an answer. I may have made a terrible mistake recently. 

(Dallin has never kissed anyone)

 Text from Mike-

Mike: Dallin wrestled a girl. He got pinned. 

Me: Darn it. I mean, unless you are into that sort of thing. 

 I’m watching House Hunters: International with Mike.  The couple is looking for a place in New Zealand, which is my dream location. 

Me: I wouldn’t be able to have a job in another country. What would I do all day while you are at work? 

{The camera pans over the beach.} 

Me: I know! I’m going to take wind surfing lessons from a 25-year old with a 6-pack!!!

Mike: Absolutely! That’s what you should do!

Me: You don’t mind?

Mike: I’m secure. 

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That awkward moment when you are out shopping with your husband and he picks up something funky and chuckles at it. Then he says to himself, “why am I always attracted to the weird stuff?” 

And I am just standing there all weird and stuff. 

 Conversation at dinner:

Me: I'm just the weird and awkward one. 

Mike: I'm happy I married the weird and awkward one. 

Me: I'm glad you didn't write one of those tribute posts on Facebook for our anniversary.

 Mike: Let’s go find a waterfall. 

Me: We are too old for this. 

Mike: All the more reason to go. 

Me: The older we are, the longer it takes to recover from our injuries. 

We drove out to the rainforest, followed geocache coordinates and found this place. We had it all to ourselves. I literally sent the coordinates to a friend and said, “if we are never heard from again, this was our last known location.

Me: If we are 40, how many years of skiing do we have left? 

Mike: I plan to die skiing. 

Me: Just not today, please.

 Tonight Mike said the dinner prayer: 

Please bless our coughs to go away. Please bless mom and her ribs to go away. ….wait. Not go away, get better.

I was expressing some neurotic, irrational concerns to my husband and he responds, "Pregnancy should be considered a mental illness".
November 2012

Setting: At the playground.  Dallin is playing on a scary part way above his skill level. 

Me: I don't like him playing on that.

Mike: It's okay, they're only his baby teeth.

(2011)

I was expressing some neurotic, irrational concerns to my husband and he responds, "Pregnancy should be considered a mental illness".

While looking at a very unflattering picture of me, my husband says to me, "Remeber that even when you had that body, you had a husband who was obsessed with you, and children who adore you".

Mike: You bought a gallon of paint?

Me: My motto is, "why finish an old project when you can start a new one!" 

Me: what do you think of this hair color? (Showing him a pic from Pinterest)

Mike: I don't know. 

Me: What do you think of it?

Mike: It's striped? (highlights)

Me: But do you like it?

Mike: What answer do I have to give for this conversation to be over?

The 8 year old just came out of his room and told us we were being too loud.