Once upon a time...: Go Take a hike!!

Friday, October 10, 2008

Go Take a hike!!

We had some time down in St. George and we always talk about going hiking but we never make it. Today we finally did. We went hiking in Snow Canyon. It was so gorgeous and fun. It was so nice to just get away as a family. Sariah and Bubba actually had a good time in between the whining. I took a ton of pictures and have a lot I want to post so sorry for the vertical slideshow!!

Kempton could not get enough of the red sand. When we were walking he would kick it and watch it fly in front of him. Then he discovered he could actually get down and touch it...What a cute kid.

This is my handsome man of a husband and our nifty backpack. Bubba loved it and he would keep pointing everwhere saying, "Look!" then "Wow!" It was awesome to know our kids love the outdoors as much as we do.

We found a lot of fun rock formations. Rustin would love to explain each and every grain of sand and how it got there for you. It is kind of fun to have my own soil tour guide. He really is a smarty pants. Isn't Sariah cute?...I know.

Here's Bubba peaking through the hole too...

Here's the final picture for this segment. We found tons of fun holes that we could crawl in. This one had tons of little caves all over in it. It was pretty awesome.

4 comments:

Tahnee said...: Sarah...
I love you! I love that you are with your amazing family again! They just don't reach their full potential of amazingness without you!; October 10, 2008 at 2:08 PM
MISTY said...: Sarah you are so awesome. I look up to you and your family. You guys have gone through so much. You are amazing. I am so happy you guys are back together and having such a great time. Love you guys so much and I am excited to see you guys in a few weeks.; October 11, 2008 at 5:58 AM
therubowfamily said...: Sarah,

Welcome back, thanks for your amazing example and Rustin for all his "therapy" you guys are GREAT examples and have helped me to see "the light" I will never forget it. Love you guys and THANKS!!!
Nicole; October 13, 2008 at 12:44 AM
Tahnee said...: So... can I be cheesy for a second. I have the picutre of Rustin hiking with Sariah in his backpack, and he's looking up (the one you have on here in black and white) on my desktop at work. I just logged back on my computer and when I looked at it I had this thought that it reminded me of his role here. Like he is treking through life with his family on his back, and looking up for guidance. It brought tears to my eyes. Man I love Rustin! He's such an example to me. So are you Sarah! You guys are truly my inspiration! I'm glad you posted that picture because now I don't think I can remove it... it inspires me.; October 17, 2008 at 4:50 PM

From the mouth of a Child...

I love when I read the funny things kids say on other people's blogs so I thought write a couple of my adventures:

Bubba is a little obsessed with Mindcraft lately...Bubba is telling me all about a spider he built and said, "Guess what he eats mom." I said bugs, to which he replied. "Nope" and I said"Well what does he eat then?" and he cutely says: "I can't believe I am saying this, but Gorilla meat."

The other night Bubba got out of the tub. He would not get dressed. As he was running around naked, I said, "bubba, you see this hand?" It would make a really nice red mark on that bum of yours...He responds, "Go ahead and do it mom!" As I went towards him to "do it," he starts yelling "no mom!! No Mom!! I meant it metaphorically."

Rustin told Bubba: Hey C'mon I'll put on some cartoons for you

After rustin leaves, Bubba: "Mom, it's not cartoons, it's grown up shows that are violent for kids."

Bubba: Mom, Mrs. Smith read us the best book in library today. It's called 'Witch, Witch come to my party,' The Illustrator did a really great job!"

Bubba was telling me about a new friend he made at school and out of nowhere he says, "and mom...he doesn't even use cigarettes!" Cute.

Bubba: Mom what are you afraid of?

Me: I don't know, I guess being in front of other people...

Bubba: Why because you are wearing shorts and your legs are extra hairy?

Me: (I cannot stop laughing!)

We were driving to a yard sale and I was listening to the GPS. She (the GPS) kept saying, "recalculating" over and over and I started to get frustrated.....Sariah then says: "Mom ,I bet she is FOR SURE not married!!!!"

Bubba: "Mom do you know what a mummy is?

Me: No

Bubba: It's just a zombie wrapped in toilet paper!!

Sariah was bawling and bawling about a new recipe I tried. She was saying how horrible and disgusting it is. When she FINALLY took a bite of it, she looks up at me and says, "I hate when that happens!" (She ate 3 more bowls of it!)

Bubba's teacher told me:

When the kids leave school they have to give their teacher a high five and today Bubba's hands were full of his coat and all his creations...

MS. O: Oh Bubba I guess you can't give me a high five today, your hands are too full.

Bubba: Nope I can't give you a high five, but I can give you a hug!!!!

Isn't that so sweet!!!!??!!

I was carrying Bubba down the hall last night and I said, "Bubba did you know that you are very strong?" He responded with: " Well duh mom! I CAN lift a vacuum!!!!"

We were at the store and I told Bubba that acknowledge means to listen. Bubba is yelling at the top of his lungs, "Sariah acknowledge me!!! Sariah acknowledge me!!!"

There were some ants on our porch and bubba says, "Wow there is a whole galaxy of ants out here!"

I was playing a game on the computer and bubba saw a girl on it and said, "mom if she were a fruit snack, I'd eat her!"

Bubba and Sariah found a pair of Bubba's baby socks enter Bubba's comment: "Ohh I had such cute baby feet, I had like 3 toes probably..."

Bubba is holding a water bottle and says, "Mom is water an invisible drink?"

During Sariah's prayer:

Bubba whispers: "Hey Sariah this is a great prayer!"

Bubba's prayer last night:

"and please bless that mom will stop yelling at us and that she will stop saying, "Bubba just go to bed!" (he said it exactly like I do). What a kiddo!!

Right after reading the millionth story...

Sariah: "Mom did you know that there are mom and dads that don't have any kids?

Me: Really?

Sariah: Yeah I saw some, they got to hold hands when they were shopping!!!

There are DI pods at the church....

Me: Okay guys you need to go through your rooms and get all the toys you don't need anymore and put them in a box.

Sariah: Why mom?

Me: Because we can give them to the kids at the DI

Sariah: WHAT! Parents don't want their kids anymore!!!!

Me: Sariah how was school today?

Sariah: thinking a long time.......

Me: Sariah?

Sariah: Mom you know what we need is the "touch & brush" it would really help us with brushing our teeth.

I was at my daughter's school pow-wow and I was in charge of making the little teepees so:

ME: Have any of you guys seen a real live teepee?

Little boy: I saw one at Mt. Rushmore

ME: Oh wow! Lucky you

Another cute little girl: My mom said that I saw a real teepee when we lived in Yellowstone

ME: Oh you would see teepees there for sure!

Girl: I know, when we lived in Yellowstone....oh maybe it wasn't Yellowstone......oh it was West Jordan.

ME: okay.

Yesterday Bubba woke up from his nap crying enter this conversation:

Sariah: Mom why is he crying? Oh wait I know he probably had a bad dream about hogs...

Me: Hogs?

Sariah: Yeah you know those hogs like at Cabelas what was it called?

Me: Warthog?

Sariah: Yeah the warthog, he probably dreamed that they were eating cute pink pigs...

Me: I'm sure that was it.

Sariah was pretty mad at me and yelled: "Mom if you were a witch I'd throw water on you!!" Yeah it hurt a little, but you gotta give her points for creativity!!!

We were looking at pictures and there was a picture of a pregnant lady's stomach and Sariah asked, "Mom why is that girl only wearing a belly button?"

Sariah: Mom what does "hit the hay" mean?

Me: It means to go to bed

Sariah: Oh, so does that mean when we are awake we hit the horse?

We were driving down to St. George and Rustin was looking out the window and said, "That has to be the coolest dirt in the whole wide world!!" I quickly agreed, I am getting used to being married to a biology/agriculture major :)

Today I was eating some noodles and broccoli and Sariah came up and looked at it and said, "Mom did those use to be trees that they cut before they let them grow?"

Today Bubba wrapped his shirt around his neck and said: "Look mom I'm a snowman!!"

I was watching Biggest loser and I was cheering on Philipe during their challenge and Sariah wanted Tara to win. Well Tara did win. I was doing laundry and Sariah came by and I told her that I was sad that Philipe lost and she said: "Why because he's a good fellow??" I was laughing so hard! Where did she hear the word 'fellow' from??

We had family come down for bubba's birthday and one of them was a 6 week old baby. Sariah told me that she loved babies and I told her I did to. I told her that we weren't going to have anymore babies at our house, she replied: Well than I guess we'll just have to keep Bubba!

The other day me and Sariah were coloring and sariah wanted to know what color to color the hair of her guy. She then asked me what color of hair Rustin had and I told her nicely that he doesn't have hair and that he is bald. Sariah started looking through the crayons and frustrated she asked me, "Mom!! where is the color bald??"

Bubba was eating a Cadbury egg (love them) and he bit the top off and he said, "Hey a baby is comin' out!!"

Sariah: Mom I know how to spell Sarah!: "M-O-M"

I asked Sariah if Bubba's diaper was poopy. She took a sniff and said: "OOh gross it smells like a swimming pond!"

ME: Sariah have you ever thought about what you wanna be when you grow up?

HER: Yeah mom, I'm gonna be a kangaroo remember!?

Bubba got his leg stuck behind the couch and I pulled him out and he started crying and Sariah says, "Oh no! We have to take him to the bone dentist!!"

A couple weeks ago Rustin sold one of his guns on KSL. Sariah saw us taking pictures and wanted to sell some of her toys. Ever since then whenever she won't clean up her toys I tell her I'm going to sell them. This was our conversation today...

HER: "Mom I need to change my underwear, these ones are too fall-y downy."

ME: Okay that's fine, I don't care.

(After taking them off and leaving them on the bathroom floor)

HER: "Mom you can go ahead and sale those ones to another little girl."

ME: I am laughing so hard especially when I pick them up and see a lovely skid mark-any bidders?

I told Sariah that someone I know broke up with her boyfriend. (enter-confused face)

HER: Mom, How did she break him?

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