The Two Mess Makers

Our two sweet children have discovered a brand new hobby, they make messes.

It does not take them long to make the mess, which is good for them and bad for us.
A funny side note to their mess making is that Katelynn tends to blame Abigail for all of the messes. As you see here, Katelynn is not so innocent as she seems to be.

Having Children is such an adventure.

Old Halloween

I was sure that we had posted Halloween, but apparently not. We had the great blessing to be able to go to Disneyland with all our Patrick family the week before Halloween. So Kate and Abbie got to dress up (with Aunt Tia) and trick-or-treat in Disneyland. Then we came back to Paragonah and they got to trick-or-treat with the Barton family. We were not lacking in candy for a while. Katie went as Jessie the yodeling cowgirl (thanks to Grammy and all the costume fixes) and Abba was Tinkerbell. Before we left we made sure that we carved the pumpkin we grew in our very own garden. Katie named him Rudolph (she seems to like that name) because he had a nose that glowed.

Katie & Abbie isms Day 2 (DisneyLand)

We just returned from a family trip to Disney. Today is Disney themed Katie and Abbie Isims

Katieisim
After seeing Jack Skelington during the Halloween fireworks
"I don't Like him"......"I like Cinderella".
I didn't know the two were comparable.


Abbieism
After seeing Disneys carousel Abbie repeated over and over "Horse, horse, horse" So we took her on it. Sat her down on the horse, she bounced, and said "Horse" with a sound of satisfaction.

Katie & Abbie isms Day 1

Since our blog is called the "Patrickisims" I thought I would start a new blog idea. My children are growing up very very fast and they say the cutest things. So for the next few months I will be posting the Katie and Abbie isms.

Katie Isim 1

When I grow up I want to be as big as you daddy, while placing her finger on my stomach. Innocent yes, but very very funny.









AbbieIsim 1

Abbie shakes her head for everything, especially when she doesn't want to eat something. Last night I, her father, thought I would be sneaky and hide some food she didn't want to eat inside of the pudding she did. OF course without thought as to taste
Abbie Shook her head, stuck out her tongue, and gave me the look of "DAD THAT WAS DUMB!"

Katie & Abba

I finally arranged for our good friend and hairdresser to take the girls yearly pictures. Here is a preview.

Lake Powell

Just a few pictures of our trip to Lake Powell. My uncle Matt won a trip on a 70 foot house boat and so generously he invited some of our family. Our family was able to come and Jed and the girls experienced their first time sleeping under the stars on the top of the house boat. Kate liked the water, except for when she actually went under. Abbie liked it in very short stints. But Katie absolutely loved riding on the kayaks and would sit there while anyone would paddle her around. She also liked playing in Abbie's ladybug floaty because it kept her out of the water a little more. We had a lot of fun watching everyone else ski and wake board but the hit was the slide and almost EVERYONE on the trip went down it. The last night we made fruit pina coladas and margaritas and danced, the girls taking center stage a lot of the time.

Owwie

While we were at the Staley Family reunion at Bear Lake (which was fabulous) Abbie tumbled out of the 5th Wheel and managed to cut her head open. Thank goodness Grandma was prepared, as always, and was able to suture tape her head closed.

Paragonah

Jed and I went down to Tuchan to see Tarzan and while we did that my family watched the girls. I don't think they felt left out of anything as they helped on the farm and played.

Rodeo Champ

On July 22nd the girls and I went to the Days of 47 Rodeo with my family, while Jed was performing in The Music Man. Unbeknown to us that it was "Fiesta Night" so the whole "Intermission entertainment" was some people dancing, poorly to Spanish music. Not exactly up to the jumping motorcycles of previous years. Besides that it was one of the best rodeos we have ever been to. The stock was amazing, we have never seen horses buck so well, and they stayed on!
Us sitting in our seats. Which were pretty amazing, right close to the chutes.

















Figured I better put in a picture of the actual rodeo.








Uncle Travis and the girls.






Katie quite enjoyed the rodeo, it just needed to be about an hour shorter for her. She has a book about a rodeo and spent the whole time talking about the "Rodeo Champ".

Abbie's favorite part was the food and she made friends all around us and begged them for food too. This is her "cheese" for the camera, there were random people taking pictures of her, guess that is a compliment.

We have food

It is official we have picked our first vegetable from our garden! Of course it is a zucchini. Steamed half of it last night and it was great!