Popcorn Poppin and Gold Butte

My kids have definitely inherited my LOVE for popcorn! When I was growing up my family would pop popcorn and watch a Hallmark movie or other family movie every Sunday night. It was one of our traditions and I LOVED it! I do not like movie theater popcorn or microwave popcorn and am very passionate about Air Pop Popcorn! In my view it is the ONLY way to go! I also am very particular about the amount of "real butter" that goes on my popcorn! I only like a HINT of butter and that is why I am in charged of putting the butter on the popcorn! Well, my kids get so EXCITED when they hear the popcorn popper start up and they LOVE to help mom out! I think it is just too cute and I am glad that my kids have the same PASSION for popcorn that I do! With that being said, it makes a HUGE mess and sometimes I wait till they are in bed to make it because I don't want the mess...is that bad? However, the other day we made popcorn and of course there was popcorn everywhere when we were finished! I was so proud of Ty when he went and got the vacuum and starting cleaning up the mess and I didn't even ask him to! Do I have a GREAT son or what!! Now you know my little secret love affair with popcorn!

Now onto the Gold Butte trip! We went out in December to help with the Gold Butte cleanup effort! The kids had a blast climbing all the rocks and taking rides on the rhino! Tenley loved playing in the fire pit...I finally gave up and let her play until her little heart was content! The boys ate lots and lots of hotdogs and drank a ton of hot chocolate! I wish we had gotten a picture of Tags face...it was covered in hot chocolate! Ty and Tag were trying to act like "angry guards" and were crackin me up! I just love the things they think of! They also learned about what happens when people don't pick up their trash before they leave and had lots of fun finding trash to put in the trash bag! It was a great day and I once again was reminded about all the beautiful creations our Heavenly Father has given us to enjoy and I hope my children will learn that if we all pitch in and take care of these beautiful places, that they will remain a place of beauty that we can go and enjoy!  What a great way to spend a Saturday, in my humble opinion! I think it took about 10 seconds for the kids to crash and burn!

One last thing, Grammy and Poppy wanted a picture of the boys in their white shirts and ties! I was telling them on skype how handsome they looked! Well, getting this picture wasn't exactly easy! My husband does not wear EVER wear a tie because he feels like he is being choked to death! Well, my two boys immediately say to me after I put on the tie, "mom this tie is choking me!!", as they are pulling on the tie to try and get it off! So there were many tears shed and I very sternly said with a forced smile, "you will stand there and smile for the camera! Grammy and Poppy want to see how handsome you look with your white shirts and ties!" This was the only picture that turned out and I just think they look like little missionaries! I LOVE it! With that being said, the ties were taken off in about 2.5 seconds after the picture was taken! What am I going to do with them?