Brubaker Family Adventures

  We had the best weekend four wheeling with Grandma and Grandpa in the mountains behind our house.  Poor little Belle fell asleep and Peter had to hold her to keep her from falling off.  I thoroughly enjoyed having Briscoe and Henry on the back of my 4-wheeler. Those two little boys crack me up they are both a lot of fun to be around I'm so glad they are mine.  They had non stop commentary about my driving which had me laughing the whole time.  Then at one point on our ride we were driving down the mountain at an angle and Briscoe says 'I love you Henry!' like it might be his last chance to say that to his brother.  He wasn't terrified he just wanted to make sure his brother knew how he felt just in case.  It was funny and sweet at the same time.  By the end they were tired of sitting on the back of the 4 wheeler and ready to get home and run free.  Ben really enjoyed the trip and said what a great day was and on the way out asked me to say ...

 We love living in our brand new beautiful house in the country. There are two mountain ranges to the east and west of us and our house is nestled at the west edge of the valley against the mountain range whose name I do not know. The mountains to the East Ben said are the Oquirrh Mountains. I love waking up to seeing the sun just starting to come up over the mountains and blinding me with its glorious light. It can be a little annoying on say a Saturday morning but luxurious still the same.   We roasted Marshmallows in our brand new fire pit for the first time last night on my 40th birthday.  We took turns snapping pictures of us and the kids to remember the momentous occasion by.  Ben made sure to send one to our landscaper Fred who finally talked us into letting him put in a fire pit for us.  He has 11 kids of his own and he wanted us to have that for our kids.  He kept saying he was just going to put one in for us for free and Ben didn't feel right...

 For nearly 10 years I have kept a blog called The Diaper Diaries documenting our life with little ones and we have been a diaper free home for about 4 months now.  Time is a thief.  I can barely remember those diaper days now and I'm so grateful I kept up my blog so faithfully during the cutest years of their life.  Having babies was a magical time. And now we are in the sweet spot of childhood where we mostly sleep through the night and we can send them downstairs to play loudly by themselves without the constant supervision that toddlers and babies require. I love being a stay at home mom.  I had no idea I would like it so much but I do.  Last year I did a homeschool preschool with Briscoe using course work from a company called the Good and the Beautiful and it was really fun.  Since I wasn't able to get Belle into a preschool this year I am doing the same program with her this year and so far we are enjoying it.  I also signed her up for some...