Family vacation was so much fun. Any time you get the Sutton's together you have interesting things happen....this time was no different. We went to a camp ground in NC called Fontana Village. We had two birthday parties. One for me and one for Angela. Both parties were surprises. We went tubing, biking, fishing, and more. There were some eerie noises at night and strange people stealing power from the mens restroom. We all had a few good laughs. Worship at night was amazing. It is so nice to have real church.

One night we went out to eat. After many miscommunication we finally left the camp ground at 8:00pm to go find a place to eat dinner. 5 cars in a row. Everyone was following us (we had a GPS). After five minutes of driving we realized that the GPS was not working right and the resterant it was taking us to was about an hour away. So I got on the phone to try to find us a restaurant, when that didn't work we stopped and asked. The locals had no idea what would be open but they pointed us down a road. We found a family restaurant.... it was a Chinese American Steak House Seafood Pizza Restauant. They were very happy to see our crowed of 20People. They even had very cute child labor refilling drinks.

I did my first official mountain bike trail at Tsali. I did not biff (yeah). It was a awesome trail. We had so much fun. Mom, Angela, Noelle, Natalie, David, and I all did the eight mile trail. The rest of the crew were watching kids. Ben had gotten stung by six bees right before we left on the trail:(. Every one who watched the kids got to go ride after we got back.

Later the same day we went trout fishing to catch our dinner. I was helping Ben try and catch a fish and Adler decided to step on the thin blue piece of foam that was on top of the water... you guessed it he fell in. I went running to grab him out of the water. Then Ben got stung by a flying ant. Ohhhhhhhhh what a day. At least the fish were soooooooo yummy.

Ben did not want to come home. Ben told me that "home is not any fun" and that he wanted to keep camping with Grammy and Papa.


I will have to update this post later. We have about 500 pictures.

O's games sugar rush

Ben came home from the baseball game bouncing off the walls. Daddy gave him more than 1 sprite. Talk about a sugar rush. The time was after 10pm. He was so funny.

We have been going to the pool as much as possible. Ben is our little fish. He is getting so good at swimming. Our new camera is so much fun.

We spent a wonderful day at the zoo. Angela and Ethan came with us. We had so much fun. Ben hit the concrete and busted his chin. I will have to write more later....we are going for a walk.

We went to the little water park with Grammy, Ethan, Nina and girls. We had a great time. Texas 6-10-08

The boys had a blast making a mess out of our clothes. Texas 6-08

Helping Hands

We as Moms all understand that helping hands can actually cause more work and take 5 times as long to get things accomplished. Today would definitely be a great example of that.

We sat down after a dinner of homemade pizza and strawberry short cake to visit with our guests. We cleaned up for a few minutes. After about 20-30 minutes we started smelling a strange and awful stench. We could not figure out what the smell was. It smelled a little like gas or paint but none of us could figure it out. We even went to the neighbors house to see if they were doing anything. So thinking it could be a gas leak, due to the fact it was so strong in the kitchen, we tried to call the housing office. All the numbers we tried either no one answered or it was disconnected. So we called the fire prevention office who patched us through to the fire department. They told us to wait outside. The fire truck came, lights flashing, alarm sounding, and all. Adler was very excited. The firemen rushed into the house. One of them saying "If I fall down just leave me." They searched the kitchen and thought the smell was coming from the vent next to the stove. One of the firemen burned his finger when he touched it (the engine was overheating badly). Not the source of the smell. But now where was the mystery smell coming from???? The brave and wonderful firemen found it!!!!! It was a rolling pin Ben had loaded in the dish washer RIGHT ON TOP OF THE HEATING ELEMENT. I loaded most of the dishes and Ben wanted to help.....so he opened the dish washer and loaded the pizza roller. I love our wonderful stories that we will get to share when our children have children. We all had a great laugh....including the firemen.

Who Wants To Be Like Daddy?

Ben always run behind Jesse and copies him during retreat (when they play music and take the flag down everyday). Stand at attention and hand on your heart. I think they are so cute. Adler even ran over and tried to copy them.

Climbing

We got to go on a date. A friend was awesome and watched the boys for us. We had such a good time. I was very nervous about the ledge I had to climb, but I made it. Jesse was very impressive and climbed like a monkey. He is a natural. It was my first time climbing and I loved it. I wonder when can we go again. By the end of it my arms were jello. Who wants to go climb?

The "I Love My Papa" Song

Ben is currently singing the "I love my Papa" song a lot. I thought I would share it with all of you. Sorry the first one is side ways.

Say Cheese

The boys had pictures taken today. Look at those smiles.

Funny face take 2

Ben decided we forgot a few faces.