Sunday, May 18, 2008

What are they really watching?!!


A couple of weeks ago, I was shopping at the grocery store with Gav. We had been there a while and I decided to buy a Stoufer's frozen lasagna. As I was putting the lasagna in the cart, gavin comes over and says, "hey, that's stoupers!" I was a little surprised to see that he knew what it was that I was putting in the cart, so I said, "how do you know what this is?" and he said, "I saw it on commercial, so that's stoupers and its really good for the whole family!" I thought that was pretty cute but it made me very wary of what kids really do see on television, watching their favorite cartoon or show.

A couple of days later, Kamryn and I were grocery shopping and she informed me that the green produce bags are better to put your produce in because they "stay fresher longer in the green produce bags." I again asked her how she knew that, and she said because she saw it on a commercial. Well, at least they are seeing the useful commercials instead of the smut they could be seeing. I guess bottom line is, I really should be very aware of what my children are watching on the t.v. so they don't start informing me what lingerie will strap me in the best or anything worse.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Only In Utah


We recently finished reading the Book of Mormon as a family!! (It took 1 and a half years reading 1 page most nights). We decided to celebrate by going bowling and getting ice cream. So, while we were purchasing our games and getting our shoes, Kamryn excitedly told the cahier, "We just finished reading the Book of Mormon as a family so now we get to go bowling and ice skating." Where else but in Utah would a young cashier reply, "Oh, you did? That is so awesome!"? I love living here in happy valley where people are proud of our family for having good values. I love living in a place where our children can feel comfortable sharing our exciting news with perfect strangers and then having the strangers be excited for them and know what the heck:-) they are talking about. We are truly blessed to live in such a wonderful state, city, nieghborhood, home.