Happy 9th Birthday, Ethan!

On this day, 9 years ago our lives changed! Big time! We were blessed with the birth of our very first child - Ethan Matthew Clayburn. Ethan has been such a wonderful addition to our family. He is generally the first to lend a helping hand, the first to calm a troubled heart, the first to figure out a problem, and so on. He has been a model child and older brother to his 3 younger siblings. We cannot imagine our lives without him. He truly is a dream come true! We love you Ethan. Hope today is a great day!!
Ethan - Huntsville, UT (July 2005 - age 4)
Ethan - Ogden, UT (May 2005 - age 4)
Ethan (4) & Ashton (2) in front of a Temple (which one??? Bountiful??) April 2005
Ethan & Ashton dressed by their father (April 2005)
Ethan & Ashton at the Gateway, Salt Lake City, UT (Ethan's Birthday 2005)
Ethan and Ryan
Ethan & Ryan (December 2004 - age 3.5)
Great Grandpa Clayburn (holding Ethan), Grandpa Clayburn, Daddy (holding Ashton) October 2004
Ethan - August 2004
Ethan at his Papa's old office - Ogden Union Depot, Ogden, UT (August 2005)
Ethan with Great Grandpa Clayburn - Rose Park, UT (October 2005)
Ethan - Cocoa Beach, FL (June 2005)
Ethan following tricycle accident - S. Ogden, UT (August 2005)
Ethan - Fairmount Park - Salt Lake City, UT (September 2005)
Ethan - Cocoa Beach, FL
Ashton and Ethan at Hogle Zoo - Salt Lake City, UT (April 2005)

Ethan ready for church - December 2004
Ethan - Easter at Tiffany's - W. Jordan, UT (2005)
Ethan at Ogden Temple Grounds
Ethan - Cincinnati, OH (October 2008)
Ethan and Papa (September 2005)
Matt & Ethan - Cynthiana, KY (August 2008?)

Ethan today - age 9!

Happy Birthday Uncle Tye!

Monday Funny!

Many of you know our friend Cindy Popp Smyly. If so, you know she is HILARIOUS!!! Apparently the funny gene has been passed down to her kiddos. Her facebook status yesterday was this:

Cam's (preschool age) blessing on the food last night: Dear Heavenly Father -- please bless that our cars and houses won't explode. Bless that nobody will die or get their eyes poked out. Please bless that the vegetables Mom made will turn into bubblegum. Bless that we don't get diarrhea from Mom's food -- Amen

Guiness Book of KNOWLEDGE

Today Ashton stayed home from school. He actually was sent home early yesterday. He had a fever. Of course, shortly after returning home "said" fever disappeared. Anywho . . . today he came with me to work. Since my job consists of driving, driving and more driving Ashton and I had a lot of time to talk. Talking with him is FUN!

So to begin, I asked for more clarity in the Flying Squirrels department. He clarified that there WERE only two, but 1 was shot and now there is one. And that ONE lives in China, which was later changed to Japan. When I asked him today again, where he learned of this he said, "in my Math book." Hmmm, Math has changed in the past 30+ years. Who knew?

On to next subject - the Sun. Today the sun was shining - for a minute. During that minute Ashton said, "if you get too close to the sun you will melt . . . and if you melt you will have no funeral." I said, "yep!"

There you have it - another day with Ashton and another day with laughs!

Nuts about Squirrels or just plain Nuts?

Today on our way to drop Ethan off at Cub Scouts, I had a fun conversation with Ashton (7). The topic was Flying Squirrels. He schooled me on all sorts of {useless} information regarding them. One of the most interesting facts was there are only 2 Flying Squirrels in the whole world. One is in Canada and I "accidently" spaced out the other location. If you HAVE to KNOW the additional spot, I will re-ask the Flying Squirrel Scholar. At the conclusion of this educataional event, he notified me that the reason why he knew so much about Flying Squirrels is that he studies a lot and is a good reader. What a NUT!

Where does the Apple Fall?

Today Ashton said this to me:

Ashton: "Mom, I've wore these undies for TWO WEEKS STRAIGHT".

I wanted to respond like this:

Mom: "Like Father, Like Son" {hee hee}

I actually wanted to post that on Facebook. I decided that "Father" wouldn't think that was as funny as I did" . . . . so I didn't. But I still want to . . . . LOL!

Disclaimer: Father and Son change their undies DAILY (crossing fingers on the Son part)

Happy Birthday - Shout Hooray!

Happy Birthday to my older brother Luke! Hope your day was fabulous!!! I have a real sweet picture to load here, but it is MIA. Until then, here is a singing telegram from your neice and nephews in Hillbilly Land!