On My Mind

I hate TV sometimes. My 3 year old loves it and I think because of that reason I hate it.
Drake is not the shy child you see clutching onto his mothers leg at the shopping store. No, no, no, he's the one touching everything he can. He's the loudest kid in the store. He's not afraid of ANYTHING. I love this about him, well, most of the time. However, when we meet new people or when I want him to behave his very best, I'd like him to just calm down for a bit. Anyway, back to this TV thing. Drake is a talker (I wonder where he got that from) and he's very articulate as well. He picks up EVERYTHING that you say!!! And because of this I hate TV now.
Drake can say some really bad words. He has said a few 4 letter words but I'm talking about words like 'stupid', 'loser' or 'idiot'. I can't stand those words coming out of me 3 year olds mouth. Oh, and the #1 word that I hate him saying is the Lords name in vain. He's only said my #1 hated word 2 or 3 times, but in my book that's 2 or 3 times more than he should have. He doesn't say any of these words very often because he knows they are bad words but I swear he only says them when we are around other people. They've got to think I'm raising some punk kid or something. I don't know how to get away from these words.

- On Toy Story, Woody calls Buzz an 'idiot'. Thanks Pixar!
- EVERY Single channel (even Disney and Nick channels) say the Lords name in vain.
- On Kai Lan, she called something 'stupid'.

And the list goes on and on.

I know that Drake is just pushing my buttons, and I'm sure he's just testing the water to see what he can get away with. But, I want to hear from other parents. What do you do about this? My son can't be the only one that does this. Am I being too picky about what I consider 'bad words'? I just think he's too young to say those words.

Comments??? PLEASE!

Zimmerman Camping Trip 2011

This is the 3rd annual Zimmerman Family Camping Trip. The first couple years we called it the 4-wheeling trip, but we all have kids now and so it makes it hard for all of us to go on one big ride together.
We camped up by Strawberry reservoir and it was beautiful! The weather was great too. Here are a few, ok I mean a bunch, of pictures.

We're on our way!!



The view from our camp









Drake was dirty from the second we got out of the truck until we got home. We don't have a shower in our trailer so we went through a world record amount of baby wipes to try and get this kid clean before bed each night. He had a blast!!!

CJ went fishing on Saturday while the rest of the boys went to the shooting range.

This is my Brother Zac and my dad preparing some kabobs for dinner.

We ate lots of delicious food!!!

While we were there you couldn't fish the streams. And we saw a lot of fish in them. This is my nephew Dallin, my niece Addi and Drake looking at the fish in the water.

This is my niece Addi holding the butterfly that she caught.

All the kids playin' some ball. My nephew Dallin has a broken arm so it was kinda funny to watch him play :)

In the dirt, again.

This is the whole clan! (I love self timer)

My sister Jennell is pregnant with her fist child and she found out what she was having the first day of the camping trip. Most of the group was already up there so we were just waiting to hear from her. When she pulled up, she got out of the truck holding a 'It's a Boy' balloon. Super cute idea!!


This is Baby Rekker, Brandon & Whitney's little guy.

This is baby Dax, Rusty & Jess's little dude.

And this is baby Henry, Zac & Traci's 3rd little buddy.

They all so dang cute!!!



CJ and drake did a little 4-wheeling.

We had a blast, and with all these little kids, it will just get more and more fun each year!!! I love family!