First Day of SCHOOL!!

The boys went grocery shopping with me and got a treat for being good...remember these?!

 

Ahhhh yes school has started once again! Elijah is in the BIG boy hallway this year and his teacher is Mrs. Pantenburg. I coached her son in basketball, they are a nice family so I am excited to volunteer in his classroom this year! Elijah's goal this school year is to make good friends.

Ian has Mrs. Annala this year and she seems like she will be great! Ian has Selma in his class for the third year in a row...we tease him that she is his girlfriend, he just rolls his eyes and says whatever....has yet to deny it though! He is excited for the school year and wants harder homework! HAHA His goal is to make good friends too and to do his best.

 

 They wanted to wear their new BSU shirts Grandma Thomas got them when she was visiting this summer! After Robert gave them and the girls father's blessings Gweny said, "Yeah I'm bigger, I can go to school now"! HEE so cute then she turns to me and says, "Your turn momma"! Thanks babe for being worthy to give us blessings, we love you!

I am not at ALL into art projects, mainly I am just lazy.....but today I thought, why not! So we did some blow art. The girls had a great time! 

 Mine

 Look at her red face! HAHA she really wanted to splatter that paint!

 Then they rode around the house on their horses!

Last day on the River

August 28, 2012

 

 

We wanted to head up to the river one last time before school started and our good friends the Anderson's were able to come with! We were a little worried at first because of the fires that were happening up there and we didn't know how bad the smoke would be. Lucky for us about an hour after we got to our favorite swimming hole the smoke lifted and we were able to have a great time!

The river was colder this time, so I was chicken to go in, but the kids didn't seem to mind...including Kordell! Em and I did a little reading and sun bathing too, while the kids made pools, dared each other to go underwater, and Elijah, Austin, and Kai even jumped off some rocks! We were up there for about 6 hours, had lunch and dinner and had us a fun time! Thanks for coming with, Anderson's!!

Randomness in August

My mom saw this idea in a magazine and I thought it sounded cute so I wanted to try it out. It's BEE nice to your siblings. You write a little note to each sibling about something you like about them. We have only done it a couple of times, but it's fun to read what the kids come up with.

 

Ian told Adeline she was an evil ballerina...I was about to protest, but she started to laugh and say thanks Ian!

 I watched my friends little baby the other night for a bit and my kids had more fun than I did I think. They would just sit there and laugh at all the little noises he would make. They probably watched him more than me too! Addy even helped me feed him his bottle when he got hungry. After tonight they told us they were ready for another one and I just had to laugh!

 Look at those CHEEKS!!!

 Boise State was having a scrimmage and it was open to the public so he decided to take the boys! They had a good time, just the boys! GO BRONCOS!!

 I was cleaning out in the garage the other day and this is what Gwen came out in!

Now THAT is style!

Last time @ Lakeview Water Park..for the Summer

Heidi, Corrine and I all met up at the water park for one last time this summer! I have such fun with these gals and my kids have a great time with theirs! Thanks for a great time ladies!

 Gweny took a slip....I was meaning to get Edmond on the water! HEE HEE

 Adeline and her little friends were in a swim group. There were about 8 in all. They would go around to different parts of the pool and do different things, it was fun to watch them!

 Corrine you lucked out on this shot girl! To bad you were catching kids off the water slide or you would be here in all your glory too! NEXT TIME!!

Swimming with friends

August 10, 2012

 

We went to Monica's pool this time and had some great fun! Thanks Monica for inviting us along!

 They were playing a rescue game! Help I'm drowning.....I kept telling them not to yell that to loud or we would have a lot of worried people on our hands!

 Gweny finally will wear wings! She loves being out by herself now and so does mom!

 She did NOT want to take off the water wings...hee hee.

 Jake and Elijah, this is how they get warm.

 

Robe Party/ Late night

Adeline told me the other night that we should have a robe party because we all have robes! I thought that was a very good idea, so we got our robes on, I made some cookies and then we had a little dance session! We had a great time, to bad it was close to bed time and we had to cut it short...

Great idea Adeline!!

 WOW I look prego in this picture! NO I am not prego!

 Later that night we went to the Aderson's for a late night. Em and I made strawberry freezer jam while the boys played then at 9:30 we went to their pool for some late night swimming! The outdoor lights weren't on so I downloaded a flashlight to my phone and used that, worked pretty well, but it was still a little dark so we called it quits after a half an hour, but they still had fun!

Randomness the first week of August!

WOW did we love to watch the Olympics!! Addy's favorite part was to watch the gymnastics! This was Adeline in her Olympic competition! She was an Olympian to us! Great Job Addy keep it up!

 The boys have been playing with the girls really well lately, especially Adeline! They even made her a bed in their room and invited her over for a sleep over! So cute, I had to get a picture of this moment! When I went in there this is what I saw.....

 Ian made himself a bed behind is pulled out bunk...He said it was really cozy!

 Elijah was on Ians bed....

 Adeline got these glasses at her cousin Allison's birthday when she was in California for her 5 year old trip. She loves to wear them and even went to Walmart with them on. To cute!

Roasting Marsh mellows

July 30, 2012

So Em had this great idea of roasting marsh mellows together for an FHE activity. I thought that should be fun even though it was the High 80's!! Well I think we roasted like 5 marsh mellows and called it good. As you can see we went with ice cream instead!

Pioneer Day

July 23, 2012

Since Pioneer Day was right around the corner I decided to do Family Home Evening on Pioneers! We read a story and talked about the trial they had to face and the trials we have to face today. Then we played some Pioneer games....we had a great time!

Stick Pull

 I will let you guess who won this one!

 Clothes pin toss

 Sack races

 My cousin made this pioneer game years ago and you play it with chocolate chips aka buffalo chips! It was a lot of fun and we all made it to the promise land......even though our chips were melting!

 Then we made covered wagons......those were a mess, but fun!