For Amy’s birthday, we celebrated by going to lunch with her, and visiting her awesome office, complete with a room/walls covered entirely in white boards, can you say awesome?
Someday I will have a room covered in whiteboards, ‘sure kids, color on the walls!’
and bean bag chairs, my kids would be in heaven.
Love to celebrate such a wonderful part of my life.
Love you Amys! Not only are you my sister, but my best friend!
We brought this car seat inside, and Elliot spent the next day sitting in it happily for nearly an hour. I kept asking him if he wanted to get out, and he didn’t.
For his papa.
Tucker LOVES piano. He has an amazing teacher who is patient and kid with him, and challenges him. This was one of the first song he learned to play. He was so proud of himself, as he should be!
At the beginning of the summer, we made a list: 40 Days of Summer Fun, 2011, and I am to report, we made many of them happen. In the following posts I plan on including the number in the title, so we as a family can keep track of the things that we completed and took pictures of! 🙂 Each of us choose a couple of things we wanted to do, and together the list was ‘born’.
1 Going to the pool for fun.
2 Go to a baseball game.
3 Go on a hike.
4 Blow Duckie Bubbles.
5 Go camping
6 Go tube on the river
7 Fishing!
8 Eat Watermelon.
9 Grow sunflowers.
10 Swim in a lake.
11 Attend a Summer Festival.
12 Go to the cabin.
13 Ride Horses.
14 Ride 4 wheelers
15 Boondocks, golfing and ride.
16 Eat Strawberries and Cream.
17 Long Bike Ride.
18 Roast Marshmallows
19 Cook Out with Hot dogs.
20 Watch Fireworks.
21 Sleep in Treehouse.
22 Bottle Fruit and Veggies.
23 Read books and go to Library.
24 Bug Catching Day
25 Have dutch oven potatoes
26 Go on a waterside.
27 Lunch with Dad.
28 Mulligan Stew.
29 Go to a parade.
30 All day outside day.
31 Picnic.
32 Science Experiments.
33 Scout Stuff.
34 Rock hunting.
35 Knit a rug.
36 Make something out of wood.
37 Dinner on the patio.
38 Big sand castle.
39 Coppermine.
40 Drive inn Movie.
A weekly tradition my kids LOVE. And make sure we don’t forget!
Pizza and salad in the office, on a blanket, while we watch a movie. The kids latest favorite show to pick is is ‘Phineus and Ferb’. I actually think it’s a pretty entertaining show too! “Darn you Perry the Platypus!”
And another perk? We use paper plates, and dishes, and so there is literally NO clean up, and so we’re all ready for Sunday the next day! Love it!
when the kids keep finding treasures amongst the stuff I am giving away!
Perfect example: Tucker rekindled his love for knitting, with his kniffty knitter
And as I was sorting, I couldn’t keep Lorelei away from the pipe cleaners.
This is the week she started to roll everywhere to get what she wanted.
How quickly they learn!
Love to catch these little moments of play,
when he’s not aware of me,
and his concentration is completely on what he’s doing.
This day it was stacking letters. And he was on a quest to build a big tower. And he succeeded. 🙂
The great Hunsakers invited us to their Carnival, hosted as a fundraiser for the youth in their ward. It was a great night! Toph was out of town, (we were supposed to pick him up from the airport, but his flight got delayed a few hours! Darn!) and I was grateful for something fun to do!
Thanks again Great Hunsakers, it was a memorable and fun night!
His bare book this year, The Three Little Shrimp and the Big Bad Shark
He was so excited to share it with us:
Especially to see Truman at his class!
What good pals these sweet boys are.
We all enjoyed some juice and cookies,
and an excellent story.
Elliot and Truman sat ‘glued’ to his book as he read it!
So proud of you Tucker and how hard you work to make your dreams become reality!
One of Truman’s classmates’ grandparents live on a beautiful farm. The kids got to visit it, and learn more about how farms work. The Schow family was incredibly generous in giving their time to allow our school to come and visit.
I got to go on the field trip, with just Truman. It was a special treat to spend some one on one time with this cutie, and see him interacting with his classmates and friends.
He finally got to go on a school bus! Dreams do come true!
With his best kindergarten pal,
We learned about fish,
Farm equipment
How to bale hay
Saw this amazing little tree house, on their beautiful property,
Got to feed baby sheep
Pet baby goats
I really do think baby piglets are darling, and we learned what meat they give us, It was strange for me to see that it startled some of the little kids when they called this cutie piglet it’s name: bacon. 🙂
Met this sweet, gentle horse.
This momma cow, was protecting her calf. She even charged the fence a few times. The kids were anxious to leave this station!
We went next to the ice-cream booth, yes please!
And on a wagon ride,
And we ended the day with a discussion about Chickens, and a sucker. Truman informed me the chickens were boring, and he knew everything they talked about. (and he truthfully did!)
It is a relaxing morning to be with just Truman. He is obedient, kind and a good listener. How blessed am I to be his mother.