First Day of School 2012

Logan - sophomore
Kristina - freshman
Carson - 8th grade
Katie - 8th grade
Emily -last year of preschool

Pain...

Logan was running through the house playing a game with Emily. As he ran past the stairs he caught his pinkie finger in the railing at the stairs. He kept going one way and his finger went the opposite.

Oh, and this was on his 15th birthday, just an hour before his birthday dinner. Steve and Logan headed to the ER to get his finger set and splinted.

A few days later we went to a hand specialist and his birthday continued with the gift of a pink cast for the next three weeks.

The doctor claimed that pink was the most popular color chosen by boys.

Take a picture....

We were at Walmart the other day and Emily sees these purple sunglasses. She LOVES the color purple. She put on the glasses and folded her arms in front of her and says to me "take a picture and send it to Dad. "

Jump time .....

Emily was invited to a friend's birthday party at Jump Time. She was so excited to go that she was up at 6:15 a.m. this morning.

She had a great time and has already asked to back.

Go Team...

Katie joined the cheer squad this year. Yesterday was their first game. She did great.

Summer is over....2008

Another old blog post....from 2008.

As the school bus pulls away with the last group of my kids I realize summer is over! It could be the colder mornings, the pool without kids in it all day, the quiet house, or the backpacks filled and ready to go.  Fall is coming and the kids are finally back to school! I don't look forward to the homework that comes with being back in school. However, the structure and routine of the school day is something that I look forward to. Emily however will miss her brothers and sisters who just light up her day! She gets so excited everytime one of them walks into the room. We just might have to go and eat lunch with the kids so she can see them. I have two middle schoolers this year!

A Blast from the Past...

I was looking through blog drafts that I had waiting in my drafts folder and this was the first one I looked at.

This is the boys upon their return from Scout camp back in 2010.

Emily...

This girl cracks me up!  She loves to make funny faces, wear funny hats, and loves her pink hat that she got for her birthday.  She is the sunshine in my day!

Happy Birthday Carson....

Carson's birthday was back in January.  I am a little behind but I don't want to leave him out.  The collage shows Carson with a few of his favorite things like Swedish Fish and Mac & Cheese.  He turned 14 this year!

Carson just built this new Bionicle that he received for his birthday.  He must have every Bionicle now....

Look at that smile...

 July 2010 - Braces just put on.....

March 2012 - Braces just taken off...

Katie

This is what happens when Katie gets ahold of my phone. She should know better, she knows I like to blog stuff like this.

Bounce!!!

Emily's preschool group had a field trip last week to Bounce, an indoor collection of bounce stuff. The big kids were out of school so they got to go too.

It was fun to watch them get stuck on the Velcro wall. Emily's favorite place was the big slide.

At the Dentist

Emily had a visit to the dentist today. She just up in the chair and laid right back to watch the show in the ceiling.

Fast or Slow?

"I am gonna slow!"

Emily's comment during family council after Steve reminded the family about next Sunday being a Fast Sunday and reminding everyone to fast.

Clean Laundry...

Last Saturday, after seeing a friend's post, I made my own laundry soap.  I have made a double batch for around $20 as I already had a big bucket of Oxyclean and a big bag of the baking soda too.  I have about 30 pounds of laundry soap made.  It smells good in the wash but doesn't leave a perfumy smell when the clothes are dried.  I placed a tablespoon measuring spoon in the soap with the instructions to the kids to use no more than 2 tablespoons for their load.  It will be fun to see how long this laundry soap lasts.  I always hate the price of laundry soap in the stores and now I may never buy it pre-mixed again.
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DIY Laundry Soap

1- 4 lb 12 oz box Borax (2.15 kg or 76 oz) found in the detergent isle
1 -4 lb box Arm & Hammer Baking Soda (1.81 kg) found in the cooking isle
1-  box Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda 55 oz (3 lb 7 oz) found in the detergent isle 
3- bars of Fels-naptha soap, found in the detergent isle
2- small containers of oxyclean or store brand oxyclean (try to get about 3.5 lbs total (1.58 kg)) found in the detergent isle. (this is optional, I added it into mine because I have pretty messy kids and the cleaner the better)

  Here's to many clean loads of laundry!!!!

Source: beingcreativetokeepmysanity.blogspot.com via Jeniffer on Pinterest

For Humans

Steve here.

I told Emily it was okay to take a drink from a gallon jug of distilled water. She was unsure about drinking from such a strange bottle. I told her, "it's okay, go ahead."

She took a drink and said it tasted good.

"Of course it did, I put drinking water in that bottle. It's drinking water."

"It's just for humans!" she said, "Not for bugs, or kangaroos, or tigers, or other tigers...or lions."

Emily gives a talk...

Emily gave her first talk in Primary today.  I prepared her talk and reviewed it with her and she wanted her Daddy to help her give it.  She usually is so very shy in front of people.  She sat in front of the room and declared to the closest teacher that she was giving a talk today.  She showed her pictures and repeated what her Daddy whispered to her.  She did great!  I sat a couple of rows back and pointed my phone-camera at her inconspicuously while she spoke.

Pinned him....

Carson is really enjoying wrestling.  He has wrestled 5 matches and won 3 of those matches.  Not too bad for his first year.  It is fun to watch him.

Emily put on Carson's headgear and said "Mom, look..."

And that is Carson getting ready to make his 3rd winning pin!  Way to go Carson!

Ward Christmas party...

Last Saturday our ward had a Christmas breakfast.  The wise men came, otherwise known as our Bishopric.

The children acted out the Nativity scene.

We even had the animals in the stable which included our Emily.  She was excited to be a sheep until it was time to be a sheep.  She was finally ok with going on stage if she could be a sheep-lion.  If you notice her hands most of the time are curled like claws.  If you ask her about being a sheep she will correct you that she was a sheep-lion.

The finale...

Christmas Music at RMHS....

Logan had his Holiday Concert last week too.  He looks so handsome in his Tux.  All the choirs sang beautifully!  I love to see my kids in choir as that is where I was in school too!  It was the most fun!