Field trip

This is the time of year when it seems as though all the kids do at school is go on field trips. They love it and get so excited. Logan is in Kindergarten and has been so excited to go on a field trip to the Children's Museum at the Gateway. The other afternoon he came home and said "Mom our field trip is tomorrow I can't wait!" then there was a pause and question to follow, "Mom what do you do on a field trip?" I hadn't realized until then that this was his first field trip and first time to ride a bus. He was so excited because he knew he should be, but he wasn't sure what it was that he was excited about. After an explaination of what a field trip is he was more excited than ever and now he knows why he should be.

Breakfast conversation

Most mornings we have the usual arguing or disagreeing or playing some game with powers of Greek Gods that I've never heard of. Today as I sit here in the living room Kobe and Carsen are quizing each other on their vocabulary and spelling lists :) with out any prompting from me... I love my boys!!

Princess Room

We had a friend call and offer us a twin size bedroom set. That in turn opened a "can of worms" called redecorating Sydni's room. She had been alone in the upstairs bedroom for some time now. All the boys have migrated downstairs... But the walls were boring white, with no curtains, and all of Tyson and Logan's clothes and dressers were still in there. I decided if we were going to make a change we (meaning ME) might as well empty the room and paint. Truth be known I really do love to paint I just don't love to move furniture, or tape or stop to go take someone to pracitce, or go to work, or to fix dinner :( But 48 or so hours later Sydni had a new room. She loves it, waking up every morning to tell me how beautiful it is and how well she slept in her princess bed.

Pink Popcorn tree

Sydni has been singing "Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree" in her primary class. So that means noticing every "popcorn" tree as we drive anywhere. She must have me trained because I was dropping something off at our neighbors house the other day and notice the perfect popcorn tree! Perfect because it was short, and it was PINK! So, later that night we took a walk around the block to see it. Here are pics, the first one was just one of those mornings when she thought she was especially cute...

Dinner conversation

Tyson: "Well I have good news, I won my game! (soccer game in the snow 8-5)
Logan: "Well I have bad news about my dinner!"
Me: "What is your bad news Logan?"
Logan: "Well there is this burnt crusty part that YOU are going to make me eat before I can have more hot chocolate!"

Too busy...

I keep thinking that I am going to take the time to catch up on all the posts I would have liked to have made over the last few months, but today I decided that if I wait the time will never come. So I'm just going to start from now and if I have extra time later I will backpost...

Tonight Ron and I took the kids to Surf and Swim for FHE. Kobe and Carsen are going to compete in a triathelon this weekend and we thought we'd better make sure that they could still swim. Of course they can and we all had a great time, our kids are fish! At one point in the evening Ron and I were sitting on the side just watching, it is so much fun to just watch our kids interact with each other. The boys would all gravitate in their different directions for a while but there seemed to be a common force that pulled them all together every 15 minutes or so, Sydni. They would all come back to check on her and play with her in the shallow water for a bit and then the cycle would repeat... There was one point where she was standing there circled by the 4 of "her boys" that was so sweet. I love my kids and husband and the opportunities that we get to leave the rest of the world behind to be together!

FAMILY

While we were together on new years day my mom wanted pictures of all her family together. We are standing in front of the old grainery that is next to my mom and dad's house. We are all married now and my parents have 8 grandkids (yes 5 of them belong to me).