On you marks!

Our family just experienced our first Pine Wood Derby! We have had the "cars" for about 6 weeks or so, and I'm happy to say that we did not wait until the night before to start. We had 3 boys and 3 cars, and I told Ron that they had to be done before he started basketball! The boys chose to shape their cars in a "non-traditional" fashion, meaning that they weren't cars. As you can see in the pictures:

Kobe's is an icecream sandwich...

Carsen's is a salamander...

and Tyson's is a piece of cheese.

I cannnot brag that they were the fastest cars at the race, but they were the cutest!! The boys ate popcorn, cheered on their friends and had a great time. Logan and Sydni ate popcorn, cheered on their brothers, and had a great time. Logan was the best, every time one of their cars raced he had to find someone to tell "that's my brothers car!" It was a great night.

Cock-a-doodle-do

I have to share the story about our dinner tonight. So, this summer our neighbors's had baby chicks, we went over and Logan and Sydni loved seeing them. But as we all know baby chicks grow up to be big chickens, and some of them become roosters, and roosters eventually learn how to crow in the morning. I really have enjoyed waking up to roosters crowing in my back yard, but apparently not all of our neighbors agree. So, I got this call from our neighbor on Saturday asking me if we would eat a fresh chicken if he brought it over. I said sure, and later that night his wife called and said that he would meet me at the fence. So long story short, our neighbor killed the roosters, plucked and cleaned them (really well by the way!) and handed me one over the fence so we had roast chicken for dinner tonight. It was yummy!

Aunt Sami!!

On Friday my sister came to hang out with us for the day. It was so nice to just be here and not have every minute of our time together planned out. She helped me figure out how to add the music to my blog, ( thank you , thank you!) and I helped her take her online test for school. I'm not sure that I was much help, and I'm sure that she'll be calling me any day to yell because she failed. We took the boys for icecream after school.

Sydni was her shadow all day, saying "Nami you funny" we took some way cute pictures. Here are the ones off my camera and I hope that she'll be sending me hers soon (hint, hint)... We love her and can't wait to see her again!

Chuck E. Cheese

I know that when I was growing up, one of our favorite things to do when we came to Salt Lake was to go to Chuck E. Cheese. We would beg, and the response would be "the pizza is terrible", and a few times we were lucky enough to go anyway. Of course our kids have asked us countless times "Why can't we go to Chuck E. Cheese's?". I've always had the great excuse that it was too far away, until some genious decided to build one in Layton. So last week was UEA and I gave in, apparently every other mom in Layton (and Kaysville and Clearfield) gave in too. We went to Chuck E. Cheese. I can't say how the pizza was because I had salad, but the kids spent a wonderful 2 and a half hours playing the games and running around. Next time I'll go with a friend and her kids though so I'll have something to do. I wish that I'd taken the camera so that I had pictures to post, but I didn't. Another thing to remember during that next moment of weakness! FYI if you dedide to go, print the online coupons, way worth it!

Cute girl!

Sydni was having one of those cute mornings yesterday (not that she's not cute all the time...), so I got the camera and took her outside. We discovered a perfect photo spot in the tree.

Canning peaches

Can I just say that I'm glad that canning season is over?! A couple of weeks ago I was swamped with peaches (not that I'm complaining). So one morning after getting the boys off to school I began the process of bottling 30 or so quarts. Sydni decided to join me. She climbed up on the counter an soon found that she could slide the peels off by herself. Then as she watched me, she figured out that there was a pit in the middle, so she sqwished until she found it and pulled it out. Then she handed me the rest of the mutilated peach to cut and put into the jar. I soon found that if I would cut around the peach it made things alot less messy. So I cut around the middle and then she would peel, and pit and give the halves back to me. Yeah!! She lasted at this for about 30 min and then needed a bath!!

Pumpkins..

Today we took advantage of a dry (but not warm) day and our J & J Nursery coupons and took the hay ride to get pumpkins! We had to wait in line, in the cold, for about 30 minutes but then we all climbed on the hay wagon. Everyone chose their "perfect" pumpkin.