Summer creations!!

So in the attempt to keep my children away from the TV, I have looked through all my family fun magazines and found some fun and easy things to do with them. this is the first week so we did tie-dye discs. we drew designs on a cut out coffee filter and put a hole in the middle and made a wick and placed that in water and watched the ink blend like tie-dye. Emily was excited about this, it was right down her artistic alley.

Arizona!!

Look how cool they are, in person they are so much cooler to see than in pictures. and they are everywere. I just think they are cool.

So this last week the kids and I went with my Mom,Dad,and Taylor to Phoenix to see Philip and Amber and the Kids. Philip was Graduating from Pharmacy school and we were packing them up to move to St. George. we got there on Wednesday, played at the park on Thursday and the Graduation and Mom's birthday were on Friday. we swam in the pool, had BB Q's and Birthday Cake for Mom's Birthday. then on Saturday we got up, packed the horse trailer up with all of there stuff and hit the road to St. George. it was a fun trip, and I never want to drive a car again, but fun non the less. I glad that I went.


the kids when we stopped at Glen Canyon Damn.


Zachary and Peyton playing wii bowling.


Grandpa pushing the boys on the swing.


Ok so see the little turtle among the Ducks, yea they were swimming with them. there were a couple of them. how cute.



on our way to the pool.




Last of all our new graduate!

Where have we been...

OK, we are still here. let me just catch everyone up on our whirl wind of a month. First we had a Dinner and Auction for Young Men/Young Women for the summer river trip they are going on. we all had to come up with something to auction, mine was 4 aprons. The Dinner went really well and the youth earned over $7000.00. good job!



Second Zachary started Soccer, the very first sport ever played. It was touch and go at points, but He played a couple of games. He was a brat all the other moments, but we got him to play, He got his pictures with the team and He got his first Trophy,in the end everyone made it out alive, including him.





finally the third and biggest event, Paul walked in Precession at the University of Utah for his Bachelors of Business Administration degree. we had a very nice dinner with his Family then we went up to the Huntsman Center for the big event. Now we are in the home stretch, he has to finish 3 classes this summer and He is done. we are also in the last week of Emily's first year in School. It is hard to believe that she is almost in 1st grade. man time does certainly fly. so in a nut shell that is our month.

Just when you thought your children were napping...

It was a peaceful afternoon. My beloved spouse and I were enjoying a quiet sit at the kitchen table, preparing the fare for teacher appreciation week. For all we knew, the children were comfortable in bed (Emily in hers and Zachary in ours) enjoying a mid-afternoon nap. I looked at my spouse and smiled, knowing that nothing could disturb this perfect moment. Little did I know that trouble was foaming in the next room...
I leaned back in my chair and sighed, releasing all the cares of the day, and surveyed the scene from right to left. Elisa sat there on my right, painting blocks for Mrs. Rasband (Emily's teacher) and my computer was directly in front of me. As my eyes panned to the left in to the living room, I spotted movement in my peripheral vision. My eyes completed the 180 degree arc quickly and I turned toward the living room, ready to yell at my 3-year-old son, whom I had placed in my bed about 15 minutes earlier, kissed goodnight, and laughed merrily at his "I love naps" comment. As I opened my mouth to tell him to get back to bed, I found the words were somehow stolen from me and taken into that abyss where all parents rebukes go when they are completely shocked and astounded. There in front of me stood Dr. Venkman from Ghostbusters, or so it appeared. As I picked my jaw up off the floor, it began to dawn on me that maybe, just maybe this actually was my son and he had just lathered himself up with some unknown white substance. Just then, the aroma of Gilette "Foamy" shaving cream smacked me like an insulted woman. In the reality that hit me, I struggled between utter rage and complete loss of composure in laughter. Elisa started saying something along the lines of "Zachary, go back to bed" and I knew that she had not yet lifted her eyes to see the scene that was unfolding. "Look at him!" I said. I could tell that she was experiencing the same struggle that I was for a moment, but she regained composure and began assuming that the substance might be something more sinister, like desitin (thank goodness it wasn't). Pandemonium ensued. Shouts of "What is it!?!" and "I don't know where he got it!" could probably be heard from my parents' house in Levan. After investigation, it was discovered that he had found my travel toiletry kit and had decided it would be a good idea to shave his legs (or at least lather them up with shaving cream), along with everything else, including his stuffed alligator, which I must admit, HAS been a bit stubbly lately. Anyway, he also thought it might be beneficial to his future hair-health to massage some of the foam into his scalp. And what better instrument to use than my travel toothbrush. It exfoliates and increases lather at the same time! Perfect! Well, that's it. Afternoon ruined. We did decide, however, to make him pose for the camera for the future enjoyment of all who love to ridicule foolish acts. Enjoy.

Teacher Appreciation Week

So let me just say, if you don't intend on ever helping with any room mother functions ever, DON'T Sign up at the beginning of the year!!! ok now with that out of my system, I will tell you about Teacher Appreciation Week. Last August I got to school registration, I thought that It would be cool to be a room mother and help in Emily’s class, so when I got there, all the holidays were taken, so being a new school mom and never having done this before I signed up to help with teacher appreciation, which I thought, “Ok, I can help with that in April how hard could it be?”. So now that we are in April, Teacher Appreciation Week is upon us. I get this call last week from the room mother that is in charge of the whole week for all the teachers, she asks me if I would head this up for Mrs. Rasband’s a.m. class and gives me two names and numbers for other mothers that have signed up. Well I called, and one was short and rude with me and told me she would call back, the other number was bad so I looked in the school directory, called that number and left a message. So here I was with a sick kid (oh did I mention late Sunday we were at Primary’s with Zachary? that a whole other story.) I can't even keep my eyes open and now I have to make a door decoration for Mrs.Rasband's door and worry about the whole week, think about appreciation gifts to thank her with, collecting money from each kid in the class to get those gifts, and the help that I was given is no help at all. Then on Thursday, 4 days later, when the door decoration is almost done because I went and got the paper and did it at home, the rude mother calls back finally and tells me what she has going on and that she can't possibly help. Yea I was IRKED!!! Well after a lot of talking to my lifeline Krystal, and neighbor Rena I took a breath and got everything situated for next week. Yesterday I took the door decoration to put it on the door. It turned out so good. Now I just have to get through next week. Here are the pictures of the door and one of the gifts I am giving Mrs. Rasband. I love to give cute gifts and make things special for her because she has been just the right teacher that Emily needs. I just wish other Parents cared as much as I do. So moral of the story, if you don’t intent to help, don’t sign up just to save face. Enjoy the pictures!

Conference and Easter Eggs

Last weekend was Conference weekend, we all went down to Levan for the weekend so the men could go to Preisthood and we could have a March and April Birthday party and a Easter egg hut all in one shot. It was a lot of fun and a lot of candy was consumed in the process. so this weekend actually being Easter we can start all over again!