Bear Lake

This was a super fun Bear Lake trip. It was a little cool to begin with, but it was so nice to relax. Kali and Melia and getting pretty cute playing with eachother. I was surprised that they both liked being in the swing together. It looks a little squishy to me. They now have a shaved ice shack and these palm trees to climb. Hailey, Bron and Aubrey had fun climbing while the older kids were out riding their motorcycles. These three played great together.

Bron climbing the coconut tree. Playing in the freezing cold water at Bear Lake.

Bron wanted to see under the water with his goggles, but didn't want to get his whole body in because it was cold.

With all the water we have gotten this spring, the lake has risen quite high. This means that the only beach we could find was about 10 x 4 foot section. The rest is swampy and weedy.

Because the water was so cold we thought it would be fun to bring up the dirt bikes instead of Ben's boat. Yeah . . . Matt broke his arm. This picture does not do the break justice. It looked really gross. He broke both of the bones. He was such a trooper. We had to drive to Logan because they thought he might need surgery. Luckily he didn't, but he now has a cast all the way up to his shoulder. He is currently at Scout camp at Bear Lake. I just got word that he passed the swimming test - with a non-waterproof cast up to his shoulder. I guess that is what happens when men are in charge.

When we moved we brought our bball hoop. It has been laying in our much smaller garage taking up tons of room. We are finally getting it put in the ground. Loren and the boys had to dig a four foot deep hole to anchor the hoop. Loren would hold one of the boys upside down in the hole while they filled up a big cup with dirt. The hole was too narrow to fit a shovel into. This is a picture after the hole is dug of Kali in it. It is now filled up with cement, waiting for a day when we can get three of Loren's brothers over to hook the hoop up. I took Kalia to the temple to take some pictures this spring while the tulips were out. She looked super cute, but everytime I would try to take a picture she would yell CHEESE and scruntch up her nose and eyes. Needless to say, I didn't really get the pictures that I wanted, but it was fun.

This is the face that Kali pulls all the time.

We went to the park in Layton to feed the birds a few weeks ago. The kids loved it.

I am not sure what made Bron want to get in this stroller with Kali, but I thought it was funny. His legs are all squished up. Mike drove them around on the street hooked to his bike.

Just some catch up and cute pictures

I thought this was sweet. I know you can't really anthing, but Bron just sat with Kali at that table for the longest time. They were talking and laughing. I was trying to take a picture through the window and I could never really get a very good angle. Most of the time Bron is so sweet to Kali. She adores him! Yeah! Kali's hair is long enough that I can start to do some of the fun hair that I have seen on my preschoolers. I thought this was pretty cute!

Half way though the school year I started having Kali come to preschool for two days each week. She wasn't really a disturbance, but she is just funny. She would just do her own thing. We were in the middle of a lesson when she left the room. When I found her, she had gotten her sunglasses on, climbed on the counter and was trying to brush her teeth. This next year I am sending her to a preschool that one of my friends teach. I'm sure it will be good for her to not have free-reign of her house during preschool. It was hard for her to understand - at the age of 2 - that she was supposed to stay in preschool during preschool. However, Kali does know all of her letters and the letter sounds. Pretty crazy for two.

Bronson was in a little play with his 1st grade class. It was really cute. He was a crocodile. He made his mask with his 1st grade buddy.

Easter

We had fun with our eggs this year. I thought this was a darling easter egg kit. This year the Easter Bunny did a string maze through the house. When we came home from church we found our stuff.

Thanksgiving Craft

Today at preschool we made this fun craft. We used beans and split peas. They have been glued into an old CD holder that I had. This is mine, of course the preschooler's were a bit messier. I thought the project was really fun and am going to take the supplies to Thanksgiving dinner. I thought the kids and the teenager's would have fun making the craft. I am Art Mom in Mike's 5th grade class. I only go in once a week. We have done some fun projects. I will post them. This one of the ideas that I found on minimatisse.blogspot.com/2010/06/reuse.html

More Updates

Matt made it onto his Jr. High Basketball team. I was pretty excited about his first day wearing his Sunday clothes to school. He just sort of rolls his eyes and smiles at me. The games have been fun to watch. I can't believe he is getting so big.

I love this picture of Matt and Kali.

Mike's football team took first place in the playoffs.

Mike is a great kids with tons of enthusiam! His teachers love him, his coaches love him and his family loves him.



Bronson is in another play. He is going to be Tiny Tim in Roger's Memorial Theater's performance of A Christmas Carol. This will be the last play at the old theatre. Then they will become Legacy Pointe Theatre. Bron performs on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and then on the Saturday Matinees.

I thought this was a funny picture of Bron. However, this has been his attitude lately. (someone help me!!)

Kristy had her baby yesterday. We went to the hospital to visit. Kali loved the baby. She is a doll - just perfect.

Fall Leaves

Our new house has lots of trees. We have never needed to rake up leaves before. The kids loved playing in them. By the third or fourth day of needing to rake up leaves they were not quite as enthusiastic.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

I know I am late updating. Life has been extremely crazy lately.

Mike was a rockstar for Halloween.

Bron was the robot from Yo! Gabba! Gabba! We worked on the project together. It was a pretty cool costume.

For Halloween Kali was a butterfly. After three days of dressing up for different events, Kali was more than ready to go trick-or-treating. Even with lots of rain and cold weather, Kali LOVED trick-or-treating. After about 30 minutes mom was more than done. Kali was very upset about going home while her brothers got to continue trick-or-treating.

Our New Home

In the middle of July we purchased a home just up the street from where we were living. By August 1st we had our house completely vacant and listed with an agent. This home offers much more room for our children and we were all excited for the move. I have finally got some pictures to post. On the upper level is my preschool, Kali's room and Bronson's room.

The walls in Kali's room were blue. Rather than repainting them I thought that if I could find some cute flowers I could just paint some grass along the bottom. I had thought that the flowers I purchased were big, but when they came I realized that the 17" was not the diameter of the flower, but included the stem. They are darling wall stickers, but not nearly as big as I wanted. I decided to just paint the large flowers myself. I love how they turned out. I wish this picture was brighter, but the window makes taking a picture difficult.

The previous owner was an amazing artist and had painted a beautiful waterfall mural. This is in Bron's room. She had been working on a mural on all the walls, but had not finished. I do like to paint, but am no where near talented enough to complete her mural. We kept the waterfall, but had to cover up the other parts. The top of the waterfall was unfinished (that's why it just kind of ends the way it does). I painted the walls brown and did the clouds and sky. We need to put a wood molding between the walls and the sky. Then it won't look like such an odd stopping point for the mural. It is way fun to lay on his bed and look up on at the sky. If it wasn't such a pain I would paint the ceiling in the preschool room like this. Maybe some day . . .

Here is a better shot of the mural. She really was a great artist.

Here are some shots of my preschool room. For those of you who are familiar with my preschool, I put the Kindness Pledge on the wall with vinyl that I cut from a friends cricket machine.I found the cute animal face cubbies at Target.And then my mural!!! I love it. The walls were previously pink. I painted them brown, and then with the help of friends and sisters, we hung the murals.

Overall, I am very excited about my cute preschool room. There are two ceiling fans and lots of light from the three windows. There is also a big closet that I keep most of the toys in. The bathroom is connected to the preschool room - which is perfect.

That's all the pictures I have for now. Matt and Mike's room is in the basement. It is great to have the kids seperated at bedtime. Someday I will get around to decorating their room - then I'll post it.

A is for Apple

Today was our my first day of preschool for the 2010-2011 school year. I have eight kids in the class. They seem to be a great group of kids. My mom is going to help me out with Kali on some of the preschool days, but right now she is in Germany so . . .

Kali had her first day of preschool today!

She loved it and was very well behaved. She won't be coming every day, but at least once a week.

Summer Fun

Wow! I was just looking at my blog and realized that I never updated with all of my fun summer pictures. This has been a crazy summer - but we still managed to do lots of fun stuff with our great neighbors.

One of our favorite outings was up Mueller Park Canyon for a hot dog roast.

We road the Farmington trail. This was tons of fun.

We tried visiting several different parks throughout the Salt Lake area. This is the Murray City Park.Copperton Park. (out by the Copper mine).

Castle Park in Farmington.