Sunday, February 14, 2016

February 7th - 14th

I honestly never though gas prices would get below $2.00/gallon, but it has happened.  It's bittersweet because one of my friends works in the oil field and the drop in prices hurts, but it has been nice on our budget.

 Morgan took a couple pictures today of me and Rylea girl.  I'm trying not to be so camera shy these days because I want my kids to be able to look back and remember that I was there with them.  :)



 Logan took a picture of us on the couch a while back, I didn't have the heart to delete it because he was so excited to take a picture for the yearbook.  We'll have to do a little photography in the future before I hand over all the picture taking reigns.
 Logan is very creative in the garage.  He loves to build things out of anything and everything.  He pulled his train care all around our cul de sac while giving Jaron a ride.  It was pretty cool.
 On my latest trip to Walmart Jaron was really good, so I let him have my change from groceries and he wanted to go to the quarter machine place and blew it on the carousel.  He loved it, so I guess it was worth the .50.
 Rylea loves to dip her food in any sauce, but is partial to ranch.  I gave her the rest of what was on my plate and she proceeded to lick the plate clean....literally!  I'm just glad I can count on several vegetables that she will eat.



 We went to the park for a picnic with some friends.  Rylea kept swiping everyone's oreos.  I've never seen that girl put a cookie in her mouth so fast and run away.
 Logan loves scouts and I'm glad he's having a good time.  They went to the fire station and the leaders sent us some of the pictures.  I'm so grateful for good cub scout leaders!

 A craft I made for the shop.  I'll have to eventually get some new pictures since there are some doubles of Jaron and Tragon, I will do that once it's not up in the shop anymore.  :)

 This Saturday was Tragon's choice for activity, so earlier in the day I took a few of them to quarter machine mecca - Tragon LOVES quarter machines--then we went to the park for a little outing.  I'm glad my kids all like being outside and I'm loving the weather right now too.



 Rylea loves to wander and run and loves stairs!




 We had a youth fundraiser Valentine's Day dinner for our ward.  It was fun to go on a little date with my hubby.  I love him so much!

This year we also had wrestling time, and for the most part it ended with everyone still happy.  We also started a new tradition...well, I decided it was going to be a new tradition.  Instead of getting a whole bunch of candy and junk we decided to make Valentine's Cards for everyone in the family.  Each person wrote something they loved about each family member and then we got to keep our card that everyone wrote in.  It was fun to see what the boys came up with.  I love my family!!  Until next time.....

Sunday, February 7, 2016

February 1st - 7th

I guess it was a busy week because most of the pictures were from Saturday.  Morgan saw a really awesome car and couldn't help taking a picture of it.
 Saturday we had the opportunity to go to Lincoln's baptism.  It was a so special.  We are so blessed to have such amazing families.  The kids were a little crazy, we had to sit for quite a while and there were times I wanted to take a couple of them out, but overall they were pretty good.
 Logan was totally photo-bombing Rylea's pictures.
 She's been keeping her headbands on a little longer now, she calls them "prettys"  Probably because everytime we put one on we tell her how pretty she is.  :)

 Jaron was a wiggly worm, I'm a little nervous for actual church today, I hope they can find the strength to make it through another meeting.  It was a good experience though and it was so awesome to see Lincoln make that decision, he's such an awesome kid.  I'm glad he's my nephew.  After the baptism we went to their clubhouse and had lunch, it was delicious and then for our family activity it was Jaron's turn to choose and he wanted to go to the park, so we headed to the Sunflower Park.

 Quick, insert of pictures out of order, Rylea loves gum, she only bites it for a second then spits it out, but she will go through a whole pack in just a few minutes.  She pushed the stool over...or one of the boys left it there, I can't remember, but she just climbed right up and found the gum.  oiy!

 She was changing her baby doll the other day, she got the wipes and a diaper and was laying the baby down and getting it all ready.

 Okay, back to the park.  We had to do whatever Jaron wanted and he wanted to do slides first, then we explored the secret hideout, and then came back for a little playground tag, and finally finished up in the sandbox.  All the kids had a good time...in the end, there was a little complaining here and there.  They all wanted pictures going down the fireman pole and across the monkey bars.






 Jaron and Rylea love climbing up and down everything and just running around.



 The secret hideout was fun, I loved seeing my boys working and playing together.  Those are the moments that I feel like they will grow up loving each other and being friends.  They are going to need each other throughout their lives I'm sure.




 Rylea especially loved the sandbox.  She would make dirt piles on the sidewalk, then brush it back into the box.  Eventually she found a bucket and was filling that up and they boys were making volcanoes and tunnels.  It was a good activity.
When we got home I vacuumed the van and Morgan went for a run.  Logan went around the neighborhood selling stuff.  It that boy sees a yard sale sign, he runs to find something he can sell there too.  I think we need to start teaching him some skills he can use to create something to sell vs just finding junk toys that he somehow gets people to buy.  He's a pretty good little salesman.  The rest of the boys played in the dirt and home and then played some video games.  Overall it was a great day and we were able to do a lot as a family.  Piano is going great with the boys and all my other students.  I didn't think when I started teaching that I would end up with as many as I have, but I have found that I really love teaching piano and it helps motivate me to stay up on my skills too.  I'm so grateful for the talents and blessing the Lord has blessed me and my family with and it is so fun to be able to share those with each other and those around us.  Until next time.....