AJ and I have a new special date on Friday afternoons. Reese’s teacher said she could use our help filling students’ folders while the kids are at lunch and recess. So we’ve been hanging out in Reese’s classroom. AJ loves having the room (and the chalk and the books and the blocks….) all to himself!…
Mmmm…Raspberries!
I finally did something interesting enough to blog about!! As much as I have been enjoying the start of the school year, and sharing my day times with AJ, we haven’t been doing things that were too exciting. Today, though, we met some friends at the Orchard for raspberry picking. AJ was a picking champ!…
Labor Day
We had NO plans for Labor Day as of Sunday, except that Peanut Butter was going to work a half day and I was going to try to take the kids to the pool for one last swim before it closed. But then we were invited to TWO Labor Day BBQs–one for lunch and one…
Back to School
School is back in session! When I walked the kids to school this morning, I felt like I had just done the same thing last week. Was the summer really so short? Wow! It flew by. BTW–be sure to see all of my following posts (I did a bunch at once today–trying to catch up!)…
Education Week!
On Sunday the 17th, I boarded a plane by MYSELF and headed to Utah. I left PB with all five kids (my sister Andrea took Noodle and Reese to her house for the week later). I read the entire way there. What a relaxing few hours! My Brother in Law picked me up from the…
Aunt Carol
On Saturday, we loaded up every seat in two cars and drove about an hour away to visit my dad’s sister. Before that, the kids made a nice big mess coloring our patio with wet chalk. :) After an amazing lunch and a visit to Carol’s work, we all headed over to Aunt Carol’s house….
Happy 4th of July!
We had a fun 4th of July! We started off at an early pancake breakfast at Church….The best part about the breakfast was seeing Grandma and Grandpa there! They had arrived in town the night before and so the breakfast was practically the first chance the kids had to see them. We were eager to…
I’m so Blu-oo-oo…I’m so Blue, I don’t know what to do!
Anybody else know that song from Veggie Tales (Madame Blueberry)? I couldn’t help but sing it in my head after picking blueberries today with the kids and some of our friends. The blueberries this year were even better than last year. Yum! Amazing! But…it was HOT. I didn’t think it was so hot when we…
New Adventures
Life is never boring around here, even on a slow day. I admit, I’ve had an inkling that this was coming for quite some time now, and when the Stake Presidency called to meet with both me and PB, I knew what it was about. But I still wasn’t prepared for the roller coaster of…
No more diapers!
Apple woke up on Saturday and decided that he was finally ready to be a big boy (seriously, in the last month, he has argued with me that he wants to be a baby still). But something clicked with him and he potty trained just like that. I was worried that he was just having…