Posted in Caleb, Gymnastics on Sep 30th, 2009 4 Comments »
Caleb has had very few injuries since he began gymnastics. We have seen a number of the boys in the gym break or fracture bones and just counted ourselves grateful that this hadn’t happened to Caleb . . . yet (knock on wood, right?). Last night I got ‘the call’ from the gym telling me [...]
Posted in Family Home Evening, Kids on Sep 27th, 2009 3 Comments »
The kids decided to take charge of Family Home Evening tonight and put on a ‘show’ they have been working on. We had to pay $0.15 per performer for admittance into the basement theater to view this fine lip-sync spectacle. But, it was well worth the money. There were cheerleaders: a little bit of moonwalking: [...]
Posted in Becca on Sep 23rd, 2009 7 Comments »
Fall has started to arrive in our neck of the woods. I wish this meant that the leaves are starting to change colors or that the weather has officially become sweatshirt weather, but that hasn’t happened yet. What it does mean is that acorns fall in plenty into our yard and driveway. During any time [...]
Posted in Recipes on Sep 20th, 2009 3 Comments »
I found this recipe on-line and decided to give it a try today (since we didn’t have much prep. time for dinner). The kids LOVED them and they were great to eat with our lasagna. I loved being able to make something homemade with yeast in less than half an hour – no rising time! [...]
Posted in Emma, Hannah on Sep 15th, 2009 6 Comments »
This week the girls have taken turns tying their quilts. Emma got frustrated with how long it was taking her so she had me work towards her from the other side. Hannah had me working the needle and she did the tying. Worked for me. Emma’s binding was finished yesterday and Hannah’s was wrapped up [...]
Posted in Becca, Cami, Emma, Hannah, Travel, site-seeing on Sep 12th, 2009 5 Comments »
By default, with the boys gone, we had a girls’ weekend. A lot of time was spent working on quilts, but we did venture out of the house on Saturday to see “Shorts” at the movie theater. I was outvoted as I had wanted to see “Ponyo” but we had a great time at the [...]
Posted in Caleb, Chris, Family, Travel on Sep 12th, 2009 1 Comment »
Our boys took off to Dallas last weekend. They were able to spend the weekend with Chris’ cousin, Layne, and his family. We were both living in Reno for a short time and we miss being close to them – they are so much fun! They had a blast just hanging out, but the main [...]
Posted in Becca, Emma, Hannah on Sep 6th, 2009 3 Comments »
Nothing can be done in this house without the ‘monkey see, monkey do’ effect. Upon seeing Emma start on her quilt, Hannah decided she would like to try to sew one as well. Once Emma was off handling herself well with the sewing machine, I traced some squares for Hannah. She then cut them all [...]
Posted in Becca, Emma on Sep 4th, 2009 6 Comments »
I have found no matter how many parenting books I read or creative plans I come up with, it is really my children who help me become a better parent. This week it was Emma who pulled me out of my parenting rut – that really I didn’t realize I was in. I admit I [...]