Monday, September 29, 2008

Today we learned about farm animals.





Fun huge pop up book about farm animals.

We glued cotton balls to our sheep pattern. We painted our clean pigs with mud (chocolate pudding).

And we taste tested the mud (pudding) Good thing it's pudding! We also visited some farms and saw tractors, horses, and a giant elk.
We emerged from the garage today all dressed up. We love Halloween the whole month of October.


Sunday, September 28, 2008

This week in our preschool we talked about weather and made wind socks.
We put out a blanket and sang popcorn popping on the apricot tree while popcorn popped.
This was exciting and fun.


We are proud of our wind socks can you tell?

This has been a crazy week for our family. We are ready for a new week.


Jenson gave the closing prayer in primary today. I wish I had a picture of how sweet he looked up there in front waiting to say the prayer. We talked about it last night on some things we could say in our prayers. He was so excited. He stood up all by himself and said "Dear Heavenly Father, I'm thankful for teachers, Amen. We are proud of him for having the courage to get up and for doing a great job. -- Brooklon did a great family home evening lesson today on gratitude. M&M's What am I grateful for? Draw one M&M at a time and depending on what color you choose tell what you are grateful for centered on the topics below.
Brown-material blessings
Blue-Family
Green-Friends
Red-Gospel
Orange-teachers
Yellow-Christ

We are grateful for our family and the time we are able to spend together, the scriptures, Christians job, our home, our health, our teachers, etc... What are you and your family grateful for?
(Landon made a yummy fruit pizza. I would have taken a picture but it went way too fast.)

Christian and I took Trenton to lunch this last week to a Thai restaurant were we enjoyed time spent with Trenton and some yummy Yellow Curry and some Pad Thai. We decided we liked it so much that we would try our hand at some Thai food at home. Here is a recipe if you would like to try some of what we tried.

Thai Green Curry

In a large saucepan simmer one 14 fl. oz. can Thai Kitchen Premium Coconut Milk with 1 to 2 Tbsp. Thai Kitchen Green Curry Paste (I suggest 2 or more Tbsp.) over medium heat for 5 minutes. Add two skinned boneless chicken breasts cut in bite-sized chunks, 1 to 2 Tbsp Thai Kitchen Premium Fish Sauce (sound kind of gross but it tastes good) 2 Tbsp. brown sugar, 1/4 cup bamboo shoots, 1/2 cup frozen peas, and 1/3 cup chicken stock. Simmer 10 minutes, stirring occassionally. Serve with hot Jasmine (sticky) rice. Enjoy!

We hope all women were able to watch the Relief Society Conference. I Tivoed it and have yet to watch. We look forward to hear from President Monson this next weekend and Christians awesome cinnamon rolls.



Thursday, September 25, 2008

American Fork against Pleasant Grove. American Fork won 24 to 2. Go A.F.!

Handsome!
I think these guys come for the snack bar treats......and Landon. (Licorice ropes)

Landon yelling "HUDDLE"

Handsome!
We Love Watching Landon Play Football.





It's autumn time. It's autumn time. The leaves are falling down. It's autumn time. It's autumn time. It's all around the town. It's autumn time. It's autumn time. There's yellow, red, and brown. It's autumn time. It's autumn time. Bright colors can be found.

This week at our preschool time we have been talking, singing, and reading stories about leaves and autumn time. Jenson and Jordon had fun making leaf rubbings as you can see.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

This weeks happenings

After an all day back and forth several times of negotiating, Christian got the job (Thanks for your help Andrew)
Soccer for both Trenton and Brooklon are over until next year. They played great!
Christian was gone the whole week and I'm so glad he is home. Did I say I was glad? I'm sooo glad.

Just a funny thing that happened the other day: The three little boys and I went to the library the other day right after we dropped off the older kids at school. We were there quite early, so there were'nt a whole lot if any people there. Jenson and Jordon got a book and I asked them to sit by me and read there books while I looked. It was very quiet when all of a sudden someone was right behind me. Right behind me, and scared me. It turned out that there was a mentally handicap school visiting the library at the same time and one of the teenage boys had snuck away and when the teacher had realized that he was gone she came and found him and showed him back to the group.

Shortly after finding our books we needed we went outside to play at the ajoining park. The boys were having a fun time playing when the group of handicap kids were shown to the park to play as well. I was a little nervous to see how the boys would react. I felt that this was a good experience for them. I wanted them to treat them as they do others and not be scared. I decided to just sit back and watch and be prepared to teach if needed.

After a little while I noticed the boy who scared me approach Jenson and Jordon under the slide. I started to get a little nervous again but decided to just watch and wait when all of a sudden Jenson, Jordon and this teenage boy were in a group hug. I felt happy inside. There was'nt any glance at mom to see if this was o.k., there was'nt any hesitation at all. I was smiling/laughing inside. A littlel while later Jenson and Jordon just said "We hugged that boy" "Yes you did". I wanted to say that that was o.k. but we don't just hug anyone but decided to wait for a different time. They ended up teaching me what it means to be as a child and to have that perfect love.
The rest of the happenings are below with pictures.





On friday night Madison had a dance at the Junior High, Landon and Trenton went to a fireside put on by the BYU football team, and Me, Brooklon, Maron, Jenson, Jordon, and Gavon went to the Maceys tailgate party. (We got face painted by some girls that could really face paint) HeeHaws had their giant pig there and Jordon could'nt take his eyes off of it. We really had a fun time together. After everyones festivities were done Christian got home from being gone the whole week and we ate out at Panda Express. We are glad to have him home.






Recess time for the preschool boys on the tramp.

Someone started eating baby food and loves it.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

This last little whiles happenings:(Sorry no pics.)
* Christian applied for a new job within the company and hopefully we will here soon.
*We've tried to keep up on all of the BYU football games. GO BYU!
*We had a fun potluck/flag football get together with some friends (they have 7 kids)
*Landons football games have been exciting
* This is the last week of soccer for both Brooklon and Trenton.
*Jenson and Jordon love preschool.
*Gavon is getting bigger and is oh so sweet.
*Madison started going to stake dances.
Twinkies decorated like buses

Name tags
Flags
We have been doing a little preschool at our house three days a week just for Jenson and Jordon. We love it! We are having so much fun together. I love seeing how excited both of the boys are. We sing songs, read books, do science projects, art activities, snack time, and practice our abc's and numbers. Horray for school!