Ada

 

We just got her 7th grade picture.  I love that they sell the digital ones now.  The best!  This girl LOVES jr high.  She's loving drama class, math class and getting to choose her own outfits every day.  We're already a couple months in to school and she still comes home beaming.

Daily goings on

 

Some days are harder than others, but we move forward and then we have easy days, but whether easy or hard, they are happy days.  This week has been full of daycare and getting ready for the Pizza fundraiser, uniform swap, teacher dinners for student conferences, handing out the personalized masks that the Parent Organization got finished for the staff, and everything that goes along with it.

This little, cute, quirky girl.

Seth has become such a good little reader.  He went from resisting hard last year to being so excited when he car read whole books to himself. 

Noble Knight

 

This little miss was named Noble Knight the first week back in school.  Her teacher said, "It's such a pleasure having Evelyn in my class!  She is always caught up on her work and she is kind and helpful to everyone. "  I'm glad that she's started off the school year on such a good foot.  She is a sweetheart.  They gave her a Brick Oven pizza, so Jer took her over after dance.

Building a shed

 

Jim, Jonathan and Jer are building this amazing shed.  It will be so very well built.  These guys have been working so hard and it's looking so well.

crochet

 

I finished this one for my cousin, Eowyn's baby girl.

Sleep over

 

Evelyn asked if they could have a sleepover with my parents.  They said they could, so the kids had fun getting bed time stories from Uncle Seth, playing games and watching movies with Grandparents.  I slept.

Cotton candy

 

Our neighbor was missing seeing people around the neighborhood, so they hosted a socially distanced cotton candy party.  They could make all sorts of shapes.  The kids had a blast and it gave them something fun to do while I was doing daycare.

Fall party

 

My brother had a bunch of boxes to burn after his last move, so my parents hosted a fire pit roasting party and bought the kids pumpkins to decorate. They had fun, I ate too much homegrown cantaloupe Iso juicy!), and the boys had fun playing Magic.

I'm so glad to have the Wilcox family all together again.  We've missed them.

Before burning the boxes, these guys had so much fun making their boxes into a giant fort and trying to get McKay's new puppy to come in on his own.

Sam's art

 

Sam always says he's not an artist.  But while not everyone is an artist at heart, everyone can do art. These are a couple from his art notebook at school.

shoes

When three of your daycare kids wear the same pair of shoes and are almost the same size you just have to put them on a Shelf and try not to mix them up.

Birthdays

 

Miss Ada made me laugh so hard this week.  She was supposed to do a stand up comedy routine for drama to learn about not getting the jitters on stage.  They could write their own or memorize someone else's.  Ada did both.  She took someone's joke and customized it for her.  My favorite one that she told was, "People say that their dogs are just like their children.  I don't think they are, my mom runs a daycare and I don't think that she'd send little Ben out into the snow with no shoes or coat on and say just go potty and then come back in.  We also don't put collars on them to keep them from talking to other kids in the neighborhood. "Hey there Suzie!" zap."

My brother's two sets of twins both had their birthday's last week.  So we had to party.  When you have 4 birthday kids you need to try to make it fun without breaking the bank.   We had food and played at the fun park near their home.

We had my whole immediate family there at the same time.  

This is typical Evelyn.  My 4th grader reading 7th grade stuff cuddled under a baby blanket and not caring about the chaos everywhere around her.

I think they all liked their presents, but I usually don't have to buy gift bags in bulk....

Memories

 

I love memories.  Probably because it reminds me to be happy now too. My cousin sent this to me . How fun.  I always loved having pen pals.  I wrote to my cousin, Tiffany, and to my second cousin, Rosanne for years.  I had a pen pal named Tyler in elementary school and in High School I had one named Katy that I'm still friends with today.

My brother, McKay, just moved back to Utah.  In the move, he found a bunch of old photos and this one was awesome.  

Cousin's babies

 

My cousin Amber is having her first baby.  I'm excited for her.  These were her wedding colors, she's an art deco kind of artist and she's having a boy so I think it will work.

I fell in love with this yarn and made up this blanket for whoever needs it next.  My Mom and sister say it looks more feminine, so the next girl. $10 baby gifts, yay.

Seems appropriate

 

Driving down the street, Ada told me that I HAD to take a picture of this one.  She said it was just appropriate for this year.