Ladybugs

 

left over Bear Lake and Misc

Just as I'm diving into another round of pictures, I realized that I didn't finish Bear Lake or the last week or so.  I still have a couple of pictures of Sharon's family to edit, but since I switched user accounts on my computer I didn't have access to my editing software and have to get that straightened out.

I love these people!

Seth was very proud that his aluminum boat held more pennies than anyone else's in his class.  I think that it was 59.

They were tasked by grandpa to make the fire for dinner.  They were thrilled.

Seth learned how to mow the lawn for the first time.  He was both excited to learn something new and didn't want to because, "Then Dad will make me do it at home."  He thought it was funny how your hands vibrate when you push the mower.

Seth is my skipping rock buddy.

This week I took Ada and Evelyn in to get new glasses.... they should have them in about a week.

Seth has a 1st grade reading buddy.  I love that the older kids get to read with the younger ones.  Seth's reading buddy is on the lower skill set, so Beth has been giving him ideas on how to read with him well.

Seth's class also made balloon cars. Seth's group of three people won their class competition with it, and then won the school competition too. Seth says that they would have gotten second but the first place winner was knocked off course by another car.

Seth had a Harry Potter day at school

Ada's first leek.

 

harvest

Jim and Judy left town for a few days and asked if Jer would pick the garden.  Our kids love doing that.  Ada would live in their garden if she could. We ate zuchinni, squash, blackberries, tomatoes and corn.  All delicious.  Thank you for sharing!

 

Misc

Ada's working of this awesome project.  She's hoping that she can finish before it gets really wet outside.

Seth and Evelyn got to go to Hang time with Jack for his birthday.

I found this "escape room" that Seth had made a long time ago.  It is so cute and I love the creativity.

The cats tolerate me letting daycare pet them... they like to be warm more than the petting.

I found a couple of pictures to add from the Imagine Dragons post.

Dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's house.  We made homemade pizzas.

Before it froze really bad, Ada pulled the rest of the carrots and we made a delicious carrot/ginger soup.

We finished the soccer season.

Seth played goalie and had a blast.

My kids keep taking pictures of the cats on my phone.  They are adorable.... but I have a ton of pictures of cats lately.

 

Misc

Instead of an herb garden this year, I just scattered wildflower seeds.  They started coming up just as that hail storm destroyed everything... but just a couple of weeks later here they are.

Ada said that Seth looked like the Harry Potter Lego characters with a carrot wand.

Here are my mom's and my first "assignment" in our watercolor class.  We were learning the difference between hard and soft edges.  (more water and less water mostly). Mine is the one on the bottom and the one on top is my mom's. I love hers!  It's like a very patterned quilt. Next we're learning about atmospheric colors in a landscape.

 

Things that make me happy

I love our nightly scripture study.  Sometimes it's hard, but most of the times it gives us a minute to laugh and talk together.

Sam brought back these noodles for me as a gift from a Phillipino? family in Ireland.  He'd been talking about noodles and they gifted this one to him.

Tired cat

Tired girl with cat

Ada made these in her welding class.  The class started a little uncomfortable (she didn't know anyone and she's the only girl in the class), but I'm so proud of her and how well she's taking uncomfortable things and moving forward to learn new skills and make new friends.

One of the perks of doing daycare.... on calmer days the little girls like to "help" me.  Sometimes that's moving laundry to wash their bedding, cleaning toys, repairing books.  Their favorite is to pretend that my yard is a baby and they're taking care of the "baby" while I frantically try to finish my project before everything gets tangled.  It's so funny.  This was while I putting kids down for naps.  All the kids lay down and then I sit with them while the 2 year olds fall asleep and any 4-5 year olds that are still awake come upstairs with me afterwards.

This was during General Conference.  We had a first this year.  The YW all got together to have french toast while they watched the Saturday Morning session.  Ada and Evelyn loved it.  It was really quiet with only 2 kids watching with us.  Then we joined my parents for the afternoon sessions.  Ada, Jer and I popped out for a little bike ride and to add some paint to the library between sessions.  Sunday morning, Evelyn made her traditional "tent" though she's very much too big for her favorite spot.  Then we went to the Robertson's for the Sunday afternoon session.

I had to get a picture of Sam watching Uncle Brad and eating his Cadbury chocolate from Ireland.

Notetaker... Ada did a spectacular job taking down notes and had lots of good things to say when we were talking about it later.

We had a busy day and decided to pick up sandwiches for dinner.  These two were my helpers.

Ada's loved gardening this year.  We're going to have to look up some tips for next year.

This cat decided that Evelyn's scripture case was like a box.... If I fits I sits... It made it hard not to interrupt scriptures, but it was funny.

We drove the Alpine loop the other day and these guys were so funny.

These are Judy's dad's rocks from the different mines that he worked in.  It's fun for me too because my great grandpa was the engineer in at least two of the mines that Judy's family worked in at the same time.

Painting between sessions... My mom painted a castle, knight, unicorn.... I'm working on the starry starry night sky.... Ada's painting the house front with a dinosaur and stained glass window.  It's going to be so cute.  She going to add a dragon, vines and flowers in the windows and a telescope in one of the windows.