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Halloween 2010

2010-11-08T20:24:00.000-08:00

This was a fun Halloween. Saturday we had down town trick or treating. Our first stop was Papa Murphey's for free kids pizzas. Then we hit down town. It took us almost 2 hours to walk through down town. It was packed, but it was fun. We even had our pictures taken for the newspaper.

Ben was Buzz Lightyear and this is his friend "Woody". They are so cute together.

This is Molly's last year trick or treating. She wanted to be a pirate. Emily wanted to be a Jedi and we were planning on using Timothy's costume from last year. He originally wanted to be Batman. However, when he saw Emily trying it on, he wanted to be a Jedi too. So we ended up getting another Jedi outfit. Jared was his standard Jedi. I was a Jack O Lantern.

Here are just another cute picture.

After the down town trick or treating we went home and cooked our pizzas and then went to our Ward Carnival/Trunk or Treat. It was a blast. On Sunday, we made sure to have our lights out, but we still ended up with one family of kids. Now on to Thanksgiving. :)

Orchestra Concert

2010-02-07T20:48:00.000-08:00

Molly has been playing the cello since school started. This was the first concert that she got to perform at. We missed the first one because we were in Disney World:) She was really excited and did great.

Emily has been playing the violin for two years and loving it. This year she got to be in the advanced group. It is a group of four who got to play a piece by themselves in the concert.

The New Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

2010-02-07T20:37:00.000-08:00

Molly and Emily tried out to be in a play and were picked to participate. They had try-outs on Tuesday and performed on Saturday. It was a lot of fun.

Molly was Glenda Gull

Emily was Myrtle the Turtle.

Happy Birthday Ben

2010-02-07T20:23:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of Ben shortly after his second birthday. I can't believe how fast he has grown. He had a great birthday. Most of the pictures that we have from his birthday were taken with a film camera and we haven't developed them yet, but I was able to get these ones.

Random pictures

2010-02-07T20:13:00.000-08:00

So here are some random pictures that I have been promising for a while, but just haven't put up. This is Molly from the Holiday program at school. She was supposed to be an old lady, but we didn't have a white wig for her to wear.

This was Halloween. The boys and parents dressed up in Star Wars (Thanks Grandma for the Jedi costume, and thanks Kathlene for the Darth Vader and Leia costumes). The girls wanted to be scary. So we have Frankenstein's daughter and Dracula's daughter. We had a lot of fun with the hair and makeup.

Here is a closer look at the girls with a friend. (She was a gypsy)

Christmas and New Year

2010-01-17T17:13:00.000-08:00

We had a lot of fun for Christmas. This was the first year that we spent Christmas morning at home. It was so nice to have the kids get up and then we all went out and saw what Santa brought. The kids opened their presents and then they could open the packages that the presents were in and play with the toys without having to worry about losing pieces at other places. It was great. Later we went to The Carter's and had a fun Christmas there. Jared was so excited about his present that he had to go home right then to set it up. I have never seen him so excited about a gift. After a couple days at The Carter's we went to The Reeder's. We had a lot of fun there too. Jared got to try out his gun there and it was fun seeing a lot of family. One of my cousins was coming home from his mission and a lot of extended family was there. We also celebrated Ben's birthday while we were there. I can't believe he is two. Then we went back to Carter's until New Year's and then came home. What a busy holiday. Well, you will have to wait for the pictures. While we were in DisneyWorld, Ben got a hold of my camera and destroyed the shutter over the lens. We ended up taking pictures with an old film camera. We haven't had a chance to develop the pictures yet.

Disney World 2009

2010-01-17T16:37:00.000-08:00

No we are not in France. We are at Epcot at DisneyWorld. We headed there the beginning of November and had a great time.

Fish are friends not food. He didn't say anything about humans:)

This was Timothy's first time at the Jedi Training Academy. He was so excited and did great. Molly, Emily and Tim all got to participate.

We stayed at the Polynesian Resort and also got to go the the Luau. It was a great show, but it was really cold. The food was good though and the highlight was the fire dancers.

It was fun to reconnect with family. Here are a lot of the cousins. (We found a hidden Mickey on this dino)

This was a rare shot. Usually Ben was out and about. We brought his Monkey backpack with parental tail attached. He got really tired of being pulled back.

Animal kingdom was a lot of fun. We had to try on these hats that we saw. The girls look great.

Another family photo op at Animal Kingdom.

This was our first day. We had to make sure that we got our family shot in front of the Magic Kingdom Mickey. This was a great trip. Thank you for the memories.

Happy Birthday Timothy

2009-08-09T21:41:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Timothy!!! Timothy is now 5. We had a birthday party on his birthday. We just played in the water in the back yard. He had some friends from preschool and church over. I filled around 100 water balloons and they were gone in less than 5 minutes. They all had a lot of fun. However, the party ended suddenly when one of the boys was stung by a wasp. Somehow it had gotten inside of his swimsuit. He is fine, but the party ended quickly after that. Luckily we had already done the cake and presents.

Ben enjoyed the cake.

Timothy picked out the cake. I thought he would pick something different, but this is what he wanted.
The weekend before Timothy's birthday we went to Tri-cities to visit Grandma and celebrate his birthday. Were else could we have gone but Chuck E Cheese. We were really lucky this trip. I earned at least 500 tickets and Jared did the same. Then Jack and Diana earned a lot too. We ordered the cake from Chuck E Cheese and it included a delivery by Chuck E Cheese. Timothy was very excited. It was fun.

July Fun

2009-07-19T19:36:00.001-07:00

July has been a fun month. At the beginning of the month we bought 20 lbs of cherries from someone in our church for $1 a pound. It was great. I borrowed my mom's cherry pitter and the girls, one of my friends and I spent an hour pitting the cherries so that I could dry them in my dehydrator. I was super excited to use it. I received the dehydrator for Christmas and this was the first time I could use it. So I had everything pitted and ready to go on the racks and the dehydrator wouldn't work. The fan worked but the heater didn't. I messed with it a bit, but nothing happened. So I took it to my dad and he checked it out and it works great. So I ended up putting some cherries in the oven and some in the car. The last bit I was able to put in the dehydrator. Hands down the dehydrator cherries are the best.

For the 4th of July we went to the Carter's. Mom, Dad, Scott, Jenny, and their kids came over and we had a BBQ and set off fireworks. It was a lot of fun. Here are some pictures.

This last weekend we went camping with our ward. It was a lot of fun. We went to Ensign Ranch. We got there around 3pm and set up camp. We wanted to go and play on the giant slip and slide, but we couldn't because of the girls camp that was there. So while we waited until 5pm we waded in the creek by our camp and then the primary had all the kids make butter. It was fun. That night, after dinner, we had a talent show. Molly and a friend sang a song with Benjamin adding his own entertainment. I will try and get the video on here, but I am having trouble right now. Emily played three violin songs. Timothy just danced and sang with all the other primary kids. It was really cute. The next day we had breakfast nice and early and then went out canoeing. I forgot my camera, but a friend took some pictures. I will add more later. After canoeing, Jared took the kids on the slip and slide again. Then we packed up and headed home.

Here are some fun pictures.

Ben fell asleep at the fireworks.

The kids loved the fireworks that went up really, really high.

Uncle Scott got Roman candles. All the kids had fun holding them out.

Ben even wanted to participate.

Oh, I forgot that at the beginning of the month, Ben took a head dive into the leg of our piano. It swelled so fast and big that it split the skin. It was pretty scary, but he is fine now. He may have a dent in his head though.

Another thing that we did this month was going to Grandma's house and picking raspberries. I made raspberry jam for the first time. It was great.

Have We Fallen Off the Earth?

2009-05-16T12:47:00.000-07:00

Well, it has been quite a while since we have added anything to the blog. So I have added the most recent pictures back. This is Timothy after his Mother's Day Tea at preschool. They sang some songs and had made cookies. One of the songs was about a mouse. It was very cute.

This is when we went over to Spokane for the blessing of Liz's baby, Brent. Molly is holding him. This is also Liz's other kids (Marianne, Sarah, Faith, and Brent) with our kids.

Emily also turned 8 in April. She was baptized on April 25.

We also got a family picture at Emily's baptism. These were their Easter clothes.

We celebrated Easter a week early with McKayla and Brayden. This was their Easter surprise.

This was just a cute pictures of the boys.

This was a lesson for me. Never give a young child a lolly pop while you are driving in the car. Thankfully, I just gave him a bath and it came right out.

Molly and Emily are both on the same softball team. This is Emily getting ready to hit the ball. This is her first year doing softball and she is doing great.

This is Molly after she got on first base. She is an amazing softball player. She loves to play.

This was how the kids spent their time while we watched the girls play. Ben had just stuck and handful of gravel in his mouth.

Brayden wanted me to take a picture of him. It was just too cute.

This was Emily's 8th birthday.

Oops, I guess some of the pictures got mixed up. This is the Easter egg hunt. This is Timothy and Brayden.

This was just too cute to not include.

We went to Utah and saw the new temple there. We also went and saw the "This Is The Place" monument.

While in Utah we also went to the ??? for Eric's birthday. Kathy and her girls came down to see us while we were there. Here is a picture of Brooke and Hayley.

Here is Kathy and Brooke.

Here is a picture of Hayley. This was the first time that we had ever met her. She is super cute.

This was a fun restaurant. It was like you were on a safari. There were lots of places to take pictures and while you were eating there was a show. People would dive off of the rock walls into a pool. It was a lot of fun. I even took the kids on a walk around the restaurant while we waited for our food. There were a lot of balconies and different levels. It was fun.

This was outside of the restaurant.

Inside the snakes mouth. This is Viana and our girls.

This was at the hotel while we were in Utah. All the kids slept on the hide-a-bed. However, I think that Molly and Emily ended up on the floor at one point.

Benjamin also had surgery. This was after his surgery. He is doing great. His surgery was at Children's Hospital in Seattle.

Molly had her 10th birthday on February 24. She is getting so grown up. She is so excited to get older.

Anyway, that is what has been happening with our family for the last few months. Hopefully, I won't let months go by before I blog again.

Pinewood Derby

2009-02-24T21:42:00.000-08:00

Our Elder's Quorum had a party and our own pinewood derby races. We bought three cars. My plan was to just have the kids do a car. Tim decided not to do one. That is until we were getting ready to paint. He also wanted to paint. So we took the left over from Emily's car and let Tim paint it.

The girls had a blast. We had them come up with their own car designs and had the girls sand the cars. Then the girls painted their own cars.

Emily's car did race better than Molly's.

Molly did win the most colorful award.
Does her design look familar to anyone??

While we were cutting out our designs, Becky decided that she would like to build one. She took the cut off part of Molly's car to make hers. Luckily some one had bought an extra set of wheels that we could use.

I now understand my father's frustrations as it came pinewood derby time. Luckily there were people who helped us with advice and lending of tools to help us out. It should be stated that my car (the black one) got third place.

The kids had a lot of fun racing and watching the races.

No Use Being Clumsy Unless You Show It

2009-01-12T22:01:00.000-08:00

On Sunday, we had an "8 is Great" meeting for Emily. She is going to be baptized this year and this was to let the kids know what to expect. Anyway, after this was over, Timothy went running outside. Somehow he tripped and did a face plant into the cement. My dad used to tell us the it was no use being clumsy unless you show it. Well, this will show for quite a while. He is fine. It looks worse than it feels. I think that part of the problem is that he is growing again. We are going to have to get him some new pants soon. It is amazing how fast they grow.

Happy Birthday Ben

2008-12-30T11:33:00.000-08:00

Yeah!!! Benjamin is now one year old. He is walking in spurts, but still prefers to crawl. He is saying hi, eh (like Stitches yes), mama, dada, and a few other things that I can't think of right now. He loves to take baths and be held by us. He loves playing with balls and wrestling with his brother and sisters. He is such a wonderful addition to our family. He really enjoyed his birthday cake. He loved the frosting, but didn't each much of the cake.

Merry Christmas

2008-12-30T10:12:00.000-08:00

On Christmas morning we all sing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" to wake mom and dad up. Jared and I stayed at my sister Jenny's house. She has five kids and we have four so it was a very full house, but tons of fun. At 7am the kids came and sang to us to wake us up and we got ready to go over to my parents house to see if Santa had come. When we got there the kids sang to wake up Grandma and Grandpa. We have a tradition that we don't get to see the tree until Grandpa has looked to see if Santa has come. There was a mad dash when they finally got to go into the room.

There were my family with the four kids, my sister Jenny's family with her five kids, and my sister Liz with her three kids. We were only missing my sister Kathy and her two kids. We were really sad that she couldn't make it. The weather was just too bad. The kids had a blast and it was a free for all on presents.
The night before Christmas the kids got to open one present. My mom had made pillowcases for all of the kids. They were so excited and got to sleep on them that night.

Here are all the kids opening their pillow cases (the babies got blankets)

Another fun tradition that we have is doing the nativity while the oldest male father reads the story from the scriptures. We had all of my mom's family over for this. This year was Emily's year to be Mary and then this is my cousin's son who got to be Joseph.

This was before the nativity. We do a program and everybody has to perform. While this was going on both Benjamin and Faith (Liz's little girl) wanted to sit on my lap. My sister, Jenny, is holding her new baby Jace who is only a month old. Ben and Faith are two weeks apart. Faith was already one and Ben was almost one. We made all the kids sit on the floor because there were not enough seats. :)

Timothy got a Lightening McQueen race track. It is super cool and the cars go by themselves. He loves it.

We had a wonderful Christmas full of love and giving. I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas too.

Ben's First Steps

2008-12-18T09:06:00.000-08:00

Last night, we were having Ben practicing walking. And he did it. We were so happy. Ben was walking by himself!!!!!!

Molly's Christmas Concert

2008-12-18T09:01:00.000-08:00

Molly's Christmas Concert, she had a solo. She was soooo good and loved to do it.

Emily's Christmas Program

2008-12-18T08:24:00.000-08:00

Here is Emily's part in her Christmas program.

Tim's Christmas Party

2008-12-18T08:16:00.000-08:00

Tim's preschool had a Christmas Part. Tim was decorating a tree orniment, and started to sing.

Emily's Violin Concert

2008-12-18T08:12:00.000-08:00

We finally can post Emily's Concert.

2008-12-16T20:30:00.000-08:00

This is the pictures from our Ward Christmas party. Timothy was really excited.

I think Molly is starting to feel a little too old to sit on Santa's lap.

Emily had a lot of fun too.

Benjamin didn't want anything to do with Santa. There are several pictures of him crying and trying to get away. This is the only one where he is somewhat smiling.

November

2008-11-23T18:12:00.000-08:00

Things have slowed down a bit since soccer. However, we are still up at the crack of dawn every day. Emily has early morning violin. There are three elementary schools here in Ellensburg. The girls go to Valley View. The early morning violin is at Mt. Stewart which is clear across town. She has to be there at 7:30 am and then she takes a special bus just for this group back to Valley View before school starts at 8:40 am. That is Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Then Molly has choir at 8:00am at Valley View on Monday and Thursday. We are reaping some of the benefits of all these early mornings.

Molly got to conduct one song at the Veteran's Day program at school. I didn't get to go because I had class, but Grandma and Granddad Carter and Grandpa Glen came to watch. I guess there were a couple other kids who conducted, but Molly was the only one that was announced. They even record the performance and show it on tv, but I haven't seen it yet. Grandma said she had recorded some of it. I will have to see if I can get it.

Emily had her first violin concert on the 18th. It was all the strings from Elementary, Middle, and High School. It was a very nice program and it was all less than an hour. We went to the Morgan Middle school where they have a stage and theater seats. It was very nice except for a little boy that kept walking through our row. His mom was five rows in front of us and he was just wondering back and forth.

(I am having problems uploading the video of Emily's concert. I will try later.)

I only have about two weeks of classes left. Things are finally letting up. I am not as stressed as I was. Timothy is doing great. He is improving so fast in his speech therapy that they say he won't need it for much longer. We are so excited. Benjamin is 11 months old now. He is getting so big. He is cruising along furniture and is very close to walking. It is amazing to watch how fast he is growing.

Jared is so great. He has helped me a lot this quarter. I have the best husband in the world. He has been busy at work. He is thinking of trying to do Driver's Ed again. We will see if that happens. I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving.

Soccer

2008-11-09T17:20:00.000-08:00

YAY!!! Soccer is over. Molly and Emily have been doing soccer this fall. Molly was put with the U11 girls since not enough girls signed up for the 10 year old age group. So she was playing with 10 and 11 year old girls. She is only 9, but she held her own and got right in there to kick the ball. Jared coached Emily's team. No one volunteered to coach so Jared did it. It was a lot of work getting our schedules together. I am glad that it is over. They had a lot of fun.

Both Molly and Emily's teams had Orange uniforms. Since Jared was a coach he got a free picture. Usually it is only with the one daughter, but we were able to get both girls in. It was really cute. Jared didn't have his coaches sweater yet. The sweaters were gray so that they would be neutral, but I liked that all of them were in orange for this picture. Isn't it great!

Halloween

2008-11-02T22:12:00.000-08:00

Halloween was fun. Molly was a vampire, Emily was a witch, Timothy was Buzz Lightyear, and Benjamin was a frog prince. School got out at 1:10. We got ready to go Trick or Treating. We went downtown to do our trick or treating. It was a lot of fun. We even brought one of Molly's friends with us. Our favorite place to trick or treat downtown was Papa Murphy's. They give the kids a free personal pizza or cookie dough. It is great. Then we went to a party that Molly's friend was having. We had chili and pizza and then we went trick or treating around where they live. It is on top of the hill so it is the nicer part of town. Lots of good stuff. Then we went over to another party that Jared and I were invited to. They had a bonfire outside and lots of good stuff to eat. The kids had a lot of fun and ate way too much candy.

We carved pumpkins the night before Halloween. The kids loved it.

Molly carved BEWARE in her pumpkin. It was a printed copy and had fingers clawing over the top. You can't see it very well. It was very difficult and Jared and I had to help her.

Emily did this all by herself. She had a lot of fun.

Timothy picked out the picture of what he wanted carved and then helped a little bit with taking the seeds out. Then I carved the pumpkin for him. What great fun.

Disneyland

2008-11-02T20:52:00.000-08:00

We were at Disney land from October 23 through October 25. We flew from Seattle after classes on the 22nd and got to California around 1:00am. We didn't get to our hotel until 2:00am. Then we went to the park when it opened at 10:00am. It was 90 degrees the whole time we were there. We went on all the rides and had fun. The 24th was Jared's parent's anniversary. We went over to California adventures and spent a lot of time riding the new Toy Story Ride. It is a ride and a game. You have a gun to shoot and there are carnival games that you play. It was fun. We went on it 5 or 6 times. Molly wanted to go on the big rides. Jared took her on the California Screaming roller coaster a couple of times and I took her on the Malliboomer which was soooo much fun. It was also terrifying. It is like the game where you hit the bottom and try to ring the bell at the top. Anyway, you are strapped in and hanging. They have a plastic cover over your face and they shoot you into the air about ten stories up. Then you bounce down. Molly loved it. On the 25th we were planning on going to Ariel's grotto. However, about an hour before we went, Emily started throwing up. It was the heat. So we went to the nurse and let her lay down for a while. Then we decided to go on Toy Story yet again. While we were in line, we noticed that Timothy wasn't with us. I went back out the line and didn't find him. There were two ways I could have gone and I happened to go the right way. He was down just a little bit and a park employee was talking with him. He must have gotten seperated from us in the line and decided to try and find us. We need to get him to understand that if he is lost he needs to stay where he is and not go wondering. We then flew home on my birthday. We didn't get home until 9pm. We had lots of fun.

Phantom of the Opera

2008-11-02T18:55:00.000-08:00

On October 9 we went and saw Phantom of the Opera in Spokane. It was a blast. We went with my sister and her husband, Jenny and Scott. It was the first time that I had seen Phantom live. This was Jared's birthday present. We also got to go and see Liz and her new house and she watched Ben for us. Marianne and Sara wanted pictures taken of them too.

Busy, Busy

2008-09-28T20:51:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since I blogged, so I better get something going. The girls are in school. Molly has started Choir. It is Monday and Thursday before school. She is really enjoying it. Emily will be starting Violin lessons on Tuesday. They are also offered by the school. All we have to pay for is the violin rental. She has to use a 1/4 size violin because she is so small. Timothy has started preschool again. He is having fun. He has even already gone to a birthday party. Benjamin is going to daycare while I am in school. He is having a hard time being separated from me for that long. We will see how things go.

Anyway, that is the kids. Jared is still working in Royal City. He is enjoying this year more now that he has got the hang of things. I have one year left of classes. I am taking Finance, Tax Accounting, and Cost Accounting. It should be interesting, but I have soooooo much homework.

Today we walked to church since it was a beautiful day. We walk through a park to get to church. So on the way back from church I took pictures of the kids. We decided that we were not going to buy school pictures this year. It is just too expensive. We can take our own pictures and print as many as we want. So we will print out some wallet size pictures for the kids to take and give to their friends. If I can get the computer to cooperate, I will even post the pictures. We have been having problems with getting the pictures on. That is why there haven't been many.

Yay!! It worked. It only took an hour, but it worked. Here are the pictures of the kids. I thought they were pretty cute.

Sitting Up

2008-08-27T23:04:00.000-07:00

Today was a very tiring day. Ben was up before Jared left for work and then he didn't want to go back to sleep. When Timothy got up I cleaned their room and got ready to clean his bed. He has had a few accidents and we needed to clean the mattress. So I spent all morning cleaning his bed. Needless to say it is still wet tonight and he has to sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor. Anyway, after lunch I had everyone have quiet time. Benjamin had fallen asleep before lunch. Timothy fell asleep on the couch and the girls were reading in bed. So I decided that I would lay down too. As soon as I reached my door I heard Ben. So instead of having him wake Timothy up, I took him into my room and put him on the bed. I arranged the pillows on the other side of the bed so that he wouldn't fall off. (he doesn't roll more than once) I then layed down and dozed. Well I must have fallen asleep more than I thought. I could still hear the girls creeping down the hall to check on Ben, but all of a sudden I heard this excited squeal. I woke up and looked at Ben and he was sitting up in the bed. He has never done this before. He saw that I was awake and leaned forward onto his stomach. He then proceeded to get into a sitting position another four or five times. He was soooo excited that he had done that. Now he is mobile. He can get onto his stomach, roll to his back, roll to his stomach again and then sit up. He is still trying to crawl, but this is a big step.

Sports

2008-08-21T19:33:00.000-07:00

We signed the girls up for soccer before summer started. The season will be starting on September 6. We are trying to let the kids try things at least once. The girls have done dance, softball/t-ball, swimming, and piano lessons. The piano lessons are NOT optional. Since I can teach that to them, this is a must. Aparently there weren't enough girls in the nine to ten year old group to sign up. So Molly is with the eleven year olds. There are fourteen girls on her team. So she will probably not get much playing time. We got the list of girls for Emily's team. There are only seven on her team. However, there is no coach. Jared is thinking that he could do it if nobody else is willing. We are meeting with all the girls on Tuesday.

The kids just finished swimming. Molly finished level 5. The teacher was really impressed with her swimming skills. She said that not many 10 year olds (Molly is 9) are ready to go into level six, but Molly is. The main reason is that level six is an endurance level. They have to swim 500 yds without stopping to pass. There are also four different level six groups. They have the endurance training, life guard training, diving, and something else. She didn't remember what the other class was. Molly has been really excited about watching Michael Phelps. We told her that if she got on swim team that that would be the starting point to getting to the Olympics. She was really excited about that. We'll see what happens. Emily and Tim did really well in there lessons, but they are just not quite ready to pass their levels. Maybe we will sign them up for Winter. The pool is an indoor, heated pool.

Ben is doing a sport of his own. He is trying soooo hard to crawl. He sits on his bottom and leans all the way forward until he is on his hands and knees. Then he flops on his tummy and pushs backwards. He also loves to dance on our laps and tries to walk when we stand him on the ground. He also loves to try talking. He says, "mamama, babababa, papapapa, and dadadada. It is really cute. He also does a cute fish mouth. Hope you enjoy.

1st Tooth

2008-08-11T17:47:00.000-07:00

Benjamin has cut his first tooth. Yeah. It is barely there, but I sure feel it. It is really cute. He can't leave it alone. His tongue is always moving around in his mouth. Also, Emily has finally lost two teeth. We were beginning to think that she was just going to keep her baby teeth for the rest of her life. I think it must be a record or something to keep all your baby teeth until you are going into 2nd grade. She was very excited for the tooth fairy to come.

Our Summer

2008-08-09T21:22:00.000-07:00

We have had a very busy summer. Jared started his Math Master's program this summer. It was a six week course and he was taking 17 credits. He is very glad to be done and he passed all his classes (yeah!!!). I have been home with the kids. We have been involved in the library summer reading program. They had a program every Wednesday and then the girls got to go to a Book Group called the Bookworms. They read a book, did a project and had a snack. During this time I would take Tim and Ben into the library. They have a train set in the children's section as well as stuffed animals and puppets. Tim loves playing there. They even had a small tent one day. Ben usually slept during that time. So I could just take a book and sit in one of the big comfy chairs they had in the kids section and read while Tim played. The kids also started swimming lessons. Molly is in level 5, (Level 6 is the last level) Emily is in level 3, and Tim is in level 1. They are all doing great.

Molly is growing up so fast. I can't believe that she will be 10 soon. She is a great helper. However, I keep catching glances of what she will be like as a teenager. Help!!!

I can't believe that Emily will be eight soon. She is so excited to be baptized. She is even starting to think carefully when we ask her questions. Especially our latest fiasco. We have been trying to get the girls in a good habit of cleaning their room. The other day, they were both invited over to a friends house. I told them that they needed to clean their room first. So they started cleaning. Well, around noon, when we were supposed to leave to go, I asked them if their room was done. It wasn't, so they frantically started "cleaning". When I went in to check, I noticed tons of stuff shoved under thier bed. So I asked them if they had just put everything under thier bed. Emily thought about it for a moment and hung her head and said yes. Molly wasn't so honest. Anyway, they had to dig everything out and put it away before we could go. What silly girls. I love them.

Tim has finally decided to be potty trained. He is getting soooooo much better. We are now transitioning from having to remind him, to him just doing it on his own. Of course when he is finished, he has to always have us come and look. He did this once when my visiting teachers were here. He decided he needed to go and did. Then he came out with just a shirt on and wanted everyone to come see. Needless to say I was quite embarrassed. I am proud of him though. His newest phrase right now is, "Mommy, we need to talk." It is quite funny and is usually used to stay up after we put him to bed. Mostly he wants to talk about when we are going to go back to Disneyland. He says he HAS to try the new Buzz Lightyear ride.

Ben is getting so big. He is now 21 pounds and 28 inches long. He is sitting really well and folds over in half before getting on his stomach. He has learned to put his arms out so that he doesn't land on his face. He's not crawling yet, but he will scoot backwards. He is such a happy baby. If only he would realize that during the summer we like to sleep in. He is up at 5:3o every morning with a great big smile on his face. I know that he will be crawling and getting into everything soon. Lots of fun

New Blog

2008-08-08T19:43:00.000-07:00

My sisters have been bugging me to get a blog. So I thought that I should go ahead and get one started. I don't know how often, I will update this, but we will see how it goes. Here is a picture of our kids. It takes forever to download pictures.