Family Home Evening

For Family Home Evening one night it was Sariyah's turn to give the lesson and we had a lesson on being nice to each other and showing each other how special they are. In the friend magazine there was a story about a girl who made flower headbands for her family and friends to show them how speical they are. So Sariyah read the story and then had everyone make flower headbands for each other. We drew names out of a bowl and whoever's name we pulled that is who we made the headband for. Sariyah and I printed off a bunch of different flowers off of the intranet and she made leaves out of paper and then everyone strung the flowers and leaves on to ribbon and then put it on the head of the person that they had. It was fun and the kids loved making them (with the exception of a 12 year old boy who is at the age that of course this would just be silly but he was still a good sport about it).

Sariyah and Sienna made theirs for each other.

Grandma and Savannah made theirs for each other too!

And Blaize never wanted to take his off he thought this was great!

Mother's Day Tea!

Savannah's Kindergarten class had a little program in class for Mother's Day!

Savannah made these beautiful pictures for me and the flower pot. The picture on the left is a drawing of me and her isn't it cute.

They sang all kinds of great songs for us like counting, alphabet, days of the week and months of the year songs.

Actions during one of her songs.

Trying to count and sing making sure she put up the right amount of fingers!

More fun song actions!

My cute little Savannah. I just love that funny girl so much! We had a lot of fun together and got to eat a lot of really yummy goodies.

Thank you Savannah for loving me so much and making my Mother's Day Tea just a wonderful experience. I am truely blessed to have you as my daughter!

My little MAN!

Our little man Blaize loves to put on the girls headbands. He thinks they are the best things ever and would wear one all day everyday if I let him.

Isn't he so cute!
(Don't you love the 80's look he is pulling too with the one strap on one starp off of his overalls, he just can't seem to keep his arms in his overalls usually both of his staps are down)

Easter 2009

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We had a very fun filled Easter weekend. The kids and I went to my dad's for Easter weekend and got to spend it also with three of my sisters (LaVon, Shauna, and Janel). We met at a Ranch close to Portland where my dad lives and go on a Easter Hunt, a hayride, see animals and just have a good time being together. The Easter Bunny came and filled baskets but due to the lovely rain was unable to hide the eggs outside so no hunt was to be had. We had a very nice Sunday Easter dinner at my dad's and then we headed home. During that next week the kids and I colored eggs and had a hunt at our home when the weather was nice. The kids enjoyed it very much. Each child found a mommy, daddy or grandma egg and will get to do something fun within the next year with whomever's egg they found. All in all it was a very nice Easter weekend.

Puyallup Spring Fair 2009

Steve and I took the three older kids to the Puyallup Spring Fair while grandma Suzanne watched the little ones at home. We let Austin invite a couple of his friends to come along so that he could have some fun too (you know teenage boys and how much they love hanging out with mom and dad and their little sisters) His friends names are Nick (top left) and John (Top Middle) This is the only picture we got with Austin in it because we allowed him to go with his friends and check in with us every hour or so. They had a good time being able to hang out together.
The girls and I on the ferris Wheel!

Steve and the girls on the Ferris Wheel!

Sariayh and Savannah taking a break from riding rides. The ferris wheel that we went on together is the one behind them in this picture it was fun.

The girls coming out of the fun house. They came out giggly for awhile.

We of course had to visit the barn with all of the different farm animals including Alpacas.

Savannah wearing my sunglasses and enjoying herself tremendously. We all had a great time. Steve took Austin, Sariyah and Austin's two friends later that night to the demolition durby and had a blast. They came home talking about it for a long time.

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!!!

In a great attempt and being a good mom I thought I would start trying to do more activities with Sienna and Savannah while the big kids were at school. Sienna and I the day before went on a rock hunt in our backyard and around the neighborhood in search of rocks that would be worthy of becoming our new rock bugs(an idea I got out of Family Fun magazine which is one of my favorite magazines). Then came home and washed them and dryed them off with the hair dryer. After which we got paint, googly eggs and pipe cleaners and made our bugs. Above you will see Sienna with the bugs that she, Savannah and I made. It was a lot of fun.

Here is Savannah and Sienna with the bugs!

As you can see they were very colorful and bright. We used glitter pipe cleaners for wings on our butterflies and bees and used them for legs on our caterpilar. We also made ladybug and beetles in many different colrs and they all got googly eyes to complete the look.

After completeing our bugs we put them on the steps of the front porch on each side so that they would welcome anyone who came to visit.

Savannah is always wanting to take pictures and you can see that to go along with our bug rocks Savannah also wanted to make some bug anteni for her head as well with a headband and pipecleaners. She is my very funny girl but soooo cute!!! My own little Savannah Bug!

Sienna loves pictures too but did not want to have anything to do with having to make something to put on her head she just wanted to put her bugs out on the porch and take a cute picture.

And that she did!

I have been able to do more with the girls and hope that you will see more fun and cute projects in the future.

Daffodil Parade

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