Gavin: "Mom, you know when we go to bed and we're not tired?"
Mom: "Yeah."
Gavin: "We don't count sheep, we wrestle."
Corbin: "Yeah, and I always get beat up."
Friday, May 29, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Special Package!
So we got an annonymous package in the mail today entitled Operation Speaks Family! It was full of goodies for us.
Here is a lavendar eye covering. It smells so good! I am going to put it on tonight when I go to bed.
I love this! I have always wanted one of these tiles with a saying on it. I've seen them in a lot of people's houses.
My kids favorite, glowsticks. These can entertain them for hours.
They also got frizbees and a puzzel and stickers and candy.
Okay, this was my personal favorite. They are cards of each apostle with a matching card telling about their hobbies and kids and their birthday etc. I LOVE them. Did you know that half of the apostles have three kids or less?! I did not until today.
Here is a lavendar eye covering. It smells so good! I am going to put it on tonight when I go to bed.
I love this! I have always wanted one of these tiles with a saying on it. I've seen them in a lot of people's houses.
My kids favorite, glowsticks. These can entertain them for hours.
They also got frizbees and a puzzel and stickers and candy.
Okay, this was my personal favorite. They are cards of each apostle with a matching card telling about their hobbies and kids and their birthday etc. I LOVE them. Did you know that half of the apostles have three kids or less?! I did not until today.
Mother's Day
Here are my Mother's Day gifts from my boys. I feel so special.
This says: I love you! You are the best MOM!"
This says: I like you because you like the Settlers of Catan and I like it to. Also when I get far behind (walking or biking) you wait for me.
Asher made this for me and that painting is of me. I don't wear glasses but otherwise it is an exact relica of my head.
This card was from Gavin.
I love these popsickle stick flowers!
This is a picture that Corbin drew with our family and added in are Uncle Mike, Aunt Jessica, cousin Julian and cousin Elias.
This says: I love you! You are the best MOM!"
This says: I like you because you like the Settlers of Catan and I like it to. Also when I get far behind (walking or biking) you wait for me.
Asher made this for me and that painting is of me. I don't wear glasses but otherwise it is an exact relica of my head.
This card was from Gavin.
I love these popsickle stick flowers!
This is a picture that Corbin drew with our family and added in are Uncle Mike, Aunt Jessica, cousin Julian and cousin Elias.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Okay Jared...
Here's the seat and what the top of the bike looks like. See if you can tell me what to do. I just doused it with gorilla glue, EVERYWHERE. So it's holding for now.
The moment you've all been waiting for.....
Here it is. The moment you've all been waiting for. Gavin and Asher's first baseball game.
It was every bit of funny and comical as it is on t.v. and in books.
Kids not paying attention and dancing in the outfield, balls thrown not only in the wrong direction but to places where there weren't people or bases, and last but not least the kid that ran all over the place before getting to home plate. He knew where it was. As he was coming from third he saw another kid waiting at home plate for him with the ball in his glove. So he took off across the baseball diamond trying to evade him. The other kid followed and they were everywhere until the runner got around him and hit home plate. The umpire watched like this was completely normal and declared the boy safe. It was hilarious.
Here they are right before the game.
Gavin was the first to bat.
He is getting ready.
He swings and swings and swings, not this time buddy.
Asher is next to bat.
The umpire had to remind him how to hold and swing.
He hits the ball!
He runs to first!
Whew! Safe on fist.
He makes it home!
Here's Gavin playing in the dirt at fist base.
Oh, now he's ready!
He snags a ball and doesn't know what to do with it. People are yelling throw it here, throw it there. He throws it somewhere random. Good job buddy.
Asher played catcher.
"Hi mom! Take a picture of me," he says.
He snags a ball!
Here's Gavin batting a second time. I just think it's a cool picture because I got the ball in it.
Hip! Hip!
Hooray!
Check out this snack mom! Computer labeled red lunch bags to match our team colors. When it's my turn to be snack mom you're going to get a granola bar out of the original box.
Asher kept saying all night that he wished the game could have gone one forever he had such a good time.
It was every bit of funny and comical as it is on t.v. and in books.
Kids not paying attention and dancing in the outfield, balls thrown not only in the wrong direction but to places where there weren't people or bases, and last but not least the kid that ran all over the place before getting to home plate. He knew where it was. As he was coming from third he saw another kid waiting at home plate for him with the ball in his glove. So he took off across the baseball diamond trying to evade him. The other kid followed and they were everywhere until the runner got around him and hit home plate. The umpire watched like this was completely normal and declared the boy safe. It was hilarious.
Here they are right before the game.
Gavin was the first to bat.
He is getting ready.
He swings and swings and swings, not this time buddy.
Asher is next to bat.
The umpire had to remind him how to hold and swing.
He hits the ball!
He runs to first!
Whew! Safe on fist.
He makes it home!
Here's Gavin playing in the dirt at fist base.
Oh, now he's ready!
He snags a ball and doesn't know what to do with it. People are yelling throw it here, throw it there. He throws it somewhere random. Good job buddy.
Asher played catcher.
"Hi mom! Take a picture of me," he says.
He snags a ball!
Here's Gavin batting a second time. I just think it's a cool picture because I got the ball in it.
Hip! Hip!
Hooray!
Check out this snack mom! Computer labeled red lunch bags to match our team colors. When it's my turn to be snack mom you're going to get a granola bar out of the original box.
Asher kept saying all night that he wished the game could have gone one forever he had such a good time.
From the Inside Out
The music teacher at Alpenglow Elementary is out of this world AWESOME! He created this play with singing and dancing for the entire elementary school, K-6th. They have been working on it for six months. Each grade had to order a certain color t-shirt, first grade was baby blue. The performance was at a High School and there were lights and a slide show and a disco ball. The kids were down every aisle of the audience singing. It was incredible. A little kindergartener did a solo and I just lost it and started crying.
The performance was called From the Inside Out and all the songs focused on things like responsibility, respect, integrity, and honesty.
The whole school had a dress rehersal on the Saturday before the performance for two and a half hours. Here's the kids right before the actual performance.
Here's the opening number. Asher is on the far left in a baby blue shirt. Gavin was one of the children in the aisles giving us "surround sound" as he calls it.
Each class had a special musical number and here is the first grade singing and dancing their hearts out.
The performance was called From the Inside Out and all the songs focused on things like responsibility, respect, integrity, and honesty.
The whole school had a dress rehersal on the Saturday before the performance for two and a half hours. Here's the kids right before the actual performance.
Here's the opening number. Asher is on the far left in a baby blue shirt. Gavin was one of the children in the aisles giving us "surround sound" as he calls it.
Each class had a special musical number and here is the first grade singing and dancing their hearts out.
Boxes, the best toys
Corbin made this robot all by himself from the box my wheat grinder came in. It just made me realize how grown-up he is. Not my little baby anymore.
Good Friends
My good friend Carolyn Townsend took me out for Mexican the other day. We had strawberry daiquiris and extra guacamole! It was the BEST. Good friends make the world worth living in.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Honakers
The BYU-Idaho singers came to Alaska to perform and tour. We housed a married couple named the Honakers. Here we are! They left me a complimentary BYU chapstick in my room. I was pumped.
Climbing Trees
I loved climbing trees as a kid so I let my kids do it too. The trees in our yard right now are about 50 years younger than the ones I climbed as a kid but I figure they'll be okay. Yesterday though I get two phone calls at the same time and the caller that couldn't get through came bursting into my house. I guess the kids start swaying the branches and they were swinging out over the road on their tree branches. I couldn't do that to our 80 year old trees as as a kid. Anyway, they are alive and are still allowed to climb the tree as long as they don't swing on it.
The school carnival is one of my very favoritest memories. I'll never forget winning a whole chocolate cake and bringing it home and eating it with milk poured over the top. You would have thought I had won a car! So it's no surprise that I was excited to take my kids to their school carnival. Here they are with $25 worth of tickets, oh yeah, I spent $25!
When we first got there we saw people walking around with live goldfish in plastic bags. We soon found out where this event was going on because of the mile long line down the hallway. The way to win was to get a ping pong ball into a small plastic cup with a blue or green dot on the bottom. OR you could get four ping pong balls in four cups with a red dot on the bottom. Asher waited in line for 45 minutes and won a fish. Corbin did it later when the line was shorter and won one too. Gavin wanted nothing to do with that long line!
The cake walk, my personal favorite.
Here they are walking like chickens.
Asher was the only one to win a cake. On his first try too!
Here is the hampster race.
On your marks, get set......
Go!
Check out this cute little battery powered hamster. At first I thought they were real. They had a box of twenty balls with hamsters in them and I was questioning their ethics for a moment until I realized they were not alive.
Bingo is another personal favorite of mine. I was running back and forth between all my children and my card trying to make sure everyone was getting their numbers right. I will call it cardio bingo, my heartrate really did get up there!
Gavin got a double bingo and won the BIG prize.
Bean bag toss, not a personal favorite.
In this game you throw a fishing line over the wall and when you "reel" back in there's a prize on it. This was Corbin's favorite.
Here's me and Gavin doing the Gladiator thing. He begged me to let him win. Honestly, what they ask mothers to do these days.
Asher won this round. Letting the little brother win wasn't in his contract.
Open a random door and you might get drenched with water or sprayed with crazy string. For your trouble you get a prize.
Spin the wheel of fortune and win.....a cheap plactic toy!
Oh yeah, and meet Goldie and Daisy. They get fed sometimes.
When we first got there we saw people walking around with live goldfish in plastic bags. We soon found out where this event was going on because of the mile long line down the hallway. The way to win was to get a ping pong ball into a small plastic cup with a blue or green dot on the bottom. OR you could get four ping pong balls in four cups with a red dot on the bottom. Asher waited in line for 45 minutes and won a fish. Corbin did it later when the line was shorter and won one too. Gavin wanted nothing to do with that long line!
The cake walk, my personal favorite.
Here they are walking like chickens.
Asher was the only one to win a cake. On his first try too!
Here is the hampster race.
On your marks, get set......
Go!
Check out this cute little battery powered hamster. At first I thought they were real. They had a box of twenty balls with hamsters in them and I was questioning their ethics for a moment until I realized they were not alive.
Bingo is another personal favorite of mine. I was running back and forth between all my children and my card trying to make sure everyone was getting their numbers right. I will call it cardio bingo, my heartrate really did get up there!
Gavin got a double bingo and won the BIG prize.
Bean bag toss, not a personal favorite.
In this game you throw a fishing line over the wall and when you "reel" back in there's a prize on it. This was Corbin's favorite.
Here's me and Gavin doing the Gladiator thing. He begged me to let him win. Honestly, what they ask mothers to do these days.
Asher won this round. Letting the little brother win wasn't in his contract.
Open a random door and you might get drenched with water or sprayed with crazy string. For your trouble you get a prize.
Spin the wheel of fortune and win.....a cheap plactic toy!
Oh yeah, and meet Goldie and Daisy. They get fed sometimes.
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