On Saturday the kids all took naps so we could stay up late for fireworks. We went up to our old neighborhood (where we rented) and sat on the grass by the sidewalk and watched the Thanksgiving Point fireworks. It was windy and a little chilly (crazy weather for July). It seemed anticlimactic to me, but I think the kids thought the fireworks were cool.
Tru was fussy all weekend. His 2nd tooth is about to break through and he didn't sleep or eat well... which made for a cranky baby. Poor little Tru.
I'm glad we mostly hung out at home and got some rest in. On Saturday, though I got up for an hour with Tru, I slept until 10 (with earplugs) and Jimmy took the kids on a bike ride. Yay!
On Monday we had a Toy Story Party and watched Toy Story 1 & 2 (we're working on delayed gratification... so the kids have to be patient to see Toy Story III - perhaps at the dollar theater or with saved up Cache Valley Cheese wrappers). We ate cereal, jello, mac-n-cheese, bagels that were all toy story (you know how they put toy story on so many products this time around!!). They also colored some giant toy story pictures. Hannah drew so many of the characters that turned out so cute.
The kids love Wipe Out! on Tuesdays so for FHE we set up an obstacle course in the back yard. They tossed balls into a hula-hoop. Weaved in and out of cones. Ran up the slide. Climbed down and jumped off the rock wall (ok - not the safest ever!). Caught a ball. Rode the scooter to the picnic table which they crawled under. Hula-hooped 3 times and wa-lah. The end. Hannah and Abe had such fun and kept improving their time with practice.
I also liked our FHE on Sunday where we all wrote things we love about America on stars. Then Hannah and Abe put them up on the flag (made of construction paper that I made for sharing time). It's fun to have a homemade flag decoration up.
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Thanks for all your comments. I don't know why my blog doesn't show as updated - I don't know if I turned something off or what.
Your kids are so cute.
I like your post about joy in work and I'm really catching the vision more and not begrudging my house and chores so much and realizing the idea of what that mission president said doing work with our children is how we raise good, hard working, appreciative, kind children, especially if we all can learn to do it with a happy heart.
The primary songs always teach me so much and to remind us we like to sing "when we're helping we're happy and we sing as we go, for we like to help mother for she loves us so".
It's so fun to see all the pictures of the fun things you've been doing this summer. Definitely summer is "winter" here in Florida if you will, it's not desirable to go out and do much - too hot, so we stick it in more, or go swimming. So as I see all your fun pictures I just have to remind myself that winter is when we go out and do more (because everytime I look at all your fun "week" pictures I wonder why we aren't out doing more).
Happy day to you
Jenni
I have a question - for your weekly picture collage do you just have a template that you use to just drop the pictures in? I'm assuming that's what you do.
I need to find something really simple so that I am still doing a family album, but not taking all the time to create scrapbook pages that only have one or two photos.
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