Monday, October 25, 2010

Grandparents Day

On Friday, Joren had Grandparents day at preschool. He was lucky enough to have TWO grandma's go to his grandparents day!
They painted a cute picture with Joren's feet.

"Walking with Grandma and Grandpa"
I like to walk with grandma and grandpa...
Their steps are short like mine.
They don't say "Now hurry up!"
They always take their time.
Most people are in a hurry-
They don't stop and see...
I'm glad my grandparents
Are young and unrushed....
Like ME!!!
They sang some songs and did cute little program for the grandparents!

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Our Own Pumpkin Patch

When Grandpa found out we were moving to St. George, he hurried and planted a couple of pumpkins for the kids...
I just noticed that the pumpkins were growing and turning orange.
Joren and Terek couldn't wait for Brenner to get home from school to pick the pumpkins.
It was too heavy, so we had to take it home in our wheel barrow.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Snow Canyon

We went to Snow Canyon State Park with some of Ry's family. We hadn't been there in years! The kids had a blast digging holes in the sand dunes and they loved hiking. We think we should head over there and go camping in a couple of weeks!

Friday, October 8, 2010

School

Every once in a while I like to post what the kids are up to at school. Brenner is doing so well. He gets 100% on all of his spelling tests... partially because he's just smart and partially because Grandma makes wordsearches for him and quizzes him. He continues to do awesome with his reading. He gets to write these post cards at school. Most of the time he writes them to his best friend, Damian, but once in awhile I get one.
Joren loves preschool. His teacher gives them skittles when they are being good. Sometimes he only gets a few.... we're working on that. He has homework to practice writing and his handwriting is getting pretty good. He also is learning how to read and can do pretty good with a lot of the 3 letter words. This is a picture of an alligator he drew for me.

I do a toddler time with Terek and he LOVES it sooo much. He gets to play with other kids and do a craft. I guess I'm kind of burned out on crafts from the other kids so I just don't want to do anything with a glue stick with Terek. So when they did this little activity where they could glue shapes on a paper with a glue stick, he went crazy because he had never used one before. I think he was determined to cover the whole page with shapes. As soon as he's done with his projects, he's ready to leave because he wants to take them home and show them to grandma!


As for me, I got a job. I will be a teacher aide at Snow Canyon middle school. I don't know a lot of details about the job, but I'm excited to be getting back into education again!

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Santa Clara Swiss Days

We got up bright and early on Saturday morning so Joren could be on his preschool float in the Swiss Days Parade!!! He thought it was pretty cool to be on a float!


He said his arm got a little tired from waving!
We had a good time at Swiss Days. We went to the fireworks on Friday night and enjoyed fun food booths, game booths and cute craft booths (or got some ideas for crafts I can do myself!)

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Flag Football

Brenner had his first flag football game yesterday.

(Do you like the nice pic with the mouth guard?)
He got to play quarterback.
And he even made a touchdown (although he didn't realize he was running the wrong way, so he made his touchdown for the wrong team).

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Little cheerleaders

Totally the best way to keep the kids entertained at the park! They are cheering for the big boys shooting hoops.
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Total Monkey

Check out this little monkey...

Little Buddies

Joren and Legacy have always been such good buddies. But this past weekend, it seemed like Terek and Legacy were playing so well. They were being super cute laying on their towels, but when Shellie told me to get my camera, of course Joren had to join the pic. Legacy was constantly getting dirt dumped in her hair by Joren. Good times!!!

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

2 different lives

Since moving to St. George, I get to hang out with my young sister-in-law, Sydney. She doesn't have any kids yet. So, here we are at the grocery store together. She has her cute little cart....

... and I get to push around a freaking huge car cart!!!


Oh the different lives we lead!