Week ending 6-23-19

Last Sunday: A rare moment. Father and son playing a duet. Nathan's musical skills and interests is something I loved about him when I met him and I'm so glad he's passed that on to my children. 

The moon looked super cool coming over the tip of the mountain. 

Monday: Doing one last dissection we didn't get to during the school year: a fetal pig. 

We started it as Nathan was leaving for work and he came over to take a look and participate for a minute. 

The picture doesn't do this moment justice. It's so sweet watching my kids help our elderly neighbor with his garden. He's so tender and loving towards them and they honor and respect him. 

A woodpecker. 

Andy and Talea conducting the opening song for FHE. (In a loving headlock. :)) 

I went to cover the kids and first saw Sam's shirt stuffed so I pulled out a doll. Then I pulled out another. Then I looked at the girls and saw that they were also pregnant with twins. Haha, it gave me a good laugh and I called Madalyn to come see. Cute kids. 

Tuesday: A happy dinner outside with my kids. We had perfect weather all week and we loved it. 

Wednesday: Helping Madalyn stuff, stamp and address her graduation announcements. 

Thursday: Launching paper rockets at the cub scout carnival. 

Showing me their face painting when we got home. 

Rainbow sunset. 

Friday: Kylie came home from spring semester so I took advantage of her superior babysitting skills and asked her to feed the kids dinner and put them to bed while I went on a long steep hike. 

Saturday: We did 2 hours of yard work as a family. Nobody complained, everyone stayed the whole 2 hours, and we got a lot done. It felt really good. I wish we could hire someone to do the rest or at least buy more mulch and rocks to keep the weeds down, but at least it looks a lot better. 

 

Today: Nathan's brother came over to give him a blessing and we noticed Spencer has about reached him in height. They're both about 6'2. 

I wish I had gotten a better picture but I didn't want to be picky and make them go stand out of the light, but these are our friends with 10 children who we had over for dinner. They're an awesome family. I'll have to get another picture sometime. 

Nathan had their family line up on one wall and ours on the other. Theirs are spread from ages 14 to 1. Ours are 18 to 2.  We had a great time with them, eating and talking about homeschooling, car trips, bedtimes, and other large family topics.

Week ending 6-16-19

We had another laid back week. Spencer went on the high adventure from Wed-Sat. We played with neighbors, did some extra house and yard chores, read, played, and went to the school lunches.

Last Sunday: Going on a nice relaxing stroll.

Makenna couldn't resist surfing on this horse as we passed by.  

Monday: Talea sitting on the wall asking for Ruth to come over. She can now climb over all by herself, open Ruth's back door, and go in. :) 

Waiting for Makenna's treats. 

One cheater boy! 

Tuesday: I got out these jammies for Tilly and wanted to get a picture of her in them because she reminded me of Alexis wearing them. She wouldn't hold still though. :) Out of all our 2 year olds, I think she reminds me of Alexis the most.--Ahh! Sweet memories! Alexis was such an adorable, silly, and smart 2 year old.

Alexis and Talea 

Watching Relative Race. 

I think I took this to send to Kylie to tempt her to come back and live at home with us. :) 

Wednesday: Andy taught himself how to ride his two wheeler! 

Thursday: Every morning Talea comes and nurses and snuggles and then hangs out in bed with me while I read my scriptures. This morning she wanted a selfie. 

Friday: We went to family day at the Museum of Art with friends. I missed taking a good picture of these 4 doing some cool square dancing. 

I'd like to be the flying girl. :) 

Selfies 

The kids getting to learn a dance.  

Kylie met us there and then came swimming with us afterward. It was so great to see her! 

We haven't much this term. 

Makenna showing us her art portrait she made. 

Getting facepainted. 

Madalyn showing off the white grand piano at the home we went swimming at. To have a grand piano is a big dream of all my piano loving children. 

Sorry, more face painting pictures before they washed it off to get in the pool. 

They really liked their face paintings. :) 

Trying to get these two one year-olds to stand by each other for a picture. 

It was only 78 degrees and drizzled on us some, but we still had a great time. It was so relaxing (partly because Tilly napped most of the time) hanging out with friends who also had 10 kids. They are the sweetest family. 

Makenna and Kaitlyn sleeping in a tiny tent with their legs sticking out. 

Saturday: After our walk Tilly and I stopped at the store for bread for Nathan's Father's Day dinner. I wish I could have gotten a good picture of it, but Tilly was adorable carrying the bread to the checkout and holding my hand. Everyone was smiling at her. 

Then she insisted on carrying it out to the car.