A House Full of Boys

Friday, February 1, 2013

Gavin's Fieldtrip to the Planetarium

I know this is a horrible picture...I forgot my camera! and my phone has a horrible camera on it. Oh well, I just wanted to blog about this so I don't forget it. I went with Gavin and his 3rd grade class to the Planetarium. We rode the bus, saw a movie in 3D called, "Born to be Wild" about baby elephants and monkeys that are being saved after poachers kill their moms. Then they're raised to go back into the wild. It was a really good film. Then we looked around the museum part of the planetarium, then we went into the actual dome to see a movie of different stars and the stories behind the stars and the Greek mythology. It was really fun to spend time with my biggest boy and enjoy lunch with him at the gateway before we all headed back to the bus and home.

Snow!

We've gotten lots of snow this year...so fun for the kids to play in! Unfortunately, it's also been freezing, freezing cold...like below zero or in the single digits quite a bit, so sometimes too cold to go play. Sometimes the kids spend a good 15 minutes getting bundled up and ready to go play outside, then 10 minutes later they come inside, say their freezing and beg for hot chocolate! lol

Finally Posting Christmas...

For Christmas we stayed home like we always do...we love it. It's so low-key. The kids wake up and get into their stockings then we open up gifts when Jason and I get out of bed. Then we hang out in our pjs all day long while Jason assembles toys and I get some dinner going. Easy. Fun. Relaxing. Like I said, we love it. Good quality family time :)

Visiting Friends

We visited with some good friends in Eastern Idaho over Thanksgiving break. We used to hang out all the time when we lived over there. It's always so much fun to visit with them and catch up :)

Connor Learns Self-Defense

At school this year, Connor learned some self-defense skills, how to shout "no!", find help, call 911, use a password before you get in the car with anyone, etc. The parents were invited to go to their "Rad Kids" graduation. Jason couldn't stop laughing at the instructor's big red protection suit, and Aidan said, "I'd just kick him in the nerds!" lol

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Gingerbread Houses!

As a last minute kind of project we bought some graham crackers and candy and decided to make gingerbread houses! They were pretty simple but fun...the best kind of fun! The kids picked off of their houses for the next few days and were as happy as can be :) Family time is the best...

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving we went to Jason's parent's house in Idaho...I forgot to take pictures, but Jason did take this cute one of Owen :) Poor Owen ended up with an ear infection and croup! None of my kids have ever had croup before so that was a little scary! His breathing became labored and he was really, really fussy...really fussy...especially at night...all night...I don't think either of us slept very much. I took him into Urgent Care and they gave him a steroid shot to help with his breathing...the doctor said with croup little kids can just be playing around like normal and their airway will swell up and they'll suddenly pass out...uh...scary! Luckily, he seemed to do a little better after the shot and we started him on an antibiotic for his ear.

First Snow of the Year!

The first snow of the year was a BIG ONE! The kids had enough snow to build snow forts with the neighbors and a snowman with Daddy!

Snowball fight!

Aidan hiding behind the snow-fort....


He gets sucked into the game after all! There he is in the yellow in the middle of the dog pile!

Family Pictures

My sister-in-law, Trudy, and I helped each other take family pictures. These are a few of my favorite :)

Harvesting Sunflower Seeds

I wish I would have gotten a picture of the sunflowers when they were in full bloom...they were HUGE and beautiful. Connor and Aidan were excited to harvest the seeds, so we did some research online and got working away...we ended up with two full gallon sized bags of seeds! I didn't get a picture of how our garden turned out either...but it turned out pretty well...our corn didn't work out, but it worked great as a decoration on our porch! lol We got some zucchini, cucumbers, carrots, peas and green beans. Unfortunately, we had a big slug problem so we didn't get as much out of our garden as I had hoped...we also had a really early freeze...the 1st week of September...yeah, I wasn't expecting that...I woke up to look out the window and see our garden a nasty dark brown...we picked and saved what we could, but there was no saving the garden at that point.

Grandma Barbara's Birthday....

We went to Grandma Barbara's house in October to celebrate her 89th birthday. She hasn't lately been strong enough to get out of bed, but she really wanted to sit up long enough to blow out her candles and see the grandkids play.

Now I remember why I stopped buying Spaghetti-Os...

Halloween

Yes, I am just now catching up on Halloween...sad! For Halloween my mom came and so did my sister, Sherri, and her little baby, Miles. It was so fun to have them all here! I loved it! We carved pumpkins, went trick-or-treating, out to lunch, made s'mores, out to ice cream and Gavin's last soccer game of the season which was against an undefeated team...by some crazy miracle we won! It was awesome...the other team was having an "off-day" and our kids kept the motivation going and won! That was really fun to watch. My mom stayed through the weekend and my sister got to stay for a couple of extra days after that. It was so great to have them here...wish we could visit more often!