the homebodys

Monday, June 13, 2016

June 8 & 9

Wednesday, June 8th-

Early orthodontist appointment for Ryan.
Walked at the track with Megan again and the kids all played while Cleod had summer band.
Playgroup at the East Canyon Park.
Ate lunch at the park
Picked up papers and did paper route.
Went to the bank and opened savings accounts for both boys so they can start savings half of their paper money.
Got Tiki Shack snow cones.
Babysat at the gym again. Hopefully this is the last evening for a while. A new Wednesday night person is starting next week.
Silas had his normal meetings this evening and my goal is to do family history on Wednesday evenings while he's gone. With the kids staying up later in the summer, I have been worried that this wouldn't happen as much. Tonight the neighbors were out and I let the kids play. I had the door open so they came in and out but I just sat at the computer and researched some names. Ryan came in a one point, put his arm around my shoulder and said, "You are a good mom!" and then ran back outside. This meant a lot to me coming from him because I have noticed that he is the one that comments the most, in a negative way, when I have times that I am on the computer a lot doing genealogy. I haven't been getting on when they are awake or home as much but since I was tonight and Ryan still complimented me, I was pretty happy.

Thursday, June 9th-

I keep doing bullet points because it is easier to organize my thoughts. :)
Early today Megan and I went for a run. OK, it was more like a jog for her but I haven't worked out my normal schedule so I was nervous but I made it! We ran over 3 miles at an average 10:30 min/mile pace. I was happy about it.
Cleod had summer band again.
Story time at the library was about sheep and wool and weaving. Then we picked out books for a few minutes.
Met up with the Warby girls at a park by Jamie's house and had lunch. Grant is starting to feel the middle child thing lately. He was really down today because Ryan was playing with Leksi and Taejen was playing with Carson so he felt left out. It's hard to figure out the best thing to do in those situations.
Cleod watched the kids tonight while Silas and I had a date. I made the kids frozen pizza and as they were starting to eat, Ryan was complaining about his teeth hurting since he just had his orthodontist appointment yesterday and got a new wire. Molly stood up on her chair and said, "We can do it! We're winners!" I have no clue where she learned this phrase, but it was perfect and made everyone happy. (Another funny part of that is that she didn't finish her own pizza even after her little pep talk with Ryan.)
Silas and I went to Brick House and stuffed ourselves with their sandwich and cheesecake goodness. Then we went to the Stake Center for another Adult Religion class. Tonight was about the translation of the book of Abraham. It was very interesting and I again felt the Spirit testify to me of the truths that Pres. Rau was teaching us.

Sunday, June 12, 2016

June 5-7

Sunday, June 5th-

Silas is adorable. He is getting more and more confident on the stand and today looked so great as he passed our seminary awards to some of the youth.
Allergies are still killer for me. Lots of sinus pressure. Made it until about 5:30pm before I had to lie down. Luckily Silas was home soon after that.
Silas and I went to another Adult Religion class that Pres. Rau has been doing. Tonight was powerful and I had a confirmation from the Holy Ghost that our Church leaders are doing the will of the Lord. I am so grateful for this knowledge.

Monday, June 6th-

Cleod testing our his new percussion set

Actually got up before the kids and caught up on blogging and started laundry.
Cleod has his first day of summer band! He is playing percussion. The group for summer band is small which I'm happy about. He is going to get to know some kids that he will interact with in the fall as well as getting to know the band teacher.
We walked the track and played at the park while Cleod went to band.
Piano lessons for Cleod.
Monday is cleaning day so we did chores and I caught up on laundry.
Babysat at gym.

Playing on the CV

Aitchisons and Huffs

Tuesday, June 7th-

Walked the track again during Cleod's summer band. Today the Huffs joined us so the kids were a lot happier and more occupied.
Met up with Becky, Ben and Katie at the Natural History Museum at SUU. It is small but has lots of fun things to look at and to do. The kids enjoyed it! I did too! The had animal skulls and fossils and stuffed animals. They have bugs and spiders and snakes in the glass mold things which the girls especially enjoyed looking at.
We also went to the greenhouse in the SUU Science Building and say lots of fun and different plants including some carnivorous plants and a pineapple! There are several different rooms which they keep at different temperatures and different levels of humidity so there was quite a variety!

The girls loving the snakes, spiders and salamanders

Activities at the Museum

The gang minus Katie by the pineapple

Baby pineapple

Monday, June 6, 2016

June 2-4

Thursday, June 2nd-

Library day! We played at the park first because the days are getting warmer and the park by the library gets busy in the summer. Cleod and Ryan used the computer card catalog to look up books they wanted and it was fun to show them how to find the books they were looking up.
Still trying to adjust to summer. Getting the kids to do their chores hasn't been fun and I have even given them less chores.
Went to the Warby's house for lunch. Deruchette made homemade pizza. Yum.
Allergies are killing me and Cleod. I have been living on Clartin and Ibuprofen.
Book Club tonight at Ina's. We had a small group but it was super fun and we ate lots of yummy junk food!

Friday, June 3rd-

Weeded at a house of someone in our ward. The kids were whiney and gave up really quickly but I got a whole trash can worth of weeds picked.
First relaxing summer day (in my opinion). After the kids did their chores (which they did more willingly today) they were in and out of the house playing with neighbors. Cleod spent a lot of time reading but I kicked him out of the house a few times.
Grant had a play date at Gabriel's and Kai came over here and played with Ryan for a couple of hours. I am not a big play date planner because my kids always have a sibling to play with, but today reminded me that it is fun sometimes to have people over and to let the kids enjoy some friend time.
Silas & I went to the temple with Brian and Becky. We did a bunch of sealings and then went to Texas Roadhouse for appetizers.

Saturday, June 4th-

Kids woke up before Silas and I. Because it is Saturday I didn't care as much but in general I much prefer getting up and ready before the crazy starts.
Cora played at Amber's house this morning with her niece Sophie. Cora had a great time!
Silas took Ryan to Cub Scout Day Camp this afternoon. Ryan loved it!
Grant and I went on a date. He is such a good sport and endured a Wal-Mart grocery trip and a trip to Lin's for produce and meat. I took him to the Dollar Tree and let him pick out a whole THREE things and he thought he was the luckiest kid on Earth! I love that he is still so sweet and innocent!
The kids got out puzzles this afternoon because it was a warm day and they didn't want to play out in the sun until evening.
Silas grilled burgers for dinner and we had the Rushtons over to eat with us. They are so great. Several other neighbors joined us in the driveway later in the evening and we visited until 9pm or so. It is hard to get inside and get to bed when the summer evenings are so lovely and our neighbors are so great!

Molly finished this 100 piece puzzle with very little help

Tuesday, May 31st-

Tonight we had our family photos taken. It has been almost 4 years since we had family photos taken. Poor Molly hasn't been in any "professional" photos at all. I guess she must be the 5th child!

Our photo wardrobe minus Molly's dress

So a cute girl from the ward, Bethany, wants to build up her portfolio and get some experience so she offered to take pictures for free. I have had lots of stress over the whole idea of family photos but that took out one of the stress factors so I decided to go for it.

Molly while we were shopping. She was
quite the diva.

The other stress factors are clothing and kids behaving. The clothing thing ended up being super fun for me. I started with a dress that I had purchased and saved for Cora to wear in the fall to school. It is navy and then has some coral, light green, white and gray in it. Silas has a gray button up shirt and I have a pink shirt that matched. So from there a bought the other kids things. The boy's shirts I found super easier at Wal-Mart and the other day Molly and I went to TJ Maxx and found her a dress. (When we did this she was so funny and bossy.)

As for the kids and their behavior...they were actually pretty decent. I was a little anxious getting ready so that spilled over and I was noticing a lot of the little dumb things they were doing, but really they were just excited and enjoying being outside. The boys all loved the attention of getting their photos taken just as much or more as the girls did. Toward the end Molly refused to smile so some of the family photos will not have everyone smiling, but I think that we might have gotten some good ones. I am excited to see them when Bethany is done.

Apparently I only snapped a few photos of the girls

Wednesday, June 1st-

Cleod on the random toy

Busy summer day! I tried to fit the gym in while kids did chores this morning. I made it there late and had to leave early and the kids hadn't done everything they were supposed to while I was gone...so I wasn't a happy mom. After getting ready super quickly, we went to playgroup at the park with the z-line that we discovered last summer. The kids had a GREAT time and I enjoyed chatting with the ladies.

Gideon and Molly

From there we went straight to pick up the newspapers for the paper route. Today was their first paycheck! It was only for last week so it was a whapping $6.90 but the boys were excited.

We ran home to start rolling the papers and to grab snacks. Grant went to the Huff's house to hang out so the girls and I listened to music and I rolled papers while the boys started their route. It was easier today for everything, since the boys knew what to expect. They used scooters today so that worked out. They also learned that they like taking smaller amounts in backpacks so I would park at the end of a street and fill them up as they got to me. This seemed to work out.

Cora helping on the paper route

First pay check!!

In the evening some of us headed over to Steven and Katie's house for Titan's 3rd birthday party. As usual, we enjoyed spending time with our Warby friends.

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Memorial Day 2016

Monday, May 30th-

Happy Memorial Day! This year we decide to try to visit all the direct relatives we have in the closest 3 cemeteries to us. There are actually quite of few. We couldn't find two: William T. Morris, father of Cora May Morris and Matilda Thompson Bleak. They are both in St. George and we were pretty spent by that point. We are going to try to find them next time we are in St. George.

I also just realized that we did find Daniel Matheson and Catherine Treasurer Matheson but I don't have a photo. I need to check Silas's phone, I guess.

For lunch we spent a few hours at the Stonely's. They were very gracious and had several families over. We had yummy food and good conversation. The kids enjoyed playing with all the kids that were there. I even had a ride on the Stonely's Segway, which was awesome.

So, here are the pictures from our cemetery hopping. I uploaded them in order which pushes the earliest photo to the bottom, which is why the first photos on this post are from the evening visit.