Recent Happenings

I guess that's one way to cool off.

This made me laugh so hard - Cora was doing her chore vacuuming the stairs and was singing It's A Hard Knock Life. She has no idea how easy she has it, lol.

Just my precious girl home from school with a sickness.

Mom and Dad on their anniversary weekend. Sure love these two so much!
 

Our friends, the Brimhall's, just finished medical school so my graduation gift to them was taking their 5 kids for the weekend. We mostly just played at home but I did take them on a hike up Dishman Hills.

Lance and I celebrated our 19 wedding anniversary by going to the temple and a not-so-fancy dinner at Red Robin. But the indulgent cheeseburger and fries hit the spot!

Sometimes ice cream for dinner is a necessity.

Congrats to Ezra for his second student of the month! Woohoo! This time he was recognized by his PE teacher.

Lance went with Cora on her field trip to an Indians game and they sure had a blast.  Her best friend next to her is Presley.

We took the kids to the community fire day in Mead. It was pretty awesome, they had all kinds of vendors with more free swag than I ever want my kids to have, and cool demonstrations every 15 minutes. Kimball has recently changed his career choice from paramedic to firefighter so he was in heaven all morning long. They did CPR demonstrations, oil fire demonstrations, rescue from tall building demonstrations, enclosed room fire demonstrations, explosive trained dog and police dog demonstrations, robot demonstrations, every kind of rescue, police, medical vehicle you can think of, etc. etc. It was pretty cool even for adults.

Girls night!!! We had dinner at the Gilded Unicorn and went to see Kristina Kuzmic at the comedy club. She did not disappoint, I could have stayed there another 5 hours just soaking it all in. Wow. So good and so good to spend time with these ladies!

I went with Ezra on his field trip to Hutton Settlement where they did a nature scavenger hike. They learned about pine trees, forest fires, leaves, and had lots of cool drawings, some with charcoal from the burned trees.

Happy Mother's Day!

The kids changed their church clothes so quick I wasn't able to get a decent picture with them after church. Boy do I love these children!

This picture makes me laugh because it sums up motherhood - joyful, suffocating, lots of love, something is always getting squashed (sometimes my last nerve), and lots of laundry.

This year I sent a flowering plant to Mom, unbeknownst to me, she never even received it. I felt so bad!! And I sent a bouquet to Grandma Watson to let her know how much I love her and think of her. I chose this bouquet because the colors remind me of Grandma, and imagine my surprise when Debra  sent me this picture and the blouse she's wearing matched the flowers perfectly. She's 94 now and oh so beautiful!

 

Ezra Turns 7!

Happy birthday to my favorite caboose! Ezra has always been such a delight to be around - very easy going, even as a toddler. He's very active and never sits still, excels at every sport although he hasn't officially been on any teams other than BMX, is very good at math, and has a great imagination. He'd rather play his made up games than have screen time any day.

It's always so fun when I get to surprise them by joining them for lunch at school. 

See what I mean? ALWAYS MOVING! This was on his way into the kitchen to grab matches for his candles. Apparently walking is too boring.

 

Aurora Borealis

When we heard there was a very high chance of seeing the northern lights we were excited but not hopeful. After the kids were in bed Lance and I drove out of the city to try to see them and there were SO many cars lined up everywhere on the side of the highway. No luck. Didn't see anything but white vertical lines. We drove back home and just as we were pulling into our neighborhood I happened to get my phone out (I don't remember why because it was midnight and dark). When I opened the camera on my phone, the sky lit up in all sorts of pink and greens. The northern lights!!! I'm not sure why you can only see the vibrant colors through a camera but you certainly couldn't see much with the naked eye. Those white vertical lined clouds we saw previously WAS the northern lights.

We pulled off to the side of our neighborhood for a good hour and just watched through my phone camera at the changing colors. It really was breathtaking! It wasn't only the northern horizon, it filled the entire sky!! What's even more interesting is if you imagine blowing up a balloon all the way with air, you can see faint striations coming down the sides and a little squiggle spot in the center of the balloon...that's exactly what the sky looked like. The very center of the sky had all these squiggle colors. It was just so amazing!!!